but you do have to remember Dallas was the number 1 team in the NFC last season, and should be darn good again this year. I think with the number of injuries, a weak regular season schedule and the ongoing process of building some continuity even if they perform poorly it doesn’t end all hope.

I’d agree a bit more. I will say that every game should be important. Not for wins and losses, but for creating an attitude, creating a culture of positivity. The Broncos need to take advantage of every opportunity to get on the field and build that confidence.

That said, I am still in “just keep everyone healthy” mode. Next week against Green Bay, when the 1st Team plays 3 quarters or so, is the one I am looking forward to. I will be looking for the Broncos to play harder against the Cowboys than they did last year. No let ups. Finish every tackle. If they do that, I’ll be satisfied.

performance last season. Although next week is the most important week, no doubt this weekend will rank second on importance out of the four preseason games we play.

It doesn’t matter if we win or lose…but it does matter how we play the game.

That’s the thing, we needn’t win, but we darn well better show up. I want to see how our 1st & 2nd teams do.

Also, even if it’s the preseason, we should be looking for a little payback. Punch them in the mouth, let them know we aren’t going to be pushed around. Show some attitude/heart. Let me know that this team cares. They humiliated us last year, I want to see some Broncos Pride out there.

will be more evaluations and maybe the 1st team plays more than 2 series but not much. The true test IMO will be game #3. Thats when the starters will play 3 qtrs or there about. That is what I look to. Last year I was optomistic about the defense until the Browns and Quinn ran all thru the d. Plus that game also showcased SY in case Henry got hurt. Which he did. I just want to see improvement and no injuries

CBS4 is reporting that when asked Pacman Jones how BMarsh compared to Terrell (he’s my quarterback) Owens, Pacman responded,

“He’s nowhere near T.O.,” Jones said of Marshall. “He’s a good athlete, but he ain’t on T.O.’s level. T.O. is 10 times faster and 10 times bigger. I wouldn’t say he’s nowhere near T.O.”

I know that Jones isn’t an itelligent individual…but 10 times bigger? C’mon? That seems like an exaggeration!!! 10 times bigger? THAT’S HUGE!!!!

In reality…we need to put a hurtin’ on these guys.

I’ve been listening to Irv and Joe on 104.3 this afternoon and, as usual, they seem to be oblivious that their audience is Broncos fans. Three statements in particular stand out. First, they said watching the Broncos scrimmage against the Cowboys is like watching a Varsity team play against a JV team. Second, they said that for the Cowboys this year it’s SB or bust…and the Broncos will not make the playoffs. Third, they said we don’t have a single starter, maybe Champ Bailey, who could start for the Cowboys.

At want point did the local media get a green light to bash the Broncos at every opportunity? These guys report that the Broncos won’t make the playoffs like it’s an empirical fact (I guys spouting their stupid opinion is their definition of being “objective”. They can’t shut up about the how good the Cowboys look. I think they are in love with the Cowboys. I am sick of the local media, in particular 104.3 and Bernie Lincicome, bashing the Broncos at every chance they get. When the Broncos do well these guys will be saying they saw it coming all along. What a bunch *(#&$ idiots!!!

The Broncos are the easiest target for these guys. Nobody will ready anything about the Rockies, Nuggets, or Avs, even during their seasons. The Broncos are as scrutinized as they are because they are the #1 topic of conversation 365 days a year and they can’t talk about Cutler being the “real deal” or Brandon Marshall’s legal trouble anymore because they’ve beat any logical topic to a pulp already.

These guys are people who have the job they have because they draw you into a false sense of loyalty to the hometown team and then slander the same team for each and every move they make. It’s their job to question everything and that’s what keeps their call lines lit up.

You have to take local media with a grain of salt. Denver is a small town media market compared to the big media hubs and that’s why all of the personalities have to be so strong and abrasive.

Although Denver is desperately in need of some new on air sports radio talent, you have the warm blanket of MHR in the meantime. We may be homers and we may be biased, but we certainly have our share of skeptics and posters who bring us down to earth.

The reality is that is sounds like Denver took it to Dallas today and the bottom line is that the opposite happened a year ago. Go ahead and get excited. No question about it, the Broncos have a spring in their step and will be a much imporved team in 2008.

What happens in the future is completely independent of what happens this week, We could get killed 65-0, and that fact considered alone would have no bearing upon anything going forward.

Now, that being said, I’d like to see a good performance, and I expect to see one. Remember that our team is young, and still learning in a lot of places. I’d be happy to see some progress and improvement, and then some more each week going forward. If our team is peaking in December into January, that would be okay with me.

It was an extremely improbable potential outcome which I employed in my point that the final score Saturday has no absolutely no bearing on future results. Individual football games are independent of each other, that is, once one is over, there is no residual continuing effect from the last one to the next one. An injury that happened in one game can affect a future game, but the result as expressed by the final score, in and of itself, has no bearing on anything.

In Week 5 of the 2006 regular season, the Jets got throttled 41-0 by the Jaguars. They proceeded to win their next two games, and later their last 3 of the season, to ultimately finish 10-6 and make the playoffs. The Jaguars lost to a bad Houston team 27-7 the following week, and later, lost their last 3 games of the season, and they finished 8-8 and missed the playoffs. This example illustrates the INDEPENDENT nature of football games.

We may all imagine that there is an emotional component at play, and there may be to some extent. Our team gets 16 individual, separate chances this season to win football games, though, and that’s what I meant.

There are years that teams like the Pats and Steelers go 0-4 in the preseason and still win the Super Bowl, so take it with a grain of salt, did Dallas game plan, maybe, I am sure Wade Phillips still has some anger at Bowlen and the Broncos for firing him, and he is probably like Shannan and wants to stick it to his ex-employers. So I really don’t care if the Cowboys win or not, I just want to see the lines (D and O) improve from last week and show they have learned, our run defense needs to improve, and if we can score in the red zone, that will be important. I am sure our game plan will be vanilla, Shannan doesn’t every show anything too much in preseason. So don’t get too worked up about the outcome.