After Sunday’s win over the Vikings, the Broncos found themselves tied for first in AFC West.
Oh, this season is getting really interesting.
How far can the Broncos go? I won’t hazard a guess because I wouldn’t want to limit them. I’m certainly not looking at the price of plane tickets to Indianapolis in February at this point. But I wouldn’t be surprised by anything that happens the rest of the season, however long it lasts.
After the win over the Vikings, defensive lineman Elvis Dumervil offered a key to future success when he spoke with 850KOA Radio about the Broncos’ being tied for first place.
“It’s hard to get to that spot and even harder to remain there,” Dumervil said. “We have to continue to work. I think we have four more games left. We have three at our hose so we have to take care of business.”
That kind of approach just might work wonders. There was certainly no dancing in the locker room after the Broncos dispatched of the Vikings.
“In the NFL, you can’t get too high; you can’t get too low,” Dumervil continued. “You have to stay consistent; you have to have a grinding mentality. We have to continue to work hard and get better.”
I like that the Broncos don’t think they have accomplished anything yet. I like that they are talking about continuing to work hard and improve. And I love the fact that they are playing as a team right now and seemingly everyone is contributing.
“We’re just going to keep battling. That’s what we do,” linebacker Jason Hunter told 850KOA on Sunday. “The offense is going to pick up the defense, the defense will pick up the offense and the special teams will pick up everybody. That seems to be our recipe. If you look at all our games, that’s what we’ve been doing. We’re going to continue to focus and guys will continue to work. We’ll look at this game and clean this game up and get ready for Chicago.”
He’s right. It has been a recipe that has produced some thrilling results lately. Next up on the menu?
Bear.
No doubt the Broncos hope to make home cooking as tasty as it has been on the road. Denver has won five consecutive road games and now closes out the season with three of the last four games at home.
They have the chance to go as far as they want to go. I’m going to sit back and enjoy the ride to see where all of this leads.
How far can the Broncos go? Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts.
Sincerely,
Mike
Tags: Mike Rice, Minnesota Vikings
we do have a great fan base and its im sure growing by the min with tim being our qb and having great success along the way.
Found this on the Bears D:
Coach Lovie Smith called the Broncos offense a unique “option” offense, but likes his defense’s chances. “This is option football,” he said. “Our defense is based on sound option principles. … For us, our defense is set up, though, to play this type of offense.”
lovie smith can say waht he wants to say but i remember another coach who wrote a book that had a chapter on how to stop the option and they didnt stop it for 4 qtrs so can the bears d play gap sound fundementaly sound football we will see but i doubt it.
plus we just proved that we can pound you with the option or we can go i formation or we could sling it over your head and in tebows case even plow your head in the grass and still make a great td pass. lol so teams have a lot on more then just the option on there plate. bummer for them
I hear ya, I like our chances, all I’m saying is that is might be a tougher game than we think..
*this might
i like our chances but all teams have paid nfl players on them so no way can we overlook any team.
When Tebow was still a Junior in college, I told one of my fraternity brothers, he’d be the next John Elway. I’ve told a lot of people that and they laughed at me. It’s all good. I waited in line with a thousand other people and shook Timmy’s hand when he autographed my book. I had a Tebow, Broncos jersey since before the season even started and couldn’t be happier as a Bronco fan since 8 years old and a UF alumni. I’m also the person who stated, right here, that I’d LOVE to put $100 (if I had it) on Denver to win the Superbowl this year in Vegas. Denver is going ALL THE WAY! You can mark my words on your calendar right now.
Mike – great write! This is something I wrote up last night and it seemed to fit here. You are welcome to use it to inform your audience. (You should change some of terms I’m free to use.) Haha – LOL We are having way too much overdue fun!!
daddybronc says:
December 6, 2011 at 7:13 pm
I’m thinking that the playoff picture won’t change a lot in the last 4 weeks. I think BAL wins out and finishes in 1st seed. HOU 2nd seed. Pat – will have 12-4 record with a loss to DEN and finish 3rd seed. DEN will have 11-5 record or 10-6 and end up in 4th. PIT gets 6th /12-4/losing to SF. CIN gets 6th with 9-7 record. Ten and OAK will both end with 9-7 records but miss the playoffs. LOL
So DEN will end up with PIT in the 1st game – what a fun game! I’m picking Tebust to deflate that arrogant buffoon!
Cincy will get the Pats again and they’ll be gone.
Pats then get BAL and lose. DEN gets HOU and we apologize Kubiak but send him packing.
So that leaves DEN facing BAL for the AFC Champ game / and GB for the finale’.
This is informational to those of you who are wondering what the rest of the football season will look like. Haha
Just trying to be helpful. gulp! aahhhh!!!
We have the right celestial alignment to go all the way the next 3-4 years…
http://www.milehighreport.com/2011/12/6/2617344/the-stars-align-for-tebows-broncos
Talk about too much information to digest.
Don’t Worry,
We shall Defeat the Patriots in the AFC Championship!
He(God) did not bring Us this far just to drop us off here. If He does, its for a Reason. With that said, and since I’m not Religious I humbly Offer:
Do not focus your energy as to whether X’s and O’s(football), are or should be weighing in the balance of One’s faith or belief.
Rather, keep the nostalgia of Positive Energy (what some call miracles or what not, but no matter how it’s defined by some people), because that’s whats exciting…about Our Team, that’s US…THE FAN’s, the REASON behind, of, and for The TEAM!
so for our sakes, I say….KEEP the Hope, the Faith, the BELIEF! And let THAT ENERGY…prevail!
GO BRONCOS’
GO TEAM,
GO DEFENSE..
Just KEEP GOING…..