Horse Tracks - 4/21/10 - Schedule-Makers do Broncos no favors in 2010
by John Bena on Apr 21, 2010 5:28 AM MDT
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The opponents have been known for months. Yesterday was all about seeing, for the first time, the ebb and flow of the 2010 season. When it finally came out, and the excitement died down a bit, you got a true sense of how the 2010 season could go down. The League didn't do the Broncos many favors, that's for sure. Let's start with the Broncos request to start the season at home, on Monday Night, against Oakland. A fair request, seeing as the Broncos had started the previous 5 seasons away from home. The result? The Broncos start the season on the road, again, all the way on the east coast(Jacksonville) while the Kansas City Chiefs get the primetime matchup. The Broncos won't play a primetime game at home - that has to be the first time in a long time - though they will continue their streak of Monday Night Football appearances with a trip to San Diego on November 22. If all that weren't enough, the Broncos will play 3-straight road games - the first time since 1997. The December road trip includes two divisional matchups, with trips to Kansas City and Oakland sandwiching a journey to Arizona. Perhaps the most unfortunate result of the schedule was the NFL's decision to make all Week 17 games divisional battles. That meant the Broncos had no shot at facing the Colts - and a bunch of backups - the last week of the season. Instead the Broncos get the Chargers, and perhaps a bunch of better backups? Time will tell.
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Don't trade Ben, don't do it!
Thanks for the link JB
The future is not what it used to be.
What the media did not tell you.
It is what it is...
Not a cupcake schedule by any means but we should know what the 2010 Broncos are made of in very short order this year. Let’s hope they make some solid picks thois week. Every team wants a good draft but this one doesn’t have much room for error.
McDaniels G-Jacked the shizzat outta the Browns for Brady Quinn. Word!
by TheMastermind on Apr 21, 2010 6:50 AM MDT via mobile reply actions
The worst part of the schedule
is at Tennessee October 3, then at Baltimore October 10. Two tough teams on the east coast, or close to it. The three consecutive road games later are at least kind of close (KC, AZ, SD). At least the Colts have to come here, for a change.
All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow...and one day you’ll awake and find that you’ve never lived and never died, except in the dream.
William Blake
Nashville is about the same distance as San Diego or Oakland
I don’t dispute the Titans could be tough though.
Guess I should look at the map.
Plus it’s only one time zone away. Should be an easy win then. ;-)
All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow...and one day you’ll awake and find that you’ve never lived and never died, except in the dream.
William Blake
I may be selfish..
But I live about an hour from LP Field, and FINALLY get to go to a Broncos Game here in the south! I cannot dislike that the Broncos are comming here. How COOL!!!
Can’t help it, I’m STOKED!!!!
Strength and honor
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by kybroncomaniac on Apr 21, 2010 8:42 AM MDT up reply actions
Don't like the idea of the game in London...
Are we the home team or is Frisco considered the home team for that game? Whether it is Frisco or Denver, the fans will lose one of their home games. If you want to reach out to London, send them a preseason game.
It is a San Francisco home game
The Broncos will play all 8 of their home games at Invesco
-TSG
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I look at it as a mini vacation for the team in the middle of the season, how cool is that...
Then they get their bye week when they get home to rest up some, plus the very next game is a home game…against the Chiefs. How good is that?
It wasn’t bad a schedule. It was fine. We only play one team coming off their bye (the Dolts on a Monday night game). Last season the NFL SCREWED us with three games vs teams coming off their bye week. The away game in London is great for us. We only have seven true road games.
Of course the Dolts don’t have to play anyone coming off their bye week for the 2nd consecutive year. The NFL really wants them to win a SB.
In my opinion.
WOOOO!!!
Broncos vs Titans – Oct 3rd. Get to see my favorite team in person!
Not a fan of the schedule:
1) 3 road game – sucks
2) On the road to open the season yet again – sucks
3) Playing Indy yet again (what is the league’s infatuation with us playing Indy/NE ever year) – sucks
4) Only 1 primetime game – SUCKS
Though we can only blame that last one on ourselves. If our team had been relevant the last 4 years, maybe we’d get more. =/
My eyes tell me yet another 8-8 (or thereabouts) season again. Arrgh.
For Adam Schefter this morning. Very encouraging for guys like me that want to see Denver trade down.
“An offseason filled with trades could continue straight into Thursday night’s NFL draft, and picks 10 through 12 might be where the action will happen.
A cluster of teams — No. 10 Jacksonville, No. 11 Denver and No. 12 Miami — is interested in moving back in the draft, according to multiple league sources.
Meanwhile, another cluster of teams — No. 18 Pittsburgh, No. 23 Green Bay and No. 24 Philadelphia — is interested in moving up in the draft.
Teams will be cautious about trading into Jacksonville’s spot at No. 10 because the team that picks might have to negotiate off the complex deal that San Francisco and Michael Crabtree struck last season.
Crabtree, who fell to No. 10 in the 2009 draft and held out through training camp and the opening weeks of the season, signed a contract paying him more than the picks taken ahead of him, setting a tricky precedent for teams at that slot this year.
Denver’s spot at No. 11, one spot ahead of Miami, could have more appeal because the Crabtree contract would not be looming over it."
In my opinion.
That is good news...
I think, in a perfect world, the Broncos would move back and get more picks.
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If
Earl Thomas or Joe Haden are there then there will be a lot of interest and McD might do his bidding war magic thing.
Could be Chicago losing the coin flip was the best thing for Denver.
About the Crabtree thing, why wouldn’t a team just see what is paid at 9 and 11 to figure out that contract?
Derek Anderson is just as much a probowl quarterback as Jay Cutler
Or McClain, the Giants reported that they are interested in him.
They hold the 15th slot and would give us an extra pick plus a cheaper first.
When I saw we lost the coin flip, I was happy because I felt that was a good thing for us.
We don’t have the same needs as Jacksonville. Let them take someone we were not even targeting and pay him more.
We should have several good options at 11 regardless of whom gets taken at 10. Most of our needs are at positions of low postional value per the stupid positional value chart.
In my opinion.
Fingers, they are crossed
A trade down—say, to 15, if New York really wants McClain—could still net us Pouncey or Iupati, and the sweetener we’d get would be great value in this draft.
by Remember Keith Kartz! on Apr 21, 2010 8:55 AM MDT up reply actions
We need depth on both sides of the line don't forget.
Team tend to lean towards OT’s early but not Guards/Centers. I look for them if they trade down to 15 or so is go after a DLineman say like brandon Graham, Derrick Morgan, Dan Williams or Jared Odrick. I’m thinking JD Walton or Matt Tennant may be a better fit for what we want to do in the long run. Tennant takes on NTs one on one…We can get him in the 3rd and not pay a high value for him where as Pouncey and Iupati would cost alot more for the same or little better value.
Don’t kid yourself, Pouncey is a much better prospect than Walton. MUCH BETTER.
Pouncey has annual Pro Bowler written all over him. Many scouts are saying he is the best C prospect in decades.
In my opinion.
Walton
I read somehwere that he did just fine against Suh last fall, when Baylor played Nebraska. Don’t remember where I read it though.
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Suh also has an endorsement from Baylor center J.D. Walton. In a 20-10 victory over the Bears last season, Suh had five tackles, including three for loss, one sack and one quarterback hurry.
"He’s just so athletic and strong up top, and he can control the O-line," Walton said. "I think it will take a little adjustment because guys in the NFL are so big and seasoned, but he’s going to have a big impact."
In the video
Did McD call Marshall and Cutler, me first non team players?
Derek Anderson is just as much a probowl quarterback as Jay Cutler
Big Ben
Ben, rather warranted or not, is a rapist in much of the publics view. If not rapist at least an abuser of women. This is a publicity nightmare much worse than that of Micheal Vick. Any yeam trading for him will have to fight the image of a condoner of women abuse. Any team trading for him will be foolish despite his talent. This is one thing that will not go away.
Derek Anderson is just as much a probowl quarterback as Jay Cutler
Which strengthen the bad reputation.
Derek Anderson is just as much a probowl quarterback as Jay Cutler
2 things I like about the schedule...
Since John listed all of the bad things the schedule brings for us, here are some of the good things.
1) If you notice we get all of the way back east games over with by week 5, playing the Jaguars wk #1, the Titans wk #4, and then on to the Ravens wk#5. I know they will be fighting the humidity and the long travel, but look at this way, we get them out of the way and the remaining away games (except London GB) will be only be a 1,000 miles and west.
2) The away game against the 49ers in London will be like a mini vacation for the team and some excitement mid way through the season. The good thing about it is the Broncos are on their bye week afterwards, so that’s a plus for a long travel…
3) After our bye week we are at home against our division rival KC. How sweet is revenge for the 44-24 thumping they put on us.
4) We get to play the last 2 games at home and what better than could you ask for then SD at home and the division on the line. I couldn’t write a script any better than that. Our schedule is a lighter schedule with the 3 aways in a row and that hurts, but I think we have a chance to prove to the world who the Denver Bronco are…
Plus, if you look at the Ravens and Jets schedules, they have some TOUGH games before they play us.
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by Troy Hufford on Apr 21, 2010 10:56 AM MDT up reply actions
Good to hear.
All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow...and one day you’ll awake and find that you’ve never lived and never died, except in the dream.
William Blake
Ted !
No Tebow ! How could you !
All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow...and one day you’ll awake and find that you’ve never lived and never died, except in the dream.
William Blake
Iupati! Iupati! Iupati!
Dang, if the Broncos pulled off that draft, I’d be stoked.
Denialists replace the open-minded skepticism of science with the inflexible certainty of ideological commitment.-- Michael Spector
by PredominantlyOrange on Apr 21, 2010 7:04 PM MDT up reply actions
I like the optimism here
And I’m always one to hope for the best, but for whatever reason, I’m thinking maybe next year. And yeah, I hate that thought. Hope I’m wrong, wrong, wrong.
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. - Thomas Jefferson
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