Broncos news megathread

[ROYC75]

Discussion: All things Broncos.

[BlackOp]

Originally Posted by Mile High Mania

I dunno... does Rodgers have a perfect record? Have other marginal QBs defeated a Rodgers' led team with similar output? I get what you're saying...

It was 10 degrees outside when the dome team shut out Hundley and crew. Maybe the weather was a factor. Who knows? Hundley and the Packers put up 23+ points in the 4 prior games to laying that egg at home vs MIN.

His 4 worst games were against those two divisional teams...

Late in the season vs Rams, @ DET, @ ATL, @ CAR and vs CIN... pretty solid from weeks 9-13. But, focus on the Packers and Bears, I guess. They were 4-1 during that late stretch as he averaged 261 passing yards with 9 TDs and 2 INTs...

I think I'm fine with that average ... and if he did that over 16 games, you're looking at 4k yards, 28 TDs and 7 INTs - hell, make it 14 INTs and I believe they have success in 2018.

I dont think Keesum sucks...I think he's about what most NFL people think...a top-teir back-up QB.

He just fell ass-backward into about as perfect situation you could get. Dome team with the #1 defense and great coaching...TWO WRs that were top 10 in contested catches...one of which was #1...and two of your division rivals severely hampered at the QB position...and the giant cherry on top of the dream sunday...a miracle, once in a lifetime, walk-off TD bomb in a play-off game. Had that play not happened...he would have been tarred and feathered for the late INT he threw.

He had a charmed season last year...

Bradford completed like 73% of his passes before he got hurt....it was a good gig.

[manchambo]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

Well...if you have the #1 ranked defense against a back up QB, you can get away with it, I guess?

If you didn't have that, you'd probably throw the ball more.

[Mile High Mania]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

.

Bradford completed like 73% of his passes before he got hurt....it was a good gig.

Help me out here... Bradford was only in 2 games.

Week 1, lights out against the Saints.
Week 5, attempted 11 passes.

Saints gave up 250 passing yards in 10 of 16 games and in both playoff games, one nearly 400.

[BlackOp]

Originally Posted by Mile High Mania

Help me out here... Bradford was only in 2 games.

Week 1, lights out against the Saints.
Week 5, attempted 11 passes.

Saints gave up 250 passing yards in 10 of 16 games and in both playoff games, one nearly 400.

I'm saying Keesum was on a good, well-coached team...he's now on a 5-11 roster coached by VJ. Keesum wasnt the major reason they went 13-3...in fact, their fans said they won in spite of him....obviously Zimmer agreed.

[Quesadilla Joe]

Paul Klee: Broncos rookie Courtland Sutton - "he's a unicorn" - destined for stardom

Spoiler!

They come along only once in a while, rarely enough that it’s obvious when they do. They’re sudden. They’re different. And their God-given physical talent is merely half of the equation.

Courtland Sutton is one. He pops, then he beams. He’s Clinton Portis, Chris Harris Jr., Brandon Marshall, the wide receiver. There’s a spirit and enthusiasm about them, noticeable when and even long before they suit up in pads.

“Courtland, he’s got life in him,” said Steve Stigall, director of football operations at Southern Methodist, where Sutton played four seasons before he was drafted in the second round by the Broncos.

“He’s a unicorn,” Stigall said. “Guys like him, there’s just not many.”

Put it this way: Sutton has yet to make an NFL catch — that’s coming Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks — and he already has a U.S. President in his corner. It was back in the spring, just days before the NFL draft, when George W. Bush flashed a smile and told his cousin, Broncos president Joe Ellis: “You guys are going to take my guy, Courtland Sutton!”

Texas recognizes Texas. And the NFL soon will recognize Sutton as one of the most dangerous wide receivers rocking a pair of cleats. Watch. It’s coming, and soon. Sutton is 6-foot-4, 216 pounds, and the best thing to happen to the Broncos since Super Bowl 50. He’s 22 and a guy we’ll be talking about when he’s 62.

Is that too much for a rookie?

This isn’t just any rookie we’re talking about.

“Ultimately, for myself, when I walk away from the game, I want people to talk about me in the same conversation as Calvin Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald, E-Man (Emmanuel Sanders), Demaryius Thomas — the guys who came into the league and made a statement for themselves,” Sutton told me on Monday. “Guys respect their name, now and forever. That’s the point I want to get to. When people talk about Courtland Sutton, I want them to say, ‘That guy is one of the best to ever play the position.’ That’s what I want to be, and I’m going to work every day to make that happen.”


Five months into his Broncos career and I’ve yet to see Sutton without a smile glued to his face, one of his fishing-net hands on someone’s shoulder, or the slightest suggestion he’s had a bad day.

Courtland Sutton doesn’t get bad days. Bad days get Courtland Sutton.

“I was in Houston with (star wide receiver DeAndre) Hopkins as a rookie — very comparable,” Broncos coach Vance Joseph said.

Woo, boy. That’s a mouthful.

And it’s not too much.

Peep the film from the Broncos’ third preseason game, against the Redskins. Second-and-10, ball’s on their own 25-yard line, Sutton’s matched up with a former All-Pro cornerback, Josh Norman. And Courtland slips and almost falls at the line of scrimmage! No matter. After regaining his balance, Sutton blows past Norman and skies for a 27-yard reception. Easy peasy — in his third NFL appearance.

“It was a good opportunity for me to see where I’m at, against the best in the league,” Sutton said of the Norman play. “In college, coach (Chad Morris) would always tell us that we’re playing against nameless, faceless opponents. It doesn’t matter who you’re lined up against. I just saw it as an opportunity to go out and make a play. If I don’t do my part, it hurts our offense and ultimately hurts our team. I never want to be a guy who’s hurting my team.”

It says here this rookie class will shape the Broncos franchise for the next half-dozen to dozen years, give or take a contract extension or three. Royce Freeman on Monday was named the first rookie to start for the Broncos at running back in Week 1 since Terrell Davis in 1995. The Broncos need help at linebacker, and here’s a hunch Josey Jewell wins a starting job at some point during his rookie season. Pass-rusher Bradley Chubb should inject new zip into Von Miller’s career. DaeSean Hamilton operates like an old pro, and Phillip Lindsay, well, he’s Phillip Lindsay.

Sutton? Gifted. Invested. Different. His first full day as a Bronco — April 28, 2018 — Sutton strode into the UCHealth Training Center with a bubbly personality everyone noticed. I asked what in life gets him fired up for the day ahead.

“I’m fired up about life,” Sutton said then.

For a Broncos locker room that had grown stale, that kind of spirit is exactly what they needed.

***

Where does it all come from?

His parents, to start. Sutton said Ryian and Phelicia Marshall are his role models — football-wise and life-wise. His mom “is one of the most loving, selfless people you’ll ever meet,” he says. Each Christmas she buys at least one gift for every one of his cousins. “And I have a huge family,” he says. His father works as a lineman for an electrical company near his hometown of Brenham, Texas.

“I remember there would be times when it was raining and lightning and thundering so bad outside. And he’d get a call to go work on the electrical poles, the worst place you could be,” Courtland said. “But that’s where I get my work ethic from. The man just worked his butt off.”

Same for Courtland. Prior to his freshman year of high school, his parents said the money for his school clothes would come from his own pocket. So they put Courtland and his younger cousin to work building and fixing the fencing around their extended family’s nearby farm.

“You wanna talk about hard work....” Sutton said, his voice trailing off. “If a bull had broken through the fence, we had to go fix the fence, no matter whose bull it was. Somebody’s cows got out, we had to help each other out. But you know what? A lot of those life lessons I have today I learned on the farm.”

His fishing rods — a favorite possession — just arrived here last week. Courtland also adopted a Cocker Spaniel. Rounding out the welcome-to-Colorado care package was Sutton’s first major purchase, a new Jeep Wrangler that he drove to the office on Monday, just in time for Week 1.

“Since I’m in Denver, I got to make sure I fit into the system out here,” Sutton said with a laugh. “And it fits me, you know? I’m not really a Maserati guy. That’s not my style.”

Courtland Sutton is more Von than vain.

“He’s not trying to impress anybody with what he wears or what he owns or how he looks,” Stigall says. “He’s living life.”

Sutton’s NFL life begins Sunday against the Seahawks. He’s No. 14, and you won’t miss him.

https://gazette.com/sports/paul-klee...6f295a9d8.html

[BlackOp]

"George W. Bush flashed a smile and told his cousin, Broncos president Joe Ellis"

I didnt know this...that the Donko FO is connected to the Bush family. It actually explains a lot about NFL favoritism.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

"George W. Bush flashed a smile and told his cousin, Broncos president Joe Ellis"

I didnt know this...that the Donko FO is connected to the Bush family. It actually explains a lot about NFL favoritism.

It also explains why John Elway eats babies at secret forest retreats.

[CasselGotPeedOn]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

"George W. Bush flashed a smile and told his cousin, Broncos president Joe Ellis"

I didnt know this...that the Donko FO is connected to the Bush family. It actually explains a lot about NFL favoritism.

[Sassy Squatch]

Cody Latimer Carlos Henderson Isaiah McKenzie Courtland Sutton is going to be really good this year. I mean it this time.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

"George W. Bush flashed a smile and told his cousin, Broncos president Joe Ellis"

I didnt know this...that the Donko FO is connected to the Bush family. It actually explains a lot about NFL favoritism.

[Sassy Squatch]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

"George W. Bush flashed a smile and told his cousin, Broncos president Joe Ellis"

I didnt know this...that the Donko FO is connected to the Bush family. It actually explains a lot about NFL favoritism.

Stop trying to outdumb knowmo.

[BlackOp]

Originally Posted by Superturtle

Stop trying to outdumb knowmo.

I'll keep politics out of this...but sheesh...just when thought you couldn't hate the Broncos any more than you already did.

[Mile High Mania]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

I'm saying Keesum was on a good, well-coached team...he's now on a 5-11 roster coached by VJ. Keesum wasnt the major reason they went 13-3...in fact, their fans said they won in spite of him....obviously Zimmer agreed.

Ha... ok. Maybe you thought nobody would inquire about the 73% comment as if it was this major body of work.

[Mile High Mania]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

"George W. Bush flashed a smile and told his cousin, Broncos president Joe Ellis"

I didnt know this...that the Donko FO is connected to the Bush family. It actually explains a lot about NFL favoritism.

I'm sure you can connect their leadership to Kevin Bacon within like 3 degrees too. It's wild.

[BlackOp]

Originally Posted by Mile High Mania

I'm sure you can connect their leadership to Kevin Bacon within like 3 degrees too. It's wild.

I have no more comments on the evil Bush empire...or their war profiteering.