Bulletin Board Material for Sunday? Err…Thursday?
Browns Head Coach Romeo Crennel told the media earlier this week, “We’re not throwing in the towel, we’re not giving up on the season, we’re going to beat Denver, and that’s what we’re going to do.”
Brandon Stokley said it didn’t bother him, and that he doesn’t need that type of motivation to get up for a big game, regardless of what day of the week it comes.
“They have the midset that they’re going to beat us, and we’re going to beat them — that’s our mindset,” he said. “It doesn’t matter what they say. It just really comes down to who goes out there and plays better football on Sunday.”
It only took a second for Stokley to remember. “Thursday,” he said with a laugh. “Habit.”
Dre’ Bly agreed, saying bulletin board material like that doesn’t make as big an impact as some people may think.
“It’s motivation, but if you don’t think you’re going to win the game you don’t need to be out here — you don’t need to be playing, you don’t need to be in this league,” he said. “You’re supposed to go out with a swagger and go out there with confidence. Just because he publicized it, it’s no big deal to me.”
Reinforcements on the Way?
Head Coach Mike Shanahan said the team might be getting back two offensive weapons for Thursday night’s matchup. Tony Scheffler and Selvin Young are listed as questionable for the second week in a row, but Shanahan said he expects them both to suit up.
“We’ll get a chance to see them before the game, and if there’s no setback then they’ll be ready to go,” he said. “They haven’t been able to go full speed, but we’ve got another day of recovery, so hopefully they’ll be ready to go.”
Shanahan said he’s just as ready as the players to get back out on the field and get back on the right track.
“Obviously we’ve got a bad taste in our mouth, and hopefully we can take it out on the Browns,” he said.
-Gray Caldwell, DenverBroncos.com
Tags: Brandon Stokley, Dre Bly, Gray Caldwell, Mike Shanahan, Romeo Crennel, Selvin Young, Tony Scheffler, Week 10
Awesome news to hear that Sheffler and Young will be back. Sheffler will bring back another weapon for Cutler to use in the passing game and he usually has at least one big haul per game. Young: hopefully he is ready to go so that we can give the Big-Mouth Browns a One-Two punch with Torain. THURSDAY NIGHT PRIME-TIME!!!!!!!
Ill be rooting hard for the Orange and Blue.
Let’s go Selvin & Tony !! We need you guys!
Jaguars sent LB Mike Peterson home from practice today. Think he will be a free agent at season’s end. A signing like that would go a long way in shoring up our efense.
This may sound crazy, but Al Wilson was cleared to play this year and is not playing with anyone right now. Wonder if he would still be a good fit. He is only 31, way to young to retire with the skill he has. Great leader for our team when he was here. Just a thought
Omg we should sign deangelo hall from free agency he was cut by sorry oakland raiders.
Finally… some good news!!! If we can get our act together by tomorrow night our offense should be a blast to watch. Cutler will have all sorts of options on who to throw to and I hope he takes advantage of all of them. It would be real nice to have Scheffler back on the field with Marshall, Stokley, and hopefully Torain will get a chance to put up some big numbers. I’m really excited for him. I’m also glad Young will hopefully be back… the more options that are given to Cutler the better he will do and the better our offense will do and that of course, helps our TEAM as a whole.
As for our D – showing up would be a great start and while you show up bring your game with you. We need some fierce defenders for once and tha momentum needs to start picking up NOW!!! We don’t have till Christmas to get our act together… by then our season will be over for sure. Now is the time to make the right changes and become rock solid. Champ isn’t due back till a couple more weeks so we need to make the best of what we have and for those youngins taking over his spot and some others… make these Vets proud, show them that you have what it takes to make it in the NFL and stay here. Only the players that prove themselves and have a respectful attitude on and off the field are remembered in this league.
Go get those Brownies tomorrow night – in PRIME TIME BABY!!!!! I love me some “brownies” – especially when Quinn will be spending most of his time in the dirt getting sacked!!! I can’t wait!!
Keep the faith Broncos Country…
GO BRONCOS!!!!!!
I think the best thing I’ve noticed in recent times as a Broncos fan is that Jay Cutler has found his best weapon of all. We know Bmarsh is best player and Royal/ Stokley are great as well but the best weapon he may have learned to use is Peyton Hillis. Being able to rely on him is a great boost because he wont have to force passes with the ability Hillis has after catching a short dump off. Even if he gets only 3-5yds that sets up better 3rd downs. The guy ran a 4.5 40yd dash. Thats the same time as Torain except Hillis is 245lbs. If you watched Royals Kick return you would have saw Hillis running right along side him keeping up. If you watched his college film he returned kicks himself and he has great hands. Every time Cutler got his options covered there was Hillis waiting to rumble for a big one. No team can fully cover a FB, HB, TE and 3 WR’S that can all take one to the house. The Future is coming along and I must say the Defense is getting better. My only issue is that Josh Barrett is not on the field.
Please can some one tell me why our defense plays a “read and react type defense”? Seems to me we need to let our players loose and play a real defensive scheme “React on the Fly”. This type is the type all the great defenses play. Please get this information to Shanahan, because Slowick isn’t. They say our defense changed their scheme, but looks the same a sit has th elast 3 years, 3 coordinators. WE NEED CHANGE
Throw more passes to Peyton Hillis! And give this beast a 7 year deal!!!!
I think we need to get back to some old time football. It seems to me that people are dropping like flies. I look at the rosters for the teams facing Denver each week and we definitely have way more that are questionable, out, or otherwise then the teams that beat us. I think we may be falling into the category of the pansy team. I think we may need a leader that will stop people from sitting out because of a bruise.
Another thing, maybe we should figure out a way to run first pass second. It seems to have worked before.
What are you talking about sitting out beacause of a bruise. Pittman was numb for 48 hours with a spinal cord injury last tyme i checked thats more then a bruise. Andre hall broke his hand and for a running back thats pretty big, agian last tyme i checked thats more then a bruise. champ tore his groin again more then a bruise. schefflers been out for the same injury. So shut the hell up about players sitting out becuz of a bruise.
I agree with broncosforlife80 in that our players arent just getting “bruises” but most of their injuries are pretty serious. I just cant figure out why the hell it’s us who seem to lose our major players to injuries the past couple of years. Part of the game i guess. Who knows, we might find someone who steps up and is phenomonal.
i think our team is posed for a SUPER rebound!! our hb situation is a bit scary, but we still have torrain, and selvin will hopefully be back this week! we just keep on finding weapons for jay, the most recent being hillis! if we can find a way to get our running game going, i still think we will have one of the best offenses in the league! if our defense can continue to improve/stabilize i think we could make a serious run at the post season. i am however getting a bit tired of watching our secondary get burned! are we incapable of playing opponents wide outs tight? how many times do we need to get burned because our corners are playing too far off their man? if our guys cant do it, then we need to start looking for some that can? we know champ has been great, but he is hurt right now, and even when healthy he cant do it all alone! i have been a bit disappointed in bly thus far, although i know thats not probably fair since most teams steer clear of champ completely. … kinda lost my train of thought there lol, but seriously i just want to see us playing a bit more physical!! lets go broncos, time to get back on track.
ha, i love how everyone on here tries to be the coach.
i agree we need al wilson BACK
Why are so many people stoked on Barrett? What has he done that is so promising?
Right now the weather sucks. (I hate winter…) With that said, the Broncos will be awesome because the Scheffler and Selvin will be back. I think if we don’t turn the ball over, this could be a blowout. Our defense isn’t the most stellar unit in the league, but Quinn has never started a regular season game before. Therefore, let’s give him hell as we get back on the winning side of things. At this time tomorrow, the Broncos will have a two game lead (at least) over the stupid Chargers and the Browns will be out of luck in the AFC North at 3-6.
I agree on one coment here. Jays best weapon has to be what is know as hes security blancket Payton Hill. Jay if you dont have a Clear pass to marshall or royal trowe it to Hills you saw what he can do. USE HIM
for anyone that is getting on bly and our db’s, remember this…. our run D has been terrible and we have been having to put our safeties in the box, do u know what this means… it means the corners are all alone against a WR who has the advantage in the first place. if we can stop the D without having to use those safeties, then it will b a huge advantage to our pass D because we will have safeties to cover over top and that is one less area our CB’s have to worry about
I live In Northwest Arkansas Home of the Razorbacks.I knew Hillis would finally be “discovered”.He was great blocking for Mcfadden and Felix Jones,Caught short passes out of the Backfield and Used on Short yardage to score in the Red zone. He also can be effective on punt returns if needed.The Guy will be a GOOD one. I Think were due for a totally FOCUSED effort tonite.31-14 Go Broncos
I wonder if the players/coach read the comments in blogs they didn’t write….anyway, go broncos. Don’t dissapoint on national television again. I also believe if Al wilson is good to go we could really use him and even that ass deangelo hall. But chances of it happening are basically zero, we coulda used lynch when he went to patriots and things didnt work out but we didnt sign him back.
I am sure Shanny looks at all these people as well and things behind the scene must just not work out. I am a fan of Josh Barret, He is really fast(4.3) and and big(227) and ive seen some of his college stuff. He is a great back, He just must not be 100 percent yet cuz i dont know how shanny can ignore a talent like that. Anyway GO BRONCOS!!!
I hope we just go out and punish the Brownies.
Getting S. Young and T. Scheffler back is a great thing but don’t count on to much thier first game back guy’s lets be realistic.
If the O line can open up some holes early this week Torain and Hillis should be able to get something started
Why would we sign DeAngelo Hall, when he couldn’t even cover Royal????