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Tough Ending in K.C.

January 5th, 2010 - 12:40am by mark_cooperOther posts by

This may be the toughest post I’ve made all season because I was a little upset with what I read in the papers today. Remember what you were told in school? If you’re upset, wait before you say something (write something) that might get you in trouble. Well that’s what I did. I waited and now it’s almost midnight and I couldn’t wait any longer.

Here goes. Woody Paige wrote an article today that said the Broncos quit. It said QUIT. Are you kidding me???

Sorry Woody and everyone that bought that garbage, professional athletes and coaches don’t quit. QUIT is a 4 letter word that ISN’T, NEVER WAS, or NEVER WILL BE in the vocabulary of a professional athlete or coach. Sports writers use it because they either haven’t ever played or never played at a high enough level to know there is no such word or action when you reach the NFL.

They use it because they don’t know better and are trying to sell newspapers and get a reaction from the readers (it worked) here.

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Monday Blues in Denver via Philly

December 28th, 2009 - 8:05pm by mark_cooperOther posts by

It’s funny how Mondays in this town after a defeat are BLUE. Everyone I talked to was a little down and troubled by the Philly defeat and the loss of control of our own destiny. Monday morning Blues.

The future’s bright, it’s just not now. As much as I love these guys, it’s just not the team that can get us to the Super Bowl…yet. We have flashes of absolute brilliance and I like Kyle Orton, the way he handles the offense.

I like a lot about this team and the coaching staff and I like the direction we’re going. Super Bowls don’t just happen, promise. I really like what I see and with this year under our belt and maybe a playoff shot with some help…you never know. We are a lot closer than most may think or give credit.

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Redzone Blues vs Black and Silver

December 21st, 2009 - 5:33pm by mark_cooperOther posts by

Tough day … MONDAY BLUES. :o ( I hate (not beating) the Raiders. Never use the “L” word.

Had to think about this one all day — 1-for-4 in the red zone. Where’s Hillis, where’s our identity. Maybe it’s me but we have an identity crisis. I guess you have to chalk it up to a new team, new coaches, new system, new players, new QB. I don’t have an answer other than past experiences that tell me so.

We’re a year or so out … much like the 7-7 teams around the league. Minnesota gets beat by the Panthers and New Orleans gets beat by the Cowgirls (are you kidding me) Wow! Again.

ANY GIVEN SUNDAY in the NFL you can punched in the mouth by 2nd and 3rd string people. It’s just that good or they wouldn’t be 1/10th of 1 percent of the people who come out of college playing football, only 32 teams = 1696 NFL players.

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Record Day For Marshall

December 14th, 2009 - 10:55am by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

You never know what you will see when you attend or tune into a sports event.

Sunday at Indianapolis, the Colts just had too much overall for the Broncos, although Denver had some opportunities after falling behind 21-0.

But a shining light for the Broncos was the play of wide receiver Brandon Marshall, who truly had a day for the ages in setting a new NFL record with 21 receptions — an astonishing single-game total.

He had 200 receiving yards with two touchdowns, and the 21 catches were six more than any other player in the league has had in a single game this year. He surpassed the previous record, which was 20 by Terrell Owens.

Marshall now has had two of the top four single-game performances in NFL history. He had 18 at home against the Chargers in 2008, which currently is tied for third best all-time.

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The Beast, congrats on NFL record

December 14th, 2009 - 9:21am by mark_cooperOther posts by

Probably shouldn’t name a post like I did since it’s a team sport but could help myself. Twenty-one catches is amazing … no … AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although bittersweet and not enough for the win, simply AMAZING!! Like a man amongst boys. At times Orton would just look right at him and go to him. That can get dangerous, but yesterday it worked.

So, really not much to say other than we’re a pretty DANG good team if we didn’t make mistakes. I have to remark on what Head Coach Josh McDaniels said. “You know where the bar is.” We have the ability to play to it but mistakes, penalties and efficiencies killed us. Short yardage? Missed assignments. Period. No one ever crosses your face that your suppose to block…PERIOD.

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The “D’s” back in Defense

November 28th, 2009 - 8:28am by mark_cooperOther posts by

Great Game!!! Love beating the Giants!!! I still have a grudge that dates back to SB XXI.

Nice to see the team back in form. Yea, it took a few weeks but the “D” is back and RUNNING GAME was on track. Funny how we all talked about getting the running game on track the last few weeks and how it would help the offense.

Yea, yea, some will be saying we got to the red zone a few times and came away with three but it was enough this week. Like you, or many of you, I say, run the ball all way in. We’d get down close to the end zone and go to a four-wide set and I think that is a disadvantage … takes away the draw play and the defense knows Kyle’s not going to run a QB draw with his injury so the defensive lineman pin their ears back and only have ONE thing to worry about (the pass rush) and/or we see a blitz with it. I know I sound like a EX offensive lineman, (I’m allowed) when I say run it but I have to say, “when it ain’t broke (between the 30s) don’t try to fix it.” The linemen get in a groove and rhythm.

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Turnovers, Penalties, Make for Tough Day

November 22nd, 2009 - 9:36pm by mark_cooperOther posts by

Tough day today for the fellas. Yep, no need to even look at the stats on this one. Penalties all game were a concern and the turnovers were the nail in the coffin, you might say.

I’m not telling this crew anything you don’t know or didn’t see. Can’t win with turnovers and penalties like we had so…easy analogy. You know the drill. Simple stuff in the world of the NFL.

I noticed it last week and so did you and the announcers in that Chris Simms just took longer to get his reads and that is what is hurting him right now. I thought we would start out with the run and bootlegs getting him out of the pocket and then see if he’d settle in but he never got settled and got pulled early.

Kyle Orton looked awesome when he came in and drove us down the field, until the turnover by Knowshon Moreno going into the end zone. Don’t know if you noticed, but he had both hands on it (covered up) and a lineman’s knee knocked it out tumbling over…weird fumble.

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Tough going in D.C.

November 15th, 2009 - 5:48pm by mark_cooperOther posts by

I got all the snow blown and the rest shoveled in time for the game. Maybe we’d have been better playing here this week. A snow bowl would have been great for the ski country. I don’t know about you all but I’m in shoveling shape.

Tough going in Washington. I enjoyed the running game and was impressed that we were getting that back on track and the blah blah blah about going vertical was taken care of early…simple. It’s easy to run a go route when you set it up with the run when you have guys like Royal and Marshall around.

The defense was dominated at the line of scrimmage and injuries are mounting. We talked about it earlier in the year and may be looking it right in the face now. Simms was rusty as we should expect and he’ll get a lot of work this week in preparation for the Bolts. I still like him but he took a lot of criticism after the game on the radio.

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A Little Perspective

November 11th, 2009 - 9:26am by jim_saccomanoOther posts by

Perspective is one of those things that everybody claims to have, but which frequently seems lacking as soon as something goes against form, or what we deem form to be.

The Broncos are 6-2, and we could make a laundry list of things that have not gone right the past two weeks, of things that need to be improved dramatically, or a little.

OK, fine, no disagreement there.

But let’s consider:

We knew we had a schedule, and that it consisted of 16 games. This is something we all knew, as well as knowing that we would not play all 16 games at once, but instead playing them the very traditional one at a time. Everything is one at a time. Every single thing.

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Tough Night Under the Lights

November 11th, 2009 - 8:33am by mark_cooperOther posts by

Pressure, sacks and interceptions/turnovers make for a long night. Sorry for the delayed post today but I was in the air all day yesterday flyng back form Florida. I even tried (wifi) in the airports and that was sacked-pressured and disconnected much like the game Monday Night. I finally got home late in the day.

I was in the Keys for a charity fishing tournament and maybe the 35-plus knot winds and cloud cover should have been a clue to what was coming Monday night. We had a tropical storm that blew up over Cancun with it’s remnants sweeping across Florida and another Hurricane shooting up the middle of the Gulf of Mexico out of Honduras SPEWING winds and cloud cover for 4-5 straight days. A few more knots of wind and it could have been a Tropical depression where we were.

Monday night before the game, I was doing a radio show at Gary Dunn’s Hotel the OV (Oceanview), bar and restaurant in the Keys in front of a rowdy crowd of about 100 or so people. The crowd was a Steelers HOMER crowd, with Gary being the weekly host of “Jocks on the Rocks”. I threw a few punches at the Steelers and we told a few stories and had some great laughs of the old Steelers Curtain days and the opponents we played against in that era as fun was had by all.

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