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The 2006-2007 Bronco Experiment

October 10th, 2006 · 20 Comments · 129 views

After tonight’s ugly win against Baltimore, here are my thoughts on the Broncos so far…

1. This year’s Broncos look like last year’s Chicago Bears. All defense and pray to God that the offense doesn’t lose the game for you. That’s good enough to get to the playoffs, but I’m not sure it’s good enough to win a Super Bowl.

2. Plummer doesn’t have the arm strength for the long ball that Shanahan so desperately wants with his running game. Cutler does. But Cutler’s a rookie and as good as he MAY be, rookies don’t normally win a Super Bowl.

3. The rest of the AFC power teams have holes as well. Indy - a running game, San Diego - Marty ball, Ravens - offense, Bengals - their uniforms and their defense, KC - quarterback, and Patriots - jekyll/hyde disease. So Denver has just as good as a chance as any of them to make it to the Super Bowl…IF they can find their offense.

That’s all I got to say about that right now.

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20 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Mike R. // Oct 10, 2006 at 7:13 am

    FYI, the Colts have a run game now. Rhodes and Addai have combined for almost identical stats that Edge had last year at this point in the season.

    The Colts big hole is their run defense. Cory Simon is out for the season so I don’t see how its going to get any better.

  • 2 clay // Oct 10, 2006 at 11:22 am

    i dont think it matters who from the afc gets to the super bowl right now, cause it looks like the bears are unstoppable, that is until rex grossman gets hurt.

    oo and i got to know, it says you posted this at 12:12 am, now is that cst or from the mountain time zone?

  • 3 Wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:16 pm

    What exactly is a popularity percentage? How is that calculated? Percent of people who visit this page that actually reply to a post? What does that really tell you? Why the additional stat?

  • 4 Wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:16 pm

    hmm, it went from 57% to 63% when I posted that last comment

  • 5 Wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:17 pm

    Now 68%…wonder if I can drive it up to 100% by myself.

    How would the ranking go down? It can’t measure weather the post is pro or con. I think the number is worthless.

  • 6 Wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:18 pm

    Hot dog — 72%

  • 7 Wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:18 pm

    man, Grant…I’m making this post more and more popular.

  • 8 Wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:19 pm

    80%!!! Wonder what this post will do.

  • 9 Wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:19 pm

    hot dog…85% Just because of little ol’ me.

    I think your stats are skewed.

  • 10 Wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:20 pm

    89% … hmm, I might have to do some sort of linear regression to determine the curve here. Maybe it’s linked to number of characters in each comment.

  • 11 Wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:20 pm

    93% getting tougher.

  • 12 Wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:20 pm

    woo hoo…98%

  • 13 Wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:21 pm

    i did it!! 100%

  • 14 Grant // Oct 10, 2006 at 2:24 pm

    so this is what an electrical engineer from Arkansas does with his day? pathetic.

    you even have your own blog.

    it’s an update on the plugin popularity contest, I forget to change the variable that hides each individual posts “popularity” rating.

    The ratings exists so that the sidebar stuff works…dorks.

  • 15 wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 7:17 pm

    Ahh..a useless stat.

    1. I’m not an electrical engineer FROM arkansas, I’m and electrical engineer who happens to live in arkansas.

    2. I needed a break from dealing with — well never mind — let’s just say I was about to drop the f-bomb to my boss and a few select VP’s while handing in my resignation…i needed something to channel my anger.

  • 16 wayne // Oct 10, 2006 at 7:19 pm

    P.S. You’ll note it only took me from 12:16 to 12:21 to accomplish my goal. And I just now got a break to see if you responded.

  • 17 loren k // Oct 11, 2006 at 10:42 am

    all i know is that when you have a huge former naval academy football player tell you that the denver broncos are really good, in fact “great.” and he is really worked up about it. i tend to agree.

  • 18 Bigfoot // Oct 11, 2006 at 5:25 pm

    i think that denver is going to fall apart if champ baily, al wilson, or john lynch gets hurt… i also believe that they won’t make it far into the playoffs agaisnt the offensive superpowers in the NFL.

    Indy has a shot at going since they remain unbeaten and they hav e a running game, the only thing they need to do is to plug those holes..they are letting over 100 yards rushing minimly per game. With the return of Stokely and vinetari(hes coming back this week), and when sanders comes back my colts will kill all the other afc teams and go on to play the bears in the super bowl

  • 19 Mike R. // Oct 12, 2006 at 5:58 am

    I really like this Bigfoot guy.

  • 20 the G sides » Black Monday // Feb 5, 2007 at 9:35 am

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