Glad someone of the players says this! So McDaniels-haters: shut up!

And this is what Champ said: “We know we have a good coach,” Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey said. “We know we have a good team. We just have to play like it.”

What’s he suppose to say? Its not like football players have guaranteed contracts like other sports and he can say whatever he wants. He talks out he’s benched.

I guess this means the players are just incompetent.

Then its players and once again the buck stops with Josh.

sadly, this does not convince either side of the McD debate. Nothing anyone says will swing one’s vote. Performance on the field is the only way this whole thing gets settled. Squawking about it from all sides means nothing until game time.

GO BRONCOS!

Mario Haggan and Champ Bailey were two guys that were the most obvious quitters on Sunday. Haggan reminded me of Nate Webster in that game.

So you are right, it’s not just the coach. It’s SPECIFICALLY you Mario Haggan. You should be playing for your job this Sunday since there are plenty of Nate Webster’s out there and you have been one of them lately.

And Champ, you might actually want to try next game as well. No one is going to sign you to a big new deal just to watch you lazily chase RBs and WRs around without much effort.

This talk the talk and don’t walk the walk crap out of our players has got to stop. We heard this same garbage last season before the KC home game from guys like Graham, Bailey and Orton. Then all three (specifically those three) proceed to play their worst game of the season in that debacle.

There is more hot air coming out of Dove Valley than at any time I can ever remember.

First off…no professional player is gonna come out and say that the coach didn’t prepare his players…until they leave. I wonder what players like Hillis, Sheff, Marshall, A. Smith, etc would say if asked.

Second, if the players are so prepared…and they know what is gonna happen and they still don’t stop it or shut it down…those players need to go. If the defense can’t shut something down when they know it is gonna happen, then those players aren’t worth having around.

Third…for anyone to say that we are still in Shanny’s mess…get real. Shanny left a mess on defense and left a good solid offense to work with. It was McD in all his youthful enthusiasm and lack of lifelong experience and wisdom that decided to blow up basically the whole team. So, we are now in McD’s mess.

Fourth…I do, IMHO, attribute the Broncos lack of success to the coaching staff. A staff that McD put together. A staff that is really not very good. Let me put it to you this way…if McD were to, god forbid, get in some sort of accident and be laid up for a while, which assistant coach would take the reins? Woud you want Wink Martindale to coach this team? Josh’s brother? The horrible special teams coach? Who is our offensive coordinator again? Really…how much experience and wisdom is available on the Broncos sidelines? And what the hell was Josh doing but standing alone on the sidelines and pouting.

Fifth…the injury situation. Yes we have been decimated by injuries. But guess what. Good teams make do…take NE couple years ago when Brady went out. He was by far their most important player. His team rallied and made a decent season out of it. And this season…Green Bay now has 9 players on IR…NINE! And not just scrubs either. Important personnel. Yet, they are scratching and clawing their way to 4-3 at this point. So…that’s what good teams do…we are not a good team.

But the buck stops at the head coach’s desk. The team was unprepared, and it is the coach’s job to prepare them. There’s enough blame to go around to the whole staff and every man out there on the field.

It’s everyone’s fault, but the man on the hook is the coach.

Winning cures everything. Win some games, Mario. Then it goes away.

Did anyone besides me notice Haggan’s play? It seemed every time the Raiders ran his way, he was CRUSHED by the very blocks that sprang the runner. Haggan, and Haggan alone, was the very reason for some of those long runs. If he is the best the Broncos have on the outside after Ayers went down, I fear for the Broncos, with Frank Gore on the horizon . . .
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I am viewing this merely as a mea culpa and an admission that the team is not playing like they need to. I don’t see how this season can be saved at this point, and I’m not throwing a lot of hope that way.

But I will be very interested to see how the players, and the HC, respond to a season like this one. Are we going to mail it in over the next 9 games? Or are we going to play the best we can with the disadvantages we have? McDaniels may well get another season, even two, to prove himself.

In my mind, much of Pat Bowlen’s confidence is on the line by how they perform the rest of the season. Not necessarily by Ws, which will be difficult to get, but by attitude and aptitude.

Just to try and grow that shimmer of hope you have… Just remember, we have the third easiest schedule from here on out in the weakest division in the NFL. The Chargers did it last year, and we can do it this year. We just need a win in London, then use the bye week to prepare for the Chiefs and we can turn this thing around. Until we fail to do so, I’m not going to allow myself to think any differently… too painful.

Most coaches will say something to the affect of ‘we got outplayed, and outcoached, and they were better than us today". I’ll work up some quotes from Cowher, Shanny, Parcells, Belichek if needed, but that’s a pretty standard postgame comment and most any coach makes it (worded one way or another).

to Mario for saying this. Now, you and your teammates need to play better PLEASE!

This is encouraging to read/hear, especially amidst all the “lost his players” and “divided lockerroom” allegations.

On the negative side… That’s nice and all, Mario, and thanks for that… now go out, focus, and do your MF job the rest of the season, or you may not be around to defend your coach next year.

it was mentioned that some of the players said they were pushed too hard in practice. What players suposedly said this?

Finally MHR is recognizing these! Fanposts here (me included) are usually just opinions and kool-aid drinkers convincing everyone to stay optimistic. Fanshots got the facts and its about time people recognize them

Glad to see it after DP has been saying McD is losing his players. Haggan, might not be very talented, but he’s a captain for a reason. Way to stick up and not point the finger in times of duress Haggan, you truly are a great leader

Another blackout looming for the Chargers. Those fake bake sods….

Have you guys seen this garbage on NFL Network, entitled “Shame” (super original, by the way) It’s this uber-dorky dude, running down the worst performances of the week followed by a shout out of “SSHHAAMME.” Kind of like “CMON MAN” only much, much gayer.

But he owes his paycheck to McDaniels, so doubtful he is going to come out and blast the guy who made him a starter in this league, to my knowledge, he is the only player in league history that was a backup for 6 years and then became a starter.

I just hope he’s not covering Vernon Davis….the thought alone sends me shaking into the fetal position sucking my thumb