Broncos: 31
Chargers: 37

Another slow start by the offense, with a fight to get back in it, and our D not stopping the Chargers on what else… a critical 3rd down.

Can anyone please explain to me why we never defer to the 2nd half when we win the toss?? That always irks my nerves!!

Say the corners stay put and try to jam the recievers off the line. The 5 guys rush the QB. The WRs shake the CBs in under 1.5 seconds. The RB picks up the 5th rusher pretty good. at 2 to 2.5 seconds the QB finishes his 7 step drop. The CBs are out of postion trailing the WRs. This further stresses the safeties cause now 2 safeties have to cover 4 recievers. The slightly slower TE is trailing just a little and the safeties head outside to cover the top side of the speedy WRs. Pass deep up the hashmarks complete to the TE for 40 to 60 yards.

Thing is, the play call dictates jamming a reiever or not. In this case the defensive call was really cover 6 in a cover 2 shell but by playing close to the line and jamming the reciever the CB to the open side of the field was way way out of his designated position which was the deep 1/3 of the field to the open side.

Not hatin on ya SEC, just trying to give you an example about how play call and scheme dictate what the CB does. I fully agree that against NE and the quick slants, more jamming should have taken place. Maybe not from the CB’s but from the nickle corner (Harris, looking at you against Welker).

Manning has been working hard to develope the timing routes as discussed previously about Brady. What is great about a three step turn and fire type of timing route is it almost completely nigates a pass rush. This is also why Manning and Brady don’t take a lot of sacks. Getting the ball out in 1.5 to 2 seconds makes even the worst of O Linemen look good.

BTW our Oline has improved a lot since last year, especially Franklin and Beatles (i would say Walton too but he is now hurt, he had improved too though)