But gained somebody who might end up bringing back everything he brought to the table for 12 years. I am so excited and I know everyone else is too!

Royal is not only physicaly gifted, he’s smarter than many pros.

Ditka pointed out that Royal did what Russell should have done earlier; throw the ball away.

Solid points Darren!

so much so that I was chastised by the wife because my 12 year old son was already in bed trying to sleep.

And the fact that he was a smarter QB that the great JaMarcus Russell was just the icing on the cake!

Another thing I loved seeing was how cool he was fielding punts. Lechler was hitting them high enough that his coverage team was already on top of Royal before he caught the ball, yet there was no jittery hesitation or seeming thought of a fair catch. Eddie caught the ball and was moving upfield before the guys closest to him on the coverage team could react. We haven’t had someone with that kind of natural punt fielding ability in a loooong time (Upchurch?). I can see why it’s hard for Shanny to pull him off STs. Another testament to his football smarts is the fake fair catch signal he was throwing up on the balls heading for the end zone. Though that may not work for long once the league learns that Eddie’s not a fair catch kind of guy.

When DeAngelo Fall tackled him out of bounds, Royal (with cheese) Made a point to look the other way and pretend it didn’t even happen. Many other pro’s would have gotten in Fall’s face. Good post DH.

MeAngelo. lol

a new ed mccaffery

After the personal foul on “MeAngelo Fall” (lol), not only did Eddie Royal act like a pure professional about it and walk away, but i LOVE how basically all of the defense got in Hall’s face and tried to protect their rookie without doing something stupid. Gotta have your teammates’ back especially on the road.

This team has good players, but more importantly great character. Keep it up Broncos!!

Get Younger- check
Improve QB – check
Find a top notch receiver (Marshall) – check
Re-new ground game – not yet ready to check that just yet
find a no. 2 receiever like Eddie Royal – BIg Check
Beat Raiders and make it look easy – Priceless Check

typing w/ new born in arms i would type more,,,,,

I CaN’t wait untill MHR Radio !!

In Brandon Stokely. The Veteran reciever brought in via free agency.

from an article just posted on Yahoo:

"I’m surprised they did this much without Marshall, being their guy," Raiders cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha said. "I’d be scared to see what they can do with him now."

"We knew he was a quick guy because of the tapes, but we didn’t know exactly how they were going to use him," Asomugha said. "In the preseason they didn’t do that much with him. They ran a couple double moves, some short routes, a deep one here and there.

"But with (Denver coach Mike) Shanahan, you never know what you’re preparing for, you never know what he might do. And he came out with this guy, and he was their trick-play guy. He was doing routes with him that we really hadn’t seen before."

My first “recommended.” Great summary of Eddie Royal’s unmeasurables.

So I was ecstatic that Royal was picked, even though I knew very little about him. I was also adamant about “wasting” a high draft pick on another WR (Marcus Nash, Lelie, Watts, etc.), so I am glad that the front office didn’t read my posts.

Royal seems like a steal at #42, he played like a top 10 draft pick last night. I wonder how all the teams that passed on him feel now?

A bit off topic, but when he wisely threw the ball away on the reverse option, he had some decent zip on a nice spiral. I can’t wait to see him air it out again.

Clearly Royal was AWESOME!!!!

However, he was the one lined up off the los that caused his own TD catch to be called back and, after Scheffler dropped another TD opportunity, forced us to settle for a field goal.

Also, he did fumble on a punt return which he quickly recovered.

Other than those two mistakes…Royal with Cheese was incredible.

Just watching the tape of the game (talk about Nirvana). After Royal had burned Hall a bunch, and for two penalties, Ditka said: (more or less) “I’ll tell you, Hall doesn’t want anything to do with Royal right now. Doesn’t want to even get near him. Course, he can’t get near him, but that’s another thing.”

or did hall and gibril wilson switch positions to try and stop royal? their numbers are close (#23 and 28) , but i could have sworn that wilson was up on royal and hall was back at safety after being toasted a bunch of times. i couldn’t tape the game, but if anybody else can confirm/refute this, let me know. i believe royal made hall a safety in this game