Thread: Broncos Gameday Thread: Broncos vs Texans 08/23/14

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

GEM, I think you have convinced yourself that Hillman is terrible and you won't see it any other way. He made a couple of really nice runs last night including a few big 3rd down conversions. I'm not saying he's great or should start over Ball or anything, but I just think you've been crazy unfair concerning his play this preseason.

Would he be second string on any other upper echelon team had he not been taken in the second round? I dont want average. South stands last night and every single person around us said the same thing. Guess we're all just being too hard on him.

Keep in mind though, he has had a couple ok preseason, it's when he gets to the regular season he gets fumbleitis.

He's going to be on the team either way, whether I like it or not. For my teams sake, I hope he proves my dislike for him wrong.

Originally Posted by GEM

Would he be second string on any other upper echelon team had he not been taken in the second round? I dont want average. South stands last night and every single person around us said the same thing. Guess we're all just being too hard on him.

Keep in mind though, he has had a couple ok preseason, it's when he gets to the regular season he gets fumbleitis.

He's a backup. If you aren't ok with backups being average, I think your expectations of what a backup should be are a little high. It's impossible to have 53 starting caliber players on a team. Most of the time, your backups are going to be average to below average players. That's why they are backups.

If everyone in the South Stands was also saying he was horrible last night, they were wrong too. Go back and watch the tape if you have it recorded. He was breaking tackles and picking up first downs.

I think it's wholly unfair to say he sucks now because of what he has done in past seasons, unless you think it's impossible for a player to improve. From what he has done in the preseason, he looks much improved. He seems to have improved on both of his biggest issues (fumbling and going down on first contact). I am going to go on that assumption until he proves me wrong.

I'm curious as what Manning said to Swearinger who by the way is a creep.

Originally Posted by TXBRONC

I'm curious as what Manning said to Swearinger who by the way is a creep.

Swearenger was quoted after the game saying Manning told him "F you".

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

He's a backup. If you aren't ok with backups being average, I think your expectations of what a backup should be are a little high. It's impossible to have 53 starting caliber players on a team. Most of the time, your backups are going to be average to below average players. That's why they are backups.

If everyone in the South Stands was also saying he was horrible last night, they were wrong too. Go back and watch the tape if you have it recorded. He was breaking tackles and picking up first downs.

I think it's wholly unfair to say he sucks now because of what he has done in past seasons, unless you think it's impossible for a player to improve. From what he has done in the preseason, he looks much improved. He seems to have improved on both of his biggest issues (fumbling and going down on first contact). I am going to go on that assumption until he proves me wrong.

As I said before, I hope he proves me wrong. It's hard to change first impressions, if he does, it means he's done good things. I don't expect it at all, but it will be a great surprise.

Speaking of horrible preseason announcers, holy crap that guy doing play by play for us last night was horrible. Was constantly calling players by the wrong names, most notably "Jadaveous Clowney". Seriously, how do you not know the name of the #1 overall pick? If you can't get that right, you shouldn't be calling an NFL game. And it's not like he just messed it up once. He was calling him that all game.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Speaking of horrible preseason announcers, holy crap that guy doing play by play for us last night was horrible. Was constantly calling players by the wrong names, most notably "Jadaveous Clowney". Seriously, how do you not know the name of the #1 overall pick? If you can't get that right, you shouldn't be calling an NFL game. And it's not like he just messed it up once. He was calling him that all game.

This won't end well.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Speaking of horrible preseason announcers, holy crap that guy doing play by play for us last night was horrible. Was constantly calling players by the wrong names, most notably "Jadaveous Clowney". Seriously, how do you not know the name of the #1 overall pick? If you can't get that right, you shouldn't be calling an NFL game. And it's not like he just messed it up once. He was calling him that all game.

The ref at the game kept calling penalties wrong... Holding on the defense, I mean offense.

Originally Posted by GEM

The ref at the game kept calling penalties wrong... Holding on the defense, I mean offense.

I think that guy is new. I don't recognize his face at least. But yeah, he was definitely struggling a bit.