Heck, Denver doesn't look like Denver last year.Hervoyel said:So many of you guys (not talking to you highroller28, just "talking") seem to think this junk happens overnight or something. You act like one camp, a preseason, and two games should have us looking like the Broncos last year...
Some people were saying they'd be happy with a Miami-like season... so far, so good.......
Don't forget schedule.... It seems like some people don't understand what we mean when we say we have a very tough schedule.... 8th toughest of all the teams in the NFL. They look at N.O. and cry..... but N.O. has the toughest schedule in the league, and they haven't gotten to the tough part yet. It starts Monday vs Atlanta.Hervoyel said:.... but you take nothing into account. You ignore roster turnover, system (offensive and defensive) turnover, and simple things like how we played ok in the preseason but....
To be fair, our lack of a running game has little to nothing to do with the running back..... we haven't been getting any wholes, or blocks.... or seams... or cut backs.... or daylight for that matter.Hervoyel said:...... in case nobody noticed Kubiak didn't find his running backs until after the final cut (Dayne) and after the first game of the year (Gado). Then you freak out because we have no running game.
But we are only just learning the ZBS.........Kubiak took us back to scratch...... that's what we've seen the past two weeks. On top of that difficult system.. we're also learning the Greenbay power run game.
I think it was more along the lines of,"I doubt he'll hit the wholes like that after he gets a starting job"Hervoyel said:Didn't you think Kubiak saw that? He went out and got new backs even though our guys were tearing it up in the preseason. Wonder why that was? Maybe he thought to himself "This looks ok for now but we can do better" or something along those lines.
Hervoyel said:It's two games in but I don't feel like I did last year after we lost to Pittsburgh. The reason is that last year we were really 50 games into the Dom Capers era after that Pittsburgh beating, not just 2 games into 2005.
We're two games into the Gary Kubiak era right now. Do you know where we were two games into the Dom Capers era? We were coming back from San Diego after having been beaten into tiny little pieces. Dom's regime peaked at 7-9 in their third year.
Building anything takes time. It won't take nearly as long to build this time and our talent level isn't the dregs so many people are making it out to be. They've just got to be taught and "un-taught" before they can perform at the level we (all of us including I'm sure Gary Kubiak) expect them to perform at.
The only reason we are 0-2 right now, is scheduling...... that's it. If Cleveland was our first game, and not our last.... if Miami was our second...... we'd be 2-0 right now.
But I'm glad we got Indy early..... IF I were Kubiak, I'd be preparing for our home game against INdy every week from now 'till then.
We aren't going to the SuperBowl..... & I'm the only one thinking we're going to the playoffs...... we need a reason to play, we need a reason to win.
our home game against Indy will be our Championship, and we're going to stomp on every team in our way to get there.
We'll still lose a few, but we'll learn things about our team, we'll learn about their character, and see if they can bounce back.