And I’m exited for Training Camp. I’m trying to keep myself neutral on all the position battles; the players that emerge as the best will have my support.

It’s an exciting time to be a Bronco fan, isn’t it? Keep on posting!

Congrats on your 100th POST. Truely Historic. Keep it up, I really enjoy your post inparticular. I think we see eye to eye on a lot of things.

However…

I would give our FB a B+ for this year. No matter which way Coach goes he will find the best man or men for the job and we definately have the talent pull their to choose from.
You are right I think bell is gone.

I have to give Jay a A+ for this year. I think with his health under control, the new targets he has (eddie royal will be too valuable to keep off the field by the end of the season), and this being his 3rd season he is going to blow people away. He’ll have no nothing annoucers singing his praises all year. Acting like they have been cheering for him all along.

I would give our RB a B while we have depth, I’m still unsure how things are going to pan out. If Henry stays healthy I would bump that up. Even though I still think we should cut him.

The Quest this season for the offense has to be mostly about one thing, getting into the end zone

This statement is correct for sure but I also think we have to be able to get 1st downs on the ground. We have to be able to give our D a rest but then utlimiatley get in the end zone.

Seriously good post bro! I graded it a “B” based on the fact that our offense while scary on paper, still has a lot to prove especially on the line. I think we will have a top 10 offense this season. We had a top 15 last season but our red zone was ineffective. I think that changes this year as well. I like the grades but I think the overall is a little high but hey you are an optimistic guy so I expect it from you! Again, great post bro, I am seriously looking forward to the season!

I know some people don’t agree with me about Royal being in the line up at WR this year but I think coach may agree with me. :)

Notes- Quarterback Camp: Day 8
By Jake Grilley
DenverBroncos.com

Shanahan sees Royal making a splash on the team not only as a returner but possibly as a receiver as well.
“We know he is punt returner; we know he is a kick returner,” Shanahan said. “The thing I was most impressed with Eddie watching film was his ability to come out of a break, the consistency in his hands and he has showed that so far in this minicamp.”

i have already posted that i believe royal is going to make parker expendable(unless he can make it on st’s) , and martinez is gone, too. this can open up another te to make the roster, who should be mustard. think about it, if graham has any problems, who is going to block at te-scheff and jackson? too risky for me. if royal can provide a deep threat, he should make the wr corps. i like parker as depth, but if 1 has to go, i think we need mustard more(more mustard?)

mustard is out 8-10 weeks. he could be ready for the season, but now i wouldn’t be surprised if shanny brings in a blocking tight end for depth. maybe someone that can do both, and replace jackson. this may be the curtain call for the mustard man. i agree with royal, he should be a weapon by the end of this season, even. to hell with the running game, anyway, i say bring on air-cutler! why the hell not? we have like 10 guys, at every position on offense, that can catch the ball now, including fb/rb. open it up, already, and the running game will improve, too. but passes=td’s in this offense. we can’t run it in from the 1, remember. i am that confident in cutler to do this

btw, 5 pulled hammies already? i’m beginning to think our training regimen needs some work. this would be an interesting post, regarding injuries and training procedures/changes. is it because we are a lighter team we are consistently hurt lately? i don’t know, but it appears we lose more guys in the offseason than most teams in the league, at least the past 5 years or so. nothing too serious so far this year, though. i just wonder if there is any link(playing surface, stretching time…?) in the amount and severity of injuries we have, and a change in training practices. hard to look into, i guess. i’ll just chalk it up to lady luck for now

I know we can only have 53 total put what is the cap by PSN? Is there one?

Zappa I like that line up. I see Royal moving up around week 10-13. Because he bcomes too dangerous.

I really wish you could edit after you post. I guess the lesson learned is edit then post. :)

Will be up this year, and especially in the redzone.
I expect a huge year out of JC! Its his 3rd year in the system. As I have stated before history proves my point on this. If Plummer can excel in Shanny’s system Cutler will be Awesome. I like the WR corp, but I dont expect Royal be much more than a returner. I would for him to be more, but he is a rookie WR, and you can count on hand how rookie WR’s has ever made an immediate impact. It Rod Smith into his 3rd season to be a valuable as he was. (Best WR in Bronco history IMO) As much as Lepsis is gonna be missed, I say Clady is an upgrade. To me losing Nalen was a bigger loss than Lepsis. It will be weird not seeing Lepsis in a jersey of a Colorado football team. The RB situation is good and I like it, even if I am not on Henry’s bandwagon. But he can disprove my feeling by a team player getting yards and TD’s. The TE positon is good, I would like to see Daniel Graham get more passes thrown to him. The kid can catch. When he was at CU he won the Mackey award, which goes fpr pass catching AND blocking. I like Sheff, but I would like to see where the Broncos can keep one TE on the field most of the time. It wont give away some plays. But I have a good feeling about this offense.

As good as ol Lionel was I will have to go with Smith. To me going from the practice squad to Pro Bowls and one of the Best burns in a Super Bowl (As Eugene Robinson, who not lost once but twice to the Broncos in the Bowl) is just awesome. granted he was on better teams. I loved Haven. When I was in little leauge (back then it was called LL not pop warner) I had #25 for Haven. But I am alos going off numbers and he broke Lionels numbers. I am hoping Marshall breaks all of Smiths records. He could be a great, great WR. I can see him and JC scoring lots of TD’s together. In my mind he is so hard to tackle and is a beast. It gets me excited for the potential. Off the field I am not concerned. Look there are bigger douches in this leagues and Brandon is not one of them IMO

I’d like to know how this offense scores lower than an A. Where are our weaknesses on paper? All I see are weapons and strong depth…

kuper switching to tackle, clady being a rookie, hamilton’s head, nalen’s possible rust, new backups … that is the only unit of concern, so i think guys are just being a little cautious on the chemistry here early on. everything else looks ready to roll. i think by midseason, this offense will stop stopping itself and be unstoppable to stop

And congratulations on reaching your 100th post – I’m looking forward to the next 100.

I may not always agree with everything, but I really like that I never have to wonder where you stand, and your reasoning is top drawer. Thanks for the always-solid work!

Bear

I think that Cutler played very well last year (in only his first full year) and was doing it with untreated diabetes. Our WR corp was decimated when Walker went down and we had to bump a non-every-down guy (Stokely) out of his comfort zone (which led to yet another injury). Stokely played fiercly and held his own, but he shouldn’t have had to. Either way, Cutler now has depth.

The OL was decimated, but now has depth. Henry should come back healthy, but I think we’ll have more RBs on this roster capable of running more downs without injuries (Young and Hall were getting creamed last year with injuries).

I give us an “A”. We have the potential.

...i just get too excited when i see so many targets for cutler, and his arm should be utilized to it’s fullest capacity. if we get behind, i am confident we can attack through the air and put up points, something i really couldn’t say recently until this season. the area i meant to refer to in this was the red zone, where we may not have the success we are trying to achieve running inside the 20, or 10, where defenses are more concentrated due to space. we seem to get more conservative in this area, also, and i was thinking maybe we should start trying to throw it in the end zone more on first and second down there. maybe spreading the d out a little more in this area can open more running lanes inside, being that we won’t be so predictable there, and our struggles between the tackles is now legendary. it’s 2 runs up the gut, a pass, and a field goal attempt at his point, and that needs to change somehow. with the speed and catching ability of our backs, te’s, etc., maybe we can get some of these playmakers in space to run it in now. i didn’t mean to convey a full philosophy switch between the 20’s(i couldn’t resist the urge to write “air-cutler”), but i still think we are going to have to spread it out, throw the ball, or run/pass to the outside to get this thing in the endzone, generally. maybe we improved enough in this area now, but i have to see it to believe it after so many years of futility.

“taking a Show Blitz team and trying to make them Run Contain.” yeah, we just tried that, didn’t we, and i was the first to say this wouldn’t work here in denver. i got killed on that one at some other sites(“bates has had success everywhere he’s been”). shutup. the fish defense was overrated-keep your stats-and i never feared the packers, either. slowick doesn’t impress me tremendously, either, but i’m sure he will be utilizing the talent we have, and just keeping it simple would be a massive improvement over last year.

btw, i believe in one of the other posts, someone said coyer’s weakness was adjustments. that is dead on. if we were getting killed in some area of the game plan by halftime, we did not adjust, and we just got picked apart all day long-it was over. i hope this is a strength of slowick’s because it is a very important part of game-planning. i mean, there should be some foresight regarding matchup problems and strategy ineffectiveness, no? either way, familiarity(slowick) and consistency(d-line personnel) alone will increase our performance on d this season. add in the upgrade in talent and depth, and we look to be good at the very least