(09-18-2012 10:54 AM)RnB Wrote:  Are you silly? If you don't think that play action passing helps anything except the deep ball, our conversation here is done. You completely ignore the fact that we were playing with a lead the entire game, backed up on multiple drives, etc. I can't talk to someone with that little understanding of why running the football is important.....

That is what teams do with a lead in the NFL. This isn't college, teams don't air it out an entire game against inferior opponents.

(09-18-2012 11:23 AM)FullMetalFalcon23 Wrote:  What some people fail to realise regarding the screen game is that Denver were ready for it. Just like Atlanta was ready for their screen game. You do damage the way we did last week the next team is going to come ready to stop it. What would have allowed us run the screens more effectively is 2 fold.

1 Completing deeper passes, forcing the Denver DB's off the LOS and making them respect both our receivers on the outside and at least one inside receiver. Far easier said than done when they played a lot of man coverage. Zone on the other hand would have been more susceptible to the screens. If you can back those guys up you get a little more operating room.

2 Run Game. This is for play action screens and to keep the LB's honest to their primary assignment. consistent runs of 4 yards would loosen up the Defense because they have to remain honest Making that defense hesitate just a bit can be very valuable.

I wouldn't be too concerned though we beat and handled a very very good defense, we didn't let them rattle our QB we scored points on them and converted crucial downs. all against a very good D!! Next Sunday against San Diego expect an Offense closer to what came out in Kansas hopefully with better run production. But expect it to be a more aggressive offensive showing.

I think the game plan was right this week, execution at times but mainly field position put that in a hole. We're lucky Matt is as immovable as he has ever been here because another QB might have flapped on that pass he made from the endzone. His pocket presence is pretty sharp. The sack was more on him than the line I think though

(09-18-2012 09:45 PM)phocis850 Wrote:  How about we just give Denver's D some frikin credit?

They were playing at an elite level. No they didn't have turnovers, but they certainly affected our offense and we absolutely ballin in the second half.

This is the same Denver D that won games for Tebow and made it into the playoffs.

Do you guys fail to recognize that this was our second game with 2 new coordinators?

(09-18-2012 10:27 PM)phocis850 Wrote:  Denver was covering the deep very well. Didn't you notice that we were running people deep to clear out the middle of the field?

(09-18-2012 09:45 PM)phocis850 Wrote:  How about we just give Denver's D some frikin credit?

They were playing at an elite level. No they didn't have turnovers, but they certainly affected our offense and we absolutely ballin in the second half.

This is the same Denver D that won games for Tebow and made it into the playoffs.

Do you guys fail to recognize that this was our second game with 2 new coordinators?

(09-19-2012 12:47 AM)juraitwaluzka Wrote:  I was very impressed with Denver's defense. I felt like we did pretty good, all things considered.

It will be interesting to see how other teams do against their defense.

(09-18-2012 05:28 PM)AUTiger7222 Wrote:  Hard to complete deep passes when we never attempted them. Nobody has yet to explain how the running game had so much effect on the game that the Broncos defense had to respect it to open up the deep and intermediate passing game. Nearly all of Ryan's completions were 10 yards or less. His longest pass like 15 yards. If the running game is doing it's job and sucking in the defense why couldn't we get deep or intermediate passes?