I think that Shanny’s play calling will more aggressive and innovated this year. I sense that he’s going trying to channel his “inner-Shanny” (aka, young Shanny) to develop crazy new plays that keep the defenses guessing. I think we can all agree we’ve grown pretty predictable the past few seasons. I also think he trusts Cutler to execute, which leads to the more aggressive play calling.

Just my two cents…

as i’ve been calling it, has begun. 2 excellent drafts will do that for you. also, he simply couldn’t call these plays with jake and co. talent, speed, and execution have elevated this young offense. once again, the pass WILL be setting up the run, at least early on this season. i got ripped for that one, but this our greatest team strength right now, and mike knows it. when torain gets back, and the run-blocking improves, the new line jells, etc., i’ll say it again: we will be unstoppable on offense. mistakes will only slow us down a bit. i wonder if jeremy bates and the new play-callling trio had anything to do with these innovative plays. but i just sense the aggressiveness has to do with trust and confidence in our young players, and the feeling that we will need to score touchdowns to win games this season. get a lead by throwing it, run the ball to keep it. ring a bell? defense, and especially st’s still have to catch up a little. but we are on our way, folks

I thought Shanahan, in the first part of the season (the Jake Plummer part) made Plummer’s play way too restricted, in an attempt to cut down on Jake’s mistakes. That worked, but it also cut down on Plummer’s play-making ability. The defense was playing very well, and I wanted Plummer to be able to do his thing – if he turned it over, so what? the defense could deal with it.
Anyway, I remember after Cutler took over, Shanahan made the statement that he could just see in Cutler’s eyes that he was begging Shanahan to just let him throw it. That’s what Shanahan is doing now.

I think they looked great. The stats show that we gave up 150 on the ground, and I think that’s how you’re looking at it. Before the game got out of hand (first half of the game) we did an excellent job against the run.

When the game got out of reach, that is when guys started taking it a little easy and the Faders started racking up some yards on the ground (4th qtr). But at that point, who cares? The game was won and those yards are meaningless.

I swear, that is how the MSM would talk about our run defense, not one of our own.

Recently Shanahan said that if he had coached better we would have won 3-4 extra games last year. Whether that’s true or not, you could see that the combination of Bates/Cutler/Shanahan last week had the raiders totally flummoxed, so it’s hard to argue.

That’s going to be tougher agaiinst a very good, very deep Chargers team, but I think that Shanahan has been spending his nights and weekend drawing up plays for this week since about June. Repaying the raider organizaqtion is always a big thing to him, but the two blow-out losses last year to SD still sting all the Broncos in a big way.

I don’t expect the out-of-sync, poorly executed team play that imploded last week against Car to show up this week, but this should be a just a heck of a game. Although it’s early in the season, this may let us know where we really are as an organization.,

I think this game showed us that the Broncos are better than they were last season despite not being huge players in the free agent market. We improved the character and heart of our team along with the talent and depth. This game showed us that Shanahan now has full confidence in Cutler to run the offense and can open the playbook. We learned that Eddie Royal is going to be a force to be reckoned with. We learned that the offensive line is fully prepared for pass blocking, but needs some work on run blocking. We learned that we have made huge strides as a team.

We learned that this team is HUNGRY.

We also learned a few things about the raiders too. They aren’t as good as ‘everyone’ thought they would be despite spending a ton getting mediocre and injured free agents. They haven’t fixed their offensive line (the #1 thing I thought they needed to do in the reloading season). They are still the same undisciplined team they have always been. That Jamarcus has a cannon, but needs time to develop. Their running game is sound, but they’re going to be throwing a lot this year trying to come from behind (there’s that OL thing again).

We learned that this team is at least a year or two from being competitive.

that meangelo fall (love that one, whoever came up with it) is an overrated cancer to his team. $70 million worth of it. we learned that burgess $? got schooled, and injured, playing against rookie tackles. we learned (ok, we knew) that javon $? is in no position to help his team. and we learned (ok, we knew) that al davis will never learn

OAKLAND, Calif.—Police say they arrested 45 Oakland Raiders fans and used stun guns to break up several fights at Monday night’s game against the Denver Broncos.
The arrests for drunkenness, fighting, assault and drug charges were on top of dozens of ejections for minor offenses such as sitting in the wrong seat.

Authorities say three police officers were hurt when a brawl broke out as they attempted to detain a drunken man before the game.

Two of the officers suffered cuts and bruises when they were punched in the face. The third officer suffered a broken finger.

Oakland police spokesman Roland Holmgren says some people come to the game just to start trouble.

for an excellent, in-depth analysis. This provoked a great deal of thought by many and spawned (South Central Alaska term) good discussion. Thank you. A point that many have dance around is the big lead we established early. I think this influenced Coach Shanahan’s play calling and defensive allignments. We will see a much better opponent this week and I think we will see a Bronco team well prepared for them. Once again, great post UnarmingMermaid.