| LudicrousSpeed said: Broncos first five games were pretty brutal. Panthers, Colts, @Bengals, Bucs, Falcons. Idk what the records are, but those are 4 pretty good teams and then the Colts. Last season they made enough plays to win close games. They started this season doing that, but their luck run out as the season went on. And late in the season you need to be able to run the ball, the Broncos lost all ability to do that when CJ went down. Front office clearly thought the defense was good enough to overcome such a pathetic offense, they were clearly wrong. Some of the stuff can be slightly excused due to injury, but there was no reason they needed to field the offensive line that they did. And the offense has literally zero creativity. Look at what KC is doing with Hill or Kelce, haven't seen anything like that in Denver since McDaniels was the HC. The defense will still be great next season, though. They need to sign 3 or 9 offensive linemen and try to find a play maker at TE. |
That's...one good team, one decent team, and three mediocre-bad teams (those teams have a combined record of 36-38-1 currently). Unless you play in the AFC South, you're probably not getting an opening slate much easier than that as a division winner from the previous year. Denver had a tough schedule, in large part due to Oakland and KC improving dramatically, but what really cost them was losing the games they should have won easily. Losing to Tennessee, or San Diego, or that still ridiculous decision to try and kick a field goal from midfield in OT against a division opponent that probably cost them a tie against KC. When you play a back half of the schedule as tough as Denver's, you can't afford to let the easier games slip away.
Also wow, never thought I would see a Denver fan speaking of McDaniels head coaching days fondly.
