Randy Cross is a Jerk Face.

J

Is it me or were we working the clock since the end of the second quarter? Herm said you play to win the game, but it would seem we were playing to make our flight home… Terrible play calling combined with lack luster offensive play. The bright side? Our D. Hate to say it, but our D was better than the rest of the team. Champ? Are you gonna play again or are you just kickin’ it? 7 weeks off from an injury that was predicted to keep you out for four weeks…. We’ve semi-managed without you… If you don’t come back, perhaps it’s time to manage without you for good.

J

That KC collapsed really got me fired up.

Especially because the network cut away with 1:30 left and KC up by 11. Then someone at MHR reported that the game was over and KC had won. I started texting my friends and family…only to find out that the game wasn’t really over and SD was driving. We all know the outcome. I’m still pissed about that.

Then the Broncos bring their Jeckle team (or is it Hyde?)…anyway. F’ing infuriating.

Ryan Torain didn’t save this team and neither will Bailey.

Like Selvin Young and Brandon Marshall failing to pick up first downs on 3rd and medium with open fields to get there. I’m pretty furious right now… more later.

The NFL season is a marathon, not a sprint. We need to build on each week’s positives.

Positives from the Rookie Report:
Barrett looked good and WW got looks at SS, so there was an upside to this game. Pope also looked good. Clady continues to be dominant and Royal looked good. I don’t know what to make of Josh Bell’s 9 tackles, but he provided excellent value for an UDFA.

Voting the best Defensive player on the team off the island because he is injured is self defeating. When I injured my hamstring and it took a long time to heal. Injuries are just a way of life in the NFL, we should be glad that we got the chance to see what Josh Bell could do against one of the premier WRs in the league.

A Dallas loss always cheers me up!

…. so if anyone is to blame here its obviously me. I jinxed us…. ; )

1st, You lost to a team tied for the 3rd best record in the NFL. 2nd, You are one dimensiona… But only because you lost like 5 RBs to injury! Imagine if you were as healthy as the Panthers… this could have been a completely different game. AND you will make the playoffs, even at way less than 100%!

But PLEASE tell me that at least one person out there, gained some respect from the little ol’ no-name Carolina Panthers???

Carolina wasn’t as flat as I thought or hoped, and we weren’t as hyped; and the loss of Hillis really hurt us. The Panthers were turning stuffs into two-yard gains and two-yard gains into five-yard gains the way Hillis was doing for us. Without him we had no run game and the Carolina rushers pinned their ears back and went after Jay. The idea that we don’t need a run game because Jay will just take us down the field doesn’t hold water. We need to be able to run the ball consistently to slow down the rush and open up the field. Another thing is selling out against the run might have worked if we’d had Bailey to shadow Smith, but that was never an option with him still hampered. We just ran into a buzzsaw today and our injuries finally caught up with us. Interesting that Woodyard did play safety, at least for awhile, and as HT suggested if we used him at safety it’d be strong safety, which was the case. But with Carolina crossing us by going to the pass it didn’t seem to work out too well.

That being said—getting a top-notch free safety on this team is of upmost importance. I did not like Woodyard at strong safety tonight—Barrett is a strong safety—we had no free safety on the field. I am one of those that would like to see us go after a top-notch corner—and move Bailey to free safety—won’t happen…but it should.

On the positive side we really did shut down their run. On the negative side we let another long run hurt.

Other negatives, Selvin’s fumble..should never have happened—because that play should never have been called.

Other negative—play calling. This should have been a ‘Classic’ West Coast offense game. This should have been, short pass, short pass, run, short pass, run, run ……….. and everything in front of us moving forward. We spent way too much time looking sideways, going sideways………instead of looking forward…going forward. Everything should have been quick—but it was not. Too many times Jay sat back in the pocket—for unreal time—looking for something deep. This should have been a fast-paced-plan. Short pass, short pass, run, short pass, run, run—and that never happened.

Let’s hope we beat the Bills next week—how many of you would like to see phyllis and his merry men make it into the play-offs at 8 and 8?

I forgot to wear my lucky jersey…so worried about being able to see the game I forgot to get it on. Before I knew it we were down 30-10, so I didn’t want to jinx the jersey.

I know Carolina is a good team, yet I expected a better game from the Broncos. The loss of Hillis was big. Once Denver got a 3-game lead over SD, I really have cared what they do, however now it is getting a bit scary. I know we play the Bills next week at home, which is now a “must win.”

It may take an extra week to clinch the division, but how sweet will it be to watch Charger’s fans suffer for 7 more days before putting them out of their misery.

Personally I wanted to end this this ASAP. Guess I am just going to have to wait another week. It is that I just can’t stand any playoff talk I hear in the paper/news down here in Bandwagon USA.

I don’t expect this team to win every game, and I had my doubts about going into Carolina and ripping a game from them, but we should of at least been closer on the scoreboard. It is frustrating to see a team that has this talent go out and have horrid games. I guess it may be better to lose in that regard than lose a nail bitter in the end on a last second FG. Hopefully we focus on Buffalo and don’t count on Tampa Bay doing our dirty work.

Other than the first drive, the offense was pretty ineffective. I will agree with Boydy that both PJ Pope and Josh Barrett impressed me from the things I was able to see (I was able to keep an eye on Barrett. but my seats were so far up that I had a hard time differentiating numbers and figuring out who Denver had on the field)

Can anyone fill me in on the extent of the Kuper injury? From what I could see, K-Lich was not very impressive pass blocking when he came in to replace Kuper, but K-Lich did look decent in space when pulling and on screens.

Plenty of Broncos fans in the parking lot and in the stadium – definitely more than I was expecting. Unfortunately we did not have a whole lot to cheer about.

man, i missed some things at the end, there. hope they’re ok, obviously, that would be a death blow at this point. hey, that was a better team than us out there today, where they are undefeated at 8-0, now. i’m ok with it, and i still believe we win the division next week. this was a test to see if we can play with the big dogs today, and the answer is a resounding no, it appears. same old penalties, turnovers, play-calling that have plagued us at times this season, but luckily, we don’t play like this all the time. we’re still looking like a 1-and-done team in the playoffs, i’m afraid, but the young players again are looking like they just need some seasoning. we have some kinks to work out on offense(where the hell were the te’s today, anyway?), and this was a bad play-calling/gameplan effort here today, much like the raider game, and we have some growing to do there as well. fear not, though, we will make the playoffs this season, but advancing against a good opponent is looking less likely after seeing this. but man, is next season’s roster spots going to be interesting all over the place. as for now, you never know, we could surprise yet, but someone needs to seize the rb position. selvin was pinky-tackled on 3rd-down, tatum, not much better. pope was pretty good, but not good enough. corey boyd, you’re up

Isn’t that we lost to the panthers, which was a much better team today, or that the damn Chiefs pissed me off.
It was the fact that the Broncos just gave up. They gave up pretty early. Like they had no fight in them. (The offense mostly)

was having a great day. even in the later parts of the first, he was just finding open guys, checking down, having the kind of game us fans hoped for earlier this season.

but the damn coaching put the whole damn game on the kids shoulders. he still gets that head hanging thing because he knows his team rises and falls on his ability to make 3 or 4 incredible passes. every drive. they were working well, but the game plan showed to be lacking. just so frustrating to watch the whole team give up. this was the first game i left before it was over. i even watched the entire oakland game, YUCK!

other thoughts:
what an embarrassment watching Jamie LOSEborn celebrating like a jackass.

Barrett looked good. when was the last time we saw a denver safety come across and punish a receiver after the catch?(as on the hit on SS) and that is with having to cover the whole field. and that pick was a reward for being in good position.

they suck on stopping 3rd down.

sick of useless runs.

You wouldn´t make the playoffs in any other division in football. Get over yourselves.

based on many experiences with miserable chargers FANS the comment was made.

talk crap, alright. but dont make yourself look as dumb as we all think you are.