This team needs is not a player or coach away. They are a roster away. Here is how I would approach this:

1. This year: Take any and all trades. Goal is to finish with a top 3 pick.
2. Draft a top tier QB in the 2024 draft.
3. Take a Russel Wilson dead cap hit all in 2024. Trade and cut anyone else to make the math work. Goal is to land a top 5 pick the 2025 draft.
4. Begin restocking with the 2025 draft. Front load and sign 1 or 2 blue chip free agents (should have massive cap room this year).
5. 2025 Season – Goal to see if QB drafted in 2024 is the real deal, and identify biggest roster holes.
6. 2026 Begin filling more holes, goal of this season is to see improvement. 8-8 record with promising signs.
7. 2027 Sign a couple more big free agents, solid draft. This is the year we want to see a playoff birth.
8. 2028 Goal to compete for the AFC on a go forward basis, tweaking and adding to roster as needed.

This team is 4+ years away from perennially competing, I do not want to see any short cuts, would love to see them commit to a full rebuild. Would like to see Surtain and Mims stay, but no one is safe. How say you?

My guys. Are all-time earmuffs still a thing? What the absolute fuck did we watch on Sunday?? I have so many questions just about the absolute joke that seems to be the coaching of this team. Why do you not challenge that Courtland Sutton “incompletion”?? Even the closest ref said he had called it before he was overruled. How do you start a rookie MLB over Alex Singleton?? Why is the best cornerback in the league not shadowing Tyreek Hill the entire game when their second-best receiver is out and their third-best receiver leaves the game?? Why go for a FG when you’re down 25?? Why come into the game with ONLY TWO safeties active?? We have PJ Locke on the PS! Why keep your starters in, especially your franchise QB, to potentially be injured when you’re down 30+?? Either Sean Payton is being so galaxy-brained 5D chess that we mere mortals cannot comprehend or he is just absolutely shitting the bed after talking mad trash this offseason. I am just absolutely flabbergasted, bewildered, and straight-up embarrassed. That is the worst performance by a sports team that I have ever seen.
And now let me get started on Vance Joseph. I get that he is a great guy, a player’s coach who is loved by most, but were we expecting anything different when Sean hired him to be our DC just five years after he was fired as the HC in Denver? How can you attempt to change the culture with the coach that started our losing ways on the staff?? According to Pro Football Reference, which values defense mainly based on points against, the 2016 Broncos had the 4th best defense in the NFL. That dropped to the 23rd-best defense in VJ’s first year. Granted it went back up to the 13th best in 2018, he never came close to cracking the top ten with the talent that was on those rosters. In Vic’s first year, the defense was top 10. Last year the defense, after all the woes it had and moving on from Bradley, was still the 14th-best in the league. Now they’re the worst and have given up 16 touchdowns in three games.. It’s crazy to say in week 3, but something HAS to change! I’m sorry for the long rant, but I am just pissed. The Denver Broncos are one of the best franchises in NFL history with a long storied history of winning. It wasn’t until 2018 that we even had back-to-back losing seasons. We just deserve better! At least I have the Braves and the future 2023-peat Georgia Bulldawgs to keep me somewhat sane…

It’ll be rough but it’s time to tank. We’ve been bad and it’s time to embrace the suck for a few years as it may be the best option, Caleb Williams would be nice. Go broncos baby! We’ll bounce back eventually, we’re the denver broncos!

Hey guys, been LONG time since I’ve commented, but just know that I listen to every podcast while I’m in South Korea so thank you guys so much for what you do, and your commitment to the fans.
When I woke up and saw the score I thought it was a typo. I wish it was. SEVENTY TO TWENTY?!?! What the actual EFF!! Over 700 total yds?!? 10 TDs?!??! I love this team and I always will, but damn, it sure has been hard these last 8 or 9 years. I guess we need to wake up and realize that a losing culture doesn’t just go away. It’s probably going to take longer than any of us want to admit. To watch this team go from the top in 2015 to this, is mind boggling. I don’t know if I can take another year of decline like this. Please someone make the nightmare stop! My family and I are moving to Colorado Springs next year and I hope to make it up to the bar at least a few times! See you guys then!

Alright guys I figured it out, to quote Taylor Swift I’m the problem, it’s me! Hear me out….I moved back to Colorado the summer of 2011 and what followed: Tebowmania, five playoff appearances, the greatest offense in history, an all time great defense, two Super Bowl appearances and a ring on Todd’s finger. I left in 2016 to go overseas and what’s happened since? I was also in high school in Denver in the late 90’s….the evidence is mounting: I’m the curse anytime I’m not home. I’ve been everywhere from Saudi to Afghanistan, to Ukraine since 2016 and we’ve been everywhere but the winner’s circle. We need to get me home an break the curse, hopefully before I start orientation for my new job in DC tomorrow, call Spano and let’s scheme!

Why wasn’t Russ pulled down by 6/7/8 scores? Why has Mims Jr only played 33 snaps? I thought the Visor was supposed to be an offensive genius?

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Thanks for your coverage during these hard times. This week really will be a litmus test on the coaches and players. I was listening to Shannon Sharpe’s pod and Ochocinco made a very good point, that “these players are the 1% of athletes to have made it to the NFL, they dont want this tape of a 70 burger sitting on their personal tape when they wanna get paid. They will figure their shit out and put in a performance.” And he isnt wrong, the players will have the fire i think, i will defer to Todd on that one. HOWEVER, if the coaches including SP & VJ do not do their job properly of motivating and coming up with an airtight game plan, then these coaches do not have what it takes to be coaches in this league anymore. SP can lay blame just about on everyone but himself up this point, but if he doesnt come out this week and put the hurt on the bears; if his team continues to take bad penalties and VJ’s defense keeps making terrible decisions, then thats it, nowhere to hide.

Everything is going wrong. I’m not an NFL coach (still waiting on that call), but I know how to fix this;
– Unplug
– count to ten
– remove cartridge and blow on it
– replace cartridge
– plug back in and turn on

Literally undefeated.

Tin foil hat conspiracy is becoming an evident fact. VJ is the recipe for tanking. Defence is the reason we have lost all 3 games. Sean’s going to make Russ look like he’s fixed so he can trade him, and still tank for Caleb Williams. Also, did you see about PS2’s dad tweeting about him deserving better. Could he ask his way out?

Is 53 Marvins is the new 53 Janos?

Mims the single bright spot in a rapidly deteriorating season. My expectations were not super high – just 9-8 and a winning season at last.
Now, even my natural optimism has wilted in the heat of the Miami visitors sideline. What a mess.

Hope your Chicago trip is as fun for you all as London last year. Safe travels.

All the best.
Christopher

Where is the hype for the Chicago DNVR trip? I’m coming from the Pentagon and meeting my father from Seattle and have been looking forward to meeting the extended DNVR family. With how this season has started we can all use a few drinks and good vibes to jump start the team to better times ahead. It all starts this weekend so are we doing any linkups? Are you doing a show from there? Lets go show our lifetime pride in the orange and blue, and if we have to suffer, lets suffer together.