Hey, is that Mark Kiszla, saying there are crazy fundamental problems after one loss? Who could have ever guessed that guy would overreact. That bozo is as mercurial as, er, mercury.

The Broncos have great Tackles, which is not the same thing as having a great offensive line. They have been vulnerable to aggressive interior rushes all year, and Baltimore exploited that very effectively. I know I belabor the point, but it needs belaboring: Ben Hamilton is the worst starter on the team. When teams target the pass rush against the interior/weakside OL, they succeed. I’m sure there are adjustment to be made. But I was disappointed in how long those adjustments took to show up. And the adjustment they made — get rid of the ball quickly — shortened the passing game when they were already playing from behind.

Since I’m on a roll and giving my two bits on everything…

You can’t lay it all on Orton, but he led his receivers into defenders multiple times. Marshall into Lewis. And Moreno — I definitely put the Moreno fumble on Orton. Ed Reed was coming at him like a missile. There’s nobody I know of who wouldn’t have coughed up that ball. I also thought Orton’s pocket awareness was a bit off, esp. on that opening-play blitz. He was also badly, badly fooled by the zone blitz where that white dude who brought the pass rush all day dropped into coverage.

I’m wondering why Stokes wasn’t involved in the game. The book on the Ravens is bad corners. The move to play 3-WR sets is intuitive. It makes sense. I don’t know what happened, but I would have thought that short routes, even slants, would be the way to go to combat the interior pass rush. Of course, the other problem is that interior pass rush = LBs in throwing lanes.

I’m not dispirited. If you assume the Broncos don’t beat another quality team, they’re 11-5. If they beat one, they’re 12-4. If they beat two — and that’s where my money is — they go 13-3. The Giants and Steelers at home look like good targets to me.

I was really upset with the way we played, coming off a bye! The Ravens were teing off on ore O, they knew we wouldnt throw the ball deep and that hurt us. We really need to start taking chances down feild to open up the short passing game. Baltimores pass rush mite of had a lot to do with it but we cant keep dinking and dunking. GO BRONCOS

your assessment as well as ChiBronx’ is pretty much how I saw it. Our team got beat by a team that was prepared and “Brung It.”

The most disappointing thing was how flat and unprepared we were coming out of a bye. A bye week should be advantageous, but we did not use our bye like a good team should.

Too many things went wrong yesterday to single out any one thing and I’m not overly worried about a worried about a 6-1 team coming off an away loss to a good club. A lot of guy had their 1st tough game of the season (Goodman, Buckhalter, Dawkins, Clady, ) It happens and you can’t win them all, BUT… Royal, Smith and Ben Hamilton have all been MIA for a while.

What is up with Royal. He does not look anything like the player he was last season or in preseason. Those were some subpar CBs he couldn’t beat yesterday. It is definitely time to wonder about what is going on with Eddie. He seems to miss Cutler far more than BM or Scheff.

I’m also starting to wonder about Alphonso Smith. Where is the guy that was so good vs Cincy? He hasn’t flashed at all the last few weeks and he keeps getting beat in nickel situations. He has also given up on a few plays. For a guy that looked so nasty at Wake Forest, I’m less than impressed with his play in the NFL.

Ben Hamilton’s play has fallen off a cliff. It may be time to sub in Olsen or Hochstein if this keeps up.

I’m done with the Mitch Berger experiment.

the addition of three words:

“…the better team” OF THE DAY

We’ve beaten teams that have beaten them, and now they’ve beaten a team that has beaten those teams. Any major conclusions to draw, vis-a-vis standings and potential to go all the way? Nah… some things to learn, but the Panic button is still up on a shelf in a closet, with dust on it.

This game had more to say about the Ravens (legit) than the Broncos (also legit, had a lousy day).

and why should I not want to punch him after reading that?

Oh, right, it’s a Fanhouse piece. Never mind. Might as well read a high school paper.

I don’t really like any of the choices as posed. I don’t think the Ravens are the better team in general, but if you mean yesterday specifically, then I guess so… Don’t like the other two choices either. So I abstain. ;-)

Harvin caught a pass in between 3 defenders that was a little like the pass thrown to Marshall. Hmm, take a look BMarsh and catch the ball. A play like that could change the whole outlook of the game, remember Dallas?