Broncos vs Seahawks: 6 winners , 3 losers and 1 “both”

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Broncos vs Seahawks: 6 winners Cheap Bradley Chubb Jersey , 3 losers and 1 “both” in season-opening win As the cliche goes, a win is a win. But it feels like there’s something more to this 27-24 season-opening win over the Seattle Seahawks. It was far from pretty, but the Denver Broncos showed this isn’t the same team of the last two seasons. No matter the situation, they don’t get too high or too low. They are prepared for whatever happens and have the confidence to come out on top.I get that this is just one game on a marathon path to 16. It’s also the first, but there is a lot to take away from this win — most of it positive. Winners Phillip Lindsay The rookie running back went undrafted. Remember that whenever Lindsay shines on the field, as he did for the Broncos on Sunday (and as he’s done since he showed up at the UCHealth Training Center). Lindsay was Denver’s leading rusher with 71 yards on 15 carries, two catches for 31 yards and a touchdown, and, most impressive, two tackles on special teams. That last stat says it all about Lindsay and why he’s so special. Von Miller What else is there to say about one of the greatest in NFL history? Miller recorded a hat-trick of sacks, seven tackles and four quarterback hits. His heist of a fumble recovery on Seahawks running back Chris Carson was simply unreal. With his fifth career three+sack game, Miller moves into 48th place in NFL history with 86.5 career sacks. Only Justin Houston (seven) has more three-plus sack games than Miller since he entered the NFL in 2011.Emmanuel Sanders When you clock the stat line He-manuel registered, this is a no-brainer. Sanders had 10 catches for 135 yards and a touchdown. You could include the entire receivers squad in this, but Sanders shined on Sunday. Me thinks he likes to have a quarterback. The Broncos offensive line The biggest question for Denver’s offense this entire offseason was the guys upfront. After the first game of the season, that is no longer a question. The Broncos rushed for 146 yards on 32 carries. What showed me the offensive line is up to the task this season is when the team needed it most, Denver was able to run the ball. Royce Freeman and Lindsay each had big runs that allowed the Broncos to flip field position and pin Seattle in its own end to all but end the game. Even better? The line allowed one sack. That’s a major win. The Orange Rush We know that Miller can take over games, but what we haven’t seen the last two seasons is the other pass rushers being able to do so. We got our first glimpse of what the Orange Rush can do against opposing offense. Of the defense’s six sacks, four 1鈦? came from Miller, Shaquil Barrett and Bradley Chubb. The Orange Rush also combined for 13 tackles and four tackles for loss. This is the best evidence yet that fans need to get this badass shirt for this badass unit.Vance Joseph As I said in the intro, the Broncos didn’t get derailed when faced with adversity. Some will question whether that comes from Joseph, his coaching staff or the leaders on the team. It’s probably a combination of all of those. As I was writing this, my wife and I actually had a mini debate. As she said, “Yeah, if you overlook all of the other shit.” But for this one game at least, Denver didn’t get too high or too low. Perhaps the bar is just off the floor http://www.broncoscheapauthenticstore.com/todd-davis-jersey-cheap , but I take that as a major win; especially when the coach on the opposite sideline is Pete Carroll. The Broncos This is a bonus, not included in the winners total, for Khalil Mack not being in the AFC West any longer. Those watching Sunday Night Football know why. Thank you, Jon Gruden. Winner & Loser Case Keenum In his first game as a franchise quarterback, Keenum was a mixed bag. He threw some awful interceptions and made equally terrible decisions. But ... Keenum also threw three touchdown passes and led the offense to 470 yards. He finished with 329 yards on 25-for-39 passing. The reason I’m inclined to make him a winner is that when the Broncos needed a drive and touchdown, Keenum delivered. Not only with the drive, but a beautiful pitch and catch to Demaryius Thomas in the north endzone. But please, please no more three-interception games. Losers Broncos defenders covering tight ends Oh, hey, the same problem this defense has had since at least the early 2000s. Coupled with Keenum’s three picks, this was the biggest blight for Denver. Needless to say it must get corrected, but see above. Devontae BookerHe only had two carries for four yards, and two receptions for 11 yards, but that was enough. In fact, it was too much. For some reason on the first possession of the third quarter, Bill Musgrave decided it was a good time to get Booker involved. It went as everyone expected, with him running into the rear ends of his lineman. No more. Roll with Freeman and Lindsay going forward. Sebastian Janikowski The former Oakland Raiders kicker not only missed once, but twice. After the 2-minute warning, Janikowski missed from 51 yards but was gifted another shot after an offsides penalty on Tramaine Brock. The Seahawks moved five yards closer with the same result. Those two misses cost his team at least a tie game. Broncos Country thanks you.Randy Gradishar’s place in the Hall is long overdue When the name Randy Gradishar is mentioned, the response speaks to the problems with the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The words one should hear is, “Hall of Fame linebacker.” Or, “One of the best to ever play the game.” Instead the response is disbelief. There’s just no way a player that good could have played for the Denver Broncos. So the 2,000 tackles Gradishar racked up in his career are fudged. They aren’t real. Because, remember, there’s just no way a guy that good could have played in a “cow town” like Denver. “Well Youth Jeff Heuerman Jersey , there’s nothing to set straight,” the former head of Broncos public relations for 36 years and current team consultant/historian Jim Saccomano told me last summer. “A lot of people love to act like they know everything. Tackle statistics are not official in the NFL. But forever people have said you’re better off taking them from the coaches than press box figures because in every press box there’s a visiting team. And the statisticians are busy doing a lot of things. You’re not quite sure how the tackles are going to come out. But taking them from film study, because you watched the video and you see this man made the tackle. So we always got them from our coaches. I got them from Joe Collier (Broncos defensive coordinator at the time), who is the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame. Randy made them, Joe counted them, and then I published them. And some writers have suggested that they were padded. Well, that’s of course nonsensical. It’s not true. It doesn’t mean they’re lying, it just means they don’t know any better. Like when a little child says, ‘You hate me.’ Either Randy wasn’t making them, Joe was falsifying them, or I was falsifying them.“Tom Jackson put it best. Now people can say, ‘I don’t respect Tom Jackson. He’s an idiot and liar.’ That’s great. Good for you. But Tom Jackson said the problem is Randy really was that good. He was great.”To put it in even simpler terms: You cannot write the story of the NFL without Gradishar. That’s the only criteria that matters when you consider a player’s or contributor’s candidacy for the Hall of Fame. It was true for Terrell Davis. It’s true for Pat Bowlen. It’s true for one of the greatest linebackers to ever step foot on the field. The fact Gradishar does not have a bust in Canton, Ohio is a shame and sham. When the Seniors Committee meets on Friday to move a nominee to the full selection committee for vote on the Saturday before the Super Bowl, that player must be Gradishar. The five voters who will make that determination, according to the Hall of Fame, are: Ron Borges, Rick Gosselin, Jeff Legwold, Ira Miller, and Dan Pompei. Aside from the 2,000 tackles (which some say is 400 more than any other player in NFL history), the interceptions, the stuffs on third-and fourth-and-ones, being the leader for one of the greatest defenses in NFL history, here are the numbers that make Gradishar a Hall-of-Famer. The 1978 NFL Defensive Player of the Year http://www.broncoscheapauthenticstore.com/brandon-marshall-jersey-cheap , Gradishar is one-of-five defensive players to earn at least seven Pro Bowls from ‘74-83. The other four are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Jack Lambert, Robert Brazile, Jack Ham, Randy White). That’s why you often hear Broncos fans say, “If Gradishar played in (enter city), he would already be in the Hall of Fame.” “There’s an unintentional, I’m not going to call it a bias because as it happens every franchise has one vote. Or one media member has one vote,” Saccomano said. “There are 11 votes west of the Mississippi, and all the rest are east of the Mississippi. So generally speaking that means if there’s a really top player in Seattle he starts with the Seattle person speaking for him. But you couldn’t watch a guy in Seattle without flying there. But if someone is playing in Pittsburgh, there’s eight franchises, and people don’t realize this, they drive to the games. It makes a difference when you start the discussion with seven votes in the bag as opposed to one vote in the bag. And the first one to 75 percent wins.”The time has come to right one of the most absurd wrongs in NFL and pro football history. The time has come to put one of the greatest linebackers to ever play the game in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. When the name “Randy Gradishar” is mentioned, the time has come to end the disbelief that one of the greats really was that good and did it in Denver.“Woody Hayes said he was the best football player he ever coached,” Saccomano said. “And at one point, for a 10-year period, I don’t know if this is still the case, the Football Encyclopedia had the 250 best players to ever play the game, and Randy Gradishar was perennially listed as one of the 250 best players to ever play the game. “I have no question about it. No doubt about it.” Added Hall of Fame defensive lineman and broadcaster Merlin Olsen, who once said: “If you ask me to name the five best linebackers I played against or had a chance to cover in my broadcasting career, Randy Gradishar would be on that list. He was the kind of player that I would have loved to have as a teammate. There is no question about credentials here; Randy Gradishar belongs in the Hall of Fame.”Since we can’t do enough to make this happen for Gradidshar, here’s one more, courtesy of Hall of Fame receiver Steve Largent:
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