Kansas City Chiefs @ Denver Broncos -- An Early Look

by TheSportsGuru on Dec 4, 2007 7:59 AM MST in 2007 Game Previews

Date: Sunday, December 9, 2007

Time: 2:05 p.m. MST

Teams: Kansas City Chiefs (4-8, 4th in AFC West) at Denver Broncos (5-7, 2nd Place in AFC West)

Location: Invesco Field @ Mile High - Denver, CO

Here are some points of interest this week in our battle with the Chiefs.

--Sunday's game marks the 95th regular-season meeting between the Broncos and Chiefs with Denver owning a 42-52 all-time record in those games, including a 29-18 mark in home contests...

--The Broncos, who defeated the Chiefs 27-11 on Nov. 11, are looking for their 11th all-time season series sweep against the Chiefs and first since 2002...

--Denver has won its last six home games against the Chiefs, a streak that ties for its seventh-longest home winning streak against any opponent in club history and is their longest active such streak against an AFC West opponent...

--With a win on Sunday, Broncos QB Jay Cutler would join Craig Morton (1977) as one of only two quarterbacks in club history to win their first two starts against the Chiefs...

--In their last 11 games vs. Kansas City, the Broncos have averaged 5.4 yards per carry and 161.9 rushing yards per game...

--The Broncos' 5.4-yard rushing average against Kansas City is their best against any team they have faced at least three times since 2002...

--The Broncos' 17-4 (.810) regular-season record at home in divisional play since they began playing games at INVESCO Field at Mile High in 2001 ties for the best such mark in the league, and they are an NFL-best 36-9 (.800) at home in divisional games since 1995...

--K Jason Elam has scored more points (212) and made more field goals (48) against the Chiefs than any player in NFL history...

--Denver is in the sixth game of a span in which it plays six of eight on the road, marking only the second such stretch in team history (1969) and one of two in the NFL (St. Louis) this season...

--The Broncos have appeared in an NFL-leading three overtime games this year and in a league-high five overtime contests since 2006...

--Denver's 5.74-yard per play average is the fourth best in the league and projects to be the sixth best for a season in club history...

--In the last four weeks, the Broncos rank fifth in the league in rushing yards per game (132.8)...

--The club is third in the league in yards per rush (4.4) for the season...

--Denver has tied for the second-most takeaways (12) in the NFL during the last four weeks and owns a +4 turnover ratio during that time...

--The Broncos' 25 forced fumbles this season tie for the second most in the NFL... Cutler's 103.3 passer rating on third downs ranks sixth in the NFL and projects to be the second best by a Broncos passer under Mike Shanahan (1995-Pres.)...

--Cutler is completing 63.3 percent of his passes this year, a figure that projects to rank second in club history for a season, and he is fifth in the league in yards per pass (7.83)...

--Undrafted RB Selvin Young is third among league rookies in rushing (413 yds.) and stands fourth among all NFL players in yards per rush (5.0)...

--RB Travis Henry notched the 10th multiple-rushing touchdown performance of his career with two scores last week at Oakland...

--WR Brandon Marshall is tied for ninth in the league in receiving yards (914) and needs 86 receiving yards to post the first 1,000-yard season of his career and give Denver its fourth different 1,000-yard receiver in the last four seasons (tying club record set from 1995-98)...

--WR Brandon Stokley recorded his first 100-yard game as a Bronco (8th of his career) last week in Oakland with 102 yards and ranks second in the league in first down percentage on receptions with an 84.6 mark (33-of-39) that projects to be the best by a Bronco under Shanahan...

--TE Tony Scheffler has totaled the seventh-most receiving yards (292) among league tight ends in the last seven weeks...

--DE Elvis Dumervil is tied for sixth in the AFC with eight sacks while DE Tim Crowder stands fourth among league rookies with four sacks...

--LB Jordan Beck, a mid-season free-agent signee, has a team-high eight special-teams tackles (7 kickoff, 1 punt) in seven games played with the club...

--Denver is third in the league in punt return average (15.0 yds.) in the seven weeks since its bye.....

--P Todd Sauerbrun ranks fourth in the league in gross punting average with a 47.2-yard average that is the second best of his career...

--Elam has made his last 33 field-goal attempts from inside 40 yards as well as his last eight overall attempts...

--CB Domonique Foxworth was selected as the Broncos' Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year nominee.

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Does It Really Matter???

I don't think so. The Donkeys' Season is over!! Brought on by a Spanking from the arch rival Raiders. Oh how sweet that sounds!!!

I love the smell of napalm in the Morning!! Smells like VICTORY!!

GO RAIDERS!!!
OakFoSho

by Sneaky275 on Dec 4, 2007 2:01 PM MST 0 recs

don't you have anything better to do

than talk on our site? Your team won, good for them. we move on, so you should do the same. you should look at the AFC West standings and worry about the Packers.

Hey O-Line!!! Block Somebody!!!

by mdierk on Dec 4, 2007 2:17 PM MST 0 recs

Standings envy

I imagine that it hurts to lose so many games year after year. Instead of reflecting on one's own team some poor wretches will try to tear down teams with better records. Oddly, this always comes from the same team. Fans of virtualy every other team in the basement have the intelligence to examine themselves, but raiduh fans seem to lash out because there really is nothing positive to say about their own team.

I recommend we "don't feed the trolls". In other words, don't respond to the comments. Name calling from a fan who's team has a worse record than ours isn't worth the giggle of a response. We should feel sorry for him. It must be painful to lose season after season. I'm frankly glad that our current season is an anomoly, and not par for the course as it is for the fans in oakland (the decent fans who don't troll and act like children that is). I imagine that the raiders must be as much of an embarrasment to oakland fans as this troll is.

At least our team has the core players to have a future. I intend to focus on that, and let fans like "sneaky" lash out and demonstrate how frustrated they must be. The more he lashes out, the more jealous he is of our superior standing to his team year after year. I expect him to lash out again many times to show just how embarrassed he is of his team. I for one will ignore his sad little comments.

Remember, the only "fans" that visit other sites and make childlike statements are either children (which I suspect sneaky is), or fans that are so embarassed by their team that they'd rather lash out than be amongst their own.

"Greater is an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep" Defoe

by hoosierteacher on Dec 4, 2007 2:52 PM MST up 0 recs

Hypocritical Donkey Hoosierteacher!! Yet Again!!

I like how you say not to respond now that y'all lost. Yet, You Still Respond, which tells me I'm right on the button with my remarks.

Last week several Donkey bloggers told me that I would not be back if the Donkeys won, or at least that I would not respond. It looks like the shoe is on the other foot now, and hypocritical Donkey fans like yourself CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT!!

Also, you have one game on us in the standings. Big Whoop! This season is not an anomaly. The Donkeys have been stuck in a soup of mediocrity since Elway retired.

Also, the Raiders have a much brighter young core of players than the Donkeys have. Just for donkey fans sake I will allow Cutler to cancel out J Money. (Though I doubt that will be the case in the end) However, the Raiders also have Bush as the future at the RB position. The best YOUNG corner tandem in the NFL (Washington, Nnamdi Asomugha), as well as Huff at safety, leading the NFL in Pass D. Nnamdi has only had the ball actually thrown his direction 22 times this year, the fewest in the league. NOW THATS RESPECT!! Kirk Morrison at MLB and Thomas Howard at OLB (Extremely young pair) are getting pro-bowl consideration, and Nnamdi is a shoe in. Jay Richardson, rookie DE opposite Burgess, is beginning to apply real pressure now that he is starting and looks like a future all pro. Zach Miller, TE, looks like a serious gamer that can block with the best of them, and catch huge passes when needed (IE SUNDAY AGAINST THE DONKEYS).

All the Raiders need to do is concentrate on getting a speedy WR, a good left tackle, and another DT (to help shore up the run D) in the draft or free agency. NOW THATS WHAT I CALL QUALITY SELF EXAMINATION!!

It is obvious that the Raiders are out of the playoffs. No one, not even Raider fans, expected that.

Rather, Raider fans expected to see a turn around from the previous three years of defeatism that have run rampant through the franchise at this time of year. Accomplished!

Raider fans expected to see the offense progress, and it has with the running attack as well as the passing attack (more recently). Accomplished!!

Raider fans expected to see J Money, the future Donkey Killa #1, before the end of the season, so he could get his feet wet before taking over the starting role next season. Accomplished!!!

Raider fans expected to see the AFC losing streak end, (two weeks ago to the Chiefs) and expected to beat their arch rival (the Donkeys last week) at least once. (We almost saw it TWICE if not for a couple of inches) Accomplished!!!!

Raider fans expected to see more wins in general than the 2 from last season. 4 at a minimum, but 6 would be great as a start to the impending turnaround. Accomplished!!!!!

So in reality, I HAVE A TON TO BE POSITIVE ABOUT!! (I just wanted to correct that little error) In fact I have not been this optimistic since Gannon was behind the helm of the Raider Nation.

Also, you can hang onto technicalities all you want...

"We technically are not [out of the playoffs]. The odds are tremendously against us, but I wanted to correct that small error." (posted in previous blog)

But the Donkeys' season IS OVER. No playoffs, and no future this season. Rather, a continued slip into mediocrity in the post Elway era, brought on by a Spanking from the Raiders. I can hang onto the same technicality as well, as the Raiders still are technically able to win the division. However, I am not that blind. (Unlike Some!!!)

Meanwhile, the Raiders are building from this point on. Notice the major difference! One is Going Up Town, while the other is Going Down!

How Does That Taste!!!

MMM MMM GOOD!!

YOU SEE, WE RAIDER FANS ARE INCREDIBLY PROUD, even in the worst seasons, unlike Donkey fans. That is the measure of a REAL FAN!! A Raider Fan Never Quits On His Team, and certainly will never be embarrassed due to his affiliation!! This is a quality most Donkey fans are lacking these days.

Also, I don't need to discuss my age with a person that misspells multiple words in nearly all his blogs. Go back and do some vocab work, maybe read some books, and then you can come talk to an MBA student about such things as age. (With a better vocabulary hopefully) I MEAN USE SPELL CHECK FOR HEAVENS' SAKE!!

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning! Smells like victory!" (Full Metal Jacket)

Sleep Tight!! Love You Bunches!!!
OakFoSho

by Sneaky275 on Dec 5, 2007 3:10 AM MST up 0 recs

Yea

First win against us in how long?

"Hearts were broken in Chicago...Balls taken in Oakland. Yech!" -mdierk "Finally, nothing left to play for!!! Give em hell boys." -styg50 12/2/07

by broncodude793 on Dec 4, 2007 3:38 PM MST 0 recs

You Missed The Point!!

I am talking about this season and the future, which I will say again, looks very bright for the Raiders. However if you want to talk about history, thats OK too. Other than about 10 of the last 15 years in which the Donkeys have had a decent advantage over the Raiders, the Raiders have utterly dominated the Donkey Franchise. 60's, 70's, 80's and early 90's. We have more SB Trophies, League Championships, Division Titles, and Franchise Wins. True, its been pretty one sided for the last few years, but that is a microcosm of the Donkeys struggles against the Raiders in the past.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning!! Smells like VICTORY!!!

GO RAIDERS!!!
OakFoSho

by Sneaky275 on Dec 5, 2007 6:05 AM MST up 0 recs

Don't go overboard....

The past 3 decades -- 80's, 90's, 00's -- this series is very even, and actually favors the Broncos --

Broncos record against Oakland -

80's - 9-10
90's - 10-11
00's - 11-5

Overall - 30-26

Denver has more AFC Championships - 6-5 - and has reached the title game 8 times.

Oakland has 4 AFC Championships and 1 AFL Title(Super Bowl II), and has been to the AFC Title Game 11 times.

All that history, and the two teams have only met in the playoffs twice, each team winning a game, though the Broncos won the bigger of the two, the AFC Championship Game in 1977.

You can spout off about the future all you want. What is know is the past, and over the past 27 years, the Raiders have a trend of crap, with a few bright spots here and there, while the Broncos have been consistently solid.

-TSG

www.milehighreport.com

by TheSportsGuru on Dec 5, 2007 7:30 AM MST up 0 recs

A little over zealous....

OKOK! These are hard #s, and I am really surprised by the AFC championship #s, and on that note, surprised that the Donkeys don't have more super bowls for all those chances they have had. I guess I am getting old and forgetting to include the late 90s Donkey AFC championship wins. I guess 33% isn't that bad, but 60% (Raiders) is better. I am not surprised by all the Championship games the Raiders have played in. Those Stealer vs. Raiders games of old are epics.

I actually thought the Broncos record over the Raiders in the 90s was more lopsided, concidering they were the better team in the Mid to Late 90s. I Was swayed by the Super Bowl win in the 80's and I bet the early 80's favor the Raiders as a result. The Donkeys must have gotten it back in the late 80's. But we had Bo, so I don't know how that happened. (Stupid Cincinnati Sideline Tackle that ended it all for Bo)

I would not define one win over another as bigger unless it led to a SB Title, which it did not. We still have more head-to-head wins overall, and in the end the Super Bowl is all that really matters, and the Raiders still have more of those too.

"We win here or lose everywhere; if we win here, we improve the chances of winning everywhere." -Gen. MacArthur

Go Raiders!!

by Sneaky275 on Dec 5, 2007 11:18 AM MST 0 recs