I was going to start this post of with a "Bronco-hater Hater" theme, but as a Christian I am asked to show love even to my enemies... dang it! I will do my best here to curb my annoyance, sarcasm, and countless other feelings that well up in me when analysts and fans alike shake their heads at the Bronco off-season. It's surprising, yes; but don't let it flip your couch, there is more than meets the eye here.

It is sometimes difficult to wrap our heads around something we don't comprehend, in fact most of us fear such things. I believe that is the biggest reason the Mile High City has been rained on all summer with distaste, distrust, and negativity...

But take joy Bronco-Nation, there is one simple fact that can clear everything up here:

"The Team that wins the Super Bowl, is the Team that Wanted it the most."

Before your brain can start swirling with all those thoughts, emotions, and other negative paraphernalia that you are edging on your seat to comment back to me at the end of this post... let MY thoughts interrupt you.

"The TEAM that wins the Super Bowl, is the TEAM that WANTED it the most."

This phrase is a phrase without limitations. There, I have done all the hard work, and highlighted the important parts for you. (Kind of like buying a used school book for college. Woot woot!) 

For those who can't read between the lines, let me break this down for you:

This isn't junior league ladies and gents. This isn't High School. Heck, this isn't even College. This is the National Football League. Where the professionals live and die. All the rule changes, player acquisition, and guidelines that have developed over time have had one single goal: To make this the most competitive, enjoyable sport to watch on television. The last half-a-decade, has been spent leveling the playing field to make the Big Game, anybody's game. I am a firm believer in that reality, and that they are continuing to improve on that stage.

Do you think we had bad defensive players last year? I don't think we did. To the quoted phrase above I will add detail:

The word TEAM is a very heavy word in the NFL. It means a LOT of things. A team is a group of players, it is a system, it is a scheme. It is talent, research, and planning. Not just players with talent, or coaches with experience, or planning a great system... You've got to have the players who fit your system. You've got to adjust your schemes to your player's individual talents. You've got to coach with experience, ingenuity, and absurdity. You've got to go against the analyst grain on this one and get back to the roots of football. When you had players that were a QB, Kicker, and Return-Specialist, all in one man.

If you're not following this post, then you've already limited your perspective. McDaniels is on to something that the majority of Bronco Country, hasn't quite grasped yet; and that the Professional Analysts will NEVER see without hind-sight.

He is building a real TEAM. He won't settle with Drafting (or other-wise acquiring) players that don't fit his system. He said it himself. He won't draft someone he's just going to cut. The defensive players HE wanted, weren't out there. He's sticking to a disciplined ideal of what his Denver Bronco is, and he won't budge. That's not just good, that is AWESOME. And he's measuring EVERY talent of his football players, i.e. Peyton Hillis, Spencer Larson, Robert Ayers, Knowshon Moreno (a great running back that can BLOCK). Versatility means players who have MANY talents. And McD is buying up as many as he can afford to. If you haven't watched NFL Network since March, then you wouldn't know that he's also getting rid of very talented players that are one-dimensional.

This gets us to our next important word: WANT

It's not just the Coach WANTING to win, or the Players WANTING to win. Its the Coach wanting and willing to measure and take into account every single attribute and dimension his players have to offer, and WANTING to put as much of those raw, explosive, unpredictable talents into his system as it can contain. It's about the players WANTING to do every single thing that their team needs, regardless of wealth, reputation, stats, or anything else. The player's desire has to be the TEAM.

When you have the right TEAM (players, scheme, system, character, etc.), and both Coaches and Players have the right WANT. There is nothing but injury, luck, and weather that will separate you from Victory, and that's all there is to it.

TEAM + WANT = VICTORY

We do have an incredibly TOUGH schedule filled with a few other teams that have the TEAM and WANT to compete with us. I GUARANTEE however, that there are NOT enough teams like that on our schedule to give us a losing season. So for all you "so-called" Bronco fans that expect us to have such a season: NOBODY wants to hear your negative, empty, OPINION that you've copied and pasted from NFL.com.

If we don't have a winning season, somebody email me at the end of the year and I will print out this blog and literally "Eat my Words".

 P.S. BRING IT!