Who cares about Marshall's record? Not me

The O-line played bad today but great the previous 2 weeks. I love Weigman but he needs to be replaced. He was manhandled today as well as in some other games this year. Hochstein is a career backup and needs to be replaced. We’ll have to make due with Polumbus for the remainder of this year but Harris will be back next year. I know spreading the ball around is a good thing but shoot, if they’re giving you Marshall all day, why not keep going until they stop you. That was the only thing that seemed to work all day. If Royal wants the ball he better get open then. If the O-line doesn’t get any push, it doesn’t matter what RB you have in there and today that was evident. I can’t see Hillis being any different today based on the play of the line.

If the defense is going to free up Marshall, go to him. Keep going to him until they show they can stop it. Honestly, I wouldn’t have minded if we went to marshall 30 times instead of running it unsuccessfully, if I knew that we’d succeed with it.

Marshall was truly a beast today. He was getting open and making plays. You can’t fault McD for going to him because, frankly, it was working out pretty well. I just wish that our Oline had played with the same intensity and drive that Marshall was. If they had, Moreno would have gotten going and we could have made some plays on third down and won the game.

Easy enough. Watch the tape, Marshall is the only receiver getting open.

Marshall’s game today says as much about Eddie Royal’s massive regression as it does about Brandon’s excellence.

Mark me up as someone that doesn’t give a hoot about the record. He’ll be a $10MM per year player very soon.

If the Beast has 7" and 50 lbs on the guy who is assigned pretty much only to him, I hope we throw it to him 30 times like kb said.

but I like to see our best player stepping it up when many weren’t. The criticisms of the O-line are right on (especially in the redzone and short yardage situations), and I didn’t think Royal would be this irrelevant.

I think if anything this shows that Marshall is the man who has the championship stuff because he picks it up when we need it most. This team would be no where near playoff contention without him, and I believe he is due that $10M a year.

So I DO care about the record but only because of what I think it means.

I asked “Why not Hillis?” after Bucky went out, and when Knowshon seemed to produce nothing on short yardage downs. I question why we continually ran Moreno to the inside, after it didn’t work the 3 plays before. I was shocked we didn’t pass MORE. That was what was WORKING. I understand setting up the pass with the run, blah blah blah, but Marshall was doing such a great job, he deserved to be targeted. I agree with the above posters on that. I also think the record is not all that important, but it is significant for Marshall. If he still wants out of Denver this offseason, he is creating a golden ticket to another team, with a lot of value to the Broncos. I want to keep him, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least to see McD trade him. It seems to be McD’s MO.

I get everything you say, EXCEPT the fact that you have the audacity to “rate” the coach, as if you know better. The arrogance of some fans just baffles me. If you are Don Shula or Jimmy Johnson incognito, fine, grade the guy. But until you have gotten paid to coach a pro football team, you have real nerve criticizing McD’s playcalling like you could do something better. There’s a reason you are not a pro football coach, so support your team and try to figure out WHY he made the calls he did instead of damning him. It’s fruitless.

It’ll A: give them more reason to sign him or B: give a 1st round draft pick during the restricted FA period 4 compensation….all it does is makes us better.

But the fact remains that our interior offensive line is PATHETIC!!!! They have been from the get-go. McD has already talked about how he likes huge interior linemen (talking 335 lbs or more). I guarantee we will be using a good portion of our draft picks going after Offensive linemen and FA’s that fit the mold McD is looking for.

Let me remind you that Hockstein was brought in because he was very versatile . . . can play OLine, TE and FB. If we had a decent OG, then I would Hochstein could have moved to FB on the short yardage plays. Hillis does not have it . . . every time I see him play its painful. He just doesn’t have it . . . period! He will be let go next season.

do you guys expect BMarsh will command.

a Denver Bronco holds the record.

Sure wish it would have come with a win, though . . .

a Denver Bronco on the good side of an all-time NFL record?… ALL… TIME…??

absolutely! congrats, BMarsh.

from the Colorado Springs Gazette’s Frank Schwab: Link

The record will be tough to duplicate. Hall-of-Fame receiver Michael Irvin said he didn’t know if anyone would ever catch more than 20 passes again.

"I don’t know if people understand how difficult that is, how great that is," Irvin said. "It’s an incredible thing, and some of the plays he made were phenomenal. I wish I could have done some of that."