Gameday Thread Week 6: DEN (2-3) @ SD (3-2)

[lomaxgr]

[Russell2Bailey]

[broncosfan07]

Maybe Jimmy Hoffa wasn't buried in Giants Stadium.
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[jsthomp2007]

[iLikeDefense]

Guys... This was the best game I have ever attended in my life. I cannot speak, I lost my voice from all the yelling! I got all the crap in the 1st half, got hit with an empty cup, they should have at least gave me a beer. Man oh man, hearing the crowd silent in the 2nd half was unbelievable! There were a lot of Bronco fans which you could hear cheering, Manning got an ovation as he left the field!!

From what I could see, we did a hell of a job defending the deep routes, which is what Rivers banks on, epecially on 3rd down. The Chargers were way too predictable, run on 1st, throw 2nd and throw again on 3rd. These refs made some iffy calls both ways. I really like the fight we showed and how we applied pressure on Rivers throughout the night. I liked seeing Decker get more invovled as well as Dreeson. I thought McGahee and Hillman picked up some good blitzes. All in all, those turnovers put us in a bad hole and we overcame them.

Best part of the night was seeing Harris get that pick six. I'm sitting at the 45 yard line behind the Broncos bench, just incredible!
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[champ+jay+al=SB]

I wish I could have gotten drunk as hell with all you guys last night. What a night, what a win!!!! Let's gooooooooo
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Shouts to Joe

[BroncoinGermany]

Doin' the Tebow




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[DILinator]

That was definitely one of the most exciting Broncos games I've seen in my life, at least as far as the regular season goes! Obviously, I was not a happy camper the first half, but I never gave up the thought that Manning could rally the Broncos, and mentioned that we weren't out of it yet to my dad who happened to be over watching it with me!

I know there was a lot of frustration expressed in this thread during that time, and complaints of the team being mediocre - which was understandable frustration given the game condition, and just how badly play had been going. However, I said before this week, and I'll say again: it's all about the defense gelling, and coming to play with intensity, as well as eliminating the silly turnovers that seen to plague our team. Other than those two areas, I really see this as an elite team guys, and our offense, when Manning has it clicking on all cylinders, is literally unstoppable!

We've whetherd the storm of our brutal first six games, taken the blows from three of the league's best teams as well as a divisional oppoent that usually gives us fits, and sit at 3-3 entering the BYE week, with a much easier schedule ahead of us! I am hoping that the "Tale of Two Halves", as this game should be reffered to, is a spark to really see what we saw in the second half, the rest of the way this season. If so, we could be in for a very fun, and special season this year! Let's just hope for no major injuries, and that the team can keep ironing out it's recurring problems, and sit back and enjoy the show!
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[AKRNA]

What a great win! Can't remember ever a Denver team stepping it up that much when it counted.

Mentioned it a month or so ago and last night enforced it. We have the best group of CB's this franchise has ever had.

Went back and read every page on this thread (never done that before) and it's a riot. All I can say is:
The same coaches coached the 1st half as made adjustments for the 2nd.
A game lasts 4 quarters, not 2.
A season is 16 games.

Anyway, what a pleasure. We4're improving every week and at times we're downright scary good on both sides of the ball. Still very inconsistent but we've got another 10 games to work that out. We've got an inside track for the AFC West and finished a brutal 1st 6 games at 3-3.

What more could you ask for?

[broncosfan07]

[jonnyj20]

[Mr.MileHigh]

[omegaxla49]

[AussieBronco66]

Despite conceding 24 points, I am actually really pleased with the D yesterday. For most of the game we looked strong and in control. Rivers barely got an opportunity to man-handle the defence and for the most part we covered Gates okay. Our run D was excellent and pressure on the QB in the second half was unmatched. IMO the sight of Rivers jersey ripped is a sign of victory for the D. The way the D created turnovers was excellent. All season I've been waiting for us to start creating turnovers and I thought against Oakland we were going to but instead we did it on the national stage and how impressive did it look. Carter was playing like a man possessed, I reckon he was spurred on by his silly tweet to deliver a game that Colorado would be proud of. Chris Harris continues to grow and grow, we may have another mainstay CB on our hands. The importance of those two last night when the Chargers were literally too scared to throw at Champ was big, and they both stood up big time. The LB's were playing better, the introduction of Trevathan and Irving seemed to inject a little speed and oomf and I actually really liked Trevathan in there. Brooking seemed to calm the D down. The D-Line were quite impressive. Wolfe continued to cause issues, Doom took his chance against a rookie LT and gave him a bath multiple times, Von struggled a little against the double team, with McMichael coming over to help the O-Line against him meant he was only able to be a pressure act and not actually get in the backfield. The two scores on D were huge. The strip-sack from Doom, Ayers doing his best to try and get the ball and then swatting it towards Carter who showed Jim Leonhard how to scoop and score with the best bit being him raising the ball with 15 to go in front of Meachem. The pick-6 from Harris was an excellent way to ice the game, and it was just so much sweeter that it was Rivers as well. The other THREE picks were excellent as well. Leonhard just reefing the ball out of the receivers grasp to get the turnover. Carter being instinctive and knowing to undercut the route and go up and get the ball showed great instinct and Harris' first pick was showed that I reckon he will be something special for us.

As for the offense....well 21 points is never to be laughed at, but to put them up like we did after the 1st half we had, well it was great to see. After the first half I shared Manning's view that it just didnt seem to be our night, especially when Scotch Mist got credited with a tackle on Eric Decker (my exclamation of "god [inappropriate/removed] damn it decker" was probably OTT) and then when Matt Willis didnt change his route...well can you blame me. But as per our season, we came out of HT and dominated. The first drive was so surgical and how about that throw to Thomas. The efforts of McGahee and Hillman to protect Manning was epic and McGahee's block on Spikes where he flips him was gold. The bubble screen to Decker reminded me of a play where Orton bubble-screened to Marshall a couple of years ago, except Decker carried people over the line. Then the toss up to Stokely was epic, I couldn't believe what I had seen. I didn't think he had it in him to go up there like an outside receiver but credit to him he proved me wrong. I reckon Stokely still has some ball left in him this year. The big thing to note out of last night, the OL had no sacks against.

A great win, a historic win, a win I won't forget in a long time, I was having a crap of a day and to come home, sit down, and watch Denver do what they did was just so good.

Bring on the Saints


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[Mr.MileHigh]

Really bro? We have had a few rough starts but people come in here bashing the broncos when they don't say anything about their team. Saying we score garbage points and yada yada or we can't handle playoff teams. We need time to gel and become a team. It's just a joke really and BP I apologize for that last statement but nothing else
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