As a broncos fan living in St. Louis, I have only been to two regular season Broncos games in my life.  One was two seasons ago in the season opener in the STL in which Jake the Snake had three interceptions and a lost fumble and the Broncs lost 18-10 despite not giving up a touchdown.  The other was today- I drove the 4 hours to and from KC to see the game, only to be rewarded with the worst effort by the Broncos in who knows how long.  Pretty much anything that could go wrong could, and the game was about as demoralizing as one could be.  Some thoughts:

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The trade of Keary Colbert made me consider the overall direction of the Broncos once again.  For several years the franchise had attempted to skip the "rebuilding" phase, instead opting to sign aging veterans who were certainly capable, but could not take us to the championship level.  While we had great success with players such as Plummer (13-3), we never got an entire team assembled at once.  To me the problem with looking to veteran players primarily is that if most of your team is towards the downside of their career you never know when the dropoff in talent will occur.  Therefore everything must go just right in order to have a successful season; that is very few of your veteran players can have their abilities deteriorate during that particular season if you are to succeed.

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First of all, this post is in no way intended to criticize Jay Cutler- he had the game of his short but spectacular career this afternoon.  But it seemed as if his mechanics and decisiveness deteriorated as the game went on.  Some of this can be attributed to increasing pressure.  While at the beginning of the game Cutler was virtually untouched, as the game went on, it seemed the Charger pass rush was looming closer and closer, and Cutler eventually did take several hits.  I was very worried on several plays as Cutler stood in the pocket and seemed like he failed to pull the trigger as promptly as he should have.

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Yahoo Sports MJD Shutdown Corner Blog had some good things to say about Eddie Royal and the Broncos beatdown of the raiders in general.  The article is entitled

Don't Count On It: Things you won't be seeing again

A rare complementary article about the Broncos by the national media.  Seems like MJD might be joining the Broncos bandwagon in heading for lala land. Enjoy!

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Has anyone taken a look at Michael Silver's "rankings" in the form of his 32 Questions column?  If these are really rankings, they are absolutely absurd. 

-The titans are 4 and he touts them as putting "a licking on their opponent".  I'm pretty sure that their quarterback is extremely questionable at this point physically and emotionally, so he's putting a team currently without  a franchise quarter back at # 4.

-the giants are 2 b/c of their front seven depth.  Yeah, but they're just about out at the and its only the beginning of the season.

-jaguars are 8 even after allowing garrard to be sacked 7 times and only rushing for 33 yards with the vaunted MJD and Fred Taylor

-eagles only 14th after giving the rams an absolute butt-whipping without their top two receivers.

Anyway, these rankings, as Yahoo refers to them on the link, are an absolute joke.  The link is the first related item.

On a more positive note, the Yahoo Shutdown Corner blog by MJD has the Broncos as the #2 seed in its early preview of the playoffs. (2nd related item)

Take a look at Silver's ratings and let me know if you think there's any shred of truth or if you agree that they're bogus.  I don't understand how writers get paid to put lists like this together.  I mean, at some parts of the list it basically looks like teams were drawn out of a hat.

Like everyone else, I thoroughly enjoyed the MNF beat down on the hated raiders and the senile, adult-diaper wearing al davis.  However I noticed that on multiple running plays, the back failed to see the hole and really burst with confidence (go north-south )and instead ran into the back of his blocker (on one play Daniel Graham).  This happened several times on stretch plays.  If the back had either taken the ball all the way to the outside or cut back inside, he would have picked up at least several yards.  Instead the RB seems to just follow behind the blocker, getting stopped for no gain or a loss.  I just wanted to see if anyone else noticed these plays and if so, who the running back was.