Broncos Embarassed in 41-7 Loss to Patriots

First and foremost a loss is a loss. But a blowout is almost certain to derail a season so young. I have no clue who is controlling the Defense. First were a 4-3 or hybrid. Now were a 3-4. I don’t get it. Shanahan has to be dictating to Slowik (get the best guys on the field period.) Problem is, you cannot run a proper scheme in either without proper personnel. I found it interesting that Jaws said you have to have a vision with a Defense and draft the proper personnel to make the “scheme” or vision successful. Right now, we are a Defense filling the gaps with inferior lineman and safeties. Our obvious strength is linebacker, but that position needs a true Mike and our last one was Al Wilson. You know, to tell you the truth, I always was a Coyer fan. Granted he had fits with Manning, but that Defense came to play every game. Since then, we abandon a good coach in Jim Bates due to impatience and end up with Mikes good friend Bob Slowik who is more a technician taking orders from Mike. Maybe I’m wrong, but Shanahan has still got his power over all coordinator positions. I just pray that over the bye week we don’t blow things up and start over again. Which will probably happen.

My second is this. Offensively, we need Torain to be a spark plug and ignite some fire in the RB position. We need a jolt of energy right out of the blocks. We turn the ball over with 3/4 of a football game to go, and it’s like “Oh my god the games decision has already been determined.” Not all games will be perfect coming out on your first possession, by oh my how we crawl under a rock at the first sign of adversity. Suck it up and play ball. Cutler throw 5 pics, I don’t care. But move the team and get some good mojo flowin like the old Vandy days.

As fans, accept who we are now and hope for better fortunes in the future. Last I heard, we still have more than half a season to play. Let the Shanahan boo birds sing there tune for two weeks. Let the fans start giving reason to watch the Nuggets. But me, I will live and die a Bronco Fan. Every minute, every quarter, every draft and every off-season. We got alot of talent on this team and better days are ahead. Maybe even a few suprises in 2008. Maybe not. But don’t turn you back on the boys. They need us now more than ever. And to tell you the truth, I need them.

Look, it’s not rocket science why we lost these games. There is one constant in each of them. TURNOVERS. We talked about after the Jags game, we talked all week about it, we said the one thing the Broncs needed to do to win against the Pats was to NOT TURNOVER THE BALL. What do we do? 3 fumbles 2 picks

Turnovers not only kill any progress you made up to that point, but also swing momentum to the other team. Any coach will tell you that the turnover differential is the key stat in any game.

I tell myself we should be panicking, but the fact is, we need to keek our heads up. This is a fixable problem. It’s not scheme that’s killing us, just holding on to the football.

We’ve been hit with the injury bug and have had a couple sloppy games. So what? Last I checked we were at the top of our division with a 1 game lead over the Chargers. I’ll take that. Granted it’s been sloppy, but there it is none the less. You may call me an optimist or “blinded” by the blue and orange, but I really feel we can get out of this. We have the talent. We just need to regroup and use the bye week to heal and work on one thing only: HOLDING ON TO THE BALL.

It’s sad to say, but our destiny is still in our own hands. Just keep your heads up Bronco fans! There is a hell of a lot of football left to be played. We have the talent, trust me.

I would like to add something I heard Shanny say in the postgame press conference that really says it all in my opinion.

“WE ARE BEATING OURSELVES.”

It’s that simple. Just keep the ball and be patient and stop shooting yourself in the foot.

I can’t beleive this we finally get a break SanDiago is practically giveing us this division and this is how we respond you know this is why the Broncos dont get any respect around the league now at first it pissed me off but now i can’t blame them why should they look at the pride we showed we let a inferrior yeam with a inferrior quarterback basically give us the buisness and to make things worse they were not at full strength how imbarrising we relly have issues this is unacceptible we really need to play with some pride or at least make it competative at the very least.

The season is far from over. The Bye week is perfect for us. Both sides of the ball needs to get healthy and both sides of the ball need to improve in there Game Play.

The Offence needs to stay with the run game and take less shots down field unless the Defence we are against is giving it to us and other than the Chargers and the Raiders none of them really have. This league has turns into short plays that become big. Last i knew Two 5 yard passes are a first down and same for two 5 yard runs. They get you down the field and they also control the clock. we have the best YAC players on offence in my opinion so why not stay short and let them go big. Less trying to force the ball down field. And like it was said a hundred times we need to hold onto the ball. The whole offence should be doing what B-Marsh did in Prep for this week over the bye.

As for the Defence. Safeties need to do a thousand tackle drills. We need to stay 4-3 and work on containment and pressuring the QB. We also need to be Playing MAN NOT ZONE on D. We have to much speed and talent not to be playing MAN.

Over all if during the bye we don’t make some changes we can put this one in the books as a hopeful start and nice learning experience for the rookies but a disappointment in the end.

We just need to get back to the basics plain and simple. Justin’s right, the bye couldn’t have come at a better time.

Maybe they should bust out the sleds and tackle dummies. Teach our defence how to hit, wrap then drive with their legs. Most of the reason that I saw our guys on D missing tackles is not just poor angles of pusuit(although there is a lot of that) but poor mechanics in general. You can’t ecpect a guy to fall just because you hit him. You need to TACKLE him.

I hate hearing negative things about the broncos. You guys who say that stuff arent true fans. I think the broncos have a great team this year and a solid foundation so we can be good for a long time. Sure there are personnel holes, but well fill them thru drafts trades and stuff. Not to mention i think we can still win the division this year and play a home playoff game, which would be awesome.

Having said that, TERRIBLE game. Cutler didn’t look bad except for the second pick, and i know he’s an awesome qb who will bounce back and take us to the playoffs. I just hope the injury’s not serious..and the rest of the passing game was good marshall and royal played well. The biggest problem again was defense, but not so much against the pass before both bailey’s got hurt. We got TORCHED by the run again, that is our single biggest problem. The turnovers we can fix, especially when torain is healthy, i went to training camp and he’s a good one. But our RUN DEFENSE is horrible, we gotta plug those holes and tackle well, or were gonna get smoked by Ronnie Brown in two weeks.

its hard to suck up after a couple great games at the begining of the year. cutler needs some coaching, some good old fashioned coaching. he’s not making great decisions when things dont go our way. i think the offense is buying into thier own hype and assuming domination over the defense- which isnt happening any more.

The bye couldnt come at a better time for us. We need some serious regrouping.

Pretty upsetting loss. I have to say, though, that our defense was really exposed last night. Even more so than earlier in the year. There are only 2-3 good players on D. The worst part of our team is the safeties. They can’t cover, can’t tackle, can’t play run support. When a RB breaks into the secondary, they’re too slow to catch them. We went from Steve Atwater and Dennis Smith to this catastrophe. Is it too late to bring John Lynch and Hamza Abdullah back?

I can’t get over the offense either. They were lights out for 3 games, now they’re lights off for the past 4. I think it gets back to the defense. At the beginning of the season, no one suspected the D would be this bad. So the offense had the attitude where they said “we can score a TD on every drive.” When the D was exposed the offense now says “we have to score a TD on every drive.” That’s why you see Cutler get impatient and throw downfield into double coverage. It’s why you see B-Marsh fight for extra yds only to fumble the ball. They’re all trying to make plays to keep the team in the game. Can’t blame them too much for that.

Maybe they can change their offensive strategy – death by a thousand cuts. Keep the offense on the field for long, sustained drives with short passes or running plays. Or am I being too optimistic?

Andre Hall needs to go. Seriously, that guy fumbles WAY too much! It’s ridiculous.

hey we need to get our head in the game. Jack Will needs to step his game up cause Bly ain’t no-one. i was happy to see moss out there tryin to apply some pressure, our line backers our the strenght of this D but the presence of a true mike is needed we also need a “ball hawk” safties and one that can TACKLE. we need Young and Torain. There were times when pittman could of take it to the house but lack of speed ail us. AND GET BARRET ON THE FEILD WE CANT GET ANY WORSE AT THAT SAFTEY POSITION.

I believe that the broncos will come off their bye week stronger than ever. I am a HUGE bronco fan and i was so pumped last night to see the broncos defeat the patriots. However when our THIRD string running back came in and gave up to fumbles on TWO carries, i think the broncos stopped believing they could win. Adn by half time when everyone on our defence like Champ and BNoss Bailey were injured we just fell apart. Hopefully Selvin young will get better soon. GOOD LUCK BRONCOS…. p.s. CHARGERS SUCK!!!!!