Pride Cometh

There’s 3 wins. Then the Rams and Cards are the path to 5-3.

The team should be relatively healthy with like you said two weeks to game plan. If that game gets out of hand for KC I wont be expecting much the rest of the season. If they can come out strong and win then 4-4 is a realistic goal.

Optimist- We come out with a new fire, passion desire and win EVERY game by 10 points!

Defeatist- we might be able to win 2 games and go 4-12

Jon- I think that a new fire and passion better be there if we want to have any sembalence of respect from other players and any hope of attracting DAVID HARRIS to this team!

8-0 to finish

Tim, you lost me after the first half of your first sentence. That image was burned into my consciousness so badly that I was unable to see anything else. That, combined with the intermittent snickering the image induced, has forced me to take the dog for a walk just to clear my head. The dog thanks you as she usually doesn’t get her walk this early. :)

I am not sure I have seen anything that suggests this team has much pride in being Broncos at all to grow into a nice second half surge. Some individual pride, but the act of turning that into collective pride is really tough this late in the game.

Do we need it? Absolutely. Do I see signs of it? Not really. D.J. Williams’ 1st Tweet after the 49’ers debacle was how he was gonna go out and party. He got on people for criticizing him, but the reality is that it was a sign that his personal well being was not caught up in the well-being of the team. And that is one of our captains….

To me, pride must be collective first, individual second to build a successful team – whether in football, software development, car sales or anything else!

My heart says 5-3. My head says 3-5. 4-4 is probably right, although I say we beat phyllis and not Al.

At this point I’d settle for a .500 season but that seems highly unlikely.

I think I agree insofar as I’d simply like to see the team play with some pride. Whatever happens, go out there and make a good show of it. We’d all prefer a winner, but I’d rather root for a team that loses games but is IN the games, than a team that simply never competes at all. And lately, this team has just failed to compete, period.

It’s embarrassing.

I am not even going to guess at our final record because at this juncture I can’t look at Denver’s remaining schedule and pick any games where I feel utterly confident in their ability to win.

Hell, at this point let’s just get through the season without any more major injuries. How about that? I’ll even take that. Maybe, get through the season and not lose any more games by more than 7 points? There’s a goal for you. Let’s try that.

No more injuries, no more blowouts, and no more than 26 holding penalties per game. You don’t even have to win. That’s all I ask.

I’d love us to win every game. and each week i hope we do. I never give up hope. But each week ill still be here watching and rooting. regardless of how bad it is or good.

saying that the broncs would compete for the superbowl every year but i trust you on that, tim. (no way that kind of quote is beyond him.) i do though remember him always saying that every year the goal was to simply get into the playoffs because once you get there anything can happen.

i’d be very disappointed if this club ever goes from “get into the playoffs every year” to anything less than that. that includes “rebuild” years like apparently this one is. the main difference between perennial losers and winners is that philosophy, rather than a detroit idea of maybe “let’s try to get to .500 this year.”

 the broncos absolutely had a shot at the playoffs this year—they’re as talented as the other division teams. and no, as shanahan himself proved, just because the goal is playoffs every year doesn’t mean you get there every year. but i at least expect this team to clean up the slop from here on out and play like professionals who believe there’s still a chance.

good post, tim. thanks!

because in the end it won’t matter because we are practically out of playoff contention. What I do want to see is the development of our young offense, more specifically the offensive line. It has been pointed out before, we have the most inexperienced offensive line in the NFL, and the only way to change that is if we use the unit that is going to be with us in the long term. Some might argue that Ryan Harris is not going to be here after this season, but I think the reason he hasn’t been playing is more for his injury issue than his level of play. I would like to see a line of Clady, Beadles, Walton, Kuper, and Harris for the rest of the season. There is no reason why this unit shouldn’t be completely healthy and ready to go after the bye week, and the faster this unit gels, the faster we can expect to have the potent offense that we deserve.

I hate to admit that this season is pretty much a wash. I don’t think we will have some sort of a remarkable turn around after the break. I suppose it’s possible. Hell, I could win the lottery too. I would love my Broncos if they lost every single game, God forbid please! But no team in our division has played as expected. The Chiefs and the Raiders have surprised everyone. I can’t call why the Chargers are playing so badly but they do have a decent team. If we can win a few more games it’s all good, but still just a part of this rebuilding process we are in. I can agree that we need to take heart in the few good plays we execute. I’ve been proud of our team even when we have lost. How about that Jets game? Orton has played well for the most part. Three of our losses have ended with interceptions when he was trying to get us a win or tie. Tebow scored two TDs and that has to be some type of record based on TD to playing time. This season is most likely a wash as I stated at the beginning, but our team keeps on trying. And that, my friends is BRONCO PRIDE!

Session of the Colts played with a dislocated elbow and fractured arm, but refused to come out. Now I would like our training staff to pull that guy out… but it shows he had too much PRIDE in his team’s success, and in his own performance as part of it, to not give everything and anything he had.

…is for the Broncos to figure out how to stop the run, and for Moreno to run for over 100 yards. Lets start with those basic fundamentals and work from there.

One thing though: I don’t think we can use the excuse of “well, we should beat this team because we have the better qb”. Troy Smith, 3rd string qb. Enough said.

We started the rebuild process last year, why is that so hard to accept!

We’re 2-6, will be lucky to be 4-12 and most likely won’t have had our “quaterback of the future” allowed to throw the ball. Being crapy but getting our 1st round qb true experience would be one thing. We are soooo far away. That pride is even further.

Those of us who have been Broncos fans for over 20 years have been through this type of season before. Does it feel bad, does it hurt, does it truly suck? Hell yes!!!
The reality is that no team makes it to the playoffs every single year, let alone the superbowl. Of course we diehard Bronco fans want our team to win every game, but it just doesn’t work that way. Our team is rebuilding from the ground up and there’s going to be some major bumps along the way. How we handle the rest of this season should go a long way to show what this teams culture is going to be. This isn’t the first year I’ve had to endure insults from dumbass raider fans and won’t be the last. I take comfort in knowing the raiders will always suck in one form or another.
Win or lose, the Broncos are my team and have been my team since ’71 – ’72 when nearly the only bright spot was Floyd Little running his heart out. Going through seasons such as this sure makes you appreciate the Superbowl years.
 Go Broncos!