Broncos Name 2010 Team Captains

Dude still has the face of a 15 year old. Maybe not the neck though…

I didn’t realize this: “while tying for the most games (10) in franchise history with a 90.0 passer rating…”

although some will say “Why not Tebow?” – he isn’t there quite yet!

This is going to be a long one so bare with me or skip it altogether…whatever works for you.

We have great leaders. This could be Champs and Dawks best shot to hols that trophy…lets make it happen fellas!

On a different note:

I understand trying to keep the optimism and pessimism in check but what I often see with the vanilla 8-8 predictions for the Broncos is a clear lack of confidence.

Everyone is undefeated right now. Football games are won and lost by a very little margin each and every year. Why can’t the ball finally bounce our way? We are a real team for the first time in a long time. Sure we have a team that plays every year but it is normally such and such “stars” and the other 40 guys that make the rest of the squad. Well I really think that the staffs approach this year is going to pay off.

THREE OF THE THINGS I LIKE:

1) We are bigger across the board. O-line, d-line, linebackers, corners, tight-ends and special teams as a whole. (I could say wide-outs if Decker and Bey-Bey where starters)

2) The positive side of Doom’s injury is that we will be stouter against the run. Elvis is obviously a tremendous rusher but his coverage and his run stopping skills still has a lot to be desired and was a flat out weakness last year. Jason hunter is 272 pounds, Ayers is 274 and they are both tough as nails. When you add Haggan’s 267 that is some serious beef at the LB position. Sure that is part of my first point but it is a little more specific. When Wink puts in Hunter, Ayers, Haggan and DJ we have THE biggest LB corp in the entire league! Pretty impressive and with MJD already hurt he could be out of the game by the 2nd quarter.

3) This draft class could go down is history. JD Walton and Zane Beadles have been nothing short of impressive. I had nightmares before the Steelers game about Zane at Left-Tackle going against J. Harrison and Woodley. If my memory serves me Zane did not get beat one time. Preseason or not J. Harrison does not take plays off. At the pro-bowl he was going full speed trying to knock people out. Also very quietly JD went up against one of the strongest people in the entire league (C. Hampton) and he held his own. We all know about Cox, Thompson, Tebow and Decker so I will try not to bore you with specifics but they look for real.

3 THINGS I LIKE:

1) This a big number one for me but nobody else in Bronco country seems to care. I think Josh McDaniels gives away WAY to much information!!! Where people are going to play, how they are going to play, how much they are going to play, what he is thinking, I could go on and on. He will learn but hopefully it will not be to late. We need to keep our opponents as off balance as possible. I would think that this attribute of B. Bellick would have rubbed off on him but it is quite the opposite. When we play the Pats we don’t know if there Defense is going to play a 3-4, 4-3, no D-Line, 2-5, etc. So the preparation for there opponents is borderline impossible. He needs to learn this very, very important lesson fast because his play calling became predictable to put it mildly last season. Once there was 6 games of film on the Broncos everyone started to get a very good feel for what we would do in curtain situations. Cough…Cough…3rd and 1. Someone please get McD the memo

2) The heat. 90 degrees in Jacksonville is going to feel like 120 to anyone coming from a mile high. Why they are not already down there getting acclimated is a thought of great frustration!

3) Hillis is just a flat out sore subject to be real. McX had all off-season to put this topic to bed. I was yelling for Dixon in the 6th round of the draft and sure enough the 49ers got him and as of right now he leads the league in rushing which is fine if we had someone to get us short, tough yards. Hopefully we will see Tebow in the Wild-horses a be very productive at short yardage because Hillis will do well in Cleveland, and if we do not find the modern day Mike Anderson we will never stop hearing the name that our entire fanbase was calling for last year…. HILLIS. As much as I didn’t want to see Hillis go…he was not going to be used by McD and Quinn is worth probably 2-4times the amount of Hillis in a trade and he is only in his first year. He could be worth a 1st round pick in no time.

With all that being said I will give my prediction and please write it down, take a picture.

AFC WEST CHAMPS! 12-4 (and I think we will lose at Jacksonville because of the heat)

Go Broncos!!

I can’t wait to get this season under way. in response to the long post above, hillis will always be a sore spot for denver fans, but his value to this team under mcdaniels was zero. We never used him so therefore whatever he does elsewhere doesn’t matter because he wouldn’t have done it here under this staff.

6 captains seems like a lot. THe NFL should allow for 3 captains. 1 offense, 1 defense, 1 special teams. That way it means something.

It’s like pee-wee football where everyone gets a trophy, and an orange slice for playing. “You showed up to work today. Youre a captain of the left side of the field. Bobby is captain of the back left. Joey is captain of the center left of the field.”

Just saying it’s a little silly

great choices for captain. I’d like to see Knowshon Moreno assert himself as a true team leader, Jamal Williams too.

DJ has to be the catalyst that fuels the defense at times when they are fatigued or down…

They will wear a Captain’s Patch on their jerseys this year??