The confidence that Broncos’ Head Coach Josh McDaniels says has always resided in the hallways at team headquarters is now overflowing.
The Broncos are good.
No, they’re not a perfect team. And I don’t pretend to think they’ll go 16-0 in the regular season.
But my guess is they’re not going away, either.
Understandably, many people weren’t that impressed when the Broncos began the season with wins over the Bengals, Browns and Raiders.
Beat the Cowboys and people start to take notice.
I don’t believe for a second the Broncos are a flash-in-the-pan. Flukes don’t last four weeks in the NFL, a league in which everything gets exposed in a hurry.
The rest of the league can get used to the fact that the Broncos are going to be around a while. Here are a few reasons I think the Broncos will continue to be a more than dangerous team.
1 – They are running the football effectively. If they keep doing this, good things will happen for the offense. It’s not a secret that the offense still isn’t flowing like they want it too. The Broncos are committing too many penalties (6.5 per game), are struggling to convert on third down (36.7% this season), bogging down in the red zone and such.
But the Broncos are running the football. That is a really good sign. They average 148.0 rushing yards per game (4th in the NFL) and 4.7 yards per carry through one quarter of the season. That will help them control the clock, keep the defense rested, wear down the other team and more.
Yes, they’ll be facing better defenses in the weeks ahead. But they’re doing a good job in the run game to this point.
2 – The Broncos are stopping the run. The Cowboys came in averaging 193.7 yards per game on the ground. They only had 74 against the Broncos Sunday.
“Any time you can hold a team to under 100 yards rushing, of course that’s going to boost your confidence a little bit,” Broncos’ defensive lineman Kenny Peterson told me on Monday.
It is one thing for McDaniels to talk about his team playing tough. When you buckle down and stuff the run as the Broncos have, you are walking the talk. Great teams stop the run. Championship teams stop the run. Through four games, the Broncos are fifth in the NFL, allowing only 77.2 rushing yards per game and only 3.2 yards per rush.
The Broncos are off to a good start in that regard but does the effort against Dallas show them that they can be good throughout the season?
“They don’t pass out any Lombardi trophies in week four, do they?” Peterson asked. “Ask me that question in week 16 or week 17. Then we can go from there.”
I like the perspective. I also like the way they’re stuffing the run.
3 – The Broncos seem to be developing into a team that gets contributions from different players all the time. Against Dallas, Brandon Marshall went up and made a huge play; Champ Bailey came up big as well.
Against Oakland, Correll Buckhalter rushed for 108 yards and Knowshon Moreno added 90.
Go back to the game against Cleveland and think of Elvis Dumervil’s four sacks. Brandon Stokley was in the right spot against Cincinnati.
At every turn, it seems as if a different guy is making a play, or two. I can’t point to a statistic to prove my point; it is just something I’m noticing. We’ll have to see if the Broncos show this to be true throughout the course of the season, but so far,
Even though the Broncos are 4-0, they can play even better. I suspect they’ll continue to improve.
In my opinion, they’re not going anywhere…except maybe a lot farther than many thought they would before the season began.
Thanks for reading. Feel free to post your comments about the win over Dallas and what that showed you.
Sincerely,
Mike
Tags: Dallas Cowboys, Postgame, Week 4
Great read Mike. I am also excited for this team, always have been. Since the begining I have said we were going in the right direction. Becoming a team, not a team full of individual players. I love what we are building here. The great part is that its building sooner than most people believed. Also, I hope Orton plays without a glove soon, because I believe that does affect his accuracy a little. That bomb he threw to Brandon was on the money, just great defensive play there.
I remember when the season started, some people questioned the Bucky signing and the Gafney signing. I bet we are all glad they are here now. Some are also hoping Bucky dont miss time, because he is an added weapon on offense. Gafney could have scored this week also, if Orton doesnt miss him. Yet that is part of the game, you get some, you miss some. But the true telling of a good team, is you pull out a win when things are hard (they find a way to win), and this week we managed to fiight and get the win.
We are definitely playing 60 minutes of football every week, that tells me the coaches are doing their job. Last week the Raiders didnt score in the 2nd half and this week neither did the raiders. Another good sign of good coaching. The announcers said the Cowboys usually score more points in the 2nd half after they make adjustments. This tells me our team made the adjustments, not the cowboys. This is another great sign of coaching. We had a disgruntled receiver!!!! He fought the hardest to score around 5 people, with what looked like tears in his eyes, goes and hugs your coach on the sideline and the podium, this another great sign of a coach (lead your disgruntled players to buy in).
Im not saying we are superbowl bound this year (maybe?), but we are in the right direction. Like the writer Frost said, we took the road less traveled, and for that we are all the better for it now.
Mike, once again thanks for your input. I really do enjoy to read what you and also Big Coop have to say about our team.
I still say if the ravens of 00 could win a superbowl with a great D and a ok O then we have a chance to do it.
heres hopeing we can hit tom brady this weekend with out being called for it. looking at some of those hits that ravens put on him they didnt realy touch him and was called for it.
Thanks Mike, here are my comments about Sunday’s game:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
The Good:
On O: Marshall, game MVP, hands down. Grabbed one out of the sky, fully covered, and ran a couple of long loops to evade a handful of defenders to score the winning TD. Never thought I would say that, but the McD hug was enough for me to think that he GETS IT now! I’ll even go this far and saying if he stays out of trouble in his personal life, he ends up signing a long term contract with Denver. The boy is turning into a man right in front of our eyes, let’s keep our fingers crossed on this one.
Moreno, who stole a TD pass through the defender’s mid section.
The combination of Buckhalter, Scheffler and Graham catching short passes was the O’s best relied upon weapon.
Buckhalter is our outstanding #1 RB and we need that ankle to heal quickly.
On D: DJ and Andra accounting for 17 tackles to limit the Dallas running game to 74 yards, their main weapon. The D as a whole stayed in their gap beautifully making that possible.
Doom getting 2 sacks to bring his total to 8!
Hill, DJ and Holliday adding 3 more sacks for a total of 5 in the game!
Hill causing a Romo fumble, recovered by DJ.
Dawkins, the big bad man everywhere once again.
Bailey’s dance move interception, they don’t get any prettier… Bailey played real strong in the 2nd half all the way to the end, he never gave up, a great example for all other teammates younger than him.
On ST: Prater does it again, hits the required FG and kicks them deep on KO all day.
Kern makes this list for the 1st time this year, outstanding game, consistently punted the leather out of them balls to get us out of real poor field position all game long, huge key to the win.
The Good overall: 2nd half
The Bad:
On O: Steady but sub par performance by Orton (the stats don’t tell the story). Very inaccurate in the 1st half, and got a huge break on the TD pass to Moreno, which 9 times out of 10 would of resulted in 6 going the other way. It was your lucky day, Orton, we need your hand to heal completely so we can step it up a notch on O. Won’t always be that lucky. Can’t believe we pulled out a win with so many 3 and outs in 1st half.
Harris, costly false start penalties in 1st half. Wiegman and Clady also hurt us with penalties in the 1st half. Penalties were key reasons for the 3 and outs. I think they were scared of the Dallas D potential (unlike the Bronco bloggers, ahahah ).
Moreno’s fumble on first play of 2nd half, inexcusable, never properly secured the ball.
Royal can not get separation any longer, what’s up with that? Almost non factor once again…
On D: Woodyard’s penalty negates an Ayers’ sack at beginning of game.
Bailey had a poor 1st half, was playing receivers way too soft on multiple occasions.
Barber shoving 5 of our big guys into the end zone for a TD.
They had the screen working too well against us and we had a few missed tackles on their big runs.
On ST: For the third game in a row, Hillis starts the game with a killer bad play, this time with a 10 yd penalty on the kick off to get us starting at the 10. Then later on he loses his cool when he is called for another penalty on ST, a block in the back he had clearly committed. Can Hillis be a one year wonder? I hope not, but he better figure things out pretty quickly, he is now firmly right at the door step of McD’s doghouse.
The ST learned a HUGE lesson yesterday, that on a punt when you try to bat the ball back to the one as you’re falling into the end zone to pin them deep, you BETTER have a teammate right there to secure it!!! If the ball hadn’t touched the goal line, it was 6 the other way. Come to think of it, for only a couple of inches on each play, this ST one and the Moreno TD, Dallas would of come up with 12, probably 14 points.
The Bad overall: 1st half.
The Ugly:
This week it has to go to McD, when at the end of the 3rd quarter, Moreno gets the call on third and one AND fourth and one and doesn’t get either so we turn the ball over!
If you’re going to go with the power run up the middle, WHY IN THE HECK DO WE HAVE JORDAN? I thought it was for short yardage situation, I won’t even mention Hillis because he probably was in the doghouse by then, but he is a short yardage guy also. McD this is not the 1st time you do that, you have done it REPEATEDLY so far this season, and Moreno NEVER OR HARDLY EVER GETS THAT ONE YARD, HELLO?…. Don’t be so stubborn with that play, please.
In conclusion, 4-0, exactly what I had in my early season predictions, but IF I’m half way right in my following 4 game predictions, you better buckle up and don’t let a few losses damper your enthusiasm, we have a good team, we just don’t have all the pieces in place in O to win them all. No matter how you look at it, we really got lucky to pull a W Sunday, not quite as obvious as the Cinci game, but lucky nonetheless. All that said, we should be glad to be 4-0, but we need to improve considerably, we could easily be 2-2. And we’ve been 4-0, 5-1, 6-0, etc… more often than I care to remember and half of those times it ended up meaning absolutely nothing. We won the ones we had to, in the next month we will find out if the rest of the team is worthy of the accolade the D is now justifiably getting.
Wow, yeah, what Baylinocrush said pretty much sums it all up..
I was a little disappointed when the Cowboys were on the 3 yard line on 3rd and 4th down. Andre Goodman was beat twice on the slant route luckily Romo had his eyes twice on Haurd(sp?)
Everyone keeps giving Orton a bad time but no one seems to mention it’s the OL penalities that push the Broncos into 3rd and long situations.
Great post Mike, totally agree! Broncos are definitely not going away anytime soon… they will only get better, I know it. There’s so much to say I could go on all day about how this team has improved in one offseason.
I said this on Coop’s blog and I’ll keep saying it… I love that McD has taken some risks and by doing that he puts confidence into these players and the best part is, its working. Whatever he is doing as a coach, it is most definitely working. Cannot argue with our results of the past 4 weeks. Granted, we still have the entire season ahead of us and they need to take it all one game at a time but with the way we keep playing we will only get better with each game. They’ve done that so far, it needs to continue.
Keep it up boys!! Make me proud to be a member of Bronco Nation!
Keep the faith…
GO BRONCOS!!!!
Every win we get silences the critics. The critics I love to silence the most are the so-called “Bronco fans” that haven’t shut up since the Cutler trade about how we’re going in the complete wrong direction, rather than holding true to “their team”.
Our defense has been playing spectacular, they’re the only reason our offense has had the ability to come through at the end of the game. But if we’re planning on championships in the future we’ll need balance on both sides of the ball and the offense has been weighing us down. The offense has shown flashes of what they’re capable of, but there is a lot of work to do there. I think the combination of McDaniels and Nolan is a great one as long as we can keep it. I’ve already read talk on ESPN about another potential Nolan head coaching gig.
Say it aint soo Baylin. More praise for “The Beast”!?!?!? I DONT EVEN KNOW YOU ANYMORE!!!! lol but yup the kid did amazing. The defense did amazing. The offense was sloppy but when a D keeps getting you the ball back, its just a game of odds….your are gonna get a good drive eventually. We need to be better on offense. Hugs caught me off guard to but if there was ever a question about happiness in Denver its gone. Comradely is soo tight too, they are a true team they accepted marshall as a part of the team and all most people ever wanna feel is a sense of belonging. The TOs and Marshalls even tho hard headed are usually the most emotional.
You right theotheredge, Baylin pretty much covers everything. Ortons stats definitely look better on paper than from when you actually watch the game. His recievers bail him out alot. pas to Marshall was udner thrown but at least it was high. Pass to sheffler that he had to bobble and one hand. pas to Moreno that oculda been pick six, pass to gaff up the middle early that coulda been big yards. Play reading, he locked on to moreno in the endzone on third down, while Marshall had 1 on 1 on a rookie CB on the other side. Just throw it up Orton. But he doesnt turn the ball over and I apppreciated that lol. The Defense is solid and they literally fly on that field. Especially Dawkins.
Dont wanna sound c0cky but I want superbowl this year, Especially for the Older guys, Dawkins, Champ, etc. They Deserve it. I would say next year but things are never the same twice. Look at the Titans. We have the element of surprise this year. Gotta capitalize on it. Also an ugly Baylin missed, was the soft coverage goodman put on WR in the last two plays….luckily he kept testing bailey cuz reciever going agaisnt Goodman woulda had easy touchdown. Anyway, great game but we are a good team and have some ways to go before we are a great team.
GO BRONCOS!!!
Actually Deify pointed it out, that made me a bit angry too. felt like goodman didnt play hard for all 60 minutes. There was still 10 seconds on clock. I know he was tired but still. We got lucky that Romo kept testing champ.
Also, great post Mike. We definitely not going anywhere anytime soon.
yea baylinorcrush thats very accurate game summary if you look at it the cowboys could have run away with it in the first half. O-Line ABSOLUTELY MUST address penalties this week in practice. I almost lost my voice in frustration yelling at the T.V. They have not been very disciplined at all this year in that respect and that needs to change NOW or we will start losing games quickly against teams that will take everything we give to them (Baltimore, SD, NYG) and turn it to their advantage. 1rst half was very ugly so there is lots to fix this week. On the up side, another stellar performance by the D. If theres going to be anything this season that is consistently giving us a chance to win ever week, its our #1 ORANGE CRUSH!!!
GO BRONCOS!!!
alrite mike i am clapping right now.. wow a tear came down. i love these boys… every year we are at the top of this divison and this year we are keeping it that way…who taste playoffs in the air cause stats said teams that go 4-0 is 84% of going to playoffs…..m blood is blue and orange
Hey, mad-orange-devil! I am a Bronco fan deep in my bones. THe love I have for the Broncos is almost an obsession. I couldn’t be happier that Denver is silencing critics. But don’t attack people who are Bronco fans that were frustrated with Cutler leaving and Orton taking over and his performance not being what we’re used to.
The fact is Orton isn’t as good as a QB as Cutler plain and simple but he has proven to be the leader of our team and he’s being doing what it takes to win.
Just because I and others critized him when we saw his performance in preseason doesn’t mean we are not “true” fans like you. We critized him because we don’t have “blind” faith and we were worried about the season.
Orton needed to prove himself and I’ll be the first to admit that he’s doing a good job of it so far and thank goodness.
Yeah, Mad-ornage-0devil you are so pure of heart and righteous because in your mind you never doubted McD or Orton. Please!
On a more positive note the Defense was amazing! So proud that we have stifling suffocating defense and we proved it against Dallas.
I love how coach McD and all of the players on our team recognize how little we’ve actually accomplished and how they focus on what they need to improve on. After all if you’re not working to get better then your just getting worse. The attitude of our whole team truelly an asset this year.
It’s all about team.
Could not get past baylinorcrush, had to say this. WOOOW How long did that take to type? ha ha ha You are right though. lot of error’s on our part, but did you see all the post game interviews, they are playing and acting as a team.
Alot of stuff to work on. Penalties, sacks and three and outs. Defense played good in second half. Alot of missed tackles. But overall i am very proud of the team. They play very hard and play as a unit. Football isnt perfect and mistakes will be made. But i was impressed with the adjustments made. We are only going to get better.
Thanks Mike when the season started I picked the broncos to go 9 and 7 but now I think they can do better
GO BRONCOS !!!!!!!!!!!!
Great post Mike! It was great being at Invesco on gameday. Marshalls catch and run sent the crowd into total pandemonium !!!! (Yes -we believe in MILE HIGH MAGIC)…You could feel the tension throughout the stadium on that last Cowboy drive…(We brought the THUNDER !!!).
Baylinor: great job with the good, the bad and the ugly. You covered it all quite well. The amount of Cowboy fans in attendance was insane. Some of them were quick to cover their colors leaving the stadium… (it wasn’t chilly just yet.
We were sitting in section #111 and saw the ball hit the line on Craytons return. We looked for the ref and were all relieved it was coming back…whew! Reynaldo Hills blindside sack on Romo –Awesome!! DJ Williams was a man on a mission!!! Elvis – shook rattled and rolled Romo a few times!! Our D was very aggressive and the Cowboys O line struggled with the blitz packages.
Yes, our O needs more work and D had a few misques, but when the game was on the line… Brian Dawkins touchdown saving tackle and Champ Baileys knock downs sealed the deal !! When it was all said and done, we found a way to WIN in the last 2 minutes of this game !! My co- MVP’s are Brandon Marshall and Champ Bailey… all in all a great Team effort!
GO BRONCOS!!!!!!!!!!
My only complaint is that McDaniel’s only goes to the screen plays on 2nd and long, or third down. This last weekend it was so predictable. With New England he ran the screen in way more scenario’s. Also, why isn’t he useing Royal like Welker, I believe you can use Royal in the same manner. But in the larger picture the Broncos out played Dallas but needed to eliminate the penalties. Great job in showing the “Experts” on ESPN and every other North East Sports Channel in the country wrong. Broncos only lost a cry baby franchise quarterback that hadn’t proved anything. Great job and I hope they really step up to the challenge this Sunday because I have Cardinal playoff tickets on Sunday and I’m not going if the game is close. Buck’em up Broncos.
TheRoyalBeast, yeah I pull my hat off to you for sticking your head out for Marshall and putting up with my “Marshall must go” thing (I had to write it one more time, I might never get to do it again! LOL). About the Goodman coverage at the end of the game, I was totally unaware of it, I only watch each game once, live on TV, I was too busy on the last couple of plays to see anything but where the ball was thrown at (Bailey) and the TV doesn’t show you the whole field anyway.. If this is true, It’s really disappointing, I think Goodman has been outstanding so far, and I just can’t even start understanding that he would purposely slack off on those last two plays. Maybe they all knew Romo was going to attack Bailey like he did all game, no excuse though.
I’m impressed with the team and hope that things progress nicely. It’s positive to see that we’re 4-0 and still improving every week. It will suck to be the Pats this Sunday. GO BRONCOS!!!
Guess who the DC was when the Ravens won the SuperBowl with a nasty D and an okay O? That’s right, baby! And he’s right in the Denver. Go get ‘em, Mike!
Ok guys, I have been waiting to see someone break down this upcoming game against the pats to see if I agree with them but haven’t seen anything yet so I figured I would break down the game and provide an analysis of what I think is going to happen!!
1. We are the 4th best rushing team in the NFL. You have to look at that Buck will most likely be out of the game against the Pats but we have Moreno. Moreno will be able to provide all of the running and I hope they give Hillis redemption and give him some runs as well! Expect to see Moreno’s first 100 yard rushing game this Sunday!
2. I know our offense has been questionable at times, but expect Marshall to be getting A LOT more involved in the game this week. They will work on Orton’s accuracy this week and i think he will complete a lot of passes this week. They will be going up against a pretty weak defense and I think they will do great.
3. We have the BEST defense in the league. The Pats do have a good offense, but remember, this is an offense that barely came but and beat the terrible Bills and that should’ve lost to the Ravens! Lets face it, the Pats should be 1-3 right now. The only team that they really beat was Atlanta.
4. Stopping their run and passing game shouldn’t be a problem. We have stopped Barber, Lewis, Benson, and McFadden, all great runners in the league and Sammy Morris, Fred Taylor, Kevin Faulk do not even compare to those guys! With their passing game, last week they mainly hit Moss and Welker. They hit Ben Watson a couple of times but not too much. We have Bailey that will be on Moss and have Goodman, Hill, or Dawkins to cover Welker. Our defense should definitely provide GREAT coverage against the Pats.
5. The pass rush. Doom is getting sacks now in his last three games. The Pats offensive line have done pretty good but Brady did get sacked last week and fumbled the ball and gave up a touchdown. Doom and the boys should be getting through the line with a bit of ease considering that we tore apart Dallas’s offensive line. I expect around 3-4 sacks this week and seeing Doom have 2.
6. Now the only thing that worries me. You have to ask yourself, do we have the better advantage of having Mcdaniels or do they have the better advantage with having Belichek. Both of these coaches are going to change up a couple things since they know each other really good and know what the other likes to do.
Overall, I think our boys will win 17-14 against the Pats. The Pats have gotten too lucky at beating people and this will be a game that they will not be getting lucky with!
What do all of you think???
TXBRONCO – I stand by my comments. Just because we don’t have an all-star QB doesn’t mean we’re going in the wrong direction. Other teams in this league have NEVER been spoiled by the Elway/Cutler type talent at the QB position. I’ve been a Broncos fan since my brain became cognitive as a child. We don’t need that type of talent to win. I believe Orton is keeping the seat warm but he’s doing enough for us to win. Pat Bowlen loves this team as much as anyone and he’s the last call on everything. I won’t blindly criticize my team before I’ve seen the results, I guess that’s just too much to ask of other “fans”.
Great job from the defense, people all over the place and hitting hard. Goodman can’t play soft or take plays off this week, or Brady will see that and make him pay. Otherwise the D played awsome.
Offense needs to stop the penalties. Any QB will have a hard time getting first downs when he has so many 3rd and 15 / 20. That really needs to be fixed. When we did not have the penaltys we moved the ball well. Also, a QB needs to have the recievers make a play on the ball. Look at Brady, Manning, and the other top QB’s. They have recievers go get he ball. ( like Marshall did) Orton still has the glove and the timing is still not quite there. Confidence is growing with him and Brandon is now on the wagon big time. Defense is playing great and the offense is soon to follow. Im not saying Orton is the best in the league, but he is running the O very well and not throwing picks or making mistakes. The passing game is just going to take a little longer to gel. When it does the only one that will be able to stop us, is us.
GO BRONCOS
Baylinorcrush, I definitely have to agree with your first post. Especially about the 1 yd runs on 3rd and 4th downs that we didn’t convert. I was livid when I saw that. Nonetheless, I think that Mc D will learn from that one. Or at least I hope so.
Way off topic, but I was reading Lindy’s and got caught up on reading about next years draft. Obviously too early to tell but who do you think the Broncos should go with, with our 1st pick??? The only offensive position I can see us going with is QB. I personally like Terrance Cody. He is a mammoth of a man. My first pick would be Taylor Mays, but he’ll be gone long before our first pick (I would assume).
Like I said, too early to tell, but I’d like to se what you all think. And no, my focus is still on the season at hand. Just kinda fun to peer into the future.
Thanks for the great post Mike.
Go Broncos!!!
Mike, once again thanks for your input, but like i posted before we are going to win by playing 60 minutes of football, and by the looks of it our broncos are doing what it takes to win games, im not saying we should be satisfied but we need to have faith, negative vibes equals negative production by our team, the season has barely begone and with all the off season drama that went on in denver, and all the critics going agents our broncos, we should be more than proud of our broncos. we cant win them all but i see us going far, if we could keep playing better football every week, we could find our self”s being the team to “beat”, and that sounds not so impossible anymore, as long as we keep saying negative things about our own team, we cannot defend our team when anybody has anything to say about them, we need to show faith!!! one game at a time denver, we cannot get ahead of our self”s keep up the great work every week!!!
60 minutes of football go broncos!!!
We are now underway to take on the teams that make our schedule one of the toughest schedules for a team. Even though every team that we are about to play is not undisputed such as we still can’t overlook the fact that these upcoming games are going to be much more harder to win. And now that we are 4-0 we especially have gained more of a reason for these teams to play harder than ever against us. I love that were 4-0 but I also understand that we beat the easiest teams that we were scheduled to play.
“Forever with you ORANGE & BLUE”
Go BRONCOS!!!!
I read alot about Goodman getting beat at the end of the game, BUT I must correct all of you. Watching the film, the defense shaded Goodman’s side with Hill under. As stated by coaches and players “we forced them toward Champ”. Two other BIG reason’s Romo went to Hurd, was that Ayers and DJ took the middle away.
On to the 3rd and 4th down runs by Knowshon. Both times Peyton Hillis (our FB) was not in the game. On the 4th, Reid (playing FB) stumbled. I think the neck injury is affecting Peyton and that is why he has played less.
Two advantages for the Broncos. NE has very little film on Marshall in this offense and McD knows Brady better than anyone. The defense will be well prepared.
As for the 2010 draft, do not try to quess. If off we do not have the knowledge and second, NOBODY came close as to what McD and GMX ended up doing.
i hate the fact that knowbody gives us respect, but in actuality we haven’t earn respect. our defense is not tested yet or proven against the beeter offebses in the nfl, offensively, we are sorry, but as long as we keep trying will get better. god help us .
im sorry for the post, but my page got hacked by a raider hater. all he could do is compare us to other teams not agents his raiders, but like i tell him all the time we are 4-0, and thank for the win losers, goo broncos!!!
60 minutes of football go broncos!!!
hey cisco24 dont forget we traded our 1st pick to seattle so our 1st pick depends on the chicago bears season. we have their pick. i hope they spiral downhill but they look like a 10-6 team so far. maybe the hillenmeyer injury is gonna keepem without a mlb for awhile and they lose 10 games when the season ends. i like alphonso smith and all but man i wish we had 2 first rounders to trade up for a premier qb that could even sit behind orton for a year. mcdaniels will know what qb to pick bcause he is a darn qb GENIOUS. and he will turn whoever he picks into a superstar. dont doubt that for a second. it looks good for the long term bronco fans. and i am loving it.
louisianabroncofan, McD already picked the QB of the future, Brandstater. It woul really surprise me if he went for a QB next year. Brandstater has the exact built and aptitudes than Brady had when they picked him with a late pick. In the long run, three years, maybe two, it will be Brandstater turn to shock the world. Remember if you think McD will pick a QB with his first pick you pretty much can be sure he won’t, look how he surprised everyone with this year’s picks. The guy has got real football brains as far as evaluating talent, we are just sideline fans without much of a clue has he proved to us this past draft.