Thread: Broncos All-Time Underrated and Overrated.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...rrated-players

Anybody lookin to punk on Craig Morton has clearly never heard of Zane Beadles and Ben Hamilton.

Yes, the brown and yellow uniforms with vertical socks are totally underrated...Those unis are badass

They left Peyton Hillis off the overrated list. At least by our own fanbase.

Any underrated Bronco poll without Randy Gradisar and Terrell Davis is an absolute joke...I cant believe they left those two names off that poll...ridiculous..and these are professional sports writers?
Comparing Romo to Fonzie? comeon, get real

How is Terrell Davis underrated?

Romanowski being on the overrated list is a joke. The 8-8 2001 season was kind of a bland year for the Broncos, not much to cheer about. But I vividly remember Romo going all-out in those games. The next year Mike Shanahan let him go to make way for Ian Gold and Romo goes to Oakland and kicks our ass and helps lead them to the Super Bowl. In 2002, he broke Shannon Sharpe's arm in the first MNF game and got a key late sack on Steve Beuerlein in the week 16 game to seal the division for them.

Underrated: Riley Odoms (Physical TE ahead of his time), Al Denson, Lionel Taylor (one of the forgotten greats of the AFL), Charley Johnson, Otis Armstrong

Originally Posted by BaileyTheBest

They left Peyton Hillis off the overrated list. At least by our own fanbase.

Not really. Running backs have a short shelf life. Hillis was in his prime from 2008-10 and Denver couldn't fully cash in on his strong window. He would have been a hell of a player but oh well. He's just a RB. We have fresher legs now.

Romo was, and still is, a ginormous bag of douche, it's impossible to overstate that.

Oh btw, toilet brings up one Denver's most overrated players of all time, Ian Gold. Denver got a 3rd round comp pick for losing one of the worst tacklers of his generation, that qualifies him for the list alone.

Originally Posted by Jaded

Romo was, and still is, a ginormous bag of douche, it's impossible to overstate that.

Romanowski didn't take his career for granted, he did everything in his power to help the team and he left everything on the field. He can play on my team at any time.

Meh. Whatever. I'll always like Morton.

These lists are, more than likely, pure opinion. Maybe they should have conducted a poll or something.

Pure hackery. None of the guy listed as underrated are, in fact, all that underrated. Elway is in the HOF, Rod Smith and Karl Mecklenberg are arguably HOF guys (in my homer view they belong there), Tom Jackson was very, very good indeed, but only the third best LBer on the Orange Crush (Gradishar and Swenson were better)...and "the offensive line" under Shanahan? They were great, and everyone knew they were great. This list was lazy.


Craig Morton took us to multiple AFC West championships and threw one of the best long balls I've ever seen. By the time we got him his mobility was shot, and he struggled behind an undersized line of human turnstiles with a pedestrian running game in support. To call him "overrated" is idiotic. Tebow played all of one full season with us, and was reasonably and surprisingly successful. Nobody not named Bullgator claimed much more than that, so to call him "overrated" says that the writer is either under 25 or a herd follower. Griese was en route to a fine career before his shoulder was ruined versus the Raiders - but he was never claimed to be elite in any way, again making the "overrated" charge lame.

My own Underrated/Overrated list. Note that in order to be underrated I think you have to be fairly obscure now. In order to be overrated somebody (not just selected loonies) must have thought you were good or talented at some point.

Underrated

WR Steve Watson. Best pure hands WR we ever had IMO, and had a terrific career YPC, which argues that the knock against him as just a "possession" receiver is more a function of the assumption by lazy sportswriters that all white WR's are somehow "possession" receivers. Led the NFL in reception yards in a superb breakout 1981 season.

RB Mike Anderson Tore up the League in 2000, played well subsequently, but was in a sort of unfair holding pattern as we waited for TD to recover from his multiple knee injuries.

QB Charley Johnson Came to Denver at the end of his career, and finally made the Broncos a winner. Led one of the most prolific passing attacks of the NFL in 1973 - a pure shock for a Denver fan at that stage!

CB Louis Wright Best pure cover CB of the 70's IMO. Nothing happened on his side of the field because nobody ever threw there. Too few people remember him now.

TE Riley Odoms The pass receiving skills of Shannon Sharpe combined with the blocking and size of Clarence Kay. Odoms was about the most complete TE I've ever watched.

Overrated

QB Steve Tensi How do I count this forgettable stiff as overrated? Because the Broncos traded two number one picks for him, that's how. He was supposedly going to be "The Guy", but the Chargers rogered us good, fobbing off their second string QB on us based upon his college rep and arm strength. Tensi was handed the starting job, started intermittently from 1967 to 1970 (whenever he could stay off the DL) and sucked pretty much throughout. Even Josh Mcdaniels never made a trade as bad as the Tensi trade.

The Three Amigos He at least got this one right. None were all that good, with Vance Johnson being the most overrated of the bunch. A gimmicky name for three mediocre WR's.

RB Sammy Winder Another reason our offense had trouble scoring in the 80's was its plodding unimaginative running attack, usually anchored on Sammy Winder. Winder had a good work ethic, a good attitude, and a great TD dance, but he really had neither speed, not size, nor elusiveness. His lack of production forced John Elway to win a lot of games all on his lonesome.

LB D.J. Williams The best LB on maybe the worst LBing Corps the Broncos ever fielded - and amongst the worst ever fielded by any pro team. Williams was athletic and made a lot of tackles, but was about as undisruptive as he could be, as he forced few fumbles, interceptions, sacks, tackles for loss, or big hits. As far as leadership goes I never saw any evidence of any.

Steve Sewell was/is very underrated.

Underrated: Tim Tebow

*dodges tomatoes from the general public and glass shards from Jaded*

Originally Posted by iLands

Underrated: Tim Tebow

*dodges tomatoes from the general public and glass shards from Jaded*

Obviously this is wrong.