Its official..Wade Philips is the new defensive coordinator.....
As a defensive coordinator Wade is actually pretty good. He's just not head coach material.
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As a defensive coordinator Wade is actually pretty good. He's just not head coach material.
Its official..Wade Philips is the new defensive coordinator.....
Gouki, Wade will do just fine as a D Coordinator. He's not the head coach fam.
Remember that 55-10 ass kicking the 49ers gave us in the Superbowl.....Wade Philips was the defensive coordinator that year..
I will reserve my judgement though,because he never had good corners from what I'm being told so we will see...
Julius Thomas turned down an 8 million a year deal...
I have no problem with him asking for more,but he's not worth it at all...especially how he only had one good an a half year and can't stay healthy...
Don't be shocked,if he goes to Oakland,since he's was a Raider fan as a kid...
Also,don't be shocked,if we pick up Jordan Cameron...if the Browns let him walk or don't franchise him....
I have no problem with him asking for more,but he's not worth it at all...especially how he only had one good an a half year and can't stay healthy...
Don't be shocked,if he goes to Oakland,since he's was a Raider fan as a kid...
Also,don't be shocked,if we pick up Jordan Cameron...if the Browns let him walk or don't franchise him....
Sounds like Julius Thomas is getting bad advice...
He'll miss us more than we will miss him [emoji18] Graham money too one dimensional to get that
Wade Phillips wants to crank up heat on opposing QBs
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – It’s not all that surprising that pass rushers would cast their votes for any defensive gameplan that called for the aggressive approach when it was time to chase down opposing quarterbacks.
But there was a moment in the Denver Broncos’ stretch drive this past regular season when linebacker Von Miller and defensive end DeMarcus Ware were seated next to each other and were asked to name the game to that point in the season when the Broncos had done the best job rushing the passer. And both players, simultaneously and without hesitation, said; “49ers.’’
Stands to reason, at least from the perspective of sack artists, since the game video revealed the Broncos not only were tied for the season best in sacks in the Oct. 19 win over the 49ers – they had six, one of two six-sack games during the season – but they were also the most aggressive in going about it in that game.
That game, a 42-17 Broncos’ victory at Sports Authority Field at Mile High, was also the season high for defensive snaps the Broncos sent five or more pass rushers at the opposing quarterback. A team that didn’t add extra rushers all that often to the mix sent at least one extra rusher at 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick on 14 defensive snaps, including penalty snaps.
Eleven of those snaps included five pass rushers and on three snaps the Broncos sent at least six. The Broncos also had two games when they sent at least five pass rushers at opposing quarterbacks for 13 snaps – wins over the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Dolphins.
No team attempted more passes against the Broncos last season than the Bills did – 57 – and the 49ers’ 46 attempts amounted to the fifth-highest total for the season.
It all comes to light because if there was a consistent criticism of the Broncos’ defense in the public domain it was that Jack Del Rio, with the likes of Miller and Ware in the formation, wasn’t aggressive enough in the rush. Both Del Rio and coach John Fox routinely said, with logic on their side, the best strategy on defense in these pass-happy times was a defense that could consistently create pressure with four rushers – with those four players coming from anywhere in the formation – so the Broncos could have seven players in coverage.
And overall, the Broncos did lead the league in forcing three-and-outs this past season – 30.8 percent of offensive series – and the team set a franchise single-season record for fewest rushing yards allowed per game (79.8).
But in the biggest moments the league's big-name quarterbacks have gone about their business largely unencumbered, including the loss to the Indianapolis Colts last month. The Broncos have had one sack in their last three playoff losses combined in two home losses in the divisional round to finish out both 2012 and 2014 to go with the loss in Super Bowl XLVIII to close out the 2013 season.
In the Super Bowl loss Russell Wilson completed 69.2 percent of his passes while Andrew Luck completed 62.8 percent of his passes in the Colts’ win over the Broncos in January – neither was sacked by the Broncos. In the double-overtime loss to the Baltimore Ravens to close out the 2012 season the Broncos sacked Joe Flacco once and while Flacco completed onlt 52.9 percent of his passes he threw for 331 yards on 18 completions.
So, while incoming defensive coordinator Wade Phillips has not promised a blitz-happy attack – he, too, likes to create as much pressure with four rushers as often as possible – he has promised an aggressive mindset.
“We’re aggressive,’’ Phillips said. “Defensive players, they’re aggressive by nature. I think you take something away from them when you don’t let them be. And aggressive doesn’t mean blitzing all the time, but it does mean coming off the football -- everybody coming off the football. You won’t see a square stance from a defensive lineman, so to speak for people who know football, where you’re reading. This is an attack defense, and that’s the way players like to play. You get the best results out of that and I think you play the best that way so we’ll be that way.’’
At the Pro Bowl, in the days leading up to the Super Bowl they had hoped to be playing in, both Miller and Ware offered a prelude to those sentiments. Both players, surrounded by Super Bowl reminders in the stadium where the title game would be played just a week later, offered the hope of aggressiveness.
“You always want to get to the quarterback,’’ Miller said. “This defense has the players to do it, we need just to get in the lab and figure out how to be better. Because we had moments where we showed what we can do, but we didn’t do it enough, myself included, I know that.’’
“We feel like there’s more we can do,’’ Ware said. “We want every play to be hard on the quarterback.’’
http://espn.go.com/blog/denver-bron...illips-wants-to-crank-up-heat-on-opposing-qbs
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – It’s not all that surprising that pass rushers would cast their votes for any defensive gameplan that called for the aggressive approach when it was time to chase down opposing quarterbacks.
But there was a moment in the Denver Broncos’ stretch drive this past regular season when linebacker Von Miller and defensive end DeMarcus Ware were seated next to each other and were asked to name the game to that point in the season when the Broncos had done the best job rushing the passer. And both players, simultaneously and without hesitation, said; “49ers.’’
Stands to reason, at least from the perspective of sack artists, since the game video revealed the Broncos not only were tied for the season best in sacks in the Oct. 19 win over the 49ers – they had six, one of two six-sack games during the season – but they were also the most aggressive in going about it in that game.
That game, a 42-17 Broncos’ victory at Sports Authority Field at Mile High, was also the season high for defensive snaps the Broncos sent five or more pass rushers at the opposing quarterback. A team that didn’t add extra rushers all that often to the mix sent at least one extra rusher at 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick on 14 defensive snaps, including penalty snaps.
Eleven of those snaps included five pass rushers and on three snaps the Broncos sent at least six. The Broncos also had two games when they sent at least five pass rushers at opposing quarterbacks for 13 snaps – wins over the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Dolphins.
No team attempted more passes against the Broncos last season than the Bills did – 57 – and the 49ers’ 46 attempts amounted to the fifth-highest total for the season.
It all comes to light because if there was a consistent criticism of the Broncos’ defense in the public domain it was that Jack Del Rio, with the likes of Miller and Ware in the formation, wasn’t aggressive enough in the rush. Both Del Rio and coach John Fox routinely said, with logic on their side, the best strategy on defense in these pass-happy times was a defense that could consistently create pressure with four rushers – with those four players coming from anywhere in the formation – so the Broncos could have seven players in coverage.
And overall, the Broncos did lead the league in forcing three-and-outs this past season – 30.8 percent of offensive series – and the team set a franchise single-season record for fewest rushing yards allowed per game (79.8).
But in the biggest moments the league's big-name quarterbacks have gone about their business largely unencumbered, including the loss to the Indianapolis Colts last month. The Broncos have had one sack in their last three playoff losses combined in two home losses in the divisional round to finish out both 2012 and 2014 to go with the loss in Super Bowl XLVIII to close out the 2013 season.
In the Super Bowl loss Russell Wilson completed 69.2 percent of his passes while Andrew Luck completed 62.8 percent of his passes in the Colts’ win over the Broncos in January – neither was sacked by the Broncos. In the double-overtime loss to the Baltimore Ravens to close out the 2012 season the Broncos sacked Joe Flacco once and while Flacco completed onlt 52.9 percent of his passes he threw for 331 yards on 18 completions.
So, while incoming defensive coordinator Wade Phillips has not promised a blitz-happy attack – he, too, likes to create as much pressure with four rushers as often as possible – he has promised an aggressive mindset.
“We’re aggressive,’’ Phillips said. “Defensive players, they’re aggressive by nature. I think you take something away from them when you don’t let them be. And aggressive doesn’t mean blitzing all the time, but it does mean coming off the football -- everybody coming off the football. You won’t see a square stance from a defensive lineman, so to speak for people who know football, where you’re reading. This is an attack defense, and that’s the way players like to play. You get the best results out of that and I think you play the best that way so we’ll be that way.’’
At the Pro Bowl, in the days leading up to the Super Bowl they had hoped to be playing in, both Miller and Ware offered a prelude to those sentiments. Both players, surrounded by Super Bowl reminders in the stadium where the title game would be played just a week later, offered the hope of aggressiveness.
“You always want to get to the quarterback,’’ Miller said. “This defense has the players to do it, we need just to get in the lab and figure out how to be better. Because we had moments where we showed what we can do, but we didn’t do it enough, myself included, I know that.’’
“We feel like there’s more we can do,’’ Ware said. “We want every play to be hard on the quarterback.’’
http://espn.go.com/blog/denver-bron...illips-wants-to-crank-up-heat-on-opposing-qbs
Can't wait for next season
It looks like Pot Roast is out of Denver....I was just getting use to the idea of us stopping the run for a change....
It looks like Pot Roast is out of Denver....I was just getting use to the idea of us stopping the run for a change....
All kinds of rumors about Vince Wilfolk....he might be available to take Pot Roast's spot.
I don't know who the Broncos are picking up for NT....like I said,I was getting used to the idea of this team stopping the run....now I have no idea,if we're going to continue it or go back to getting gashed like we used too....
I don't understand why Broncos fan are upset that we haven't made the news in free agency....my goodness...We grabbed Emmanuel Sanders,Aqib Talib,TJ Ward, and DeMarcus Ware,last year and yet they're not happy..
On top of that we resigned Chris Harris and Virgil Green and this year in free agency we grabbed Owen Daniels...but its not good enough..
I'm glad their fixing the offensive line though...
On top of that we resigned Chris Harris and Virgil Green and this year in free agency we grabbed Owen Daniels...but its not good enough..
I'm glad their fixing the offensive line though...
Welker,won't give it up.....
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland walked away from the NFL at the age of 24 for fear of head injuries, despite not having a diagnosed concussion for a decade. And then there’s Wes Welker, the anti-Borland, a wideout with a disturbing array of concussions who isn’t ready to quit.
“As long as I’ve recovered the right way and everything like that, I’m ready to go,” Welker told ESPN in December. “I really don’t see any problem with it.’’
But apparently the rest of the NFL sees what Welker doesn’t. Pro Football Talk reported the receiver has “generated no buzz” on the free-agent market. Welker, who will turn 34 in May, is a shadow of the player he once was after sustaining three concussions in a 10-month span.
Welker was targeted just 4.7 times per game with the Broncos in 2014 and caught only two touchdowns (down from 8.4 and 11, respectively, the prior season). His 484 receiving yards were his lowest total since 2006.
In Welker’s first season in Denver, he got concussed twice in a four-game span, lying face down and writhing in pain after the second, sustained on a forearm to the head by Tennessee safety Bernard Pollard.
He sat out the last three regular-season games, and came back for the postseason wearing a bigger helmet. He proceeded to get yet another concussion on a hit by Houston safety D.J. Swearinger.
Sports columnist Jeff Pearlman wrote: “I don’t think you’re courageous. Or tough. I think you’re f—ing stupid. … Wes, you’re a young guy, and you need to retire right now.’’
Borland was diagnosed with concussions in eighth grade and his sophomore year in high school (playing soccer), and thinks he might have had one in training camp last year as a rookie. He walked away willingly. Welker doesn’t have any intention of q
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland walked away from the NFL at the age of 24 for fear of head injuries, despite not having a diagnosed concussion for a decade. And then there’s Wes Welker, the anti-Borland, a wideout with a disturbing array of concussions who isn’t ready to quit.
“As long as I’ve recovered the right way and everything like that, I’m ready to go,” Welker told ESPN in December. “I really don’t see any problem with it.’’
But apparently the rest of the NFL sees what Welker doesn’t. Pro Football Talk reported the receiver has “generated no buzz” on the free-agent market. Welker, who will turn 34 in May, is a shadow of the player he once was after sustaining three concussions in a 10-month span.
Welker was targeted just 4.7 times per game with the Broncos in 2014 and caught only two touchdowns (down from 8.4 and 11, respectively, the prior season). His 484 receiving yards were his lowest total since 2006.
In Welker’s first season in Denver, he got concussed twice in a four-game span, lying face down and writhing in pain after the second, sustained on a forearm to the head by Tennessee safety Bernard Pollard.
He sat out the last three regular-season games, and came back for the postseason wearing a bigger helmet. He proceeded to get yet another concussion on a hit by Houston safety D.J. Swearinger.
Sports columnist Jeff Pearlman wrote: “I don’t think you’re courageous. Or tough. I think you’re f—ing stupid. … Wes, you’re a young guy, and you need to retire right now.’’
Borland was diagnosed with concussions in eighth grade and his sophomore year in high school (playing soccer), and thinks he might have had one in training camp last year as a rookie. He walked away willingly. Welker doesn’t have any intention of q
I just saw that...I would of love to have Welker back,but he's been injured prone,especially last season.....How many will it take for him to leave the game....
I read that Packers might pick him up...
I read that Packers might pick him up...
Shannon Sharpe just flat out called Julius Thomas a quitter
http://www.milehighreport.com/2015/...harpe-on-julius-thomas-he-quit-on-the-broncos
http://www.milehighreport.com/2015/...harpe-on-julius-thomas-he-quit-on-the-broncos
I see the Broncos going 13-3 or 14-2,if they stay focus....
Thoughts on Shane Ray...I've been reading that he's similar to Dumervil...
God dayum,this team can't get a break.....Ryan Clady is out for the year.....
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Apparently,DT wants Calvin Johnson money...I don't know,if he's going to get it,but he does deserve to get top 5 money..
I don't understand,why most Broncos fans are calling him a prima donna,care about money more about the team and etc and yet don't say shit when players like Champ Bailey are released,while they are under contracts........
I don't understand,why most Broncos fans are calling him a prima donna,care about money more about the team and etc and yet don't say shit when players like Champ Bailey are released,while they are under contracts........
Elway better sign Demaryius Thomas
I'm pleased what I saw for the most part tonight...our special teams is a major concern though...why the hell they bring back Joe DeCamillis as the special teams coach is beyond me...
Dysert looked horrible tonight,while Siemian may push him for the third spot as quarterback.
Dysert looked horrible tonight,while Siemian may push him for the third spot as quarterback.
The defense played very well,yesterday.....this is the type of defense I've been wanting to see,for a long time
We had pressure,had an interception for a touchdown and etc
It's kinda crazy that the defense is the strength of the team at the moment,while the offense is trying to through their little funk..
I'm not worry about the offense,since we have a quarterback that's smart,but if they continue the way they played within the next few week,I'm going to start to worry.
I will say this though,Kubiak should do a little more what Manning does best,because that first drive was great,but we couldn't score...
We had pressure,had an interception for a touchdown and etc
It's kinda crazy that the defense is the strength of the team at the moment,while the offense is trying to through their little funk..
I'm not worry about the offense,since we have a quarterback that's smart,but if they continue the way they played within the next few week,I'm going to start to worry.
I will say this though,Kubiak should do a little more what Manning does best,because that first drive was great,but we couldn't score...
Defense will be nasty. Offense will do their job. The goal is to be able to play "playoff football" which is what we are doing. We've had record setting explosive offensive seasons that hasn't done anything for us in the playoffs. I'm excited to see the offense come alive. When we click......
Defense will be nasty. Offense will do their job. The goal is to be able to play "playoff football" which is what we are doing. We've had record setting explosive offensive seasons that hasn't done anything for us in the playoffs. I'm excited to see the offense come alive. When we click......
It's the first time..in awhile I've seen our defense like that....What makes it even better is that the defense didn't lose a beat when Von and Ware took a breather...
But you're right...if the offense gets on the same page...I don't see anybody beating us.
It's the first time..in awhile I've seen our defense like that....What makes it even better is that the defense didn't lose a beat when Von and Ware took a breather...
But you're right...if the offense gets on the same page...I don't see anybody beating us.
You need it to be just a slow start for Manning. What's the word on his arm strength. I didn't watch the game.. is he really looking that bad?
Manning's arm strength is fine the problem is the offensive line needs time to gell.
Ryan Clady being out for the year hurt the offensive line alot.....I think,he would of had a bounce back year,after coming back from that injury last season.
Anyways,I'm here like...we're about to lose and all of a sudden we score two touchdowns in less than a minute.
With that said, Kubiak needs to figure out how to fix the offensive line,because we play at Detroit,next..
It seems like Manning was comfortable in the Pistol,but we need to figure out a way to get our running game going and hope our offensive line improves with each game....
I've never seen our defense get so many turnovers in the first couple of games and I hope it continues,because later we will need them against Indy and NE,later in the season
I've never seen our defense get so many turnovers in the first couple of games and I hope it continues,because later we will need them against Indy and NE,later in the season
I agree....but we should of kept some of the offensive lineman from last year,because it's obvious they're having trouble at the moment.......I think it's mostly due to Clady being out again,this year
I will say this though something isn't right with CJ,because he allowed that defensive linemen to sack Manning..I'm look at that play like...wtf...
The pass blocking look good today,for the most part,while the run blocking looked on and off,but I see some improvement though....Hopefully,the running game takes off soon,because we need it in the second half of the schedule.
As,for the defense outside of giving up that one run and Chris Harris getting picked on all game..it played well.
What's up with Manning throwing that first interception......I don't blame him on that second one,since it look like DT just gave up on the route....
As,for the defense outside of giving up that one run and Chris Harris getting picked on all game..it played well.
What's up with Manning throwing that first interception...
...I don't blame him on that second one,since it look like DT just gave up on the route....