12:54 P.M. EST: The P.A. system played Ring My Bell as the Broncos took the field. Not sure about the significance of that.
1:05 P.M. EST: Technical difficulties forced a computer restart, but we are back now.
1:47 P.M. EST: I apologize, but the entire first-quarter blog has been erased … I type it in Internet Explorer, and the blasted thing and my Internet connection shut down … so when I saved an entry, it only saved the first few lines. I apologize for the issues today. This stadium might be gleaming, but the quality of Internet connections in this city stinks.
SECOND QUARTER:
1:34 P.M. EST: Forget what I said about this place being nice … I can’t get on the Internet. This place stinks.
1:35 P.M. EST: Second-and-28 after a holding penalty … and the Lions quickly get 20 of the yards they need on a pass from Jon Kitna to Calvin Johnson.
1:37 P.M. EST: After an incompletion, it’s the Lions’ Jason (Hanson) who tries a lengthy field goal … from 53 yards, it’s easily good, with a few yards to spare. Lions lead, 6-0.
1:40 P.M. EST: The Broncos might have found their kickoff returner … Andre Hall has shown the most consistency of any Broncos returner so far this season.
1:44 P.M. EST: Jay Cutler just hit the ground awkwardly on second down … he remains on the ground receiving treatment for over a minute.
1:45 P.M. EST: Ramsey’s first pass gets 18 yards and a first down.
1:49 P.M. EST: Things aren’t going well anywhere right now … Jay Cutler remained on the sidelines for the rest of the drive and my Internet connection is spotty, at best. I’ll try to update this as often as my connection allows, but no guarantees.
1:50 P.M. EST: Jay Cutler has been taken to the locker room for X-rays … he was hit in the lower left leg. He is questionable to return.
1:55 P.M. EST: A costly penalty … Elvis Dumervil got to Kitna on third-and-10, and then grabbed his facemask from behind. A seven-yard loss is wiped out, and now the Lions are in field-goal range at the Denver 33.
1:58 P.M. EST: Kitna-to-Furrey to the Denver 16 … Lions controlling the pace of this game … next play, touchdown, as Kitna finds Furrey for the final 16 yards, beating Karl Paymah across the middle … Furrey bounced off Paymah, used the cornerback to stop and start again and got separation from the third-year player. Broncos now trail 13-0.
2:01 P.M. EST: Still awaiting word on Cutler.
2:02 P.M. EST: Ramsey remains in at quarterback. I don’t see Cutler anywhere on the sidelines.
2:05 P.M. EST: Broncos now at the Detroit 39 after gaining 19 yards on the first two plays of the series. Ramsey’s pass to Brandon Marshall for 13 yards got the drive off to a promising start.
2:06 P.M. EST: Third down … Ramsey looks for Brandon Stokley, and the pass sails high. Denver will punt once again.
2:07 P.M. EST: Halloween may be four days in the past, but the scary part of the autumn is in the first-half stats today. So far, the Lions have an 11-3 first-down advantage, a 164-57 total-yardage edge and a 77-8 margin in rushing yardage.
2:13 P.M. EST: Lions moving again, now looking to expand their advantage before halftime … Their passing game is starting to flourish on these last two possessions, with a 17-yard Kitna-to-Calvin Johnson pass moving them across midfield.
2:15 P.M. EST: Detroit now at the 20 with second-and-5 … Clock down to 50 seconds … Kitna’s end-zone pass to Roy Williams went incomplete.
2:17 P.M. EST: Kitna’s pass to Shaun McDonald in the back of the end zone falls incomplete. Detroit settles for Jason Hanson’s third field goal of the day; Broncos trail 16-0.
2:21 P.M. EST: An illegal-man-downfield penalty, a short Selvin Young run and the clock runs out on the half … Broncos down 16-0.
THIRD QUARTER
2:37 P.M. EST: Cutler has a lower left leg contusion. His return remains questionable. I can’t see him anywhere on the Broncos sidelines.
2:38 P.m. EST: A Kitna incompletion yields a three-and-out for the Lions.
2:41 P.M. EST: The crowd begins a chant of “De-fense” as the Broncos sit in the shadow of their uprights … Broncos now have third-and-9 at their 4.
2:43 P.M. EST: Under pressure, Ramsey’s pass for Brandon Marshall falls incomplete. Ramsey is now 5-of-10 for 48 yards … Todd Sauerbrun, who has enjoyed a good day, clobbers a 51-yard-punt that is bobbled as it is fielded, thus yielding no return.
2:49 P.M. EST: Denver’s defense is now managing to give the offense some chances, with two three-and-outs on as many series this half.
2:52 P.M. EST: And now disaster strikes again as Patrick Ramsey is waylaid by Corey Smith, jarring the football loose … Dewayne White recovers the fumble and scoots three yards for the Lions score. Matt Lepsis is very slow to arise and is treated on the field for a minute before rising.
2:54 P.M. EST: Detroit’s lead is now 23-0.
2:57 P.M. EST: Lepsis is back in as the Broncos take over after a 34-yard kickoff return for Andre Hall. The first-year running back from South Florida has been a bright spot today; he’s averaging 29.0 yards per kickoff return.
3:01 P.M. EST: A nice grab by Tony Scheffler across the middle is followed by two incompletions, including one Brandon Marshall drop. With third-and-10 after the passes, Marshall then redeems himself with a 14-yard grab near the right sideline as three defenders closed in on him.
3:03 P.M. EST: Detroit calls timeout; the Lions had just 10 men on the field.
3:05 P.M. EST: Travis Henry takes over with a 7-yard run and a 22-yard carry … and then can’t walk back to the sideline, trying to get his balance before finally falling to the ground near the sideline.
3:07 P.M. EST: Henry is on his feet as trainers worked on his right hand … Meanwhile, the Lions crowd, without a care in its collective Honolulu blue world, does the wave.
3:08 P.M. EST: Selvin Young in on first-and-goal from the 5 … he is stopped for no gain.
3:09 P.M. EST: Ramsey looks for Daniel Graham amidst a thicket of silver helmets across the middle; Cory Redding swats the pass away.
3:10 P.M. EST: Ramsey looks for Brandon Marshall on the slant route … the pass is behind the second-year wideout. Broncos are going for it.
3:12 P.M. EST: The Lions had their worst field position of the day after the Broncos were turned away at their 5-yard-line … but took just seconds to get out of it .. or as long as it took Sean McHugh to go 46 yards with a pass … on the next play, Shaun McDonald gets a pass up the left sideline, follows a Mike Furrey block on Domonique Foxworth and sprints untouched to the end zone. Broncos now trail 30-0.
3:17 P.M. EST: Marshall is back in, and had a pass on the next drive.
3:20 P.M. EST: It seems as though each pass Ramsey throws is accompanied by a thunderous Lions pass rush … he continues to stand in, continues to make his throws fearlessly.
3:22 P.M. EST: Fourth-and-7 at the Lions 40, and the Broncos are going for it … but it will now be fourth-and-12 after the Broncos take a delay-of-game penalty. Head Coach Mike Shanahan sends the punt team onto the field.
3:26 P.M. EST: Lions call timeout with third-and-6 forthcoming. The Broncos have forced two three-and-outs already this half — unfortunately, the one exception was the two-play, 95-yard series that resulted in McDonald’s touchdown catch.
3:27 P.M. EST: The officials rule that McDonald trapped, and did not catch, a third-and-6 pass from Kitna. Detroit punts for the third time this quarter and the Broncos will take over at the 26.
3:29 P.M. EST: Broncos will have third-and-a-long-9 as the fourth quarter begins.
FOURTH QUARTER
3:32 P.M. EST: The fourth quarter commences with an 11-yard Ramsey-to-Scheffler pass to keep the possession alive.
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:35 P.M. EST: Glenn Martinez with a 10-yard reception in his return to Detroit; he moves the Broncos into Lions territory at the Detroit 46.
3:36 P.M. EST: Broncos continuing to move downfield … a 10-yard pass on fourth-and-1 — Marshall caught it — has Denver at the Detroit 32. Less than 10 minutes remain.
3:40 P.M. EST: With third-and-5, Ramsey let go of a pass as he attempted to avoid a furious pass rush … and disaster struck. Shaun Rogers intercepted it, sprinted into the open field up the left sideline and outran the Broncos for the 66-yard return. A bad afternoon gets worse, and the Broncos now trail 37-0.
3:45 P.M. EST: From bad to worse … and even worse. Tony Scheffler fumbled on the next play from scrimmage; Alex Lewis recovered and sprinted into the end zone for the touchdown. The Broncos are challenging the call.
3:49 P.M. EST: The challenge goes the Broncos’ way, but the fumble stands. Detroit takes over at the Denver 34 with 7:52 remaining as Lewis was ruled down by contact at the 34. J.T. O’Sullivan takes over at quarterback for Jon Kitna.
3:52 P.M. EST: Still another injury for the Broncos … D.J. Williams is hurt. He walks off the field under his own power.
3:55 P.M. EST: Williams is back in the game.
3:56 P.M. EST: T.J. Duckett plows forward, carrying defenders down to the Denver 3-yard-line on a 22-yard carry. One play later, he’s in the end zone.
3:58 P.M. EST: 44-0. Gracious.
4:02 P.M. EST: Broncos in hurry-up mode now … trying to avoid the first shutout for the franchise since Nov. 22, 1992.
4:06 P.M. EST: Broncos now at the Detroit 2 with 2:38 left after a Lions pass-interference penalty … playfake, rollout, touchdown to Brandon Stokley. The shutout is averted.
4:07 P.M. EST: Maybe not … the Lions are challenging the call.
4:12 P.M. EST: The touchdown stands … and with 2:26 to go, it’s time to pack for the locker room. More to come later.
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Elwayred – Some things are SO obvious, they go without saying!
Touché my friend… touché
Broncos D-Underconstruction,
It has nothing to do with US fans wanting a high draft pick, but thats about all we can look forward to with the way this season has gone and is continueing to go. I’d give my left nut to see this team win the SB this year but thats not going to happen obviously with the way they are playing. So I suck up my pride, I accept the team is rebuilding, and I hope for a better season next year because like I stated after the charger game, this one is going nowhere, fast.
As of right now, all I can hope for is that Cutler is okay. I hope this injury is not season ending — I cannot take another one of those, I just can’t. This is killing me, someone on this website better have something on how Cutler is doing tomorrow and it better be good. I really believe he’s becoming the anchor of this team, the one that will improve beyond belief and carry us to many good seasons in the future. If he’s out, and Ramsey is in — we’re done. If our 2nd string QB can’t even make completions to save his life then how the heck are we supposed to win a simple football game. This is absolutely ridiculous.
One little tip for our offense, every last one of them — change the RED ZONE OFFENSE. I really don’t care what they have to do but do something different. I can tell you it would help if you worked as a team — oh look at that, what a thought. To think it actually might work — try it sometime, its practically fool proof. Secondly, our defense needs MAJOR help — figure out what’s wrong and fix it will ya? You guys are driving me nuts, I could tackle those 300lb. linebackers with my eyes closed!!!! Get with it. I’m trying to be as nice as possible but I hope this comes across as strict to any player that reads these things. Give us a reason to keep coming to the games, give us a reason to keep faith and hope in you guys — do you guys really want to be playing at home in front of a record audience of ZERO!!! Today was just another big embarassment like SD, I was praying to God we wouldn’t relive that but you all seemed to enjoy it and I can’t figure it out. Help me out here. And all those penalities were just plain dumb. I was probably fortunate not to be able to watch the game b/c TV stations here in KC don’t air any games other than the Chiefs but by watching this play by play on nfl.com, I’m glad didn’t watch this — I would have been more ticked off than I already am. PLEASE for the love of God, don’t let another team embarass us like that ever again. Unless you all want to lose like this and play like a bunch of girls… I still don’t get it. You all are nuts and are completely outside your minds. Get a grip and change the way you guys are playing… you about gave me a heartattack today. I don’t feel like dying just yet… spare me another week or two.
I’ve still got faith but I don’t understand why you guys are letting yourselves get beat up like this. I wish you guys had a tactic to this stupid theory of getting slaughtered but there’s no excuse for playing like you guys did.
GO BRONCOS!!!!!
For the guy who asked. I AM A SEASON TICKET HOLDER AND I FLY IN FROM ANOTHER STATE SO DON’T QUESTION MY COMMITMENT! i WOULD RATHER HAVE A GRAET DRAFT PICK THAN SNEAK IN THE PLAYOFFS WHICH IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN BY THE WAY! 5-11 IS THE BEST THAT THIS TEAM WILL FINISH!
You know its bad when our offense can’t stop their defense from scoring!!
The problem is that we flat out suck. We have the worst run defense of any team in the last 5 years. When our D coordinator was canned last year we got the losing not acceptable speech. Is Shanahan and Bates going to be held just as acountable? As I see it we suck 10 times worse on defense then we did last year. Oh, and if I hear one more excuse about our injuries Im going to puke.
If f&^%ng Bates does not resign tomorrow morning or gets fired the hell with it. This is the worst i have ever felt as a Bronco. The players are trying the system does not work.
let’s just begin with this. FIRE Bates first and foremost. His system sucks. I’m tired of everyone saying , give it a few more weeks, they’ll catch on , they have been playing much better. bull$%#&!!!!!!!! Denver’s defense sucks. I would say, and have said before to fire Shanahan but after long thinking on this, I don’t think that’s the solution. Shanahan needs to fire EVERY coach he has!!!!! I have been a die hard Denver fan since 1977(30 years for all of you that aren’t very good at math)and I have never seen a Broncos team this BAD!!!! Over the years, I have seen some pretty bad years, but this one is by FAR THE WORST!!! There is no team chemistry at all. there are too many OLD players. They need to get rid of ALL OF THEM. Let’s start with NICK FERGUSON, IAN GOLD, JOHN LYNCH, DRE BLY(WORST OFFSEASON TRANSACTION), TRAVIS HENRY, ROD SMITH(SORRY ROD, BUT MAYBE YOU WILL BE HIRED AS A COACH) JAVON (BUST) WALKER, AND SAM ADAMS!!!!!!!!!! Dre Bly was paid pretty darn good to get BURNED EVERY GAME. We’re too SLOW on the defensive side of the ball!!! Can’t you coaches see that???? I am so disgusted at this point, we should be 0 and whatever. I’m hoping that Cutler is out for the season, so that maybe we’ll get a decent draft pick, if they don’t mess that up too!!!I love the broncos but,right now WE SUCK!!!! They should have drafted some good young talented safeties instead of all these defensive linemen that don’t even play. We are so old at that position. It’s the same thing every game. We have the most BORING OFFENSE in the NFL!!!! Today’s game was the first time in 30 years that I didn’t watch the Broncos!! I sat and watched Brett Favre and company BEAT the chiefs(not that it mattered anyway). that’s pretty sad when you would rather watch a game where one of our biggest rivals was playing and not playing the Broncos. Much less a game on FOX now how boring is that? Brandon Marshall I’m sorry but, NOW IT’S TIME TO BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! SORRY BRONCOS FANS BUT MAYBE???NEXT YEAR!!!!!! PAT BOWLEN SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE, DOES ANYBODY OUT THERE KNOW HIS PHONE NUMBER????
Im throwing in my hat for the season as well. I really cant remember ever being this disgusted with a Broncos team. I’ll always love the Broncos, but this season has hurt bad.
I say give Bates another year, as much as we all want to run him out of town, his track record deserves a second year.
Shannahan should stay, I still think hes a great coach…and would you really want someone else on the sideline? Who? Gross Andy Reid with his man boob sweat and cop moustache?
the worst season I ever endured with our team..I am 30..and bleed orange and blue for 23 years…but todays game broke me…worse then the super bowl lost to the 49ers some years back…I’ll never throw the towel in..but we are screwed. our injuries..our lack of play callin…our players lack of concentration….I see a dark time comin to bronco country..but I will be here to weather the storm…even if i have to wait 15 years again for a sb win….now people have to be listening when i said I didn’t want Dre’ bly….who misses #56????????….But most of all who misses #27…atleast he never gave up back to back big plays…we’ll bounce back again…shanny will find it again…and i just want to beat the raiders twice again…and maybe Santa claus will bring us larry Coyer back again…and maybe will have another Davis, Elway, Sharpe, Smith, and McCaffery tandem……in Young, Cutler, Sheffler, Marshell, and Stokley….but who knows…we’lll have never have a d like we did…our LB suck..without a great mentor…what do I know..I only have cheered and booed them for 23 years…
So the Chargers game was not an accident ! The victory against Pittsburg looks now like a miracle and so is a miracle that we still are in the race fo the division tittle , let’s be honest we can’t go to the playoffs with this team .There’s too many injuries but it’s not the only problem .I think we gonna win one or two game on the pride of the players but we are overmatched , our defense is non existent and more important , when things are starting to degenerate like this nothing can stop it from getting even worse . The mindset of our team is like ” what’s next ” and you can’t win in the NFL whith that so , i expect nothing from this season exepted playing time for the young players and i really hope Jay will be back soon to continue his developpement .See you next year .
Again, this team is a joke. Shanahan has done a &^$$ poor job of coaching this year and the playes he’s brought in are washed up. Nice job Shanny, way to usher back in the Wade Phillips era.
This is one of the best articles I have read about the Broncos. I think this writer should probably be our coach. Just Kidding on the coach part but anyway let me know what you guys think about it and if anyone has Shanny’s e-mail address please forward it to him. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/nfl/article/0,2777,DRMN_23918_5739316,00.html
just one last word : Al Wilson , in my opinion was one of the best linebacker in football , a Ray lewis caliber , he was the anchor of our D , now he’s gone and i can’t really understand how the coaching staff let him go , i really need some explanations here , Pryce , OK , i understand but in Al’s case …..If he was injured severely , then put him on IR and let him take a year rehabing , so get rid of him ????I don’t see the Colts get rid of Manning or Freeney , the Pats pat ways whith Brady or Seymour , the hated chargers saying go anywhere to LT , Gates or Meriman . There are players you just keeep in your roster , healthy or not just beacause they are above the pack . I’m not in the coaching staff but some thing need to be said in this case .
Hey France, maybe you missed the memo but Al’s career is probably over. This wasn’t some small injury he had to deal with, he has not been cleared by doctors to play football. I do agree though, the only LB actually playing football this year is Williams. Webster and Gold are better off leading the cheerleaders, there’s playing like school girls anyway, might was well dress accordingly.
yeah , i missed , anyway , very sad to loose a guy this caliber and will be very hard to replace him , one of the main reason we’re struggling this year especially on D .
Can people now finally admit I was right?
4-12 people
believe it
This season has gone tits-up. A top draft pick is nothing to be excited about in my opinion. Poor play all round, can’t really be helped though with an injury list almost bigger than the number rushing yards given up.
Peace…
Hesky, You got it right on the $. but a draft pick is all we have to look forward to.. Could this be are worst year in history?? Change is in the air??
Absolutely Pathetic. Lets get Kubiack back as coach and start Paying players on a performace per game standard. Pro sports are out of control with the money,and the coaching Stinks. Oh well Deer hunting starts this weekend.
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