Everyone is generally insightful and posts with a certain amount of class that I enjoy. Thanks to the team here at MHR for building one of the most successful SBnation blogs around.

The Offseason has gone so much faster the last 2 years since I’ve found MHR. The podcasts and great analysis make the weeks and workdays fly by much better, and keep me excited 365 days a year.

It’s so weird to think there are only THREE games left before the season is over…after which we enter the dark ages between the Super Bowl and baseball season. I’m going back to school in a week here, though, so hopefully I’ll be too busy to notice…

Anything and everything you need to know about the Broncos will be found or linked here. JohnnyB and staff have put together THE Bronco news and opinion site on the web.

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As for the people who post here, there’s no place better. You get a wide variety of opinions, and the disagreements are kept respectful. Plus, there is a lack of the sheer idiocy that you see in most of the Comments sections around the web.

Overall, this is a stellar place worthy of at least a daily check-in, even during the slow and painful Reloading season.

For some damn reason its more fun to write during the offseason…perhaps because of the freedom of choice in topics. ;-)

With all of the new members/lurkers this might be a good time to republish the fine articles from the MHR University on site etiquette. I know that after lurking for several months these articles gave me the courage to actually make a comment and to POST!
Just a thought.

I’m actually excited to watch the Broncos again. During the past few years I found myself turning the TV off in second or third quarter of Broncos games because I could see the impending collapse of the defense.

I look forward to new faces in the starting defensive lineup. Wouldn’t mind seeing Champ and DJ move on their way. I’d like to see a new defensive mindset and fresh, hungry players that want to get to the QB, tackle running backs, cause fumbles, and intercept passes.

It should be fun to witness the rebuilding of the defense. I hope Mike Nolan is up to the task.

I have only been a member of MHR since last April. My thought at the time was “Wow, I love Metsblog, I wish there was a Broncos site as good as Metsblog. Gee, maybe I’ll create one on my own if there’s nothing out there.” Next thing you know, I stumbled upon MHR and I was blown away. This is BY FAR, the best sports blog I have encountered. Perhaps I’m biased because it covers my favorite team, but MHR is without peer. I have learned more about football in the past 9 months than I probably learned in the prior 20 years. The posts, commentary and discourse are beyond intelligent and nothing less than fascinating. Thanks to all of my fellow readers/posters. You make this a wonderful site to visit. And by the way, this site blows Metsblog out of the water. It isn’t even close.

It will be interesting to see what effect McDaniels has on bringing in free agents, will we spend big or will we go for the New England model and find good role players.

I love this site! I’ve told a bunch of my friends here in Hawaii about it. All you folks on here are a great bunch! I’m glad to be part of a terrific community! Aloha.

To the draft and FA. Should be interesting.

Excited because the defense will probably be better next year, and the offense at least as good. Shanahan didn’t have much feel for defense, either coaching it or selecting defensive coaches and players, so as his control became more total the chances of anyone else’s expertise mitigating his weakness lessened and his defenses got progressively worse. Just putting the final say-so on personnel decisions in Jim Goodman’s hands makes a big difference, but Bowlen probably couldn’t have done it and kept Shanahan. I was initially concerned about McDaniels’ lack of defensive background, but I’ve since learned that he coached the secondary for a couple of years and got rave reviews, plus he insists, and I’m willing to take it on faith for now, that under Bellichick he was steeped in a defensive approach to the game.

I wanted Spagnuolo because I thought he would make our defense more aggressive, more effective, and more exciting, and that Dennison and company could keep the offense going. But just as a weak defensive head coach will eventually end up with a poor defense, regardless of the players and coaches he starts out with, neither will an offense continue to roll, even with good players and coaches in place, if the head coach is weak offensively. And we have no idea how good a both-sides-of-the-ball coach Spags will turn out to be. I think Bowlen’s thinking is that not only will McDaniels be able to develop and sustain a better defense than Spags will an offense, but that he has developed so rapidly that he’s more capable of running the whole show and having a winning program. Whatever Slowik’s sins I suspect the passiveness of our defense started at the top, that Shanahan the offensive gambler had a prevent-defense mindset on the other side of the ball. I think McDaniels and therefore his coaches and players will be more aggressive defenders. So I’m belatedly encouraged that even with the hiring of an “offensive” head coach we’ll start moving in the right direction on defense.

But I’m also anxious. During the Shanahan years the quality of the Denver ground game has been a trademark, something fans of other teams recognize and even envy. It’s been fun to learn and talk about the zone blocking system and the attributes running backs need to succeed in it. It’s something to be proud of, and it’s been a constant. If we go to a more traditional scheme, and if our running game becomes more like New England’s has been, marginally effective, I’ll miss that sense of having something unique and special that other teams don’t have. But the point of the offense is to score points, and the point of the defense is to prevent it, and if the Broncos do that well enough I’m sure I’ll learn to appreciate whatever personality and characteristics the team takes on under McDaniels.

Despite the uncertainty one thing’s for sure. Given that they’re undoubtedly going to be spent on defense,
I feel better not having those nine draft choices at the mercy of Shanahan’s last word. That as much as anything else makes me think that replacing Shanahan at this time, after he’s rebuilt the offense but before he has a chance to miss on his defensive picks, was a wise move. Shanahan’s downfall was that he didn’t make his weak side stronger. McDaniels’ strength may be that he’s brilliant offensively like Shanahan, but isn’t so drastically weak on the other side of the ball: Shanahan 2.0!

so much better now, I don’t have to rely on espn for everything

You have certainly made this site grow with your TV spots. MHR just keeps getting better and better. Thanks to all the members for all the intelligent posts.

I was excited for last year to start and now that we have a new coach, who will hopefully help us get an identity, I can’t wait to see what is going to happen.

GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND.

and everyone has their own personality.
Guru is the best current events guy and facilitator in cyberspace.
HT is THE KING of X’s and O’s and philosophy.
Styg is, for my money, the best writer on the site and an incredible fact source.
TedBartlett is the resident legal guy, it seems to me – all business.
Zappa is the cynic.
Papi is just insane
the list could go on. And on. And on.

Pats fan here. Seeing as the Broncos just hired our old offensive coordinator, I’ll be keeping an eye on your team this upcoming season to see how things go. Good luck on the upcoming season (except when you play the Pats, of course).