Two days later, and the loss to the Oakland Raiders still lingers like the severe heartburn you get after downing an extra spicy bowl of chili. You burp and swallow hard as it sneaks up your throat. Not even a jumbo bottle of Tums will cure this episode. The Denver Broncos just have to suck it up, deal with…...
The offensive ineptitude was beyond comprehension. Dare we say it was … offensive? I’ve covered all levels of football, from six-man high-school football in Wyoming to the NFL, and that was the worst offensive game I’ve seen, let alone had the misfortune of seeing live. The closest comparison is the playoff loss to the Indianapolis Colts last season. Well, at least…...
One of the great aspects of sports is rivalries. The hatred. The passion. When your team is involved in a great rivalry, there is nothing that matches it. As fans will say, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, as long as your team beats that rival it could lose every other game. The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears.…...
Don’t let anyone troll you. The Denver Broncos will win a Super Bowl by playing and winning the way they did Sunday. They ran the football, won the turnover margin and dominated on defense. The Broncos tried the Star Wars offense and got blown out of the Super Bowl against the Seattle Seahawks. News flash: It didn’t work. When…...
Don’t look now but the road to the Super Bowl may go through Denver after all. What a great day for the Denver Broncos. They not only won their NFL-record 15th straight road divisional game, the vaunted, mighty New England Patriots lost their second-straight. The Broncos now sit in the No. 2 seed in the AFC playoffs thanks to…...
There’s no question it was the biggest win of the season. In fact, it’s hard to think of a regular season win as big or good for the Denver Broncos in the last four years as the one over the unbeaten New England Patriots. Perhaps the 24-point come-from-behind win three years ago against, fittingly, the San Diego Chargers. Yet…...
The Brock Osweiler fanclub is close to capacity. After his cool and composed performance on Sunday night that led the Denver Broncos to the 30-24 win, the praise can’t come fast enough. Hopefully Osweiler has some pants with a flexible waist so he doesn’t get uncomfortable. Two games, two wins. It doesn’t get better than that, especially when the…...
Thanksgiving hasn’t been too kind to the Denver Broncos. Perhaps it’s a good thing then they haven’t played on the holiday that much. In fact, John Elway only played on Thanksgiving once. As it goes with the Broncos on Thanksgiving it was a loss, 40-27 to the Detroit Lions in 1990. Elway only played on Thanksgiving once? It is…...
Gary Kubiak has shown us how to handle adverse situations. Since the Denver Broncos quarterback “controversy” popped up Nov. 16, he’s gotten in front of it and nipped it in the bud. Kubiak hasn’t let it distract his team. There’s no point to keeping secrets. It doesn’t give the team an advantage and you just look silly. Too bad…...
Brock Osweiler didn’t have to play like Peyton Manning circa 2013, he just needed to play Brock solid. As long as Osweiler didn’t commit any turnovers, the Denver Broncos could pull what they hadn’t all season. Coupled with the fact Denver could finally use the offense all had envisioned, the recipe was there. Gary Kubiak may have said they…...
John Elway told the Denver Broncos defense to injure Peyton Manning in practice because Elway is jealous of Tim Tebow. I’m not saying there’s proof it happened, but there’s no explanation for it that suits my argument so I’m running with it. Elway, apparently, doesn’t want to win and sabotaged Manning from the word go. He fired John Fox,…...
Life is full of irony. Everywhere you look, you can see it. Sometimes it’s harder to locate, but you’ll find it. Can vegetarians eat animal crackers? Alanis Morissette’s song “Ironic” isn’t ironic, which is ironic. You can find it in sports, too. The most recent example comes this Sunday when Brock Osweiler makes his first career start against the…...
Broncos Country didn’t have to watch AMC to see “The Walking Dead.” All who tuned into CBS on Sunday afternoon caught the most recent episode. Spoiler alert: It was terrible. No plot. No character development. It just seemed no one cared about this episode, this time a 29-13 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs (a game not as close as…...
What is it about the Indianapolis Colts? When you take Peyton Manning from the organization, one would think that was enough to lift the dark cloud of stank that hangs over the Denver Broncos every single time these two teams play. Change the venue in Indianapolis? Nope. Cloud is still there. Play in Denver? Stank is as strong as…...
Imagine if John Elway had played for the Baltimore Colts. It’s hard to picture given all that we know about the 1983 NFL Draft; especially now. We know there was no chance Elway would ever play for then-owner Bob Irsay or his dysfunctional franchise. It’s even harder to un-imagine all of the memories Elway created in Denver. But try your hardest…...
Around 2 p.m., it looked as if John Elway had done it again. Reports started to circulate that the Denver Broncos were in the final agreements to acquire offensive tackle Joe Thomas from the Cleveland Browns. Since it was so close to the NFL trade deadline, it wasn’t certain if the two sides could reach agreement. Broncos racing to…...
Message delivered. Peyton Manning shutting up the critics? Check. A balanced Denver Broncos offense that compiles over 500 yards? Check. A nasty defense that makes the best quarterback in the NFL look average? Check. If you had paid attention, there was no way in hell the Broncos were losing this game. There was no way this team would lose…...
With the trade deadline looming, the rumors have started. With John Elway and the Denver Broncos, even in the midst of the season they are rumored to be in on everyone. A few weeks ago it was was Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte (those are still alive). Sunday morning, a new name got thrown in the rumor mill:…...
The question has been asked all week: “Do the Denver Broncos have any chance?” I’ve been asked that question at least four or five times a day. I’ve heard it asked all week. Here’s my response, and it hasn’t changed: There is no way in hell the Broncos are losing this game. Not with everything surrounding this game. Not…...
Since everyone likes to predict doom and gloom when it comes to the Denver Broncos, let’s change it up a skosh. What if, for some strange, ungodly reason, the Broncos offense actually looks like an offense on Sunday? What if, lightning gets stuck in a bottle and you find a needle in a haystack the size of Mount Everest,…...
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