For the first time this season, the Broncos are preparing to play a team from the NFC as they’ll head to Green Bay for a meeting with the defending Super Bowl champions Sunday.
The two teams last squared off in Denver during the 2007 season, and it’s been 8 years since the Broncos last stepped foot on Lambeau Field.
In a conference call with the media, Packers Head Coach Mike McCarthy acknowledged the challenge the Broncos present with a new coaching staff and a revamped roster since the teams last met.
“Denver’s coming in here — they’re an uncommon opponent,” McCarthy said. “We haven’t played them in a couple years, and they have a new staff. I’ve also had the opportunity to compete against (Head Coach) John Fox in the past, and I have great respect for John as a football coach and the program that he’s building there.”
“We’re going to spend a lot of extra time this week on the film study because the Broncos are an uncommon opponent,” McCarthy added. “There are some players that we haven’t played against in the past, so we’ve addressed that Monday with our players and again today with our players. We have a lot of respect for what we’ve seen on film.”
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers also noted the lack of familiarity with the Broncos in a conference call, but pointed out defensive end Elvis Dumervil as an opponent he regularly enjoys watching.
“Elvis is a difference-maker, a big-time player, and he’s fun to watch,” Rodgers said. “When you watch Denver, it’s exciting to watch Elvis come off the edge and wreak havoc. It’s interesting to see what his status will be for the game, but it’s a talented group that has played well. We know it’s going to be test. We know they do a lot of different things on defense, on third down, mixing up their plays and their personnel groups. It’s going to be a good test for us.”
Rodgers may see Dumervil up-close in a few days as the 2009 NFL sack leader said today that he felt good in practice and is “looking forward to playing Sunday”.
Speaking of Rodgers, his name was mentioned quite a bit in the Broncos’ locker room today as members of the defense spoke about preparing for an offense led by a top-flight quarterback.
McCarthy was asked if Rodgers deserves to be considered one of the best quarterbacks in the game and he had this response:
“I’m going to say this: my guy’s special,” McCarthy said. “He’s a special player, and he’s got a lot of football in front of him, and I have great respect for the other quarterbacks in the conversation. Aaron allows us to play offensive football from a multiple platforms, and on top of that, he’s very talented, and he’s on top of his game right now.”
Tags: Aaron Rodgers, Elvis Dumervil, Green Bay Packers, Mike McCarthy, Week 4
The PACK is a good team – a team others should follow their working model! I hope we play well this weekend it is a good measuring stick!!!
GO BRONCOS!!!
We will win this game, Im guarenting it you heard it first here LOL. Were playing good ball people we just need to finish, we can and will beat greenbay on the road. 17 14
What good is your guarantee? Money good? Haha. Careful Bronco fan, the only guarantee in life is we are all gonna die, that’s it, a win against the Packers would be about the last thing you should guarantee, unless of course you are just doing it with your mouth and not backing it up with any guarantee, LOL, just having fun, young Bronco fans getting carried away about Sunday’s game, and then Monday comes around, where will you be with your guarantee then? Can we all get our money back? LMAO. All in good fun, but man you come up with guarantees like that you better be able to back them up!
Keep in mind the difference maker here in this game and that is they have Rogers and we have Orton need I say more?
Type o ( Rodgers )
Don’t forget taxes!
GO BRONCOS!
That’s how much you know, you can always evade taxes, but you can never evade death, LOL.
Come on sndvl, you got more brains than that, even though you want to stand up to the anti Orton crowd, don’t let that blind you or make you look dumber than you are, even though you went after me with the prune juice thing way back then, I know deep inside you are a real nice even keel guy.
I’m getting this weird feeling that the Packers will be flat and Orton will have a breakout game resulting in a Denver upset.
I hope my feelings on this are wrong and God forgive me for saying that on a Denver blog…..lol
If We get sum sacks then we will win. We need The King to step up and Von Miller too!!
Definitely playing good ball just need to finish is exactly right.
Keep up the good play…But its gonna have to be “great” play from now on.
Trying to get all the negativity out of the room Bay sounds like you have alot of it LOL, seems when anyone tries you barry them with negative comments LMAO. Sorry bay tried to have alot of fun with the guarrenty but you made it sound like id better bet a thousand on it instead of haveing fun with it, member all in fun rt bay. And about the young bronco fan comment im 55yrs old. Im just someone that use to go to work and find the possitives about where i was working so i could enjoy my time their, but then there was always someone like you that always found the negatives about the company and kept all the co-workers on edge by talking about management and what they could do better. Well you try and have a possitive outlook today, I know ill be smillin about my Broncos with or without your negative ways. Member its all in fun Bay just started to learn your personality alittle, just haveing fun. LOL
Well at 55 you ought to know better than waiving your finger around guaranteeing us wins. I’m shocked to learn your age to tell you the truth, unless of course you are misrepresenting yourself, a kid at heart I guess.
Yah Bay a kid at heart, thats why I mk a prediction you are very full of yourself what would you call a guy like you. Its a friggin prediction, sorry you took it personal. You your own little way you put everyone on this site down, but i wont be intiminated by your little comments. You must be a very unhappy person in your life that you have to put people down, I dont know you from adam, nor do I care to associate myself with someone that has a personality so negative, I will continue to come on this site as a true Bronco Fan with positive things to say about their play. I can see that you and I will have alot more to say to each other this will be fun.
You guess wrong, folks like imready and you I have nothing to say to, and I will be sure to remember that from now on, who needs to talk to someone who craps all over you all the time, good day sir.
Good rithins buddy, you dont mind CRAPPING ON EVERYONE ELSE THOW, doesnt feel good to you right. Thats how alot of people on here feel just dont say it to you, have a nice day yourself.
GO Broncos! Go Tebow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I say that this is the first time as a Bronco fan that I’ve been free of foreboding in a contest at Lambeau Field against the Green Bay Packers, it is not to be taken as my prediction of who will win, because no one knows who will win a game, except, (in the cosmology of the Ancient Greeks), those Gods that take the time and leisure to watch competitive sports, and decide the victor. No question that the team will be facing challenges magnified by the playing field of the Home team — but I am looking forward to watching to see how the Broncos respond to the adversity — and the have my best wishes for success!
*they have my best wishes for success!
hard to type this message, answer a phone, and Z-out a cash register at the same time…!
Its tebow time and we all know it.
Why to play Tebow.
A) You find out what you got. (We all know what orton can do……. not win why dont we find out what talent we have been letting ride the bench for the past year.)
B)It makes the decision clear for next years draft. (If they don’t let tebow play and orton starts all year and we have a losing season how do we know if we need to draft a starting qb or not if we have not tested the untested ones we have now)
C) Hes shown big time talent. (For everyone who says the man can throw and has terrible accuracy take a look at his completion percentage this past preseason. Yes almost 75 percent……. with the 3rd sting on the field with him. Doesn’t take a genius to figure that one out.)
D)If we let him start now and we have a losing season so what we know we have to draft a qb.
E) He has improved in the pocket. (Another year or two and heal be just as good as orton, but hell have legs…… and heart two very important qualities.
Im beggin Elway from the bottom of my heart. Stop trying to win now and start looking at next season. Ortons not taking us to the Superbowl so quit pissing around and start making some decisions so we know what to do for next season.
I have pretty much stopped reading comments on these blogs, as I realized after last season that this place was actively reducing my enjoyment of the Broncos; but, as I did happen to read these, I do want to say –
Good on you, millertime2! And good on our coaching staff for having an honest evaluation of our staff and playing the players who give us the best chance to win at the start of the season! And Go Broncos!