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Published on 10/30/2007 at Tue Oct 30 08:47.



Daily Link – One Link Says it All

Posted Tue Oct 30th by

I’ll have full Daily Links tomorrow. I had a nice shot of perspective hit me in the face with some bad personal news, literally five minutes after I wrote the recap, so sorry if I’m not quite as coverage-frenetic as usual. This is from Hashmarks, who had excellent coverage throughout the game:

It’s too early to write off the Broncos, but let’s be realistic here. This team is probably not going to win a playoff game. The AFC is too tough even if the Broncos rally from 3-4 and find their way into the postseason.

What this season becomes, then, is a chance for the Broncos to develop Jay Cutler while assessing the rest of the team on both sides of the ball.

Cutler made some strides tonight. He tossed a touchdown pass for the 12th consecutive game. His 11-game streak with at least one interception also ended. He threw a few into tight spots and one or two of those could have been picked off, but he also had some balls dropped by his own receivers. Cutler led the team on a clutch fourth-quarter drive toward the tying field goal as time expired.

Earlier, the fumbled snap at the Green Bay 1 hurt badly, but those things can happen when a young quarterback loses his veteran center midway through the season. Certainly a fumbled snap has no bearing on Cutler’s long-term development. He’s gaining valuable experience and generally making the most of it. Cutler is the future for this team, even if the present doesn’t look so good.

  • http://merlinofchaos.livejournal.com E. Halsey Miles

    We have a lot of very good, talented rookies on the team. Cutler, Marshall, Scheffler. Probably Kuper too, though that fumbled snap was 100% him; he was pulling too fast and batted that ball right out of Cutler’s hands before the snap was even complete. It’s possible Cutler was half a second slow in getting out of there, but…that’s the result of a bunch of green guys working together. They’re not doing things by rote. That’ll come if we can get a team to largely stay together.

  • Evergreen Bronco Fan

    When is the last time Denver DID win a playoff game? Isn’t it time to start assessing the guy who is doing the assessing? Since being handed a Super Bowl contending line-up by Coach Dan Reeves, Shanahan has won only a single playoff game in 9 years!

    Let’s talk new coaches:
    – Marty Schotenheimer
    – Jimmy Johnson
    – Mike Ditka (alright, reaching now)
    – Your entry here!

  • http://broncotalk.net Kyle

    If you’re looking for playoff wins, why in the world would you even mention Marty Schottenheimer?

  • Crosshare

    Do you forget who we took down in that DIVISIONAL playoff game? The much favored Patriots, and we stuck it right to them the whole game. The thing that kills me with people who say we need to fire Shanahan is that they can NEVER recommend anyone better. Then he would make us pay for it everytime we played him like we’ve done to the Raiders for the last 10 years. Schotenheimer? Are you serious? We might as well see if Dan Reeves wants his old job back. Here Jay, 1st down hand the ball off, 2nd hand it off. 3rd down, what do you mean it’s 3rd and long? That’s our QB’s responsibility to get us out of that, not mine. Do you forget that it was Schotenheimer who was out coached by Shanahan in the divisional playoff game to get us to the super bowl? Such a sad short short memory by some of our fans.

  • hercules rockefeller

    All three of those guys are an insane reach, evergreen.