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.
Tags: Detroit Lions
Tough game but if present scores still hold- we will still only be one game out of first with a lot of games to play- who knows. Win or lose …and as frustrating and stomach twisting as this season is … a fan to the end. Go Broncos
It’s a loss. So what? Every team (EVERY single one of them) has “down” seasons. We’re obviously having one, but remember: We’re only ONE GAME OUT in the AFC West, everyone! Keep the faith – things can only go up from here, right? ONE GAME OUT…remember that. GO BRONCOS!!!!!!
Packers have defeated KC, The Vikes are going to beat SD, Adrian just shy of the nfl rushing record
one game out, i know. anything can happen like loosing 44-7 at detriot. It is becoming more clear though that we are really bad and now me may be without are qb.
Very proud of the fans that are still behind OUR Broncos. WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP!!!!!
Keep the faith TRUE Bronco fans. Seasons can change quickly with a few wins and some momentum. Yes, it looks like rock bottom now, but stranger things have happened. They’re talented, just playing badly. Keep the heads up.
Apparently the AFC West is doing its NFC West impression as a tribute to Halloween.
Hard to believe that the division is playing this badly as a whole this weekend…
As people have pointed out though, it puts us only one game out of first place, which is really kind of frightening.
This was another brutal game… I was hoping we wouldn’t relive SD @ Denver but that’s how our red zone offense is… just blah. We have got to change, I can’t take this playing like crap. What is wrong? I don’t know what’s wrong but I know firing Shanny IS NOT the answer. Bates maybe but not Shanny… just b/c Cutler isn’t in (he better come back) you can’t blame all this on one single person. We win as a team & we lose as a team. End of story. If Cutler was in there playing this bad (which he wouldn’t) you all would be blaming only him… he has to take control on when & how to throw the ball but the catchers have to follow through & actually catch the ball and HOLD ON TO IT!!
I’m glad we finally scored… the last thing I wanted to see was a shut out. But we have to play WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better if we want to even think about beating KC. I saw the GB @ KC game and KC almost had it. We have only there like once in a blue moon — I’m DEMANDING our guys kick the crap out of them.
Step up the offense, play smart; defense you have a simple job — DEFEND!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t believe you would actually let another team beat us around like today!! Come on, sack the QB, tackle till the game is over, don’t stop b/c you’re tired — if you want to quit in the middle of the game you’re playing on the wrong team, more like you have the wrong job. I’ll always have faith in my orange & blue, but give me a reason to be a proud Broncos Fan.
GO BRONCOS!!!
i still support the broncos and cheer them on every sun/mon, and hope we do not get humiliated like this on thanksgiving or any national tv game
. i just dont understand ow you can look so good againts the packers, and the steelers, and fall apart against the lions? jim bates should be gone, cause there is no reason our D should get blown up like this, and hopefully cutler is back next week!
shanny definitly needs to step down after this year. this team need a new approach a new attitude. (hello bill cowher) i just hope they can somehow beat the vikings as i am stuck here in vikingland which sucks almost as much as the broncos right now
I agree completely with Elway07
There is always another game, another season, another year and I will be here as a fan watching and cheering them on.
GO BRONCOS!
on the bright side San Diego and Kansas City lost, so playoff hopes are still alive
I just hope Cutler returns well
Shanahan cant control injuries, the only coaches that need to go are the offensive and defensive coordinators
Someone needs to explain to me the irrational attraction to Cowher a coach with fewer Super Bowls and a lower career winning percentage than Shanahan.
I think there are talent and experience issues all over the team right now, the coaches have some responsibility but I see alot of other issues as more pressing- our safeties, 2 of 3 LBs, and we need more experience and a pickup or two on the defensive line.
Also, our offensive line is having more issues than at any time since Shanahan took over that I remember.
These are not coaching issues as much as talent issues. Our last two drafts were decent but we have alot of ground to make up as far as personnel.
I live in the hillbilly hills of Misery and I’m gonna hear it all week about the KC and Denver game. I got my Broncos gear and this week I’m painting my new windmill orange and blue.
My Broncomania goes back to the days of Tripucka, Gonsoulin, Taylor and McFadden and is strong to the BabyBroncs of today.
I tell my neighbors that this is the last year that they have a chance to win because the baby will grow up quick and slam the door in their faces.
Yes this season has been and will be hard, but for us old timers, we’ve seen much worse. At least there’s talent out there, it just has to grow and adjust some.
bill cowher bill cowher bill cowher!!!!! Lets get him
I was just in the BRONCOMAINA room, and was it was the worst experience I have ever had, since 1960. I remember the bad days when we were fighting to keep the BRONCOS in Denver, that old red line wet up so slowly, but in the end, the Broncos were saved, and we eventually went on the win a Super Bowl and then two! I remember all the losing seasons, I remember the bitter losses to Dallas, New York, Washington, and then, San Francisco, who can forget that one? But in the Broncomania room today, I saw fans ridiculing the Broncos, calling for the dismissal of Shanney. I saw a group of so called fans running down the BRONCOS, a bunch of fair weather fans, bandwagon fans, nay sayers, and just miserable attitudes that made me sick. I guess it is part of the reason we have empty seats now and the absent handful of fans, don’t get booed anymore, and why we have fans from the opposition team being featured on National Television in our house! I have never seen this degree of the lack of fan loyalty in the history of the Denver Broncos. I am glad, that I will not live to see the Broncos ridiculed on the streets of Denver, or the team being lost to another city, who truly know how to be fans, win or lose. My days are numbered, and I only hope that I am gone before My BRONCOS are run out of town.
Win or lose. Something very drastic must change in this organization.
I have been a life long Broncos fan, and have rarely been this disappointed in the way our team performed. If its the coaching, the coaches need to take responsibility and make the appropriate changes, even if they are uncomfortable to their tried and true systems. If its the youth of the players, somebody must step up and start leading this team. What ever happend to watching other teams success (Colts, Patriots, etc.) and learning from their way of doing things. Shanny may be beyond the time where personal pride does not prevent trying new things or trying to learn new systems. Hopefully a humbling season, if he remains head coach Shanny will let this break his will a little and allow him to adjust.
Hey Mason, how is Cutler’s injury? The game today was absolutely horrible. I think all of the injuries have hurt us this year. The good news is that San Diego and Kansas City both LOST!!! They are just one game ahead of us.
Even thought the game was absolutely horrible, I still support the Broncos. I still have my Broncos jersey on and I will NOT take it off just because they lost. I still wear it with pride.
I support my orange and blue regardless of how good or bad the Broncos play.
I really hope the Broncos win next weekend in Kansas City!
I think Bates needs to leave Denver!!!
If our season keeps going like it is, at least they will have a high draft pick.
Wow, you mean none of you can find a way to blame this on Jake Plummer too?
There is something lacking. The essential but vital WILL TO WIN. That is the coaches fault. There is no excuse for it.
The Broncos are our family. We love them. But loving our team does not mean we sit by and hold back criticism when it’s deserved.
This team deserves this criticism. It’s playing badly. We have watched this team be built up into a SuperBowl contending team. Expectations are high. And rightly so. To not question what is happening and be disappointed is unrealistic and does not negate any fans love for the game or their team.
We as fans just want to see a positive series of changes and hope to end the season with the hope that next year will be much different.
Russ2553, yeah that’s right, we need a change, we need a group of coaches that will make it crime to be injured, or to drop a pass, or to be tackled, or to in any way blow a game and hurt your poor little feelings. Imagine a group of coaches that would allow a team to preform this way, without one little thought about how it would all effect you? You really know who a Fan is these days don’t you?
BRONCOS FOREVER, WIN OR LOSE!
YOU CAN’T BEAT THE INJURY BUG! BUT YOU CAN BE A REAL FAN!
NWBroncFan …The reason fans are wanting Cower is because not only can he get it done with a very youg QB but he fails to make excuses for poor play, poor coaching and poor play calling like Shanny does week after week. . Sure Shanny won 2 superbowls but that was because he had Elway and T.D….What has he won since, how about 1 playoff game. We are a poor excuse for an NFL team right now and something needs to be done. Bring in Bill Cower
we need jake plummer
Cowher won with Ben Roethlisberger, who many think is one of the best QBs in the league (young or not), right behind Brady and Manning. Cowher also had Bettis and Willie Parker both of whom are excellent backs.
How is this any different than the Elway and TD comparison? And we are excluding Pittsburgh’s defense which was and is substantially better than Denver’s under longtim coordinator Dick LeBeau.
How did Cowher do with O’Neill? Or Maddox? Or Stewart? I don’t see any of these guys as any better or worse than Plummer and Griese. And the results are similar.
I don’t think the coaching staff is completely absolved of any responsibility but I think people are being blind to more serious problems and ones that no coach will solve.
If you want to conflate talent evaluation with coaching performance, I will surrender that point, historically we have not had very good talent evaluation and thus weak drafts.
When looking at his drafts that have not exactly been stellar, the difficulty in coming up w/a stout defense, and an offensive scheme that is puzzling to say the least, esp with all the weapons they have – I can’t help but wonder if Shanahan has basically just lost the team, which has happened to other coaches. It’s just a thought.
Totally agree with you westcoast……
Shanny spends more time to find excuses/or hide the truth for his losses than to fix the problem.
Too bad, he just found a long term excuse (Cutler’s injury) for this losing season!!!
worst denver team i have ever seen in my many years as a fan! season is over. way too many problems. Draft McFadden!!!!!
What a load of whingers we have on this blog. Complainers win nothing, they are just a bunch of losers.
All true Broncos back Shanahan, the only man to win a Superbowl for the team. Every so often you are bound to have a bad season. You need to have patience and humility. The Broncos do not have a God given right to keep having winning seasons. When you bring in new coaches and new/young players you need to give them time. This isn’t baseball or basketball where you have loads of games to get things right. 16 games is the shortest season in sport. The injuries to key players have killed us at times but the fight in the players is unquestionable. These men are true professionals and deserve our respect even if they lose games.
I don’t think Jake Plummer is the solution at the moment.. If we look at what the D did last year and the year before in support of Plummer it was a big difference. If Jay Cutler had the kind of supporting cast that Plummer had, it would be a very different discussion right now.. We’re in a very similiar situation that the TB Bucs were in a few years ago; they had a growing offense, but there D was getting old and too many young guys. Fear not Bronco Fans, the Chiefs and Chargers both got creamed today (especially the strongest team in our division), if Cutler is fine then we might be able to make a run for it since we still have to to play those two teams at least two more times. If it turns out that Cutler is out for the season (I didn’t see the hit and see how bad it was), we signed Ramsey for a reason and hopefully he can pull it together while cutler recovers.
Since when are a team’s talent issues, not a coaching issue? Last time I checked Shanahan was involved in roster moves.
I’m not saying he needs to go, but a tweak in the game plan may be needed.
All in all though, the injury bug in destroying our season. Even if we did make the playoffs out of the God awful AFC West, I’m pretty weary of watching another playoff Bronco blowout.
Yeah, so Cutler went down, which made a difference of maybe 1 or 2 scores. Cutler’s youth and experience aren’t the problems, it comes back to what many of us have been saying: Shanahan is not a developmental coach. Cutler didn’t get hurt because of Detroits “vicious” D. The Detroit D is average at the line level.
Cutler got creamed (and almost Ramsey as well) because the speed-first, power-second offensive line is still geared to making holes for runners and not protecting the QB. It’s an offense he’s been using since before he became head coach here and its further proving he’s not the man to coach this team. Shanahan’s schemes work if you have a GREAT scrambling QB…Steve Young, John Elway…maybe a Cunningham. They do not work with second-tier QBs, guys who need a little more protection. Jay Cutler and Jake Plummer, like Michael Vick, are/were not on Elway or Young’s level and can’t be expected to LEARN what those guys were NATURALLY better at. Cutler has a gun, but he’s best suited as a pocket QB with decent scrambling skills and occasional rushes. Shanahan’s offense MURDERS pocket QBs and he fails to change it to suit his roster.
Whether or not he’s a better overall QB, Jake Plummer was a better BRONCOS QB because of this. Does this mean he should automatically have been “Let Play?” Maybe not. But if you bring in a new QB and make him run the old offense with (most importantly) the same “make a quick RB hole, then collapse” O-line, he’d better ALREADY be as good as Elway/Young/Cunningham and in the same scrambler vein. Otherwise the QB will not only be pulverized, but if he’s young and malleable, he’ll be SCREWED.
You want to get behind Cutler? God bless. Want to get behind Shanahan? More power to you. But you can’t have BOTH. Shanahan can’t MOLD an Elway or a Young. He can REFINE a great quarterback but his stubborness and refusal to change with the NFL times ruined the post-Elway era and threatens to turn the Broncos into a Raider-esque joke that is only numbed by all those great rings from last century. I respect Shanahan. I appreciate what he’s done.
Get him out.
Elway can be the Offensive Co for all I care. Just open it up already.
CUTLER SHOULD BE RUNNING OUT OF THE SHOTGUN…
JUST LIKE BRADY!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am sick of all of the whining. Listen! We are all frustrated, but do you really think cleaning house will do anything?! No! Shanahan had the best winning pcercentage of any active coach heading into this season. His record speaks for itself./ Bates has been successful in Green Bay and Miami. It takes time. This is what rebuilding does. And this ” I bleed Blue and Orange, but we are losing so everyone should be fired garbage” is ludicrous. Its frustrating, yes but it is a process and it may last a few years. We have lost alot of key people and have youth that still need to know how to win. Its a part of every teams history. So just calm down everything will be okay.
I know this might be a little cliche, but, look at the Rockies. Those guys came up together thru the minors and they played fantastic baseball all season. Some may know if they didn’t jump on the bandwagon in September. Mike Shanahan needs to come up with a game plan and pick players that he wants to execute it, then hold on to them. There is no reason that we should have a completely new lineup each season. Another baseball analogy: the NY Yankees.
I agree with everyone on this blog. Jim Bates needs to be fired. He should’ve been gone before the bye week. This is ridiculous.
Henry, Graham, Bly and Webster are among the players that I wouldn’t mind seeing walking out of Denver.
I hope that the Broncos can find their old magic before too long. Either way I’ll be sticking right by them.
“So just calm down everything will be okay.”
That’s all I’ve heard for the past decade. It doesn’t take 10 years to rebuild.
I’m a realist though. I don’t expect Super Bowls every year or even the division title every year. I do expect to field a team that’s competitive, and doesn’t lose by nearly 40 points every few weeks.
Again, I still believe that the injury bug has ruined our season thus far. Losing Al Wilson, Tom Nalen, Rod Smith for the year, and having John Lynch, Javon Walker, Champ Bailey and what seems like a dozen offensive linemen in and out of the lineup is bound to take it’s toll.. Wilson and Nalen are the biggest losses IMO. The offense will continue to struggle without Walker. Marshall is talented, but he’s not ready to be a #1 Stokely, is a slot guy playing outside which isn’t what he’s suited for. Throw in that we’re probably going to be losing our starting TB soon, and it really doesn’t look good for the Broncos.
Dude? you might want to fix this:
http://www.denverbroncos.com/page.php?id=334&storyID=7471
“The Broncos had another chance at a touchdown with 15 seconds remaining, but Brian Clark fumbled the football into the end zone while stretching out in an attempt to score his first NFL touchdown. Idrees Bashir recovered for the Colts, and after an instant-replay delay, the Lions ran out the remaining seconds.”
Last I checked, there were no Colts playing in the Broncos/Lions game.
This team is stinking up the field!
I agree in part with WhiteHoss and bluediamond. We have all seen how Cutler’s QB rating shoots up at the end of a half or a game, and he looks much better in those moments than earlier in the game. I think part of it is that he is just good in the clutch, and his calm demeanor lets him stay calm in the clutch. A bigger reason, though, is because he is operating out of the shotgun almost exlusively at those points in the game. It’s clear to anyone who watches that Cutler is much more comfortable and much more effective in the ‘gun. I’m not saying the running game should be abandoned altogether, but Cutler was drafted, partly for his big arm, to be the future of this franchise. Instead of trying to force him into a scheme not as well-suited for him, why doesn’t the team experiment with more shotgun early in the game? Sorry for rambling…..
Does anyone know whats up with Mike Bell I never see him on the injury report but he has been inactive for the past couple of game? I would like to see him on goal line running play seemed to be pretty good in those last year.
Recovered for the Colts? It’s obvious what game you were watching as you wrote the Top Story “Insult to Injury”
For all you idiots living in the past: Not even Jake Plummer thinks the Broncos need Jake Plummer.
Reached for an interview today (the reporter suffered cuts and bruises after tripping over a “let plummer play” shrine outside of Plummer’s home, complete with an effigy of #6 hanging from a scaffold) Mr. Plummer said, “I retired from football. I don’t want to play anymore. Why don’t you idiots get lives and move on. I did.”
The Broncos do need a defensive coordinator that can buy a clue or at least borrow a working brain. The injuries suck and there have been more than our fair share of them this year, but the defense (with a few notable exceptions) has played all season like they were sleep-walking and new to the concept of tackling. For what these guys get paid, every single play should end with a text book tackle.
I would love to have Rod Smith on the field, but for that matter, I would like to have John Elway, Terrell Davis, Ed McCaffrey and a few others that did not give up the minute they got behind.
Last week we saw that Cutler does not give up (although I still have a few doubts about whoever is calling the plays in the red zone) and those of us who remember know that John Elway had some heartbreaking losses as well. What I don’t recall, however, is a Denver team routinely giving up 30+ points in a game. That tells me that injuries aside, the defense is not getting the job done and the way it works is that someone is responsible for that failure.
Shanahan needs to address that now. He should have addressed it before the end of the preseason and certainly not later than the bye week. But if there was any question about bates not being able to field ANYTHING resembling an effective defense, today’s game answered that question.
I have said it before, this defense can’t stop a troop of girl scouts selling cookies and I believe it’s the coaching staff that is responsible for fixing that.
Wow… how bad do we miss Al Wilson?
relax everyone look at the division
sd 4-4
kc 4-4
DENVER 3-5
were right there, we can still sneak into the playoffs but first off i would love to hear on whats going on with cutler and how bad the injury is? any word mason?
WAKE UP PEOPLE! WE ARE NOT LOSING, WE ARE GETTING HUMILIATED! SNEAK IN THE PLAYOFFS? WHY? SO WE CAN PLAY NEW ENLAND AND LOOSE 250 -3? I WOULD RATHER LOOSE EVERY GAME FROM NOW ON AND GET A BETTER DRAFT PICK HOPING THAT THE GENIUS WILL NOT WASTE!
can anyone say 3 & 13?
I’d be interested to know-
How many people wanting Denver to “tank it” for a better draft pick are SEASON TICKET holders?
It would mean a lot more if you had financially committed to Broncos season tickets and wanted us to play for a “draft pick”!
Interesting, …
That’s all.
How come NO ONE is talking about how much our defense… rather, whole team, misses the former unofficial team captian, Al Wilson?
Blown assignments, 12 men on the field, 10 men on the field, absolute chaos… That never happened when Al was in there.
How come no one is talking about how DJ Williams isn’t cutting it, and with no Wilson or Lynch in the game, our defense is like a chicken with their head cut off?