With the game in the fourth quarter this year, the Broncos were either leading, tied or within one...

With the game in the fourth quarter this year, the Broncos were either leading, tied or within one score of Jacksonville, Indianapolis, the New York Jets, San Francisco, St. Louis and Kansas City.

The Broncos lost them all. There were similar scenarios last season in games against Pittsburgh, Washington, Indian- apolis, Oakland and Philadelphia. That's 11 games in two years the Broncos either lost, or failed to seize, in the win-or-else fourth quarter.

McDaniels finished with an 11-17 record, so you do the math on what could have been.

Klis: Pressure cooked McD

I found this article to be pretty good. The last line "what could have been" will always nag at me until the Broncos return to relevancy.

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If we had won 4 of those 6 games

We’d be 7-7 and in a dog fight, right down to the wire in the AFC West.

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by Horsepower on Dec 12, 2010 8:44 AM MST reply actions

7-5 actually.

Verbose in style, dispersion of thought, procrastination in life.

The artist formerly known as ZAPPA

by Tim Lynch on Dec 12, 2010 8:47 AM MST up reply actions

Yes that's what I meant (=

by Horsepower on Dec 12, 2010 8:56 AM MST up reply actions

If

If we had ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs.

Take my advice, I never use it.

by azdenfan on Dec 12, 2010 8:59 AM MST reply actions

Exactly

Well stated. As stated in one media outlet today, the era of arrogance and ignorance is over in Denver. Time to move on people.

by FanSinceTheDonHornEra on Dec 12, 2010 9:38 AM MST via mobile up reply actions

yeah i don't think we are far off really

Spygate. Part two was just too much for McD to survive

by Daemon on Dec 12, 2010 9:03 AM MST via mobile reply actions

We Are

NOT far off. Contrast us with a team like the Bears. Chicago gets all the breaks (so does Atlanta) and we were too inept to get out of our own way in many instances. The new season starts today so beat the Cards!

Brad James

by the new Bradfather on Dec 12, 2010 9:15 AM MST up reply actions

I'm with you, Brad

Low expectations have sort of a nice calming effect on me. I hope we play well for the new coach, the Cards have bigger even issues than we do. Think Whisenhunt regrets letting Leinart go right about now?

Take my advice, I never use it.

by azdenfan on Dec 12, 2010 9:34 AM MST up reply actions

Or the Jets. Everyone wishes we would have hired Rex Ryan last year. Well in the last two weeks of the Jets season they played two teams who weren’t playing for anything, the Bengals and the Colts, who had pulled their starters, and they backed into the playoffs got hot and went to the AFC championship. This year they have only played like 3 or 4 teams with a winning record, and they’ve only beat one.

by Rmann on Dec 12, 2010 9:52 AM MST up reply actions

i liked that article, however

every time i read a denver post article i accidently scroll down to the comments section. then i realize just how depressing some people in the world are

by theraccoun on Dec 12, 2010 9:18 AM MST reply actions

yeah don’t ever do that. I did that back in the summer of 09 and it took about a month of Kool-Aid drinking before I was even sane.

by mikebirty on Dec 12, 2010 9:54 AM MST up reply actions

and as well as kyle orton played this year.but

Most of those games were lost by him. He gives he is the anti-elway in that he hasnt gone on the field and won games. thats why om excited to see tebow. maybe theres a pressure dynamic at work that orton just doesnt handle well. maybe it was the way mcd acted on the sidelines that didnt inspire the guys to fight….to finish. whether we are talking about drives or plays or quarters or games, the broncos havent been finishers since 2005. even then we couldnt finish and get into the superbowl. i cant wait to see how studs changes the dynamic of the team.Kus the best chance to be in a position to win….

-Harvey J. Neptune

Cutler is more than a tool...hes a frickin HOME DEPOT!
-Boydy

by HarvJNep2n on Dec 12, 2010 9:21 AM MST reply actions 1 recs

If Orton

was affected by McDaniels’ demeanor, that’s on KO, it’s up to players to perform, no matter what

Brad James

by the new Bradfather on Dec 12, 2010 9:28 AM MST up reply actions

Yeah, I understand.

You could say the player needs to perform…. that the coach needs to create the right culture…. but the mix was just off, either way.

-Harvey J. Neptune

Cutler is more than a tool...hes a frickin HOME DEPOT!
-Boydy

by HarvJNep2n on Dec 12, 2010 9:31 AM MST up reply actions

Also, Orton suffered at times from what my inexperienced mind saw as WTF play calling.

-Harvey J. Neptune

Cutler is more than a tool...hes a frickin HOME DEPOT!
-Boydy

by HarvJNep2n on Dec 12, 2010 9:32 AM MST up reply actions

there's two sides to THAT coin! It's up to a good coach to motivate just like a good player who leads...

We need both.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. DA

by Whidbey Bronco on Dec 12, 2010 10:06 AM MST up reply actions

Mike Klis just now seeing that?

I’ve seen it all along with all of you and thats what pains me about this firing especially in a retooling process. We would get or play into a position where we actually had a chance to win the game and something terribly wrong would happen either on offense, defense or special teams to put us in a hole. Whether it is predictable playcalling or something else, I can’t figure it all out, but the Broncos didn’t play complimentary football to assist eachother in the stretch of most games. Now with the hearing of Champ Bailey saying pretty much the locker room is in a disaray (who is the trouble maker or makers?), it might give us some incite to what the real problem of this team really is…

I just hope Bowlen hires a head coach who can bring back continuity and comradship to this fledgling team, because all I’ve heard lately is, we have junk players with no talent and should be gone, but winning brings out a character in people to make them excel where they normally wouldn’t.

by bfree2bronc on Dec 12, 2010 9:27 AM MST reply actions

Well

bfree, if the potential exists for success (which it does) a solid coach AND GM are what we truly need and we’ll be fine.

Brad James

by the new Bradfather on Dec 12, 2010 9:29 AM MST up reply actions

agreed. It remains to be seen where our talent level actually is!

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. DA

by Whidbey Bronco on Dec 12, 2010 10:07 AM MST up reply actions

Is John OK?

What happened to the Horse Tracks? Terry Frei’s article from the DP on Studesville is actually good in-depth reporting. I like this guy the more I read about him.

>http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_16837707

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by azdenfan on Dec 12, 2010 9:28 AM MST reply actions

John is probably just busy....it is the season to be busy after all. lol

I certainly know how much work goes into HT…I’d have to have an hour or hour and a half of uninterrupted time to really put out a good HT.

Verbose in style, dispersion of thought, procrastination in life.

The artist formerly known as ZAPPA

by Tim Lynch on Dec 12, 2010 9:48 AM MST up reply actions

Just checking to make sure he didn't check into rehab or anything. (joke)

“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines”- L Nielsen

Take my advice, I never use it.

by azdenfan on Dec 12, 2010 11:16 AM MST up reply actions

The Kansas game was just typical of several games in the McDaniels era. The Broncos never looked like they had enough in the bag to win the game but they never really looked out of it either. And then when it came down to the wire they were just lacking something – probably that experience of winning a close game.

I reckon if they’d have pulled the Indy or NY game out of the hat then they’d have been able to win more.

The next coach will have a good set up. They’ll have a good a offense and a below par defense that could be turned around easily with a few key playmakers. Geez, that sounds really familiar!!!!

by mikebirty on Dec 12, 2010 10:00 AM MST reply actions