“Who have they beaten?”
“The AFC West sucks.”
“Payton can only play in domes.”
If you give credence to any of the aforementioned statements, then you are a nincompoop, a defeatist, or just sadly misinformed.
I’ve had enough of the anti-Bronco nonsense being propagated by the legion of small-brained Easterners who wake up each morning in the loving embrace of a life-sized Tome Brady blow-up doll.
Who have the Broncos beaten? More teams than anyone else in the AFC and all of the losses came at the very beginning of the season when we were sporting a new offense, a new Defensive Coordinator, and a QB who hadn’t played in a year and a half coming off of 4 neck surgeries playing for a new team.
This is not the same bunch of dudes who lost 3 early games (2 on the road) to teams with a combined record of 37-11.
Denver’s record against playoff teams this year is 2-3. You what New England’s record is this year against playoff teams? 2-3! The only difference is we didn’t lose to the dog-ass Cardinals at home.
I know what you might be thinking. We are not playing the cheater Patriots, we’re playing the Ravens. True, but that’s OK. They are 2-4 against playoff teams in addition to their losses to such powerhouses as Philadelphia and the Charlie Batch-led Pittsburgh Steelers.
In fact, no team still playing in the AFC has a winning record against playoff teams. Houston was 3-4 going into last week’s home squeaker against a misfiring Bengals squad.
When did losing early games to strong opponents become a more damning condemnation of a team’s potential than getting bitch-slapped by crap-hole teams like Arizona, St. Louis, and Philly?
Does the AFC West suck? You bet it sucks. It sucks big time. You know what else sucks? The AFC North and the AFC East. Tennessee? Buffalo? Miami? The dysfunctional Jets? Jacksonville?! I’d put the Chargers up against any one of those blubberputts and expect a win. The only team outside the Patriots and Texans with any respectability is a lucky, overrated Colts team benefitting from high emotions and a last place schedule.
Which leads us to the uneducated fan’s favorite Mantra, “Manning can only play indoors.”
I suppose if 30350 yards, a 64.9% completion percentage, 205 TDs against only 107 INTs, and a Quarterback Rating of 93.7% can be labeled as “crappy” then I guess he can’t play outdoors.
Are the stats slightly better indoors? Of course they are! He played all his home games in a dome for 13 years! Check out any starting QB’s stats over a number of years and I guarantee that anyone not named Tony Romo is going to look better playing at home than toiling in hostile road conditions.
Take heart Broncos fans! Cast off the chains of your doubt and raise both your spirits and expectations to the skies! We are reasonably healthy, enjoy home field advantage throughout the playoffs, have a top 5 offense, an even better defense, solid coaching, and one of the greatest men ever to don a jersey sitting behind center.
And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, Manning can only play indoors during the playoffs, then the NFC is in grave danger when we meet them in New Orleans Superdome!
Don’t listen to the New England-philes, defeatists, and closet Raiders fans. They are at the low end of the human curve. I also have it on good authority that while Oakland fans are little more than simpletons, Patriots fans root for the Germans in war documentaries.
Go Broncos!
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