The NFL Thread 2015: Denver Broncos win Super Bowl 50

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LudicrousSpeed said:

dongo8 said:

LudicrousSpeed said:

Arkaign said:
Green Bay why? Why? lol. Dammit.

And yes, the refs have been utterly retardulated for the entire year. They really need an AI system, digital ball tracking, and every-play review to start fixing this garbage.

They just boned GB out of a first down on forward progress just because the receiver was tossed backwards.

He bounced off the defender and then fumbled. AFAIK you lose forward progress when you fumble. The spot of the fumble becomes the spot. Had he not ping pong'd off they likely would have blown it dead. I'd rather they let guys play until it's actually a dead ball. Otherwise you'd have never seen Helmet Catch.

Also, apparently this defense is fucking legit. Never thought I'd see a game where the Rodgers lead Packers passing attack was shut down so mightily.

Have to remember, he has no one to throw to any more except Cobb. His starters are all injured, and that game played out pretty much exactly how I thought it would. Rodgers had been not so great against much lesser defenses this season, so I saw this happening with the Denver D. I did not expect the great offense from Peyton though, no TDs but he played a great game. Wonder if that will be the start of a trend upward for him?

LOL no offense but if that defensive beat down was "exactly how you thought it would go" then you probably would have been a lot more confident in your pick.

And Rodgers came in with like 15 touchdowns and only a couple picks with a QB rating over 115 IIRC. He wasn't exactly struggling and had played a few good pass defenses.

The main stat out of that Bronco game is the yards per attempt. They dominated the GB receivers. I haven't seen a pass rush and secondary combo dominate a great QB like that since that Super Bowl recently where the Seahawks shellacked some team whose name escapes me. It's rare to see such a dominant QB and great system just get shat on like that.

The offensive line in that game for Denver just looked so much better than any game before it. Mathis apparently got healed up during the bye week and looked great. Peyton worked without using the silent snap pretty much the entire game, if not the whole game. I don't remember seeing it. That says he's on the same page with the line more than before. Plus they trade for VD now, that is potentially huge. For all the crap about how the offense is slowed because of Peyton and Kubes, maybe it's not as good as before because there is no more Welker in the slot and Julius Thomas destroying coverage in the middle? I've been wishing all season they'd give Virgil Green more play time than Owen Daniels because he's faster and a bigger playmaker. Plus a better blocker. Now they have a playmaker and good blocker in one. JT could never block and will never block.

Joe Thomas in trade talks as well. Gonna be hard to beat Denver if everyone stays healthy.

My original post did have a bit of a waver to it, but that is because Aaron Rodgers has the ability to overcome a good defense, but I said he would probably struggle, and he did. I wasn't expecting the Broncos to SCORE as much as they did, so I thought the game would be close, I wasn't saying that I was expecting the shellacking, I was saying I was expecting Green Bay to struggle against a defense as good as the Broncos with no receivers to throw to. And they did. I guess I wasn't specific enough in my post game posting when I said it went how I thought it would. I meant that the struggle for Green Bay went how I thought it would, not really the scoring for Denver. Packers played Manning all wrong.