Meet Denver’s Leading Tackler And Detroit’s Leading Receiver
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iloveyoularrystation
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yeah the bad thing was those targets for tj, i think like 1 target during crunch time....overtime and end of 4th. they used him in to block a bunch as stafford started going to golliday a bunch in crunch time and he never produced.
Fryowa
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Being able to block well is what will keep the guy gainfully employed for a long NFL career, though.
WinOneThisCentury
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Too bad Jewells tackles were all 6-7 yards downfield. Their defensive line got abused by Oakland...talk about being exposed in the middle. All the hype was that Denver was an elite defense...and they may be as they get settled...but they got destroyed.
Denverhawk1
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Speaking about blocking, Fant had 2 holding calls in the 1st half. He will adjust and be fine I think, long term, but last night didn’t look good.
MoseSchrute
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What makes it even better...they didn't just go to school here, they are born and bred Iowans.
JoeyLabasForPresident
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Still early, it almost always takes NFL defenses a few weeks, and sometimes damn near the postseason, to get really solid. Just look at the Patriots defense last year. They won a super bowl with it, but you never would have thought that was possible the first half of the season.
Fryowa
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The first one was a block in the back.
mopkins
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Yeah it didnt help that the first play from scrimmage for the broncos was a weird TE reverse (sweep) with Fant for -5 yards. Who the F calls something so stupid?
Fant did have a nice over the middle catch later in the game but overall the Broncos looked terrible. Flacco....yikes
Fryowa
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That's what happens when you go to the used car market to find quarterbacks. You'd think teams would have learned from the Vikings by now.
iloveyoularrystation
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oh definitely, problem is when he's their best offensive weapon, and then you hold him in for golliday who is.....meh, golliday had one on one like 3-4 times during that crunch time period, and was 0-fer.
but you're absolutely right about the blocking, that's why he was drafted so high in the first place.
Northside Hawk
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Meanwhile Jackson looks like a budding star for Flacco's former team, the Ravens.
That was Ozzie Newsome's final first round pick before stepping down as longtime Baltimore GM. He may have been the best GM of his generation when it came to navigating the draft. His first two picks were Jonathon Ogden (over Lawrence Phillips) and Ray Lewis, who became the two best players in the history of the franchise. Three years later he fleeced the Falcons of a future first round pick just after Atlanta's Super Bowl appearance. When the Falcons crashed and burned in 1999, that pick was suddenly #5 overall. Newsome used it to select another pretty good player, Jamal Lewis.
Denver absolutely sucks. I knew the outlaw would carry his weight, but Jesus he can't carry everyone's.
My gal is from Colorado and a big fan, records every game of theirs, but not really into football itself and she couldn't take anymore and completely stopped watching in the 3rd. It was painful to watch.
My gal is from Colorado and a big fan, records every game of theirs, but not really into football itself and she couldn't take anymore and completely stopped watching in the 3rd. It was painful to watch.
