THE SHOW MUST GO ON
Even though the Broncos fell just short of the postseason, it’s still playoff time in the NFL, and that means that players, coaches and fans are excited.
The Broncos’ excitement is certainly tempered, by Brandon Stokley said he can’t help but to watch some of this weekend’s matchups.
“I am a football fan,” he said. “I love football. I love watching the playoffs. I will be cheering for Indy.”
Stokley used to play for the Indianapolis Colts, and it doesn’t hurt that they’re going up against the San Diego Chargers.
Jay Cutler, on the other hand, said his TV won’t be tuned in to any playoff football.
“I won’t watch them,” he said. “No interest in it.”
RUNNING BACK BY COMMITTEE
This season, the Broncos saw as many as seven different running backs start a game. That’s an absurd amount for any team, but the Broncos continued to find ways to get some production on the ground week-in and week-out.
“I think it’s hard for backs to get a rhythm if they’re not in there every week and taking all the reps every week,” Chris Kuper said. “I think those guys did a great job, though, coming in.”
The team ranked No. 12 in the league in rushing offense with just over 116 yards per contest.
With so many talented backs emerging and then getting injured for Denver this season, the Broncos will have some tough decisions to make come the start of the 2009 campaign.
Ryan Harris for one didn’t know which way the coaches would go, and joked about his odds of picking the right answer when asked to choose who would be next year’s starter.
“I don’t know, you’ve got a one-in-12 chance, right?” he said with a laugh. “Take those odds if you want, but I’m not picking anything.”
DRAFT STATUS
It looks like Denver’s draft position is all set — No. 12.
The Broncos were one of five teams to end the regular season at 8-8. One of the five — San Diego — is eliminated from the conversation because the Chargers are in the playoffs. That leaves the Broncos, Houston Texans, New Orleans Saints and Washington Redskins all tied for the same draft spot.
The tiebreaker formula is all about strength of schedule — the team with the easiest strength of schedule in terms of opponent records gets the earlier draft pick. Out of the four, the Broncos (117-139) played the easiest schedule, and therefore will draft in the No. 12 position. The Redskins will draft 13th, the Saints 14th and the Texans 15th. The Chargers’ draft position will be determined by their results in the post season.
Denver has had some recent success with the No. 12 pick — Ryan Clady was picked in that spot in the 2008 NFL Draft, and he went on to start all 16 games at left tackle, only allowing a half a sack all season.
SIX FUTURE CONTRACTS
The Broncos on Monday signed six players to future contracts.
Defensive tackle Matthias Askew, guard Mitch Erickson, wide receiver Jayson Foster, defensive tackle Ryan McBean, cornerback Rashod Moulton and wide receiver Matt Willis officially will be added to Denver’s roster at the conclusion of the 2008 NFL season in February. All six players finished the year on the Broncos’ practice squad.
-Gray Caldwell, DenverBroncos.com
Tags: Brandon Stokley, Chris Kuper, Gray Caldwell, Jay Cutler, NFL Draft, Ryan Clady, Ryan Harris
First order of business: Fair weather fans of any team SHOVE OFF!!
I can completely 110% understand the frustration for what happened last night but that is in no way an excuse for the trash talking!!! Get a life people… not every single season is going to be “our season”. That’s not how the NFL works, that’s not how life works so just suck it up and deal with it. If I can deal with it and get over this loss… anyone of you can do the same.
Fire Shanahan?? Get rid of GREAT players like Cutler, Stokley, blah blah blah?? What are you guys smokin’? I’ve said this a million times and I’ll say it a million times more… there’s no sense at all in firing/getting rid of people every time we mess up (small or big) because this team will then never learn to play together as a team and plus that idea is just stupid to get rid of people that we need. Shanahan is still a genius at this game and like several other people have said how are the turnovers his fault? How are some of the players mistakes Shanahan’s fault? He’s not the one out there on the field making plays himself, yeah he calls the shots, he’s the head coach but its up to the players to play the game! And for all the Cutler haters… you can SHOVE OFF as well.
I hope Indy kicks the crap out of the Crybabies… that’s about the only thing that will be worth laughing at for quite some time.
With faith for the ’09 season…
GO BRONCOS!!!!
we need corners and d tackles
Well the good news is that the Defense can be rebuilt in an offseason. They must go get a good defensive coach. The Bucs let Monte Kiffen go so theres a good name. They must also add at least 2 to 3 Defensive Free Agents. Albert Haynesworth is a free agent after this season…shanny must go after him to make our D line better against the run and pass. We also must draft a Defensive Monster at the 12 spot. It can be done.
WOW!! I can’t believe all the crap being posted on here!! Like we all didn’t really know we wouldn’t make the playoffs! I said it at the beginning of the season, even when we were 2-0. We got a lucky break against the Chargers in game 2. Look at the season, every game we won, other than the Oakland game, we barely won, and every game we lost, we lost BIG!!! To teams like the Raiders, Chiefs and Bills! And if you look at next seasons schedule, already out, we have the AFC Worst, plus, Indy, Pats, the AFC North and NFC East, so if we play as we have this year, that will put us at 4-12! 1 win each, Raiders, Chiefs, Browns and Bengals, everyone else will stomp us! So, yes, I too agree that maybe it’s time Shanny goes, I know he’s a great coach, but all great ones need a couple of years off, like Cowher, Parcells, and Gibbs. So, Mike, take a few years off and lets get someone in with some fire!!! Not someone who, if you saw last night, just takes an ass whipping calmly! Keep the offense, only change we need is for Jay to stop throwing INTs, yes, he has a strong arm, but, INTs killed us this year. I hate to say this, but I think T-Bell deserves a shot at the RB slot! He never went down, all the others felll out after 1 or 2 games. Now, for roster changes, get rid of the following, BLY!!!! Hall, Young, Webster, Boss Baily and the M&Ms safety tandem, because they sure melted all year! Larsen will be nothing more than a fill in or special team player for his entire career, trust me! Keep DJ for another year, he too has been ball less since Al Wilson has left. And Woody and Winborn, both have intensity and balls to fire up our LBs. Find another cover corner quick, cause Champ has maybe 1/2 yrs left? Would love to get my boy from USC or try and steal Dawkins from Philly. We’ll never get Haynesworth, cause Shanny will get some lame D-lineman from somewhere as he always does. Get rid of Engleberger, Robertson, one of those d-lameman I mentioned, and Moss. And find another Backup QB, Ramsey sucks and Hackney is too small and no talent. I think Jay will get hurt next year if he continues to throw as much as he did this year, so, get a Carr from NYG, or Culpepper. I said in Preseason to get Leftwich, and look how great he did in Pittsburgh this year! So, am I pissed about last night, yes, did I expect it, YES!! So, we can all hope for next year, but if we don’t fix our problems, like I said at the end of last year and I said we’d be at best 8-8!!! WOW!!! can you beleive that? 8-8????????? So, remember next year at this time when we are 4-12 or 5-11 at best!!
quick point, monte kiffin didnt get let go, he is leaving to go coach college ball as his sons D coordinator. also, i just wanted to say to 510 snoopy 510 that if you read my post, i said we needed to give shanny another year and if we are in the same place (8-8 and no playoffs) then we need to consider moving in a new direction!
Wow.. that’s awesome 07elway!… Wish I could have posted all that first!!!
Looking forward to next season and everybody back healthy… (Peyton take care and hurry back!) Go Broncos!!!!
First of all of course its a disappointing season, there are 20 other teams feeling the same way we are right now. However firing Shanny is NOT the answer. What DOES need to happen is we need to bring in a GM to make all the personnel decisions and let Shanny do what he does best: COACH. I can’t imagine how tough it was to make a game plan AND figure out all the roster moves due to injuries every week.
Also, if you’re saying Jay needs to go you’re a double idiot. He broke the team record for passing yards! What does that mean? It means he was trying to win games himself because our running game was crapped on and our defense couldn’t keep a 1-legged duck from getting past them. That is pressure and I think he handled it well. I’d just like to see him more fired up sometimes, but that will come with experience (and a D and special teams).
We don’t need a new D coordinator, we need to keep slowik so the guys can actually get used to his system and start making it work. Changing out coaches every year is no way to develop a tight D. If they still sucks in 3 or 4 years, then move on, but for now we need CONSISTENCY.
So for now let’s watch Indy pummel phyllis and co. and hope for another good draft (defensive this time) so we can go further next year.
I think the problem might be deeper than we think. The personal staff does a great job of evaluating offensive talent but defense is a different story. We need help now in evaluating prospects for this years draft so we get some playeres who can really light it up on the defensive side of the ball. I you have great players it’s a lot easier to coach them.
That being said, I’d like to see a more aggresive play calling on the defensive side of the ball. I’d rather go down fighting than sitting back and letting opposing QB’s pick us apart. That has to be demoralizing for the defense!
Haynesworth is a great player and a free agent but he seems to be injury prone to a certain degree. Players can’t help us if they aren’t on the field. I can see tieing up that kind of money in a players who isn’t on the field every snap.
Keep us posted on roster moves please, we are year round fans!
GO BRONCOS!
Fire Shanahan and revamp the D. End of season, end of subject………..
For to God’s love fireeeeeee Shanahan, his philosophy does not work, They have been ten years of frustration and mediocrity. The worst team comes to Denver to defeat us.,
I am very impressed with the Broncos performance this year. Before the Oakland game in week 1 I said, we will be lucky to break even this year. A lot of new players, plus a very solid Chargers team could mean we have little chance of playoffs with slim hope of a wildcard, let’s just hope to prove something. I think they have. NFL fans are so impatient these days. In 10 years we have two losing seasons and it’s “Fire the coach, the GM, all the players, anyone who works for the team, fold the franchise, blow up the stadium and let’s start fresh”
GET REAL!
First of all, you want to fire a head coach who is certainly going to the HOF and has given us 8/10 of the past years as winning seasons? I would call that pretty successful. This man has accomplished this much, and we just want to fire him? Give yourselves a smack.
You ever start a new job with a new team? Did you walk in on day one and get accomplish everything you dreamed of? Hell no. You think you could do it with a lot of those people brand new to the job? Then lose many, many key people on that team and still manage to find a way to win? No, probably not.
Say whatever you want, from what I saw Denver did not come out to win that game against San Diego. I liked the idea of a winner-take-all because if we didn’t win, we wouldn’t have gone far in the post-season anyway. Unfortunately I had to work, but when i peeked glances at the screen I saw a lot of very bad, very intentional bad penalties against the boys in white jerseys. Nates PI, DJs personal foul are ones that stick in my head that just show how heads weren’t on straight.
I hate to say it, but we need to trade at a position where we have a lot of talent, wr, and pick up a first-rate corner or safety. I know he’s going to pro-bowl and therefore he’s great, but I say trade Marshall for some top notch defense. We still have royal, stokely and others who are very, very solid WRs. I would say they are more dependable than Marshall as well. I was so angry when they traded Portis but am so glad we got Bailey. Let’s do it again.
Other than that, I’m excited about Denver’s prospects next year. A lot of our rookies saw a lot of action out there and will only be better next year.
man,……shanny why have you decided to put the 4th string loser’s on the roster. ok,……i understand jayson foster but the rest of those guys need to be released from the practice squad. if any of those guys were worth keeping they should have been on the roster this year. i’ m talking about the defensive players. our defense last night was very nonexistent, they did not even know how to tackle. who the hell is the defensive line and linebacker coach? they need to be hung by the balls. trade dre bly if you can, bury josh bell and get rid of the whole linebacker core. man……man…man..al wilson with all of his injuries could have made more tackles in last nights game than the whole damn “d” in last nights game. hell, even john lynch would have had more tackles. shanny i think you need to go back to oakland where your performance will be well embraced, you’ll fit right in the love to lose over there.
hey, everyone here bashing the broncos in every direction…. SHUT UP. we’re gonna be fine. everybody is so damn impatient, saying we need to cut champ, cutler, marshall, everyone, fire shanny, slowik, the GM. god dang if we really let u guys run the team, u would help up like the lions. i agree changes do need to be made, and i hate to say it cuz i’ve been a fan of his, but nate webster isnt getting it done. but niko hasnt done squat, so i would say cut niko, keep nate n spencer n draft a nice ILB i.e. laurenitis or curry. but changes will be made, and we will get better next season. go broncos
This “it will take 5 years, 3 years, 8 years, blah blah blah” crap is just that, crap. Did anyone bother to pay attention to the 1 and 15 Miami Dolphins? Oh wait, I mean the AFC East CHAMPION, 11-5 Dolphins. 5 years? Are you kidding me? How about it will take effort and talent, and leave it at that? Probably a new coach, but maybe just new players. We’ll know the answers next year. No sense in assuming a losing year. But hey, I hate when people tell me how to be a fan, so if you want to wait five years for a winner, have at it.
Our defense is terrible, they have no reaction to the ball and people don’t know who to cover!
First time blogging. I was at the game yesterday and it was brutal. The Charger fans really do suck. I took a beating sitting in the stands. But, I will stick with my team through thick and thin. As for our team? Offense=They look good and will be fine if we can stay healthy at running back. Defense=needs lots of help, they are draining the offense. Is it me or did Bly get burned everytime he was thrown at? Special Teams=Prater needs a shrink, kickoff return really do stink (they run into the middle of the pile everytime).
CHAMP WOULD BE TOUGH AGAIN IF THEY COULD GET SOME KIND OF HELP BEHIND HIM. I’VE SEEN BETTER SAFETIES AT A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME IN NOTHERN NEW MEXICO! BLY IS THE TYPE OF CANCER THAT KILLS DEFENSES!!
Hey wasn’t there a guy who is the backup to haynesworth who played the one game he was injured and got 2.5 sacks. Shanahan and Fisher are friends aren’t they, we should trade for him or something, we could use a guy like that. The Titans got Heynesworth they don’t need him but god know we could use him.
DONKEYSBOLTED…..WHERE’S YOUR CLASS, TAKING NAP TIME?
Yeah guys… C’mon now stop bashing the team you claim to “love”… It’s annoying to come on here and read all this crap that is posted.
People saying that our D is fine… I don’t know where you’re coming from because we were terrible.
*****In my oppinion***** We need a QB of the DEFENSE…. Yes i just said it…. we NEED A MLB!!!!!… Someone that will become the center and focul point of our D. So… Who am I thinking of???? JAMES LAURINAITUS!!!! The Ohio St. Senior MLB… Hes fast, strong, and plays great against the run and pass… He has an eye for the Ball…..
Now yes, we need work on our Dline… So… If there is someone good in the 2nd round… we draft a MONSTER DT (OR get one that is a free agent this year… like people on here have said, Haynsworth)
If we were to get James, we would be one LB away from having one of the best/fast LB corp in the league… So [I] think we should give Boss just one more year… if he gets injured again… well, then we have Winbourn and Woodyard that we can throw in there.
Please do go ahead and give your thoughts about my post…
I THINK AS BRONOCO FANS WE NEED TO START SHOW SOME EXCITEMENT AT THE GAMES. SOMEONE MADE A COMMENT ABOUT THIS EARLIER. NO WONDER WE CAN’T WIN HOME GAMES. I WENT TO THE PLAYOFF GAME WHERE THE BRONCOS BEAT THE PATRIOTS TO HOST PITT. I COULDN’T TALK FOR A MONTH!!! GROW SOME BALLS AND HELP YOUR TEAM, IT’S THE ONLY ONE WE GOT!!!
LOL THE CHARGERS WILL BE PLAYING, BUT THEY WON’T BE WINNING
YOU GUYS ARE EXCITED BECAUSE YOU BEAT A BEAT DOWN, HALF DEAD VERSION OF WHAT YOU WISH YOU COULD BE AND NOW YOU’RE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL!!
I agree with BRONCOBAILEY99. one thing that we need to keep in mind is that this team is one of the youngest we have ever had, so they still need to learn to win. it’s like a baby learning to walk, every now and then, it gets a little walk going but fall down. that’s what is going on with our team, they get on a losing streak and then they fall. we don’t need to fire the D coordinator. This guy was the D coordinator for the Bears, and the Ravens, in the days when they were just mean as hell. we just need the right players. if we do, we win the super bowl in 2 or 3 years. until next year.
Go Avalanche!!!!!!!!
Go Broncos!!!!!!!!
Go Indy!!!!!!!!!!!
OOOKKKK!!!!!!….. If you start to read a comment that puts down Denver and you realize that it is a San Diego fan, just stop reading and move on…
Do Not reply to their comments… It’s like an annoying kid at school that wont stop annoying you… just ignore them and then they’ll go away ok… They enjoy reading your complaints… So just simply stop replying to their comments… and lets start LIFTING up our team…
I’m sure that some Bronco Players are bored at night and decide to read up on some blogs… If I was a player and read some of this… I’d be PISSED… but I’m sure that doesn’t make a difference because all the Bronco “fans” that say crap about a player is retarded anyways…
For all the Bronco Fans (notice how there is no quotes) keep up on lifting up the team and posting some good replys
No point in actually drafting defense unless we bring in someone who actually knows what they are doing on the defensive side of the ball. Shanahan, for all his offensive wizardry, is clueless when it comes to the D and Slowik is just Shanahan’s pathetic little stooge.
WE ALL KNOW THAT WE GOT MORE THAN WHAT MOST OF US EXPECTED AS FANS THIS YEAR AND WE ARE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. THE BRONOCO’S ORGANIZATION IS ONE BUILT ON PRIDE. I GUARANTEE A CHANGE IN DEFFENSIVE ATTITUDE NEXT YEAR. OPPONENTS BEWARE.
Uh… Willharm81… I gotta say I sorta agree w/ you..
except for the Bly part… Yeah he hasn’t done a whole lot… but he can step up when he really really really tries to…
But for how our D played last year… I agree w/ you 100%… We need to crack people… No more trying to grab onto someone w/out getting dirty… We gotta Hit and Stick ‘em… Make ‘em cry… the D has gotta play w/ PASSION. I think until we can get our D to crack ‘em… we need to WANNA PARALYZE ‘em… then once we get that intensity… we can more or less go w/ just knock ‘em on their gludiousmaxi (butt)…
Good point, BRONCOBAILEY99. sorry i reacted. lol
haha gludiousmaxi.
yeah… not a fan of all the Bleepidy Bleep people say
Well Well Well. I’m not gonna say I told you so or anything but I told you so. 4 months ago me and another cat were on this blog (forgive me my computer got a virus so I haven’t blogged in a while) but anyways, I was on this blog saying we had alot of talent but we would NOT do well this year. I am a true bronco fan. I live in San Diego, California and when I go to school the banwagon Charger fans are going to be talking a whole lot of smack. And I won’t be able to say a thing.
I sat here for 4 months and listened to you guys tell me to keep the faith, stay optimistic, be a good fan, and I told you we wouldn’t be a good football team this year. Let me give you another dose of what I told you 4 MONTHS AGO.
This is a really talented team but: in case you guys haven’t noticed Bob Slowik is of the same mold as Jim Bates. They like to sit back and play prevent defense. Zone, No blitzing, keep the offense in front of you defense. Prevent defense only prevents you from getting off the field. Slowik just won’t blitz. And to the fan who said he doesn’t know why D.J is playing anymore and that our defense is better off without him. I agree. I also agree we need to trade Champ, Dre, and maybe even Elvis simply for the fact that Elvis can’t play the run. I think you saw for yourselves whenever it is first and 10 or an obvious running situation Dumervil is on the sideline, and of all people Engelberger comes in the game.
I hope we get serious trade value for Champ, we can’t afford to keep him because with this defense, Cutler will never sniff a playoff win, hell can’t even get in.
West Coast, as I mentioned earlier, I agree and I am down here with you in So Cal, I live in Chula Vista where the fans don’t get more bandwagon like than this. We need a franchise runningback which is what I said at the beginning of the season and for those who thought we got the better end of that redskin deal with CLinton Portis, eat your hearts out cuz they sitting there with a franchise back and we can’t run the ball.
You know how our best plays come off of play-action but we can’t even run the ball so who would fall for it. Now Some of you crossed the line calling out Mike Shanahan. Who built the 97 and 98 teams who repeated, Shanahan, so don’t go there. He’s spent the last two years building a top offense, and with a franchise back, that he could got in Mike Turner but that’s a whole different issue, our offense will be back. I think as you should to that Shanahan is well aware of the situation on defense. It is disgraceful. But you have to give him time like with the offense, great defenses don’t get built over night. It takes a couple years, but as fans it’s easier to have a sense of urgency when there is nothing SHanahan can do right now.
But in the Draft it will addressed, I do have faith in that. Now with that out of the way, I need to rip this defense. Seeing that defense left me in tears. Tomlinson hadn’t done nuthin until he faces us, we’re like the new raiders on defense. Woodyard AND Spencer Larsen both need far more playing time. LOok what they did against the Falcons in there only starts. THe Boss Bailey experiment didnt’ work and him and Champ need to be shown the door. Boss has never been successful in the league, never will be he can’t tackle nor can the rest of this defense (Webster). Champ doesnt’ scare anyone the way he did in the 06 season when he got 10 picks. Teams are going right at him, he got beat big time by sorryass Vincent Jackson, Antonio Gates whose TOE didn’t let him do much the whole year until he faced us. Bly is blazing a trail right behind Champ in getting burned by Raider receivers. Our D-Line Play is improved, we need to get that defensive tackle we drafted from Virginia Tech, Carlton Powell more playing time cuz he’s a run stopper. The real problem is the back 7. All of them need to be replaced. With our first pick we need Ray Malougha or however you spell it from USC or James Laurinitis from the Ohio State. Then we need to start Woodyard on the weak side and either draft a LOLB or pick one up. As for the secondary we just need to draft well guys that’s all we can hope for at this point. Maybe we can trade and get our hands on Lito Sheppard who is an excellant man to man defender. And one last word on the D coordinator situation. Like Obama said “Change doesn’t come from the white house, change comes to the white house.” The same approach must be taken to fix our defense. No inbreeding coordinators which has been the major problem for Shanahan.
Let me know what you guys think…
I just really don’t like Charger fans. lol
Dude, Champ is just a little slow coming of that injury, we need to hold on to him.
I am with Brandon Stokley on this, I will gladly enjoy watching Indy smoke the “dun duh duh duh Chargers” gay.
I would say this I hope we pick up one these guys with our 12 round pick:
Rey Maualuga, LB, USC – 6’3- 260
James Laurinaitis, LB, Ohio State – 6’3- 240
Brian Cushing, LB, USC – 6’3- 255
Michael Johnson, DE, Georgia Tech – 6’7- 260
Just one of these guys would significantly improve our D.
ANYONE AGREE? GO BRONCOS!!!!!!
I can’t wait ’til the Pro Bowl… I wanna see me some Jay and B-Marsh action in Hawaii…
I think Maualuga and Cushing will go EARLY… I hope, hope, pray, and pray that James will be available…
LOL…. willharm81
Tough Love, I gotta admit your more pissed off them me. I want to see some “don’t give damn if they get hurt/shouldn’t have played us/HARD HITTING ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
LETS SEE NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah I hope they are available and we take one them.
HAHA YES!!! That is the wording I was lookin’ for… I was thinking that last week… We just need to play Ballzy and careless on the D… Who cares if you get a little hurt after a hit… Just hit ‘em harder and make sure they don’t get to get hit again and take ‘em off the field… That was actually how I was thinking about our RB situation for the charger game… Because I was watching earlier in the season and saw Pittman leaping over the line… That’s what we need… Gutsy leaders on the field that do what the team needs… The type that puts the team before themselves and puts their body on the line like true football is played and no more baby tackling/hitting anymore
“WE NEED DEFENSE” Not a new coach, I think Shanahan is one of the best offensive coaches in the league. There were a few games our D played well but I didn’t see consistent defensive play all year (with the exception of the opener), Our D was on life support. We could use a good house cleaning on the D side, we were shredded all year and our offense “HAD” to do the job to win games. That’s a lot of pressure on one group of guys. I hope we keep Bailey and Bly because if we lose them it could be far worse guys.
We have are still growing on both sides of the ball and the offense is going to be very dangerous. The bad news is: KC’s is going to be good next year and I hate to say it but the Raiders will be better as well (assuming they don’t do more coach juggling)
We need “DEFENSE” it is clear and simple, if we had that covered we would have won the Bills game easily.
GO BRONCOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And GO COLTS! BEAT THOSE Chargers!
Oh man don’t get me started on the RB’s?????
I don’t know where to start. I will say this though I am really looking forward to seeing Hillis play next year. He has that power, and he reminds me of the cowboys Daryl Johnston – aka “Moose” . Powerful runner
Exciting and breaks multiple tackles
GUYS THIS SEASON WAS A ROLLERCOASTER!!! WESLEY WOODYARD IS THE PLAYER IM MOST EXCITED ABOUT, REALLY I THINK WE NEED THESE GUYS AT LINEBACKER STARTING, BOSS, DJ IN THE MIDDLE AGAIN!!! WOODYARD, THATS OUR KILLER MACHINE, SPEED AND TACKLING POWER, GIVE BOSS A BREAK, HES GOOD, JUST UNFORTUNATLEY PLAGUED BY INJURY, I THINK WE SHOULD DRAFT 2 D-LINEMAN WITH OUR FIRST PICKS, ALSO WE A HAVE GOOD LOAD OF 3RD ROUND PICK AND EXTRA PICKS, SO I THINK SHANAHAN IS GONNA LOOK TO GET A GOOD VETERAN ON THAT D, IM ALREADY EXCITED TO SEE WHAT MOVES WE MAKE, ITS GONNA BE INTERESTING AND SOME MAY BE SHOCKING, GIVE BAILEY A BREAK, HE GOT INJURED AGAIN GUYS, HES STILL THE BEST!!! BLY 2, I STILL WE HAVE ONE OF THE BEST CB’S IN THE GAME, BUT ANY OTHER PLAYERS WOULD DO BAD 2 IF THEY HAD THE LACK OF PRESSURE ON THE QB LIKE WE DID THIS SEASON, I CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT SEASON!!! FOR ALL U BAD CRITICS AND NEGATIVE PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES FANS, SLAP YOURSELVES AND GET OUT OF HERE
I BLEED ORANGE & BLUE!!!!! DENVER BRONCO FAN 4 LIFE!!!!!
Truefully I think Shanahan did good this year, yea we should of work harder on the “PLAYBOOK” but To fire a HOF Head Coach and Hiring another Coach to take his place are you Freakin NUTS!!! there is noo other Coach that can fit in Shanahan Shoe doesn’t make sense for you people saying we should. Some of you people sounds like RAIDERS FANS saying we should fire the coach and look at them fired a Coach that took they to the SB and they still can’t get it together LOL….plan and Simple the more you put in new people the more they wanna change the schemes and plays which puts the D-Line & O-Line at risk…
We can only learn from the 08 Season and look Forward to 09 Season
After all we do have the 12th pick for the 09 Draft, and I heard Shanahan and the Coaching stuff is look at This MEAN CB/RB Dominic Rivera I forgot what College he is from but they said he’s a Smash mouth type of RB like TERRELL DAVIS but faster, I know we need D-lineman’s but come on you can’t pass a player like him up, I don’t know this will be a hard pick for us.
As much as i love the RB position and as much as we need a GREAT running back I still think we need more help w/ our D
If you look at our offense what is the one and only thing we need???
-A running back
If you look at our deffense what is the one and only thing we need???
-well there is a lot… A new DT, a DE would be nice, Maybe some Insane LBs, heck why not a New safety….
The point I’m trying to make is that we have one issue in our offense and multiple issues in our deffense… there for… we MUST focus on our D
Ok, I looked for this Dominic Rivera and all I found was some asian guy and some ping pong competition on youtube… I can easily say he isn’t an early round type of a player if I can’t find him on the Internet… But IDK maybe he could be a late rounder… But I have no idea who you’re talking about
Yea your right but if we pick him I know are Offense will be UNSTOPPABLE!!!!!!!!!!
Nebs16 you said that the D should sholder most of the blame. I beg to differ it should be EQUAL. Everyone blames the D because they were on the field most of the game and thats all they saw was the D getting beat.
Take a closer look and you will see an Unballanced O 8 run plays actually 10 if you count Cutler scambeling to 49 pass plays called (This is NOT Madden 2008). You will see 2 interceptions which put the D on the field. You will see Three 3&outs which put the D on the field by my count thats five count them FIVE POOR POSSESSIONS! and the TIME OF POSSESSION was 23:53 to 36:07 THATS POOR BALL CONTROL! Special teams wasn’t any better.
So yes it was a TEAM LOSS just like any other and any Team win ! ! !
GO AVALANCHE ! ! !
I keep reading the “it’s not all on the D” posts and I got news for you, yes the F#*K IT IS! If you give up 400 points in a season you don’t have a chance in HELL of winning on a weekly basis! My GOD, I can’t believe we won 8 games, let alone stayed in first place for most of the year. We have no pass rush, we can’t stuff the run and we don’t have anyone that really HITS on defense. Champ is starting to show his age and the next quality CB Shanny drafts will be his FIRST! We’re a LONG way from being a threat to San Diego, or Oakland for that matter. We have become the joke, we are the donkeys and Shanny is our head @$$ in charge.
We Should go after either Ken Forde or Alan Hegarty in the 09 draft – either would help pound opposition next year.