In watching the tape of Sunday’s 24-17 loss at Jacksonville, Head Coach Josh McDaniels pinpointed several positives to build on.
Whether it was Kyle Orton’s five completions of at least 25 yards, the defense holding Pro Bowler Maurice Jones-Drew to less than 100 yards rushing and no touchdowns or Matt Prater’s 54-yard field goal, the Broncos did enough to battle the Jaguars into the game’s closing minute.
As the team looks to correct its opening game mistakes going forward, the head coach believes remaining upbeat about the performance is part of the key to getting better.
“Winning is a result of doing a lot of things right,” McDaniels said. “Yesterday we did some things right. We just didn’t do enough of them right. I think if we understand what we need to improve on, we can do that.”
Last season McDaniels felt the team let the pain of some losses linger through the second half of the season. He hopes the Broncos will be better equipped to handle that adversity in 2010.
That process started today at Dove Valley. McDaniels said the Broncos would work on fixing mistakes from the loss at Jacksonville’s EverBank Field before launching into preparations for the home opener Sunday against Seattle.
On Sunday, Orton said the matchup with the Seahawks — who started their season with a convincing home win against San Francisco – will be a great test to show his team has grown since 2009.
The quarterback said that chance to get back on track at home should give the team confidence. They’ve won 10 straight home openers — the league’s longest current streak.
“We’re coming back home,” Orton said. “We’ve got to establish home dominance and it’s a great chance for us this weekend.”
McDaniels said his message to the team has been to keep perspective on the loss. With 15 games left on the schedule, there’s still a lot of time to carve out this season’s legacy.
With a veteran locker room that features seven captains in Orton, Champ Bailey, Brian Dawkins, Daniel Graham, Chris Kuper, D.J. Williams and Wesley Woodyard, McDaniels expressed confidence his team will be ready to push forward and bounce back this week.
Even at 0-1 on the young season, McDaniels said there are still plenty of reasons to feel good about the future.
“We did discuss handling adversity and understanding that not everything is going to be perfect all year long,” McDaniels said. “What matters is how we play and how effectively do the things we want to try to do to win. If we can do better, then I think we’ll get the result we’re looking for.”
- Eric Detweiler, DenverBroncos.com
Tags: 2010, Denver Broncos, Head Coach Josh McDaniels, Kyle Orton
Well, no time to say anything about this blog, the next one is already up! LOL.
I think it shouldn’t be that hard to convince anyone that this was only one game in a 16 game season, that it is really no big deal that we lost it and that there were plenty of good things to build on. After all 16 teams will be 0-1 after tonight, and no one is out for the count that I know.
That being said, losing the first game was a bit of a let down since the majority of the fans had penciled that one in the win column, and now we are going up against Seattle, a team who just demolished what was thought to be a good team and pretty much a shoe-in to win their division, the niners. And after that it’s Peyton Manning, then the #2 running team in the league last year the Titans, then the #5 in the same category the Ravens, followed by the #1 in the yet same category the Jets. So I can see why words of re-assurance are coming out of McD and Orton, they are somehow very much needed at this point, even so it’s only a 0-1 start.
Now a 1-5 start is not that far of a stretch, and beating Seattle has all of a sudden taken a bigger importance, a loss and we could be looking at a reversal of last year start with an 0-6 start. However I think this team has what it takes to beat Seattle and I don’t really see how we could afford not to, even at this early stage, due to the challenge of the following 4 games.
Good teams are supposed to win the games they should, we failed on the first try, a second failure would make it real easy for folks to start saying this obvioulsy isn’t a very good team, and I would be hard pressed to argue that. Time to win one of the so called game we should have, specially at home, losing Sunday is no option, GO BRONCOS!!!
Forget about the first post, this blog was originally posted before the HOF one, they have since moved this one to the top of the page.
always wise bay.. moving on fits..
GO Broncos!
If you ask me we deserve to loose. We played bad in special teams coverage on both sides and we only had ten men on defense in that last td. We were the better team but we could not win. Orton did his job like I knew he would but everyone else did not do their job. PERIOD!!!
Hey manny, is the Seattle game a challenge, or are the Colts still our first challenge on the schedule, just kidding, live and learn is all I can say.
Awesome Monday night football double header about to start, talk about how important those two games are for us to watch, we will play all 4 teams, two of them twice, let’s see first exactly what we will be up against when we play the Ravens and Jets, I pick the Ravens to win tonight, then we’ll find out how much better KC has gotten and how SD has worsen if we can believe the hype, I have SD in that game. Are you ready for some football???? I am……
Bay, I am in Playa de Carmen, watching MNF, hoping that these four teams beat each other up so bad they are too weak to play us. Unfortunatley, missed the Jacksonville game. What are some of the psotives things that we can build on? Did the team play strong defense, as a unit, with heart?
I can’t be convinced that “it was just one game in 16 and there is plenty of football to be played”…. It’s no different than the trap of saying “we are three games ahead in our division and we only have to win one of the next three, no problem”..
I am very concerned about the state of our team. I can see the dissaray in the defense (ten men on the field in crunch time). The same exact problems we had last year on offense, (Moreno dancing at the LOS and Orton taking sacks with his feet stuck in the mud).
I also want to point out that I think McBeans second facemask penalty was done ON PURPOSE. The player was obviously mad at the coach for yelling at him so he spitefully went back out there and did it again! I have the slow motion replay on DVD. McBean was laying on his back and reached up and yanked the dudes mask on purpose… A backlash of emotion that happened because the leader lost his composure and screamed at the player, wich in turn, negatively effected the outcome of the game… Josh needs to bottle up that stuff until he gets into the locker room…!!!!
Only 15 games left to play and we are not even medicore at 0-1. Hopefully we can reach (1-1) vanilla status and defeat the Seahawks at INVESCO field next week…
KEEP THE DRIVE ALIVE BRONCOS!!!!!
IF WE GO 0-2 THEN I WILL BE CALLING FOR TEBOW!!!!
Ok, I have a question. Are the players on the jets defense really that much better than ours? Personnel wise, I think we match up pretty good. For every good player they I have, I can name a bronco player who is comparable. Why does the Jets defense look so much better than the Broncos? It might be a stupid question, but I had to ask.
ILMSDB…
Good point bay…. we’ve got em on our schedule. I’m surprised we’ve got to go back to Baltimore again this year, as we played up there last season.
I took the Jets with our picks at work…. should be a good game.
Merriman not playing tonight for the Bolts.
Hope Ines Sainz doesn’t show up to distract the Jets players….lol!
Oh, I meant calling for Tebow to play QB… not HB or WR…
just thought I might need to point that out….lol
Im not sure I agree with yall. this is a young team at many positions. And with a second year cosch we are in the second year of his system because he is a “system ‘” coach. I saw some good things. I liked the run defenses improvement. as baylion pointed out we will see after the first six games. I hate the schedual and it scares me because I dont want to be 1-5 0-6 even 2-4 and all of those are better than posibilities. We as a team need to definatly play up to the competition. and in many cases play better than our team realy has in them wew need near perfect football these first six games.
Tebow in at QB is a JOKE Orton did well tell me tebow would have tied the game at the end of the half? A JOKE
Need to play cleaner as MCD said complimentary football to many mistakes.
And Knowshone has to show up or we will be in the market for a running back who can play in this league.
Overall it was hard to watch as a fan the BETTER team lose.
GO BRONCOS!!!!
orange crush, I don’t know if you saw what kind of numbers orton put up but he did a good job. He did what he could in very bad pocket. The jax always had good field position that is not orton fualt and the defense made some bad decision whos fualt is that. I guess I’m not much of a tebow fan.
baylion???? who’s that?
benbronco9, Tebow is NO JOKE!!!
I’m just saying that if we go 0-2 then the team is not winning. If we aren’t going to win then we might as well put in the future and let him earn his wings.
I’m not saying that Tebow is going to save the day and I’m not saying that orton is losing it for us either. I’m just sayin that if we are gonna lose anyway then we might as well lose with Tebow.
For me, it will be much more entertaining.. lol
Just one old mans opinion that don’t mean a hellava lot anyways..lol
Well, it’s half time of the Jets Ravens game and it’s absolutely a slugfest, one I’m afraid we would not even start to measure up physically in. I can see two things for sure:
1. There is no way in the world we will be able to run against either team, they are absolute killer at the line of scrimmage, both these teams are great running teams and neither can run at the other, just imagine what we could do on the ground!?!?!?! NOTHING, Orton will have to do it in the air is our only shot.
2. Both of these teams rely heavily on the ground game, Flacco and Sanchez are having a lot of issues in the air, and why throw against our secondary when they should be able to run it fairly easy against our D. Our best hope is that our run D improves ten fold between now and these games.
At this point of the season after seeing us and them play, I honestly don’t see but a very very very slim chance to win either of these games, and I’m being nice, it’s just overwhelming competition at this point.
I’m born early August, a leo, does that count towards baylion? LOL.
Anyhow, lets wait to see if we win big next week then Orton is THE MAN again!!
With that said… My prediction for game two is…
I get Josh and Kyle soo mad with my critique that they come out and score fifty points just to prove it the old Orange Crusher that they can….!!!!! Fireworks in Orange and Blue at INVESCO Field and the season is ours for the taking!!! Yeah!!!!
Broncos 55
Seahawks 31
STONE COLD ORANGE CRUSH LOCK!!!!!
I LOVE ME SOME DENVER BRONCOS!!!!!!
007, that’s a loaded question I don’t have time to answer now since the second half is starting, but yeah there is stuff to build on but at this point but it’s unfortunately few and far between. I think as many of us thought, specially with all the injuries, it is becoming more and more likely that we will have to wait until next year to see if this team experiment with McD has a shot at working out, not a sure thing as of now is how I see it, even next year, sorry for not being any more positive, but it seems that we are in a kind of a pickle now between McD and the players already, it waited until the 7th game last year to rear its head up, it might already have started on the wrong foot with McD’s ranting and yelling at some of his players on the sideline. I hope I’m all wrong about all that, but I usually have a pretty good feel for human relationships, and it isn’t McD’s forte.
anyways, benbronco9, saying “watch the BETTER team lose” is far too light of a term for the MAN verbage in the NFL… don’t ya think?
Actually, the BETTER team won.. Thats why they play the game… It doesn’t mean I love the Broncos any less to say it.
Saying the better team lost is like something a youth coach would say to a 2nd grade soccer team at the pizza hut after a defeat…lol
Yeah, I keep hearing the better team lost, but we are no better than Jacksonville, we are pretty much dead on equal at the mediocre level, they were 7-9 last year, we were 8-8, now that they are 1-0 and we are 0-1, we are dead equal, we should stop that sorry excuse that we are the better team, I agree with OC, it makes us sound like sore losers anyway, we lost to a better team that Sunday, period, they didn’t make the mistakes, they made everything count even if they did less than us, they won.
orange crusher I din’t mean to be so harsh its just I don’t live in Denver and I am always hearing negative stuff. I am such a fan I LOVE the broncos. And the media is so hyoed for tebow. I believe Orton is another Jake plumer. i believe he can bring us to the playoffs. he has GOT TO play mistake free like last year. Without that we are in alot of trouble.
But thanx for takeing the time to say something.
I believe in Mcd saying that it was REAL hard to see Shanahan with another team last year I was not a fan of geting rid of him.
These First six games are gona be real tuff so i think we as a fan base have to stick together. Cause if we can hang in there there is a good chance we can go 8-2 or beter those last ten games. thats all.
Go Broncos
If you want to be the champion, you have to defeat the champion…
We can’t be the BETTER team until we DEFEAT the opponent!!!
Maybe the NFL has lost it’s 300 Gladiator mentality because too many “Y gen’s” are in the game now…?
just how many points to reynoldo hill cost us with his 15 yard penalties? he had at least 2 that i saw. how come no mztter who the broncos bring in as defensive co-ordinator (6 over the past 6 seasons) they still SUCK!?
Oh hey, no prob benbronco9….
I was just having fun talking to you about our team.. ho harsh feelings at all bro..
It helps to have something to chat about when we don’t agree.. with respect, of course..lol
Jake the Snake was the last great scrambling QB the Broncos had so I just don’t quite see the likeness to Orton?
Bronc On!!!! Ben09!!!!
ILMSDB!!!!
It’s probably the beard…
Oc the comparison is not the way that either of them played the game it is the kind of QB both orton and plumer were when they came to the Broncos. Both were Quetstioned by the media the league. /and Jake overcame that under Shanahans watchful eye. I think Orton has the same ability to do that under MCD.
Thats all I’m saying. I can’t tell you how excited I was with his end of the half Four play 80 yard drive that was awesome.
Penalties realy set us back that and the kicking game.
we have to win this week against the hawks and there not gonna be a pushover…..I just think yesterday’s game was just the fact of makin dumb mistakes at the worst time the two penalties and the kicking game….jeez…but I think Mcd will fix them for next week…..watchin the MNF game…good point Bay we do play both off them….Jets D is crazy…but there offense cant get out of its own way lol……looks like all the hype I been hearin around here is lol half right……lets go Broncos!!!
man, dont get me wrong guys, im a huge fan and supporter of this team but i was just looking at the schedule and as much as i hate to say it i put my bronco bias aside and i really saw us losing the next 4 or 5 games. i mean, seattle looked crazy good last week, then we get the colts aka peyton manning and our pass defense looked crappy against the jags, then the titans, jets, ravens, all superior running teams with good defenses. im not saying that it cant be done, but we got our work cut out for us guys. i really hope we can do it but we could be 0-6 going into oakland week 7. i really hope these guys prove me wrong
benbronco9,
I was equally excited about Ortons end of the half scoring drive as I was his end of the game INT to lose…
He seems to bring you up just to let you down and lose when all the chips are on the table….
Hey, that does sound like Jake Plummer…haha lol
ILMSDB!!!!
I picked the right team, Baltimore won, good thing since I also picked them to win the superbowl.
Now it’s on to SD-KC, Rivers first TD throw to Gates, 7-0, got SD in this one, anxious to see how both play since we got them each twice later on.
Charles, 60+ yard TD run, 7-7, OC I remember you wanted to trade Charles for Phonzy, with him gone but Cassel being so bad maybe we can pull a Quinn for Charles deal, haha.
Bad news for all Bronco fans, the Chiefs have found a new Dante Hall for returns, Javier Arenas is absolutely electrifying, just like Dante Hall, I swear.
2 actually this McCluster kid just had a Punt Return TD. On a lighter note KC is winning 21 – 7 and Cassel has 10 yards passing…
Is it just me or are the Chiefs beating the Chargers, and McCluster to the house?
Hope McDaniels is watching both these teams will take A LOT of game planning to beat.
He should have few cups of the Costa Rica coffee I sent him! LOL!
Can we all say ooh sah? Chill out!? Go Broncos!!!!! We played a good game. Pick it apart as you feel you should. All opinions are welcome here. But I think we will come together as a team as the season flows. Give it time my Bronco fans and good things will come! No time bomb tic- tic here! Let’s see what happens. Stay True, Stay Strong! You know why—cuz
ILMSDB
FTR
And now they have Dexter McCluskey return a 94 yd punt for a TD!!!! How many great returners can you have on one team!!! Anyhow, first impression is KC is much improved at least defensively and obviously ST, and Chargers are looking quite a bit worse than last year. It’s 21-7 KC now just before the half. This might play into our hands in the division race, SD may have problems repeating for a 5th time. One can always hope, ha.
My prediction for next week: Seattle 27……Denver 20 BTW, there is no way the Broncos kick/punt coverage teams can contain these two KC returners.
Yeah, agreed, not at this point anyway, we haven’t been able to contain average returners, these two guys are flat out of their mind, but we did know KC had a real good draft.
At invesco, no problem all kickoffs are touchbacks and punts just sidelines and that’s it.
Good point O&B. Let’s hope.
Remember that year when we played at Chicago and we kept kicking it to that freak returner of theirs and he kept returning them for TD’s, haha, I can laugh about it now but it was real sad at the time, totally moronic, but it was Shanny, not McD.
I remember the frustration VERY well… sad sad day.
Devin Hester, he is a good returner.
And we know it, haha.
Yeah learned that the hard way, didn’t the Bears go to the Superbowl that year?