Von Miller and Rahim Moore were the highlights of a defense-heavy draft engineered by the new John Elway/John Fox regime in Dove Valley. Listen in as Ian Cerveny and Dan Olson review the Denver Broncos’ 2011 NFL Draft picks.
Qatar solved this problem of appearances by offering to dismantle its World Cup facilities after the event and rebuild them in poor nations that cannot afford such amenities. FIFA will surely harp on this point early and often as an army of Indian, Bangladeshi & Pakistani immigrant workers labor for slave-wages to build these new facilities.
This wasn’t a game the Broncos were expected to win, but it was a game they could have won. While it bodes better for the team going forward, it also served to put a giant spotlight on the weaknesses of this team, and in the NFL weaknesses that go unimproved get exploited, quickly and mercilessly.
The 2010 Broncos season is just one draft, three shockingly random trades, and five months away. The once proud residents of Broncoland, who have spent most of this offseason trying to avoid the new ‘all news is bad news’ flavor of the organization, are desperate to know how Denver stacks up against its 2010 competition.
If you had told me in August that the Broncos would finish with 8 wins and just barely miss the playoffs, I would have been happy. Let’s be honest, we all would. But when we look at how this team actually fared, it’s not nearly as bright of a situation as we would certainly like to see.
An extreme case of red-zone impotence has finally come back to bite the Broncos, costing them a game that they had in their back pocket. Problem is, there’s no little purple pill for this variety of dysfunction. The only remedy is touchdowns, touchdowns, and more touchdowns.
