I read (saw?) somewhere that the Broncos didn't play a top ten defense all season.

Now they have.

If a team can't run against the Hawks they are toast. You must make their linebackers play close to the line with play action to open up any passing opportunities. The reason the Niners made it a game was because of Kaperniks(?) running.

A promotion in houston gave you 6k of free furniture if the Seahawks won. The company gave away 7 million in furniture. Yikes, they need to fire promotions guy.

Read post #11, that guy knew what he was talking about.

The Hawks came in and punched them in the mouth. Way more team speed. Took care of the ball. Won on special teams and basically all facets of the game. These guys hit, and not usually just with one. Defense wins!

The Broncos and Chiefs were paper lions, especially the Chiefs. Everyone was saying how great they were and their amazing defense when they were 9-0. I said wait for after their bye week when they actually have to start playing some teams, even if they were AFC teams. The result, 2 wins 6 losses. The Broncos and Chiefs had the 2 easiest schedules in the NFL.

I'm still glad that Peyton did not get hurt, he is a class act.

Denver didn't seem to learn anything from their 40-10 whooping by the Seahawks pre-season game. Essentially the same game as the super bowl.

The play calling was horrible.

Think their OC will be looking for a new job soon.

Peyton Manning going somewhere? As was reported by the media, players on the Broncos, former Manning teammates, sports talk pundits, etc., to the point of nausea for two weeks leading up to the game, Peyton IS the OC. He calls the plays.

Something to consider: Six times teams have met in the preseason and met in the Super Bowl that same year. The preseason winner won five of those Super Bowls.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/sports/football/an-unconventional-path-to-scripting-the-broncos-offense.html?_r=0

Between plays on the field, Peyton Manning appears just a bit unhinged. The body language is manic, an eruption of gesticulating arms, twiddling fingers and fidgeting, stamping feet.

It is as if he hears voices in his head.

And for several seconds between each play, through tiny speakers in his helmet, Manning is listening to someone. It is a big responsibility to be the person talking in Manning’s ear. That person calls the plays that could decide Sunday’s Super Bowl for the Denver Broncos. It is a job that would seem to take on-field experience.

But Adam Gase, the 35-year-old offensive coordinator who instructs Manning between plays, never played professional or college football. On his high school team, he was an average player. And this season is the first time he has called plays at any level. Oh, yes, and in 2013 Gase designed and directed an offense that scored more points in a season than any other team in N.F.L. history.

It is legendarily known that Manning audibles on the line when he doesn't like what he sees. The high-flying offense, as has been said all year, is HIS offense. The OC on his teams is a essentially a figurehead.

k
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If Denver played in the NFC West they would MAYBE in the top 3.

The 49ers woulda kicked their azzes also.

August 17, 2013, Denver 10 Seattle 40

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What did Yogi Berra say?;)

Woody Paige in the Denver Post
 

Paige: This one's for a john, Broncos flush their chances in a bowl


This one's for the john.

The Denver Broncos' 43-8 debacle belongs in the bowl with those 27-10, 39-20, 42-10 and 55-10 fiascoes.

Sunday night shall live in ignominy, too.

We've seen this four times before. Orange crushed, again — this time by Seattle.

This one's the most excruciating, though. The difference between the others and Super Bowl No. 48 was the "most prolific offense" in NFL history played like the "most offensive team" in Super Bowl history in a game regarded as a tossup.

Until the final play of the third quarter, the Broncos had not scored, but had given up a safety, two field goals, a running touchdown, a passing touchdown, an interception touchdown and a kickoff return touchdown.

Finally, the Seahawks gave up a meaningless touchdown at quarter's end.

Too bad the Super Bowl wasn't a snowout.

Too bad it was a blowout.

The fight should have been called off, mercifully, 12 seconds into the third quarter with the Broncos down, and out, at 29-0.

So, Broncos owner Pat Bowlen and executive vice president John Elway did not secure their third Super Bowl victory. John Fox did not collect his $1 million victory bonus. Peyton Manning did not earn his legacy second victory. Champ Bailey did not get his first Super Bowl victory.

"At the end of the day, no excuses," Fox said.

At the beginning of the night, the Broncos were brutal.

On the Broncos' opening offensive play, Manning was doing his usual histrionics when center Manny Ramirez snapped the ball into the end zone. Uh-oh.

Demaryius Thomas said the Broncos "came out ready to play." The Broncos acted like they had never played, or even practiced. They fumbled, bumbled and crumbled.

Fox said there were a "a couple of plays we didn't execute as well as they did."

How about 125 plays?

The offense's, defense's and special teams' game plans must have been written in crayon. Fox and his staff obviously were outcoached, and the Broncos were outplayed.

Manning broke the Super Bowl record for pass completions (34). A hollow record. Peyton this season won everything but the one thing he wanted. He played terrible.

What about the running game? What running game? Twenty-seven yards on 14 carries? Receivers dropped balls and pulled up on routes or couldn't escape. A total team mess.

The special teams were horrid — Seattle's Percy Harvin returned the second-half kickoff for a touchdown, and Denver's first punt went 29 yards and Trindon Holliday looked like a deer in the headlights.

"We just didn't play like we're capable of," Elway said. He's been there.

Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner wasn't shocked. "They haven't played a defense that flies around like we do, that hits like we do."

The Broncos were discombobulated early on, and on and on.

The farce was reminiscent of the Broncos' Super Bowls in the 1980s.

"They were separate," Elway said.

But very alike.

The Broncos waited 15 years for this?

It was not possible for the Broncos to play any worse.

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This encouraging bit of writing form the "home town" newspaper ...

As was Woody Paige above, tough day in Broncoland...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It took Peyton Manning 37 years to build a reputation as the best quarterback in NFL history, and only 12 seconds in the Super Bowl to fumble it away.

Duck, Peyton.

As much as it hurt to be humiliated by a 43-8 loss to Seattle in the Super Bowl, the pain will be nothing compared to the heat Manning will take for flopping on football's biggest stage. The Broncos were so bad Sunday, the sun might be embarrassed to show its face in Colorado.

"The word embarrassing is an insulting word, to tell you the truth," an obviously irked Manning said Sunday.

Football is not fair, and then you die a thousand deaths as a quarterback when your team looks scared and unprepared on the game's biggest stage. With an 11-12 record in the postseason, Manning gets dissed for choking in the postseason.

This loss won't help. Rout is not a strong enough four-letter word to describe how poorly the Broncos played. After throwing two first-half interceptions that ignited Seattle's rout, Manning will take the brunt of the blame.

"A lot of people will put the blame on Peyton Manning. ... But this is a team loss. It's not Peyton Manning's loss. It shouldn't be a knock on his legacy," Broncos defensive tackle Terrance Knighton said.

Has the NFL championship game ever been lost in a single play?

Embarrassing might be an insult to everything the Broncos achieved as they became the first team in league history to score more than 600 points in the regular season, then beat San Diego and New England in the playoffs. But embarrassing is the only way to describe what happened to Manning and the Broncos on the first snap from scrimmage. It is destined to go down as the most embarrassing play in Super Bowl history.

Manning is known for having all the answers. He walked into MetLife Stadium for the big test. The first thing Manning did? Misspell his name on the paper.

Standing in the shotgun, Manning barked signals Denver center Manny Ramirez could not hear above the din of 82,529 screaming fans. "Nobody could hear me," Manning said. As the quarterback walked toward Ramirez to fix the communication breakdown, Ramirez launched the snap far over Manning's head. The football bounced into the end zone. Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno pounced on it, conceding a safety to Seattle.
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What is most to blame for Broncos' loss in Super Bowl?
First-play safety: Immediately set wrong tone
Offense: INTs, fumbles, lousy pass protection
Coaching staff: Curious fourth-down decisions
Special teams: Devastating kick return for TD

When did Ramirez figure out Manning was in no position to take the first snap of the Super Bowl, a play the Broncos had two weeks to rehearse?

"They told me on the sideline," said Ramirez, who admitted he snapped the ball three seconds after Manning expected it to be delivered. "There's no explanation."

The most prolific quick-strike offense in NFL history scored two points for Seattle without the Seahawks even trying.

And the Super Bowl dreams of Denver? Gone in 12 seconds.

"When you're trying to battle back, it's really hard," Broncos receiver Eric Decker said. "And I think you could definitely feel the momentum of the game snowball on us."

From the opening kickoff, which saw returner Trindon Holliday slammed down at the 14-yard line, the Broncos were dominated by the first rule of the playground: Athletes stay. Losers walk. No amount of intelligence or creativity can overcome a clear and decisive difference in speed and strength.

Super Bowl XLVIII was not NFC vs. AFC. It was varsity vs. JV. Whenever Seattle speedster Percy Harvin touched the football, whether as a running back or a kick returner, time and the Broncos stood still. Their championship aspirations faded to black.

Panic set in for Denver shortly before halftime. Trailing 22-0, Broncos coach John Fox eschewed a short field goal in an attempt to gain 2 yards on fourth down. Manning's pass to Demaryius Thomas never had a chance.

After Harvin opened the second half by taking the kickoff 87 yards for a touchdown that put Seattle ahead 29-0, Fox decided not to go for it on fourth down, facing fourth-and-11 at the Seahawks' 39-yard-line with 10 minutes, 54 seconds remaining in the third quarter. The punt was a concession speech.

"We were on a national stage, in the biggest game in America," Decker said. "And to come out and play like that?"

It was super depressing.

Manning set a Super Bowl record with 34 completions. "Star Wars" numbers, but an unhappy ending. Fair or not, it's the dominant story of his NFL career.

Pardon John Elway for having a 1980s flashback for the lopsided Super Bowl losses he endured early in his playing career. "We just didn't play like we're capable of. I was disappointed," Elway said.

A year ago, a stunning loss to Baltimore in the playoffs gave the Broncos a sense of purpose and a motto: Unfinished business.

This loss to Seattle was worse. It shouted: As now constructed, the Broncos are not good enough to win it all.

As quarterback of the Broncos, Manning won the league's MVP award for the fifth time. Here's betting he would trade all those trophies for just one more championship ring. At age 37, Manning is running out of time to go jewelry shopping.

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Percy Harvin

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I don't drink...It is bad for my health....and as such....

So let us come up with some other clever little rejoinder?

The above is how one salvages ones reputation when one steps on ones own dk by making a prediction that is out of ones discernment The way it works is thus:

1. The statement that TABS has "no credibility" is accurate, he did step on his own. Therefore one does have or has regained credibility by making an accurate statement

2. There is no weaselly, whining excuses in an effort to escape responsibility.. about how one didn't see this or that or the other and as such I deserve..We have enough of that through out American society.

3. One's own assessment about ones own self was as merciless as one would be about anyone else...One showed no favoritism, even to ones own self...

One was dead wrong and that is all there is to it.

Are you sure you do not indulge in a even a demitasse of tea now and then?