Tomorrow — Tuesday — at 2 p.m. MDT, DenverBroncos.com will air the second episode of ‘Elway Live’. The live, online-streamed audio broadcast show features Executive Vice President of Football Operations John Elway and is hosted by Broncos TV’s Chris Hall. It is 30 minutes long and features fan-submitted questions for Elway.
Questions are currently being taken via Twitter and will continue to be taken during the show. To submit your questions, tweet using the hashtag #ElwayLive.
After the show, the broadcast will be archived to DenverBroncos.com and will also be available as a podcast through iTunes.
To listen to the first show, click here.
On 9NEWS KUSA-TV’s show with Elway on Monday, he spoke about the loss to the Titans and said: “We need to continue to play hard… The effort is there we just need to be more consistent.”
-Kenny Legan
Tags: Elway Live, Week 4
LMAO@OC
Well Fox Like with the panthers i see your 4-12 record wont be better this year you left and they ended up with Rivera and we ended up with you. So far you have shown me you do not have any clue how to run this team you promised a much stronger D and a running game so far all I seen is orton make the same dumb mistakes over and over. And instead of using a bigger back like ball or larsen or even Tebow you used willis who was shut down all fricken day. That is now 2 games we were in and could have won but due to yours and Ortons bone head mistakes we are 1-2.. All I can hope for is Andrew Luck being a bronco next yearand Fox you will be gone in 2 years hope your good at golf.
Mr. Elway,
You made my childhood dreams come true and I’ll never forget what you did for the team. If you and Coach Fox don’t think that Tim Tebow is the future quarterback of our team, I can respect that.
But he is by far the best running back we have on our team, why are his incredible talents not being utilized? I can’t remember a time, even back before you came to the Broncos, that our running game was so weak and ineffective. Yet this incredible running athlete that you have in Tebow sits on the bench doing nothing while we loose games because our running game is non-existent!
I don’t get it, help me out here… Let him run the ball if he can’t throw it. Why is Coach Fox so unwilling to use him to help the team in anyway possible? Just get him in the game please, not just to pacify the fan base, you know he can turn around the running game the minute he walks on the field. Before this season becomes a total loss, please, its Tebow time.
DenverBum, We got the best coach that had interest in us (Altho I did want Dennison). The D has improved in my opinion as a result of great drafting from EFX and great play calling from Allen. We are headed the right direction on D … on O however … yeaaaaaaa. And technically Willis is our Biggest back and best for short yardage out of all the RBs we have (235) Ball (220) Moreno (200) … Now using Tebow woulda been smart but u know these guys and resistance to play Tebow. Fox will more likely be gone in 3 years … never saw him as our Future/long term HC but he will restore Stability. If Allen impresses over the next couple of years … he might just be our Future HC. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. A FB run woulda been fantastic with Larsen … we executed that very well last week agaisnt Cincy on short yardage but at the end of the day … the O linemen gotta win the battle at the LOS. Team isnt bad with the limited preparation thx to the lockout. Our only problem now are the 2 McD era stragglers, McCoy and Orton. McCoy might be able to redeem himself but Orton has run his course. TRB
Bay we coulda had Orakpo, we also coulda had Cushings and Clay Matthews … sigh … it just is what it is. For one I know I was one of the people who thought we would go after Orakpo for sure. Instead we go with Moreno and Ayers … talk about a heart breaker … sigh … it is what it is. Gotta love that 20/20 hindsight tho. TRB
Late night/Early morning blogging for me I got some crazy hours nowadays.
Anyway, it’s funny to me that SOME people on this blog think that they’re submitting questions to Elway Live. lol
Read the post by Kenny Legan it says: “Questions are currently being taken VIA TWITTER and will continue to be taken during the show.
TO SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS, TWEET using the hashtag #ElwayLive.”
Notice >> VIA TWITTER, so you have to currently have a Twitter account or obtain one so that your questions can be submitted for possible answer.
Of course most on here understand this, but to the people who actually think that they are going to have their questions answered by posting them on this blog may have been confused by this quote: “After the show, the broadcast will be archived to DenverBroncos.com.” Or, must not have read the directions for your questions to be answered.
If you notice shaztah is doing Rayjr26 a solid by using her Twitter account to post his question (in case that threw you off, IDK).
Thought i’d try and help.
-Royalty
dear elway
i dont care how we do it get luck bet the farm i dont care a qb is the most important polsition do it elway for the love of god do it
Coach Fox was the “best coach that had INTEREST in us,” as TRB pointed out. I really didn’t notice any other ’top-prospect’ coaches vying for a spot as our HC lol. Also, the hindsight perspective of bay and TRB are right on.
I thought — in this years draft, returning to the 4-3, that we would get some unsurpassable defensive tackles to shore up the trenches, but it seems Coach Fox is almost recalcitrantly trying to avoid such players (further evident in not trying to acquire any from the wire in the early stages of the season).
I’m going on pure faith with Coach Fox though, as he obviously wants speed from the outside (noted on this blog ad nauseam). He and Dennis Allen are actually proving to be pretty good in the run-stopping D… so far. So, if the boat isn’t broken yada yada… If we can just keep Champ healthy the D is definitely headed in the right direction.
The offense however is a completely different beast all together. I actually think that Fox is here to get our team back to fundamentals and don’t quite see him out within three years.
Even though he preaches the “win now” method I see him as old schooler where ‘progress is a slow process’. I see him getting rid of our current OC with a full off-season, having Elway help him in reunifying the Broncos of old i.e, Kubiak and/or the like, as another blogger alluded to.
If he would have just come out and said it that way I think that the fans would have had a better understanding of his vision, and possibly would’ve lent a little leeway and more patience his way. But with all this “win now” nonsense it’s further frustrating and dividing our Broncos Country. People hate to feel like they’ve been lied to in the slightest way. That’s what the triumvirate lol needs to understand first and foremost.
-Royalty
Dear John,
I am curious as to the Tebow situation, why don’t you guys make lemonade out of the lemons that have formed around the stigma of this young man by utilizing him on trick plays to throw off a defense? Just curious, and keep up the good work, I know you will bring us victory.
hmmmmmmmmmmm, I sense a theme for the remainder of this season’s blogs. LOL
imready……….I read your comment from earlier and I’m not impressed. True fans are passionate about their team, which means being critical at times. I will support this team until the day I die, but that doesn’t mean I will be happy with all the losses that have been piling up just cause I’m a fan.
You have no right, or argument, to question my comittment, or any others, to this broncos team. If we didn’t care, we wouldn’t be on this blog everyday either singing praises (hasn’t been too much of that to go around) or vent our frustrations (how can there not be since we’ve lost so many games)
If you want to keep your orange-coloured glasses on, then that’s fine with me…………but DO NOT come on here and question my love of this franchise.
is there any hope that a team might be interested in Orton by the trade deadline……….as a veteran backup to a contending team maybe? Any thoughts on that possibility?
McNabb might be run out of Minny yet………maybe they might need Orton? lol
stupid twitter has taken over the world. LOL I personally have no time for it and couldn’t care less about “following’ someone.
I think it’s lame that it’s the only way you can send a question. I guess they want to keep the questions short and sweet, which will be easier to dance around.
Doubt it, I seriously doubt that EFX is going to give him up or, rather give up on him, yet. Reason being? $’s and pride. They’re not ready to admit that Orton is nothing more than mediocre, and I know that they don’t believe that TT is ready. Elway even said that he believes that Orton has the potential to take us deep into the play-offs…
-Royalty
And you’re exactly right about twitter being the forum in which they can pick and choose the questions that they want to answer it is more ambiguous
Well, I think it would be smarter to try and at least get something for Orton while we can, rather than let him walk at the end of the season.
In this forum we would hit em with hardball questions, they just want to keep it light…
For sure Royalty…….Elway would not want to have to answer to us…………..the hardcore fans! lol
That would end the QQ and if the Vikings would give us something worth taking… Who knows…
lol
A right call here or there and we might be 3-0 a wrong call here or there and we could also be sitting 0-3. I do think a Tebow package in the red zone could be beneficial to this team, it did work against the Jets last year. Granted we also lost on a not so great pass interference call…
Broncos – 20
GB – 17
I’m sure Elway will put this disclaimer out there…”I’m not taking any questions regarding Tim Tebow, but I will address any others you may have.”
I wouldn’t put it past them, the Tebow questions are just going to escalate (no pun lol) if we continue to lose.
Nothing to say but you guys are cracking me up Moreno and Ayers LOLOLOL!!!!!
When it sees the name Tebow………..it causes an automatic FAIL WHALE! LOL
For those who care Orapko was the furthest thing from hindsight for me, remember I live in Austin and Orapko is a Longhorn. As I sat watching the draft that year, from about # 7 I kept hoping he would still be on the board, then 8, then 9 and he was still on it, surely he would be picked at 10, but no he was still there at 11 and then my world fell apart we took Moreno and guess what with the following pick at #12 Redskins picked Orapko. No hindsight about that at all, maybe for TRB but not here birthday boy, LOL.
Kiz telling it like it is to Fox and I can’t blame him:
If a low-scoring, losing NFL team can’t find a way to get Tim Tebow in the game, then new coach John Fox is a stubborn goat so stuck in the 1970s and so hopelessly out of touch with his fan base that one might begin to wonder why the Broncos hired him in the first place.
All we’re saying is: Give Tebow a chance.
“I’m figuring out this team,” Fox said Monday, after his beat-up defense grudgingly surrendered 17 points to Tennessee, but Denver coaches weren’t innovative enough to find the end zone when it really mattered.
Fox doesn’t have it figured out? Really? That sounds like nonsense Josh McDaniels might have uttered after his third game in charge of an NFL franchise. But the excuse doesn’t fly for a veteran coach. This isn’t on-the-job training. They’re keeping score.
At the outset of the fourth quarter, as the Denver offense stood with a first down a scant 2 yards from the Tennessee end zone and eyed the opportunity to put away the Titans, I was wiping barbecue sauce from my chin in a sports bar 1,159 miles away from Nashville. A woman in a corner booth shouted at the television screen: “Put in Tebow!”
Fox obviously couldn’t hear the lady. Tebow watched helplessly on the sideline as Denver took four futile shots at a touchdown. There was one incomplete pass. Three straight runs inside the tackles. No points. No Tebow.
“Every play is a consideration,” Fox said. “When they work, you’re a genius. And when they don’t, you’re an idiot.”
Hey, John. We’ve got it figured out.
You don’t need to know an X from an O to see quarterback Kyle Orton owns a 6-19 record in his past 25 starts. Even a knucklehead like myself can understand Orton could use a little help in the red zone from Tebow. When ticket-buyers are far ahead of the coach on the learning curve, it’s probably a dangerous place for Fox to act like he knows best.
And he finishes it with a ton of sense:
All we’re saying is: A bad team needs its best talent on the field. To help the Broncos win, here’s betting Tebow would do anything, large or small, whether that’s running option in the red zone, throwing a block during the second quarter or dashing to pick up the tee after the opening kickoff. Give him a chance.
Be needlessly stubborn on this Tebow thing, and I’m afraid Fox might lose the trust of Broncomaniacs before he even has a fair chance to win them over.
Fox will probably put in Tebow in a situation to make sure he fails, then he’ll basically say “well we gave Tebow a chance and we took some good and bad things away from his chance.” Problem is that chance will be like 1 play at QB.
When a player does not perform, they should be benched……….plain and simple. That’s not just for Orton, but for every player on the roster.
Fox cannot honestly say he’s been happy with Orton’s performance. He should have the Nads to say, “Orton, I love ya but you’re stinking up the joint. Sorry but I got to give the kid a chance and see what he can do out there.”
If you were willing to trade Orton and start Tebow why wouldn’t you try and get him on the field? If this was baseball you’d be called for the biggest and worst balk ever.
I wonder if Orton decided to say F it, Im not gonna be a quarterback that anyone wants to keep long term anyway. So let me keep my 8+ million and make it thru this season so after that I can just retire and raise my new baby girl!
If you’re not going to give Tebow a shot becaue of the money, heck promote Weber from the PS and give him a shot. Might as well evaluate him too..
I think it will funny if we sell the farm to get Luck. Mainly because Fox himself said the QB is just one position the entire team needs to play better. Well how can you entire team play better if you sell the farm to get one player?
Bill Walsh once said of Steve DeBerg, (who was the QB right before Montana).
“He plays just good enough to get you beat”.
you might have a point there broncogator……..you’d think in a contract year, he’d be trying to light it up and show off his talent to other teams who might become interested in free agency……..
Oh, wait……….Orton doesn’t have any talent to show off, that’s why.
I think he’ll just take his cash and ride off into the sunset…………..or more like oblivion.
12 and 19 as a starter is not good. Unless your a loser. Im a Broncomaniac and if your not good then you need to be benched. Someone needs to be given a chance. How can you justify starting a guy who has been benched twice because he can not perform? If we are going to continue to be losers and at least fight with Tebow. Orton will never fight for anything thats worth haveing. He is spineless and an insult to the Denver Community. The commentators backing this guy are getting kick backs to do so. This is like wrestling so fake. We are honestly getting schmoozed by the media and the organization while they allow Orton to bamboozle us. Im sad that the Broncos have allowed this loser to destroy a proud franchise.
I sampled the Kool-Aid again early this season and it has the same distinct flavor it did last season..hemlock!
Correction, Orton is now 12-20 as a Bronco.
Well, now I think their just in full damage control mode. Having missed the opportunity to tell the fans, ‘look we are in a rebuilding process, it may take awhile, but rest assured we are going to do our best on your behalf because we, like you, love this organization and want to see it restored to the competitiveness it once held.’
I can say undoubtably that that would have went much further than the “win now” approach. That to me created a frenzy nearly paralleled to dropping chum in shark infested water, because the fans now expect “WIN NOW,” and at all costs. Shown by the posts already looking for heads to roll, and I don’t blame a single one!
Kiz is right people saw that Tebow was being promoted as being part of an ‘equal opportunity employer’ now the people want their red meat and as long as losses accumulate so will the voices screaming Tebow. Like it or leave it…
Fox can’t afford to be stubborn or too prideful in his approach, as I pointed out earlier. The game is now instant gratification, and when you start using terms like “win now” you better at least show that you’re doing everything possible to back up that statement…
-Royalty
Legwold summing it up so far:
And only three weeks in, they already have arrived at the spot where all rebuilding teams get at some point. Things can go either way.
Over the next five games, they face the 3-0 Packers, who also happen to be the defending Super Bowl champions, the 2-1 Chargers, the 3-0 Lions and the 2-1 Raiders, who already rushed for 190 yards against them.
In that stretch, only the Dolphins (0-3) have not jumped from the gate.
The Broncos’ desire to win is real. It’s palpable. Their ability to win is in question, especially late in a game with the result on the line.
But the cavalry isn’t coming, which means the players they have will have to find a way to be better than they’ve been in the opening three weeks.
*they’re in damage control
I my season prediction I have us winning the Miami game and losing the other 4 Legwold talks about, that would make it 2-6 at half way point.
In my…
Its not everyday that your best player from your favorite college team gets drafted by your favorite pro team. I was happy as hell to say the least to think Tebow would be coming to help out my Broncos. And to see him put up 11 touchdowns and to have it be on limited action reminded me of his rookie year when he backed up Leak. And now to have all that talent wasted on the bench is beyond heart breaking. They said all this off season that they were gonna go with Tim Tebow, even had the guy on marketing duty. They lied to everyone just to keep selling his jersey and to try and keep selling out the stadium. Its not gonna fly! Even Brandon Lloyd came out and said Im gonna do everything possible to make Tebow a better player and then a week later after the trade fell thru with Orton to we want a veteran guy to win now. No one on the team will they they want Orton, just a veteran guy to help them win now! Well, thats not happenin! Wat changed in only a couple of weeks?
That stat is totally wild:
Kyle Orton averaged just 4.44 yards per pass attempt against Titans.
McCoy doing the best play calling with what he’s got? Whatever…
WOW! that is an eyebrow raising stat if i’ve ever seen one bay OUCH! lol
I also remember how I put Orton and Romo in the same category as non clutch Quarterbacks. I really have to second guess that thought now. If Orton was to try and play thru broken ribs, we would probably have 0 yards passing that game. I dont see Orton ever growing a heart that big and stepping up for his team. He wont even step up for himself.
Even a player is going against the Fox tide, sort of, and it’s Decker, good for him, love the guy, refreshing to see, not afraid to be himself:
Tebow led the Broncos in rushing touchdowns in 2010 with six, including three out of the “Tebow Package” around midseason when he played in spot duty. Two of those touchdowns came from the 1-yard line; the other from 5 yards out. Tebow also threw for a touchdown pass out of the special package.
There may be much debate about Tebow’s readiness to be a starting NFL quarterback, but he has shown his value in the red zone.
“I think he definitely does,” second-year wide receiver Eric Decker said. “But when you call those plays, that’s the coach’s decision.”
Another eye opening stat:
Orton has had an NFL-most seven passes deflected by defensive linemen at the line of scrimmage through three games.