So that is what happens when our best players go-off and the coaches win the coaching battle decidedly. That game wasn’t even close.

F-bomb was dialed in as a play caller. I was relieved to see McDaniels show patience with the run game. Excellent balance all night. The screen pass to Graham after the Graham phantom hold was a real beauty. Nolan was also on his game.

We will probably get Ryan Harris back next week and Orton will have 10 days for his ankle to heal. It’s almost like heading into another bye week on a high note. How will this team handle some positive momentum this time? Will we build on our most complete game of the year or will we lose our focus and intensity again?

KC is a bad football team. They lack talent and are poorly coached. But if Denver walks into KC playing like the know this, we will lose. If we can match or even approach the intensity and anger we played with last night, we’ll put a big time beat down on those tools in KC.

head up to philthy this year.

I am definitely in a good mood now. a few thoughts:

1) I think that in the players only meeting a few days ago, they read McGeorge’s post and decided he had the answer to their problems.(smiles)

2) It is obvious to me, that Josh McDaniels is NOT a Vulcan.

3) Don’t look now, but the Media is making excuses again.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

I know what happened in the meeting: A live chicken was sacrificed and Kern’s jersey was burned to break the Kern curse. Expect a Titans loss this weekend.

It is an honor to watch Brian Dawkins play professional football.

It is a great pleasure to watch him play for my Broncos.

Last night was so wonderful. I lost track of how many times Bruton nailed the return man a few steps after the dude caught the ball. Dawkins flew all over the field; he was once again that half-psychopath we’d seen earlier in the season.

There are so many things I want to say about the game, but those are the two keys for me. The way Bruton is decking people on special teams, he will force a fumble soon.

if you look at the teams we lost to they all had good D tackles. The Giants dont have that. Thay have the speed rushers. Just some thing to look at.

I haven’t looked at New York tabloid headlines regularly since I arrived in town during the Dinkins administration. They are so impeccably bad — I really miss them.

My personal favorite came after Vinny Damphouse scored his second straight OT goal against the Isles in the playoffs:

“Two Damph Bad”

Not clever at all, but fantastic in its own way.

Giants had a long flight to Mile High on a short week. Their receivers dropped a lot of catchable balls.

(which I watched late last night online.)
Maybe this is hyperbole but that was the most complete game of the season for the Broncos. Certainly the best game in a month, which isn’t saying much, but the defense and offense were both superb for most of the game. And special teams as well.

Orton made one mistake. Knowshon looked terrific. Brandon made several amazing catches (I agree alacumba). The defense was terrific. David Bruton was a special teams beast.

The only debit at all was the early red zone breakdowns, obviously they could’ve scored 35 points but it’s hard to complain, especially since they got their act together and it didn’t matter. Otherwise it was as good a game as one could’ve hoped for.

I hope those injuries reported above aren’t serious, that’d be the only bad thing out of this game. Having 9 days off now is huge, and I’d expect Harris will be back for KC.

Oh, and as I also posted in prev thread, in case you were worried: My supposed “Missing Hat Jinx” is officially Mythbusted! ;-)

for NJ.Com (New Jersey Star Ledger), Mike Garafolo.

(See the “Game Balls” section.)

That was pretty sweet

LOVED the win last night. I only have two minor gripes, and one of them is qualified…

- Red zone problems still concern me. I’m glad we got the win, and Prater was money, but I would still love to see the offense put a complete game together.
- Knowshon looked very good. I would still like to see him break 100 yards, but I know that is not so important, and I realize it’s tough for one of our backs to hit 100 yards when Buck and Knowshon are rotating the way they are. Loved the rookie’s tough running and ball security last night!
- Cannot get enough of Kyle Orton’s toughness! Jumping up in a D-lineman’s face! Beautiful. As was the fact that Dan Graham then proceeded to jump in the same D-lineman’s grill. Sure looked to me like Graham was coming to the aid of his QB. As an outsider looking in, sure looked like Graham has his QB’s back, which seems to speak volumes about how the team feels about Kyle.
- On the topic of Graham…I can live with the two holding calls. He tossed defenders to the ground on both, seeming to send the offense’s version of Dawkins’ message. Graham rag-dolling defenders on those two plays seemed to show everyone that the Gints would NOT be out-physicalling the Broncos! Love the nastiness…
- Jon Gruden? Chucky’s got nothin’ on Josh MF’in McDaniels!!! (couldn’t resist…)

Watch about 0:43 into the play on this highlight video.

McDaniels went for it on fourth-and-5 at the Giants 29-yard line in the second quarter, showing disrespect to the once-vaunted Giant defense in an illustrative moment on how far Big Blue has fallen.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/giants/broncos_show_big_blue_no_respect_VwOGUoG62e2cjt5Bi5dmvM#ixzz0Y6JQEzOE

What he did do was to advantage of a situation that was probable.

I am very happy we won BUT this game looks to familiar with previous wins. I hate to knock the wind out of the sails in this win but I am just not impressed.

We needed the win and we got it which is great. I do not think this shows us anything different than past wins. We beat a team that is a shell of it’s former self. This team does not stop the run. RB Ahmad Bradshaw
LB Antonio Pierce
Kenny Phillips Starting Safety did not play. They do not have the W.R.‘s to push the ball down field like they did when they went to the SuperBowl. This team just lost 4 in a row prior to the Falcons game.
This is a team that is like us beating Patriots when Tom Brady was not yet playing like Tom Brady. Dallas with their 2 starting running backs hurt. It just seems like we beat a team that is not really a good team right now. When we played 3 healthy teams we showed where we really are. This game is a fluff win and now we get to play K.C. twice which again gets us fluff wins ( I hope) it does not show us anything more. Lets beat 2 teams that are healthy and playing good football right now. Then and only then will I think different. As I mentioned in another post. I do not care per say about what happens this year. I care about what we learn from this and how we improve the team over the off season. Coaches will be better team will be better. Letes hope they judge talent better than Shanahan. If they do we will improve. Be happy with the record we have but don’t get over excited with it and do not get to upset with the games we get beat. The record shows we are a average team that is doing better than many of us thought. Take it with a grain of salt. The real season begins in the off season. We will REALLY know what kind of team we have by the way upper management works on adding free agents and drafting.

               Let’s hope for a great Off Season to go with this regular season.

how about the classless Super Sparklers scoring a touchdown on 4th and 1 last Sunday to go up 32-3. That’s bad karma and will condemn Phillip and his loser friends.

Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, Big blue’s coming and they won’t have any fun.