Horse Tracks 10/1/09 - Hamilton, Harris, Hillis, Larsen, A. Smith miss practice; Royal pulls up lame

With Kuper, Elvis, BM, Orton and Scheff having deals that expire after this season, Bowlen might have to get his checkbook ready and have ample cash on hand. It could be the summer of big signing bonuses around Dove Valley. Good thing it doesn’t look like there will be a salary cap in 2010. The time may be right to front load deals.

Please don’t go to Yahoo for sports related content. Just don’t do it. Would you read Star or Us Weekly for sports news? Probably not… So why ready Yahoo?

Mike Lombardi ranked Denver at 19 (below 0-3 Tennessee) in his power rankings this week. The more I read him, the more I realize that guy is nothing more than a contrarian. He gets off on being the first guy to call a future trend. Like the rest of the MSM, take what he writes with a grain of salt.

“I really don’t know a danged thing, but my opinion is cast in stone anyway…” Nice, Charles, very nice. Sheesh

Wouldn’t that imply that someone, anyone, out there is overrating us? As far as I’ve seen, nobody (bar one or two) in the media is treating us like we’re legit. They’ve shown us cautious skepticism at best, citing the “fluke” play of Cin, and how we only beat what were apparently the two worst teams to ever done a uniform (they have to be if the Broncos beat them, right? In fact, so many people still doubt us, call us pretenders, and think we’re worse than our record, that I’d go as far to say we’re a little underrated.

on Moreno and Buckhalter…

rather we have been facing good outside coverage combos with the safeties. This will be the first week that we face a team still trying to assemble its backfield, rather than the backfield being one of the strongest areas of the team.

The first three games featured defenses that covered the outside very well, but left the middle zones wide open, and so that is what we attacked. Royal’s strength is his precise routerunning, and the Broncos used that strength to help keep the defenses from adjusting to the middle of the field.

IF royal isn’t seriously hampered by what looks like a groin pull, than this week could be a feature week for him.

Isn’t the rotation in D this week for Scandrick to get the start? That would put Jenkins on Marshall or stokely most of the time…

That will give Gaffney and Stokes a long, lovely day of catch and run…Scheffler could get a couple extra catches, the RBs can pull in a few more. That’s one of the biggest strengths of the Broncos O this year – we’re not locking in on one receiver, nor do we need to. I can only hope that Dallas believes that they can double-team one player. Smith is the only legit threat on the Panthers right now. That tactic would be fatal for the ’Boys

…………nevermind, don’t answer that.

as he mentions in his nonsense about Dan Hawkins. Clueless.

we haven’t given that many points up in three games. I actually think we win with a moderately close game , but I don’t see the boys cracking the 20’s against Dawk and the D.

I am just trying to see how Dallas can put 21 on us…..they could barely put 14 on the putrid Panthers. What am I missing here? I agree with the 31 though!

The key to stopping the Cowboys’ rushing attack, Holliday said, will be maintaining discipline and remembering your assignment throughout the play.

“Coach always talks about ’We’ve got to build a wall,’” Holliday said. “When we see teams on film, when they break down is when there is a break in the chain, when guys up field are trying to get at the quarterback when it is a running play and they find the seams. They are so talented that when you make a mistake they can capitalize on it.”

So both teams will look to play to their strengths come Sunday, and as Dumervil put it, “Something will have to give.”

I think U R right about the “bail out”, because this will be a run stopping test for our D!!! If the Dallas Cow grills can put the beef on the grill on Sunday, then that will only B a test if in fact the Dallazz running back trio R HEALTHY!!!!!!!!!

They are NOT! And one more tough hit by B Dawk could put their running game OUT 4 the year, well maybe not everyone.

Especially since Woody had that nice interview session with McD during camp and came away with one of the first glowing reviews of the guy. How he could pivot so drastically is beyond me… he didn’t like Orton’s four INT game, maybe?

That Woody is unbalanced. Mentally divergent. No, I am serious. He’s one of those loony tunes like Al Davis who acts just sane enough so that people simply think he is eccentric.

But he’s out there. Way out there somewhere. Ground Control to Major Tom out there.

not analysis driven. If it sounds good, he can’t leave it alone, and ends up making the story match the punchline, so to speak.