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Over the past two games, Broncos opponents have returned four punts for a total of -2 yards. Punter Britton Colquitt ranks third in the NFL with a 43.1 net-punting average this season, and is one of five players to post 15-or-more punts inside the 20 with three-or-fewer touchbacks. Colquitt leads the league with opponents averaging just 3.6 yards per punt return in 2012.
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The Broncos offensive line didn’t allow a sack for the third consecutive game, marking just the fourth time in team history that the line has kept the quarterback clean for three straight games. It is the first such streak since the 2008 season.
Linebacker Von Miller set a career high with three sacks against fellow second-year player Andy Dalton. Miller is now tied with Texans defensive end J.J. Watt for the NFL lead with 17 tackles for a loss through Week 9 of the 2012 season.
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Wide receiver Eric Decker is tied for first in the NFL with seven receiving touchdowns since Week 4 of the 2012 season. He caught eight passes for 99 yards with two touchdowns at Cincinnati, tying for the most receptions and touchdowns among AFC players in Week 9. Sunday marked the fifth consecutive contest with at least one receiving touchdown for Decker, which is one shy of the Broncos’ all-time record. He now has 16 career receiving touchdowns, which ties him for the most receiving scores by a Bronco during his first three professional seasons (Lionel Taylor, 1960-61).
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Wesley Woodyard finished with a game-high 14 tackles in Denver’s win at Cincinnati. Woodyard now has 72 tackles on the season according to press box totals, which ranks eighth in the NFL through Week 9.
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Linebacker Von Miller and defensive end Elvis Dumervil have combined for 15 sacks through Week 9, which leads all pass-rush duos in the NFL. Miller is tied for second in the NFL with 9 sacks on the season.
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Tight end Joel Dreessen ranks second among NFL tight ends in percentage of catches resulting in touchdowns (16.5% / 14-of-85) since 2010 (min. 30 rec.). He caught a 1-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Peyton Manning that proved to be the game-winning score against the Bengals.
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Cornerback Champ Bailey intercepted his 33rd pass as a Denver Bronco to move into a tie with Mike Harden for fifth-most in franchise history. It marked the 51st career pick for the 11-time Pro Bowler, which ranks third in the NFL since his rookie year in 1999.
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Sunday’s win at Cincinnati marked the 100th career regular-season victory for center Dan Koppen. He is now 100-28 in his career, with that .781 winning percentage ranking first all-time among offensive linemen.
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Wide receiver Trindon Holliday took the opening kickoff of the second half 105 yards for a touchdown to mark the longest play in Broncos history. It was his first career touchdown and the first kick return touchdown for the Broncos since the 2010 season.
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Decker and fellow third-year receiver Demaryius Thomas have combined to form the NFL’s top receiving duo with 1,339 combined yards through Week 9.
Man. I love Decker and Thomas but please stop dropping passes. Also, Decker must have been mad at Stokely for taking last weeks celebration away cause he really plowed him hard.
Anyway, I kid. This is a great team. Just need to tidy up some minor things.
RH I saw that too. I think he knew he was going down so he kinda took a shot at stokely as a joke. I loved seeing Stoke be the first guy with DT after he landed on his knee, you could see he was trying to keep DT’s head clear and help him with the pain. I like the camaraderie I’m seeing from those three in particular. I’m a huge Dreessen fan so I’m loving how many touchdowns he’s been getting. In the red zone it just always seems to be Dreessen or Decker, and I’m loving it. Champ was great I liked after Green’s TD you saw the two of them acknowledge how hard they were battling each other. And like somebody said, Bailey may have lost that battle, but with that crucial pick he won the war.
Bailey likes the challenge and that was his biggest challenge in a long time. AJ Green is a serious player.
Clearly, so does Green haha
I had a feeling that Bailey might lose that match up going into this one. Green is the truth but Champ still got him when it counted. Mostly because of that dline performance though. Hope the boys up front can continue to get the kind of push they were getting yesterday. And I LOVE me some Chris Harris! He is quickly turning into another Champ Bailey and one of my favorite Broncos.
I love the direction this team is headed! Loving the play from our D and O line as well. Game by game and before you know it….. That game against the Ravens will be on Sunday Night TV with us battling them for a top 3 seed.
Don’t like to jump too far ahead but it was on my mind. Now back to the Panthers!!
Did anybody see that Stanford Routt had been waived? I know we’re already really deep at CB but does anyone think he’d be worth a pick up?
No way on Routt!!! We don’t need that guy at all!
By the way our D is AWESOME!! Miller and Doom are tearing it up!!
Just thought I’d bring it up because I know we were looking into him when he was a free agent this off-season
next week game against the Panthers shouldnt be that hard.. probably 90% of their players played under John Fox.. except Cam Newton
True story:
Sitting at the bar with two Bronco buddies watching the game, screaming our hearts out and high fiving left and right, coarse voice sore hands and all and about one minute before the Bailye INT I tell my buddy Chris “that Dalton is showing absolutely zero respect to Bailey keeping throwing his way over and over to Green but watch this, Bailey is going to make him pay for it and is going to intercept one”, and bingo, you guessed it, it immediately happened, LOL. Had to be there, priceless.
Go Broncos, well done!
Looks like the Dane might get himself some more points in the competition with his 31-20 prediction and assert himself at the top. Looks like he is serious about being the big dog this year, no pun intended, haha. Congrats, well done, and I will probably be barely on the short end of the stick with my 31-17 one, oh well, maybe I’ll salvage 3 points if I’m lucky, that last Bengals FG was totally bogus btw! I bet the Dane thought so too, LOL.
Sorry it was Rick not Chris, in case they are reading…
I agree. NO WAY on Routt. He is one of the lowested graded CBs over at PFF. No thanks.
Oh man. The raiders gave Routt 20 mill in guaranteed money and cut him after 16 games. Then the Chiefs gave him 6 mill guaranteed and cut him after 8 games. So the guy makes tons of money and sucks. No thank you. Only someone as desparate as the Chargers will pick him up lol. This dude is taking out salary caps everywhere.
Dane and I had the same score prediction, real keen! LOL
Cool stuff Bay, nice call! HaHa!!
I’m glad you were having a good time Bay. Everytime Dalton looked toward Green I was holding my breath. That game was ‘one step’ literally from going the other direction. If Dalton is not hit at that moment…14 pts. swing and Broncos lose….because Champ was already beat…again.
Uhh…that could sound like a slam on Champ…but it’s not…Champ is still the best and I don’t think anyone could do better against A. J. To my mind A. J. Green is the #1 receiver in the NFL, the full package. I think he’s better than Cruz.
Hey Royalbroncofan1, how you doing. It’s been along while since we’ve gotten to shoot the breeze. Hope all is well bro. I’ve been working my tail off, and haven’t been on in the mornings due to that. Thats a good thing! ROCK ON!!
Champ is the man!!
I’m still hoping that Tracy Porter comes back soon. Porter is now taking meds for his condition, and it just might be a life long thing for him. He’ll bounce back.
GOOD JOB BRONCOS GREAT WIN..MAN I WAS HAPPY WHEN CHAMP PICKED OFF A DALTON PASS..I TOLD MY FRIEND HE WAS GETTING HIS PICK THIS GAME..AND I THINK OUR DB’S MIGHT GET COUPLE PICKS NEXT GAME..MAYBE EVEN LINEBACKERS..I SAY CHAMP RETURNS ONE TO THE HOUSE ON SUNDAY VS THE PANTHERS…
Once again the Broncos have made me richer by winning! over the years i always bet on dem Ponies! LOL but good job guys, even my wife is starting to believe. Now on to other things, could someone get Ball off of Special teams? man the return game looks great one minute and like they have never played the game the next. but all and all
Great Game now as for the predictions in Carolina, Denver 34 Panthers 24…….
GOOOOOOO BRONCOS!!!!!
Strand – Porter looked like Champ #2 in that game against PIT and then he started looking rather mediocre. I’m wondering how much of that mediocre had to do with this medical condition? It will be interesting to see what kind of condition Porter comes back in. I’m not interested in seeing Porter bump Harris, but it would be nice to know that Camp can retire without damaging the team too much.
I’d like to see Porter playing in Dime situations. Porter will be great for depth at Nickel and Dime for sure, if he’s healthy and cleared to play.
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Champ isn’t going anywhere for at least 5 years. Bank on that.
Stuart, you missed #48