Broncos 30 Cards 21: Observations and Notes

[Pariah]

And not for nothing, but according to CNNSI, Larry had more YAC yards than Anquan last season, and Bryant Johnson had a higher YAC average.

He has 22 more YAC yards and played in 6 more games.

 

[Scott MS]

Just Tivoed this game last night at midnight and watched it again (was there live the first showing so seeing replays is nice). Offense wasn't as horrible as many think. J.J. had few holes to run into. 1st string offense (and Warner) played 2 series:

Series 1: 3 and out, including a batted pass.

Series 2: Ended in TD pass to Bryant Johnson. Several nice timing patterns, including a nice throw to Fitz and a wide open Bergen.

Not bad. McCown looked decent also.

Antonio Smith looked bad, especially that attempt to chase down Mauck all across the field on third down and goal. He looked extremely slow. Personally felt Walls blew a few tackles, as did some of the starters.

First string defense looked decent, but got killed on a couple of long runs early on, otherwise they did a good job shutting down Denver. The one Bell run where he broke 6 Cardinal tackles down the left sideline was horrible.

 

[Shane]

Just Tivoed this game last night at midnight and watched it again (was there live the first showing so seeing replays is nice). Offense wasn't as horrible as many think. J.J. had few holes to run into. 1st string offense (and Warner) played 2 series:

Series 1: 3 and out, including a batted pass.

Series 2: Ended in TD pass to Bryant Johnson. Several nice timing patterns, including a nice throw to Fitz and a wide open Bergen.

Not bad. McCown looked decent also.

Antonio Smith looked bad, especially that attempt to chase down Mauck all across the field on third down and goal. He looked extremely slow. Personally felt Walls blew a few tackles, as did some of the starters.

First string defense looked decent, but got killed on a couple of long runs early on, otherwise they did a good job shutting down Denver. The one Bell run where he broke 6 Cardinal tackles down the left sideline was horrible.

Im sorry but the first team D did not look decent at all. I have watched it twice and it got worse the 2nd viewing.

I dont recall anyone saying the O was horrible. The 1st string running game was atrocious though.

 

[AZWILDKARD]

30-21

You all can run for the hills. This is the fourth game of the pre season... come-on!!! I'm stayin right put, this is the year.

 

[Scott MS]

Im sorry but the first team D did not look decent at all. I have watched it twice and it got worse the 2nd viewing.

I dont recall anyone saying the O was horrible. The 1st string running game was atrocious though.

Perhaps we should nitpick every detail here. Running game is part of the offense and it was horrible.