Thread: _enver _efense found the D

Looks like we borrowed some other teams defense. Who were those guys?

I was proud of the today. It's a new feeling for me.

I hope they keep it up the rest of the season.

Originally Posted by HighPlainsBronc

Looks like we borrowed some other teams defense. Who were those guys?

I was proud of the today. It's a new feeling for me.

I hope they keep it up the rest of the season.

I think they switched uniforms with the Tampa D. ;D

I was particularly impessed with the second half defense. The third qurter has been where we just completely pack it in and hope that the offense can hold on to win. I think that the Bucs had the ball six times the second half and either three or four of those were three and outs.

The difference in play was like night and day from the disorganized and poorly executed efforts of our previous games.

We don't need an awesome defense to win, we just need one that plays solid and gives our offense a chance to run ahead. If they play more like they did today then we have a good chance to win the AFC West.

The defense played well. We got consistent pressure on their QBs, and we were usually solid against the run. I think we've been seing flashes of those the previous games, but this time, they held it together for a whole game.

I didn't notice Paymah getting burned; don't know if he was even playing on defense. Maybe it was Jack Williams who was playing.

3 things to consider, though;

I didn't like how Garcia was able to get 10 yard chunks passing and eventually completing a TD pass very quickly within the last few minutes. Hopefully, that was just a "prevent" and not their normal D.

The Bucs are not a great offensive team, so our defense would look better against them. In the same sense, SD and NO are excellent offensive teams, so our defense looked bad against them. I think our defense isn't as good as this game shows, but it isn't as bad as those other 2 games show either.

Another factor is we were forced to play a very ball control offense, because of what the defense was giving us, so that did help keep the scoring of both teams pretty low.

Nonetheless, great effort by the defense.

I am very happy with the D but just like I said when they were getting burned badly the jury is still very much out.

Show up against the jagwads and I'll start to buy in. The Bucs game plan sucked IMHO

Paymah mad a great special teams tackle. It wasn't commented on, but he eluded & split 2 defenders, ran downfield, got behind the wedge and slammed the ball-carrier. It's nice to see him make a play.

Kenny Peterson got some pressure on the QB! Amazing!

Dumervil and Ekuban made some plays and were in on some sacks.

The blitz got some pressure for the first time all season!

Marcus Thomas made a play on the interception. If he hadn't fumbled, that's the ball game right there because Denver would have been in FG range right away. Even if the Bucs stopped the offense from scoring a TD a FG puts the game almost out of reach.

It was only the Bucs who have not got much talent on offense. They are a defensive oriented team who held the high-powered Broncos offense to 16 points.

But, Denver stopped their defense cold except for the last drive where the scored the TD. That was great!

Dre Bly and the safeties made some plays.

The LBs, especially DJ and Boss Bailey played well. Nobody was open much all day.

Tampa has NO good WRs so it's not a real test. But, neither does KC have any kind of offense and they whipped the Broncos defense all day. So this is a great step up!

Didn't hear much about Champ? Was he playing, or were they just avoiding throwing towards him?

Originally Posted by omac

Didn't hear much about Champ? Was he playing, or were they just avoiding throwing towards him?

in 5 games he as been thrown at a total of 12 times. Guy gets major respect.

The sack of griese by Champ was the highlight of the game for me

Originally Posted by Dortoh

in 5 games he as been thrown at a total of 12 times. Guy gets major respect.

The sack of griese by Champ was the highlight of the game for me

Sheesh, oh yeah, how could I forget about that one. Solid hit, took Griese out of the game. Too bad the better QB Garcia took his place and scored a TD later on.

Originally Posted by Cugel

Paymah mad a great special teams tackle. It wasn't commented on, but he eluded & split 2 defenders, ran downfield, got behind the wedge and slammed the ball-carrier. It's nice to see him make a play.

They showed the replay a couple times and commented that's how it's supposed to be done.

I find it funny when they keep saying Champ has lost a step. Yet if you look at it Champ has hardly been thrown to this season. I don't think he was thrown to at all this game.

Through 5 games he's been thrown at 11 times. 11. He also has 1 INT, and 1 FF last week against KC. Today he crushed Griese and almost caused an INT. The Bucs did not throw 1 pass at the man he was covering today. Champ hasn't lost a step. Far from it. He was fearless in run support, and making hits and tackles everywhere. The dude is a baller. Still the best CB in the league, no matter what the stats say. It's hard to lead the league in INT's when almost no one throws at you. Dude is a beast. I hope that he retires in a Broncos uniform.

Originally Posted by Italianmobstr7

Through 5 games he's been thrown at 11 times. 11. He also has 1 INT, and 1 FF last week against KC. Today he crushed Griese and almost caused an INT. The Bucs did not throw 1 pass at the man he was covering today. Champ hasn't lost a step. Far from it. He was fearless in run support, and making hits and tackles everywhere. The dude is a baller. Still the best CB in the league, no matter what the stats say. It's hard to lead the league in INT's when almost no one throws at you. Dude is a beast. I hope that he retires in a Broncos uniform.

Not to argue but I think he had flat responsiblity on a few plays where he came up and made the stick. Not sure if that counts as getting thrown at. Either way he is not a mortal man on the football field

Ok after watching the game again next week will be interesting. They really laid it out today with some crazy blitz packages.....ie both corners etc. I worry that next week vs the jagwads we will come out very plain and play a lot of base D. Guess we shall see but the jags now have some good tape.