I will be honest with you. TOTALLY disappointed and a little ashamed of the effort our team gave yesterday, from the players all the way to the inept coaching.
One thing that you said at the beginning of the season (and probably before this) is we are in year 3 of a a 5 year rebuilding plan. This has rung true with me, even after an effort like yesterday.
Would be ahead of where we thought we should be? Yes, I would say. This team is going to be a juggernaut, if not next year, but in 2010 season.
But we need to be realistic about this season. I cant see us winning the SB….you never know, but highly doubtful. WIth this in mind, and leading from your post, we need to thing of those developmental skills that would most benefit our young team.
This would be the Chargers beating Tampa and our young guys stepping up and having to beat Buffalo at home. I am hoping that they learnt from the weekend’s effort, and that the defeat can at least be a positive step in the development of the team.
We need to beat Buffalo….CONVINCINGLY and go into the play offs with some momentum.
Rec’d post mate!

Get it done.

I can’t root for the dolts, but I can root for Shanny and the boys to cook up something for a Bills beatdown!

Don’t give up on the run! They have to have it! One of those Broncos back there will hold on to the rock. Fumbles kill everything.

All Ready!

Bottom line for me is, I don’t care how they get there I think it is important for this team to make it to the postseason. I think it will be an important building block for next year.

I was at the game and I would love to write a post on sights and sounds of the game but with Christmas around the corner I don’t know if I will get around to it. Bottom line for me, once we were behind I never really saw or felt a sense of urgency. I saw a frustrated QB (with himself) and a team that didn’t really have anyone trying to get guys going (I’m not a rah, rah guy but…). With 4 minutes left there wasn’t much they could do but there was absoultely no fight left. I like to see a team that doesn’t know when they have been beaten and they just keep fighting until the last second.

Additionally the Panther Fans were very respectful and classey (for the most part). They were not loud. I had a guy who had been to Mile High talking to me and he said, “These Fans Suck, This place is nothing like Mile High. MH is so much louder and the fans really get in to the game.” The plus, the only time they said Peppers’s name was when they introduced him before the game.

…and SD wins, and the showdown is in SD! Well, that would be enough pressure. If all the Broncos need is to feal pressure then that would certainly be the formula.

They beat SD in SD and go into the playoffs with a head of steam. Once there, then there is no excuse for NOT getting up for the game!

All the Broncos have to to is take care of their own business. Beat the Bills and you’re good. In fact, there’s no excuse whatsoever to lose to Buffalo. If they do they don’t deserve to make the playoffs.

Win out and you end up a respectable 10-6 and can hold your head high, what with all the injuries plaguing this team who would have expected that?

for talking us off the ledge. ;)

As for me, that was a hard game to watch, but still… I don’t think nearly as hard to watch as the NE game or the Jax / Miami / Chokeland games. Carolina is a solid football team, one that demolished TB at TB, when we only eeked by TB at MH (it’s different I know, but still serves to back up slightly what happened yesterday). Losing to a good football team on the road is a helluva lot better to handle than losing to mediocre-to-really-really-bad teams at home. It certainly is A TON better than our blowout loss to the Lions last year! It’s all relative… lolz.

At this point in the season, as many (HT) have stated, the season’s results has been better than most of us envisioned at the beginning of the year, we couldn’t be more happy with the performances of several key young players at skill positions … and can only excited for the next couple of seasons. There’s plenty of work to be done, of course, but things are looking up for the Denver Broncos… finally!

Here’s a testament to how relatively pleased I am with the season so far… I am going to buy the Broncos “year in review” NFL DVD for the first time since oh… the 98 season!!! They still make those right? =)

on the wins or get too low on the losses, especially with such a young, inconsistent team. I thought we had a puncher’s chance yesterday. Was I shocked we were beaten handily? No.

That said, for as young and inconsistent this team has been, it is also resilient. This team has what it takes to win out and head into the playoffs winners in six of our last eight, and maybe make a run. It could happen and it all starts this week.

However, we must not lose sight of what’s really important to our young, inconsistent, resilient team— playing meaningful games down the stretch and in the playoffs. Yesterday will pay huge dividends in the development of guys like Cutler, Marshall, Royal, Moss, DOOM, Barret, Woodyard, Prater, and (especially) Bates, and the remaining games will pay even more dividends.

The best case scenario would be a SD win on Sunday morning followed by a sound Bronco win in the afternoon— you hit the nail on the head Guru. Everything after that would be gravy!

It is easy to root for a San Diego loss, and I did against KC, I admit. But if the Broncos cannot WIN their way into the postseason, then they should not be there. That’s the bottom line. What good would it do to see them back their way into it? Just to see them go one and done in the playoffs? — Because that is what they will do if they are no better than that.

If the Broncos can’t win their last two games, then I hope SD wins this next week. If the Broncos back their way into the playoffs via SD losses, they will have more people laughing at them than if they didn’t get there at all. If that happens, my Broncos jerseys may just stay in the closet this year. Why would I wear them in public under those circumstances?

I hope San Diego wins as well. I want the team to step up and play hard next sunday in front of the home crowd and just earn. Who gives a rat but what san diego does against tampa just play your game and win.

As i was sitting there watching that game yesterday i felt something i havent felt all year and that is well i dont know to tell you the truth. That whole game yesterday was just a blur and a blah. It basically looked like we werent even there. in fact the only play i remember was the touchdown by pj pope.

Next sunday they need to play with a little fire and urgency. or else san diego is gonna beath them and make the playoffs.

They need to play the eye of the tiger and get fired up and win

but I just can’t muster up the will to root for rivers. He is a jerk and I can’t do it.

except I have been subjected to all the crap the chargers and their so-called fans have been spewing all season. Thats why I can even think of rooting for them to win, I wish their game had not been moved, so Denver would not know. But Denver needs to worry about getting and playing better and heading into the playoffs on a positive note. Most likely they would play Indy and to beat them the Broncos need to play better in all phases of the game. That HAS to start on Sunday. I think it will. I have undying faith in Shanny and the blue and orange and I truyly feel Denver is gonna win out in the regular season.

The Broncos would have earned a playoff spot by their record even if SD loses. I hope SD goes down hard. I also hope Broncos get a winning record.

but I do completely agree that the Broncos need to go out and dominate the Bills no matter the outcome of the SD/Tampa game. If only to show that they do have the ability to put away the teams that they should be putting away despite not needing the win for the division crown.

I think they were so pumped yesterday heading out on to the field because they assumed that the chefs would win and when they found out that SD won, they got deflated and were never able to overcome it. I mentioned in another post that I wished that Sunday’s game hadn’t been flexed so that they were playing at the same time and wouldn’t know the outcome. Unfortunately, we’re going to be in the same position this week with SD playing ahead of us. I just hope that whether SD wins or loses, we come out with the same intensity (and maintain it no matter what) that we know this team can bring.

This team has battled back from losses ever since the Miami game. After that we beat CLE and ATL on the road. Then after laying an egg against Oakland we answered back by beating the Jets in NY and then KC. We have rebounded lately and we can do it a again against the Bills. I just hope the home crowd gets insanely LOUD.

GO BRONCOS!!

Since i think we will beat the Bills i am not too worried about it but i would love to clinch the division. I really just want to end the division but i also want to do it the right way so i am very torn.

The Bills have playmakers and would love to jam the Broncos up right now. Play like the season depended on it…

Oh yea… it just might.

All Ready!