Yesterday in Miami, tight end Daniel Fells’ two catches couldn’t have been any different.
They also couldn’t have been more critical.
Fells’ first catch came with 56 seconds to go and the Broncos trailing by eight. Quarterback Tim Tebow fired a pass deep over the middle for the tight end, who laid out for a spectacular 28-yard catch between two defenders, spotting the ball at the Miami 3-yard line.
“It was one of those things where Tim was able to put it up and I was able to get around the linebacker manned up and dove, saw the ball and came down with the catch,” Fells said.
While Fells’ first reception prompted a full-out dive surrounded by defenders, the second catch two plays later simply required patience.
On second-and-goal, Tebow rolled left and lofted a backdoor screen pass across the field to Fells, who slipped off the line of scrimmage and waited for the ball to float into his arms with defenders nowhere in sight. He ran the remaining 3 yards into the end zone for the team’s second touchdown.
Thanks to Fells’ score and Tebow’s successful 2-point conversion thereafter, Denver tied the game and sent it to overtime.
“It was one of those things that was wide open,” Fells said of his touchdown grab, “and it felt like it took forever for me to get there.”
“It worked perfectly.”
The acquisition of Fells in the offseason has worked out quite well for the Broncos, and Head Coach John Fox has been impressed with what he’s seen from his No. 1 tight end thus far.
With his two catches yesterday, Fells now has 13 receptions and two scores on the season.
“Daniel, I think, brings a lot to the table,” Fox said at his press conference today. “He’s played the game. He’s not an old player, but he has experienced NFL football as a starter or as a contributor. Early on we saw that he had great football character, and he’s gotten more acclimated to what we’re doing. He’s gotten better each week.”
Tags: Daniel Fells, Head Coach John Fox
Legwold is undoubtebly the least bias of any Bronco writers in Denver (that’s because he used to be a RMN writer, best Bronco paper ever) and his article about Sunday’s game says it better and more accurately than anything I’ve heard:
The Broncos won, showed heart and played with passion.
The Broncos were dismal, showed all the earmarks of a team that will pick near the top of the draft board and played with a drowsiness that almost gave a winless team its first victory.
Those were the two sides of a Sunday story that had a happy ending for the Broncos.
The Broncos still need time to know if what happened in South Florida was truly a watershed moment. Like their quarterback, they spent much of Sunday stuck in one of the more difficult days professionals can have before conjuring up roughly 10 football minutes’ worth of “did you see that?”
The Dolphins have sported one of the least-efficient offenses in the league, and just seeing former University of Florida coach Urban Meyer chatting with Dolphins managing partner Stephen Ross on the sideline was enough for folks to feed the rumor mill after the game.
Yet the Broncos still needed an improbable set of events — a diving catch, a kind replay review, a recovered onside kick, another diving catch, a defensive nod-off from Miami and a strip-sack-fumble — to get the victory.
It was enough to put as many questions as answers on the pile.
Given a chance after Sunday’s victory to say all was better behind center and elsewhere with the team, coach John Fox said, “I don’t like making disclosures this early.”
Fox, John Elway and general manager Brian Xanders continue to say they are on fact-finding missions for the Broncos’ roster, including at quarterback. While Sunday’s victory put smiles back on their faces, it didn’t really give them a chance to check anything off their to-do list.
Hope Royal, Decker, & Thomas take to heart that they will need work better route running and creating separation when the play breaks down. Best catch and run was Willis on the 42 yd play last Sunday.
My boy Willis made me proud, always said he is THE guy they need to use more.
Tebow seems to work well with Willis. For a second there, I thought he was going to score ! Great play!
The lockout fallout continues…
Man Elvis can’t seem to catch a break. Too bad. I heard Ayers hurt his knee as well. I hope its not too bad.
We need everybody healthy and firing on all cylinders against Detroit. (Even if they’re without Best and possibly Stafford).
Walton and Kuper will have their hands full with Suh. It’s going to be a big battle in the trenches. Avril is fast coming off the edge.
The problem for us against Detroit is other teams have been able to run on them and now all we have is Moreno and Ball, that doesn’t bode well for us at all in my opinion.
Ah baylin you’re forgetting about the run threat #15 provides…
I predict a breakout day for Moreno. He’s healthy, finally, and now he can prove that he’s worthy of being a first rounder. Go MORENO!! Semper Broncos!!
What if Detroit has better spies than the Dolphins, haha.
NoGo Moreno
NoShow Moreno
NoHow Moreno
LMAO!
Unfortunately, my predictions never come true. Remember, I predicted that Mays would crush McFadden in week 1. We all saw how that one turned out. However, if Detroit is vulnerable to the run, and we are starting Tebow, maybe Moreno will do well. You gotta admit that they probably aren’t too worried about him…
If Moreno carries the load the odds of him making it through the game in one piece are astronomical with that front 4!
But I hope you’re right, Broncos all the way!
We should use Tim’s unique abilities to help Moreno. Pitch Knowshon the ball and then take off and block like a second fullback. Plow the way for the little guy. LOL
Lance Ball will rotate in – hope he can break thru with some trap blocking.
Bay, I wrote something that I thought was important that I heard by some announcers at the Washington vs Stanford game. It`s on Coops blog (Tim Tastic) My post was at 12:36 p.m. I`d like your take on it. Very interesting indeed.
Bay, did you post the results for the score predictions? I have been trying to find it but can’t.
You have to go to the “Broncos win in overtime blog” October 24, 8:34 am post.
Thanks Bay
Strand, I’m surprised you need to ask me that since I have been steadfastly saying basically the same thing for a few weeks now.
Elway is enamored with Luck, that’s a well known fact, what he does with it is anybody’s guess. The thing to keep in mind is Luck is holding all the cards since if he doesn’t want to play for whoever drafts him, he can stay one more year in school, and Luck through his father have said no way he wants to play for a dysfunctional team, just like Eli or Elway. Too many things to ignore, the only thing that can quiet it down is Tebow keeping winning, his future is in his hands, Elway said he was impressed Sunday and he needs to do a lot more of that to look away from Luck alltogeteher. And of course 3 teams are 0-6 now. Maybe it’s now more about if Elway wants to go for someone outside of Luck if Tebow doesn’t keep winning, so still all in Tebow’s hands.
The one thing I’m positive about is this year will decide the future of Tebow as a Denver Bronco, it’s not about getting him ready for next year, and that may be unfair, but that’s definitely how I see it, he buys himself into the starter job long term by year end or he is traded before the draft or during the draft.
Here’s the question: If Tim doesn’t manage to prove himself, and gets traded so we can draft the QB of the future, will Tim’s disciples mutiny? I know it’s about wins, but some people seem only to care if Tebow’s on the field, even if we’re losing. Madness, I tells ya…
his disciple prob will but us broncos fans wont! personally i hope Tebow IS the answer. Thats one less piece of the puzzle we have to find and one less draft pick we have to burn that can be used to fill holes else where!
I don’t think it will matter because they’ll embrace him with whatever team he ends up with, if he is traded that is, it wouldn’t be like life without Tebow and what most Tebow disciples really care about is to see him play, who with is secondary, learning that a lot over these blogs.
Rabid: At this point I don’t think it’s just about wins. I think we will need to see TT improve in whatever areas the organization deems relevant to eventual success even if that success does not always equate to wins. If there is a progression of steady improvement then we will know what we have. I do agree that in this ‘win now’ mentality that’s present in the NFL that TT does not have into next season to display what we all hope is solid improvement and success.
But like I said, most, not everyone, a guy like BB&R by example, true young die hard Bronco fan but loves Tebow enough to be considered a disciple, but if Tebow leaves, even so he will be devastated, he will not love the Broncos any less and they will always remain his #1 team, at least that’s how I read him.
Anyway, it was sort of refreshing earlier this morning to be able to talk about Bronco stuff other than Tebow but I knew that wouldn’t last, LOL.
It’s all strand’s fault, LMAO!
Well now that you mention it bay. How about McGahee. Hope he’s back soon. Someone mentioned Rahim Moore the other day. The fact is he and Von Miller were benched along with Kyle Orton in the SD game. I can see why Moore got benched. He was indecisive when he need to be covering over the top.
I thought the right side of our O-line was outstanding last week. Wtg Chris Kuper who had a great game. Franklin played fairly well too. I thought the defense as a whole played well too. I hope we can hold the tailspinning Lions to 15 pts or less.
Yeah, if you read the last page McGahee and the revamp secondary minus Moore is all part of what I discussed.
I did not do my reading today….too much to do. Sorry. In fact I’m climbing on the roof to winterize the swamp cooler right now.
The swamp cooler, haha.
…before the snow comes tonight.
SNOW????????????????????????????????????????
We get 1 or 2 inches on the ground here every three to five years, LOL.
3 to 6 in the Denver area. Much more in the foothills and mts
Moore needs to improve but Carter was out of place more often. How about Darren Sharper? Knows Allens Defense and he would teach Moore a lot since he has been a premier FS. Tebow 22nd sounds fair but did the ranking include QBs on the bye or only the QBs who played?
LAX I think Moore will be back soon. He may have needed a wake up call ya know.
Should be about 55 degrees for gametime on Sunday though.
Agreed but I still am a fan of bringing in Sharper. It would do 2 things… Show that we are trying to make the playoffs by adding a neeed piece and it would bring in a guy who helped grrom Malcolm Jenkins into a Pro Bowl Caliber FS in NO. I don’t see a down sid especially since he is healthy it can only help the team now and Moore in the long run
I’ll be there royal…South stands sec 132 row 5. Right behind the goalpost.
Just food for thought but this team could make the playoffs IMO… We are really young but I see it being a fiery team from here and they could suprise especially if Tebow progresses
So will I raidrhadr….section #111 row #11.
I’ll be at there too, watching the big screen TV#2, bar stool #3.
Northwest corner….sweet. My cousins sit in 114 row 1 right behind the north goalpost. They are on tv, in the papers, on espn all the time. They caught Eric Decker when he made his leap this year.
funny bay….I went through that too when I was in the military.
LMAO at bay’s comment!! Sound like a warm spot !! LOL!
bay, your assessment of BB&R is exactly how I feel too.
OK I’ve worked up the gumption to climb on the roof. raidrhadr out…kshhhhk
No kidding section 114 !! We’re just a couple of rows behind the lady with the “orange cowboy hat”… forget her name. Has all the pins from the ’70′s plus her cabbage patch doll in a broncos cheerleader outfit.
She used to always be on TV when it was Mile High.