Broncos Fall to 4-4 After Early Turnovers Lead to Dolphins 26-17 Win

i said to lou from littleton on air that denver would finish 9 and 7 wow i only need 3 more loses and i win . we need a coach who will get the players to play like the should . great coaches only last so long . how many times do we have to hear the same old thing we will have to work on it , we made some mistakes , get the team to play as one and you may have a good start at getting bettter . denver is by no means a super bowl team . we have the talent they say, where is it .

End of the game made me mad, with that screen and that catch by williams(that was so LUCKY)

BoiseGuy is right. Why don’t we press if we’re not going to stop anyone anyway.

Ugh- this was one of those that cause you to lean your heads back, stare at the sky and make you long for the 97-98 seasons.

What is going on with Jay? He looks like his confidence is totally gone. Are the receivers not gaining enough separation on their defenders? Obviously it sounds like I’m looking for someone to blame, but that’s not the case.

Maybe I’m relying too much on them, but I don’t collect stamps, I don’t climb mountains and I don’t raise prized race horses. This team is what I do for entertainment and right now, they’ve got me wondering what they need to do next.

By the way- my local station decided to carry the dumbass Minnesota Vikings game instead of the Broncos. After games like this, now I know how it feels to root for a team like the Vikings that suck so bad .

Help me out family- what do they do to turn it around?

the fact that Shanahan is still gonna have a job tomorrow is a utter joke! everybody face facts! this season is lost! we are gonna win maybe two or three more games and have a mid first round pick. just out of reach of any immediate impact defensive player. god wake up people! Shanahan is a joke. two weeks and he cant get this team ready to contend with a team that won one game last year!!! ONE GAME!! our FB was our leading receiver today. that should tell you how out of Synch this team is. Shanahan has lost his players and Cutler has no confidence. once he throws an INT he becomes an average to poor QB. then he goes to the sidelines and pouts like a girl. when Payton Manning or Tom Bardy throw INT’s, they go to the sideline, look at photos of defensive formations so they know not where to throw, and they come back and make the plays.

The list of what’s wrong with the Broncos is now long and distinguished s0 perhaps it’s now easier to count what’s right with the team…

There are so many things to criticize right now, I don’t even know where to start. First – Brandon Marshall gets his first catch in the THIRD QUARTER? I realize that Cutler has favored Marshall a lot during the past few weeks, but it appeared during this game that Cutler intentionally avoided throwing to Marshall. I also don’t understand why the offense has transitioned to a throw-first team. Without the run, we have no bootleg. We have no play-action. I know that our RBs have been hurt, but you HAVE to make that running game work.

Our defense did better today, but they’ve got a long way to go. We get KILLED when we play zone coverage. I would rather us play man coverage with an aggressive blitz than this zone BS we’ve been trying to put together. Every team we’ve played has slaughtered us on 3rd down conversions for two reasons: We don’t blitz enough and we concede the first down so that we don’t give up the big play. But that keeps drives alive!

Finally, the penalties. Absolutely ridiculous. Offensive Holding. Offensive PI. Facemask penalties. It’s out of control. Granted, that jackass referee calling back that touchdown for Pass Interference is an f**king joke. We all know it wasn’t PI. Don’t even get me started on referees blowing calls without any consequence. They can fine players and coaches for calling out refs, but they don’t fine refs for blowing calls?

Right now, we are not a playoff team. The Chargers are incredibly talented and if they ever get their heads out of their asses, they’ll blow right by us as we watch the Broncos close out the season at 7-9.

What the hell was the offense smoking today?

the Broncos arent in first place because they are good. they are in first place because everybody else in the AFC west just sucks. basically in first place by default….Shanahan will have his typical rhetoric about how they need to get back to the drawing board and that they are making strides. but seriously, who is buying that bullshit line anymore?? the guy needs to go! but we all know at the end of the season the blame will fall on EVERYBODY else but shanahan. again the lord of the lands kingship will go unblemished. ugh! dump this clown! someone said he lost his magic?? yeah the magic wore a number 7. thats been gone for ten years. which is to say Shanahan had no magic at all. just season after season of mediocre football teams. one good year of 13-3. and nothing since.

Bad coaching and bad run blocking. Denver had 7 yards rushing for the day.
Slowik not putting in the right packages on defense is killing me man. They had a four wide set and we were in the 4-3 and wondered why Ginn was five yards from the closes defender (D.J.). Ginn dropped the pass but these things are not acceptable. The screen on 3rd and 17. Wow, who would have thought?
The defense played well but the cushions they gave was ridiculous. If they get behind you I can understand but to give Camirillo free 7 yard catches every other play is retarted.
I love the Broncos and I hate to say Shanahan is this or that but sometimes you have to wonder what these coaches spent 2 weeks doing? Dan Marino called us a sloppy team and I can’t disagree with that and that falls on the coach.

YES! Let’s hear it for the rookies!!!! Our vets need to catch up to them.

Incredible. Shanny has no one else to blame or fire but himself this year. It is all him or the staff he put in place. It is time Bowlen took some of his power away. Hire Sunquist back, or any good GM for that matter, and a real OC and DC. If Shanny wants to wear those hats, he can demote himself and get a new HC. Anyway you slice it, our team is not right. If we finish above 500 or make the playoffs it will be because of attrition, not having a great team.

What happened to our explosive offence? Shanny said “better close the playbook, people might see the kind of things that are in there.” HELLO!!!!! Let our players play. The plays we are running is akin to hunting a loin with a bb gun. It doesn’t make sense.

Sucks about DJ. Hope that means our rooks will get a look. Our current starting rookies that played today were awesome. There is nothing else that can be said about them.

i could only watch the first half, and from what i saw we didnt ignore marshall at all before the third quarter, in fact jay forced the ball to him into heavy coverage and got picked.

i have no answers for this team. the defense played decent from what i saw, holding them to field goals and getting a couple of stops in the first half. the offense was awful in the first half, royal was the only reason we scored… had we needed more than 5 yds for the td, i dont know if we’d have gotten it. jay never looked good or confident yesterday, and i’d like to know what was up with him. does his finger still hurt, was he sick, did his dog die, rusty after the bye, whatever- he didnt look right. his numbers came out good, but he sure looked uncomfortable in the first half.

Miabronco- unfortunately you might be right about our pick. i say trade it for a late first rounder and a second or early third and stockpile on defense. we need ends, cb’s, s’s and a mlb- lots of them.

If you want to hear some of BMarsh’s comments, follow this link. I think he has some good things to say.

Riverscanbl&wme is right on about slowik mismatching personnel, having LBs in there when he should have nickel/dime sets. this week maybe you could use the lack of CB depth as an excuse, but the fact is that slowik in prior weeks would often play his 3-4 against 3 and 4 WR sets. paymah had a good game, but hey brainiac slowik, paymah’s strength is press coverage, not playing 10 yds off a receiver that doesn’t remotely have the speed to get behind him. the paymah pick came on one of the few plays where he played press, and it was against the speedy ginn — yet paymah was farther downfield on the go route than ginn was. this was a good effort by the defense that was crippled by slowik’s coaching. blitz on a 3rd-and-19 against a weak armed QB who’s like 0-for-25 on 3rd-and-longs??? brilliant logic.

oh and i like jeremy bates so far, but dude you gotta get the king-of-YAC marshall the ball with some little slants and screens and even maybe a reverse. get him the ball before he’s doubled.

I’m thinking that we should just look ahead to the Browns game because this was such a bitter loss that it’s makeing me sick.

Cleavland…. Broncos. 3 days…

Thank you SSC! They say you need to keep a coordinator and allow him time to bring gus in that fit their system, but my nephew can match personell better than this guy. We should find a defensive minded college coach who has passion and bring him in. Get a good D-Line coach and focus all our efforts on the trenches.
The offense needs to try something new. Try starting the game in the no huddle spread offense when all of your backs are hurt. Run reverses, double reverses, screens, or let Royal do a reverse pass since he used to be a quarterback. At the very least this teams needs leadership. Is it wishfull thinking that maybe Rod could give the pre-game speech before the Cleveland game?

Shanahan fired? I’ve said it before and I say it again: with whom will you replace him? Just because there’s been a couple of in-season firings this year, it doesn’t mean it’s time to get rid of him. The teams who are consistently poor are firing year after year and not getting anywhere.

Here’s a scenario: hire Matt Millen as the GM and Mike Nolan as the head coach. That’s about as logical as firing Shanahan.

I won’t disagree that things need to change. Here’s my best guess at what needs to happen:

1. Shanahan has to relinquish some control. I’ll back him 100% as a coach, but he needs to let someone else make the personnel decisions.

2. Keep the staff intact. Slowik may have made some mistakes yesterday, but all 53 players and 53 coaches (sorry, it seems like their staff is that big!!) are to blame for that one.

I’d like to be in those meetings today. I’m thinking they’re all in for it. I’d also like to be in the meeting between Shanahan and Marshall. Even if Marshall does make some legit points, he needs to do so in the locker room and in the team meetings. That’s very TO or Ocho Cinco of him to call out his team in front of millions of viewers. As much as I hate Joey Porter, he’s right. He knew how to get into Marshall’s head and he did.

Grow up, you overpaid punk. You want respect? Go out and earn it.

I don’t think it’s a coaching problem. Keep in mind that Shanahan has NOT been calling plays for 9 years. He just oversees everything and intervenes when necessary. I also don’t think it’s a talent problem. We have alot of it. I think it’s a maturity thing. I think Culter came out the first few weeks on fire but was smothers by the media and all the pressure from being the qb that has diabetes. The media is getting into his head and it’s forcing him to think he has to be the best, and not just be jay cutler.

We are still young and growing up. There are still some growing pains happening. But look at the bright side. For such a young group were are doing very well.

Jake hasn’t been seen around here, that I know of, for quite some time. All I know is that he has a place in Northern Idaho and he just hangs out there a lot. And I know he plays a lot of handball, that is about it.