8-2 denver is 2-2 on the road
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Maybe, but Denver has looked FAR more impressive in their wins this season
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Because Shanahan is an offensive coach, therefore higher offensive output against inferior defenses. While BP prefers to shorten the game with a lead by using a ball control offense ,therefore less offensive production and less spectacular looking play.HeavyHitta31 said:
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speedkilz88 said:
Denver had two 9+ minute drives yesterday in the first half. Shanahan understands ball control as well. Make no mistake this is a good team coming to town and they have played better than us for the last couple of weeks.
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lspain1 said:
Remember who they were going against. Didnt we have similar drives against Arizona who are a comparable team to the Jets.
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lspain1 said:
agaionst the Jets, thats like saying we had so and so minute drives against ARZ.
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I posted something along these lines before, all the road teams we play in our house this year struggle on the road badly, the toughest one is the Broncos at 2-2. Rams have 1 road win and the Chiefs are a much better home team and struggle on the road quite a bit.
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Being at home may put this team even with the Broncos, who undeniably are a notch above Dallas this season.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the "Home Field Advantage" that NFL Refs give has gone up a notch as well? The officiating in the NFL and NCAA has been brutal for the visiting team this year.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the "Home Field Advantage" that NFL Refs give has gone up a notch as well? The officiating in the NFL and NCAA has been brutal for the visiting team this year.
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You can think that if you want, but who has the better defense AZ or NY?dargonking999 said:
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lspain1 said:
Dam.. They were playing the j - e - t - s. Who have just about quit on this season. How can you measure that.
At least we are playiny teams that still have a chance. :starspin
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Only one team in the NFL has scored more and allowed less points than the Broncos. The Colts.thewivil said:
Only one team in the NFL has a better TO ratio. The Bengals.
The Broncos are the only team in the top 2 in rushing offense and rushing defense.
The Broncos average 50 more rushing yards a game than the Boys.
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Denver isnt all that, although yes, they are playing good football right now. But if they played the Colts right now, especially in Indy, Indy would once again light them up as they have recently. I live in Denver so it's not like the only basis I have for evaluating them is catching some highlights on sportscenter once a week.
When they played the Giants and the Skins, both those games went down to basically the final play of the game. In their home game against the Chargers the week after we played them, they won by 3. They did have those 2 interesting home games against the Eagles and Pats where they got up 20+ early on before the other teams stormed back only to fall short. But we crushed the Eagles in our park too.
I'm not *that* worried about their running game.. more about bootlegs, roll outs and our o-line being able to protect Bledsoe when they blitz.
Still though.. short week, home game, on turf.. things in our favor. Should be a good game. No conceivable outcome would surprise me.
And not that anything that happened 4 years ago means anything at all, but just for fun you'll remember that the uhhh.. "masterful" HC Shanahan brought his Broncos in on Turkey Day and although they werent clicking on all cylinders at the time (they were 5-5 while we were 2-7), it took all they had to beat Campo and Ryan Leaf by 2.
When they played the Giants and the Skins, both those games went down to basically the final play of the game. In their home game against the Chargers the week after we played them, they won by 3. They did have those 2 interesting home games against the Eagles and Pats where they got up 20+ early on before the other teams stormed back only to fall short. But we crushed the Eagles in our park too.
I'm not *that* worried about their running game.. more about bootlegs, roll outs and our o-line being able to protect Bledsoe when they blitz.
Still though.. short week, home game, on turf.. things in our favor. Should be a good game. No conceivable outcome would surprise me.
And not that anything that happened 4 years ago means anything at all, but just for fun you'll remember that the uhhh.. "masterful" HC Shanahan brought his Broncos in on Turkey Day and although they werent clicking on all cylinders at the time (they were 5-5 while we were 2-7), it took all they had to beat Campo and Ryan Leaf by 2.
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We played on Sunday a team with obvious discipline problems and injuries. We let that team hang around for a long time. In fact, if not for a very long field goal at the end of the first half (where the other team was screwed on a time out call to ice our kicker), it could have been very close. We were outplayed for most of the Philadelphia game. Our OL is struggling and Bledsoe has no confidence in his blind side tackle.
I am not trying to make the Broncos into supermen, but they are playing good football right now. An argument can be made that we looked better after the Arizona game as well. I accept that and I'm hoping that view is correct. The Cowboys will not look past the Broncos, but Denver matches up well against our running attack and our pass protection issues are limiting us.
My bottom line feeling here is that Denver's D matches up better against our offense than our D matches up to them. In a ball control game (and this will be just that) our young DL is going to be seeing a different kind of scheme than they have seen before. One or two successful Denver drives can make a big difference before our guys can adjust. Plummer is a scrambler and we didn't handle McNabb very well the last time out.
Tucker is playing better than I expected. He has made very few penalty type mistakes I can recall. That being said, he has been beaten in pass protection a number of times and Parcells is trying to hurry up Bledsoe to reduce the pressure. It is not working very well and sharply limited our downfield attack on Sunday. It is our achilles heel and Denver's D will attack us at that point. I'm not a football guru but it seems obvious to me. They play the run very well. We are going to have to pass to move the ball and Tucker is going to be the weak link.
That's how I see it and I think we lose a close game because we won't be able to score enough points.