Week 5 Game Thread - at Oakland

[Malibu]

Some great teams are coming to town. The good news is after the bye this team will be tested . If they pass , should have a legit shot come playoff time. If the offense continues to struggle and the good teams beat us, better now than later. Paper champions.

Belicheck will have a field day with the Manning that we saw today.Teams now are forcing Denver's hand and requiring Manning to throw the ball.

Agreed 100%

 

[Mingo]

This is Dan Reeves early Elway type football. 5-0 - with plenty of things to fix on offense - this team isn't peaking too early.

 

[Malibu]

This is Dan Reeves early Elway type football. 5-0 - with plenty of things to fix on offense - this team isn't peaking too early.

Wish it was John Elway on the team when Dan Reeves was coach.

 

[AmericanTebowFan]

Wow is the Denver defense AWESOME, but man does Manning look terrible. I've never seen him look so bad, but age has to catch up to a player eventually. It's clear that Peyton's skills are rapidly declining now. But he was a great QB that carried teams for a long time, so I'll be THRILLED if the defense carries him to a super bowl in what is likely his last season.

 

[TDs3nOut]

Wow is the Denver defense AWESOME, but man does Manning look terrible. I've never seen him look so bad, but age has to catch up to a player eventually. It's clear that Peyton's skills are rapidly declining now. But he was a great QB that carried teams for a long time, so I'll be THRILLED if the defense carries him to a super bowl in what is likely his last season.

Totally agree about both the defense and Manning. Watching the game today my son said that he thought we should bench Manning. Much as I hate to say so, I'm not sure that he isn't right.

 

[SpiritOf77]

KFFLers know how I feel

Manning is killing this offense

I'll leave it at that

 

[SpiritOf77]

I had to laugh though -

There was a pass Manning threw today, and the ref threw a pass interference flag - and Del Rio and all the Raiders' players were signaling "TIPPED BALL" when it was actually just one of Manning's ducks

 

[58crash]

Block For Manning and watch how much better he is . This OL has issues fix them we win a SB ! Don't one and out ..I know what I would do in the morning if I was Elway .. but looks like I am the Only Broncos fan/person that feels this way oh flippen well ..maybe next year ..

I guess next year we will be drafting OL .

 

[58crash]

I still say hire a real OL Coach . We don't have a OL coach .. not knocking the guy but the first time around looks like the second time around...at what point do you say enough ? This OL production has to be the worst in the league

 

[SpiritOf77]

Crash, you know how I feel about Manning - and how I've always felt - so you can imagine that this is hard for me to watch

He's basically at the point where he's lobbing the ball up for DT to box out and catch like a rebounder in basketball ... and if he steps up into the pocket before doing his Bambi fall, it is a minor miracle ..

Everyone and their Mom now knows he can't throw over the top, and our running game is suffering

Just picture this:

The Manning we have seen so far this season - picture him in January, walking to the line with his hands in his muffler and steam coming from his helmet because it is 15 degrees

That will be an ugly sight

Unless, of course, he's still "suffering" from last year's thigh injury

 

[58crash]

Crash, you know how I feel about Manning - and how I've always felt - so you can imagine that this is hard for me to watch

He's basically at the point where he's lobbing the ball up for DT to box out and catch like a rebounder in basketball ... and if he steps up into the pocket before doing his Bambi fall, it is a minor miracle ..

Everyone and their Mom now knows he can't throw over the top, and our running game is suffering

Just picture this:

The Manning we have seen so far this season - picture him in January, walking to the line with his hands in his muffler and steam coming from his helmet because it is 15 degrees

That will be an ugly sight

Manning is not getting time to throw . This OL is not RB'ing worth a crap ...I seen the lobs yes .. that is Manning doing more than he should with a sieve of a line and no time to throw ..Give him time he makes better throws .

IMO we can combat this sale out buy teams buy running Screens ..They are crashing the pocket in order to make the pass quick .because they have no respect of running game or us making edge runs.

This season can be saved with how Gibbs Blocked the SB year . It made teams back off on crashing the pocket !

This is why Gibbs was pissed in the SB .. He wanted us to run the Screens to combat what Seattle was doing (Crashing the pocket ) and telling the CB's the ball will be there at 1.6 to 2.6 sec tackle the football ..

Unless, of course, he's still "suffering" from last year's thigh injury

 

[58crash]

well it gobbled up my answer to you .. damn ...took me 10 minuets to type

 

[58crash]

to make it simple Gibbs was pissed in the SB because we were not running the Screens ..this would of combat the crashing of the pocket .. I don't want to type all it that dissapered but in a nut shell that is what is still killing this team ... teams are still using Seattle's game plan .

It is why this team is still struggling . Fix our screens and watch our OL get better at RB .. teams are sale out at flooding the center area ..

 

[SpringStein]

As a die hard Manning fan - I find it interesting all these comments about Manning. And not one comment about the running game. Somehow I believe there is a connection.

And you could look at that either way.

 

[Mingo]

You have to be committed to the run game - I think the Broncos ran the ball 4 times in the 1st half - that's not a commitment to the run game.

 

[58crash]

As a die hard Manning fan - I find it interesting all these comments about Manning. And not one comment about the running game. Somehow I believe there is a connection.

And you could look at that either way.

Alex Gibbs gave us the tinplate on how to run the football with zone Blocking and Manning .. If We could get back to running the Football at least close to that year we would have something .

 

[58crash]

They need to go back to what worked that year ! Screens stop teams from Crashing down ...they have to respect the back side or get killed

 

[58crash]

You have to make teams not know what is coming at this point teams know what is coming !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[58crash]

They crash down !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then we let lose of the football

 

[58crash]

We need Screens to wear them down ... to make them hesitate .. With Hesitation you get time ..