Let's be real though, the Broncos demolished the Ravens in the regular season last year too, and probably should have in the postseason as well.

There's a lot of luck in football.

There's only one Luck in football.

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Guy on the radio just said Denver was +9 going into this game.

Are you kidding me?! :facepalm: for Vegas.

Peyton got away with 3+ should-be picks, and the ravens failed to capitalize on a number of opportunities (denver's secondary coverage was awful).

Peyton's offensive run was to be expected given the injuries and the fact that he's got DT88, Decker, Welker, and Thomas to throw to....that's a tall order for any team.

IMO both teams are seriously overhyped. I will say I was very impressed with Denver's run-D. They stopped up Rice on demand. I was also impressed with the pass coverage--it should have been better, but covering up Suggs and Doom is tough.

The Ravens actually looked better than I expected and I think they'll have a good run this year. Pass D was good, and the receivers were getting open even if Flacco wasn't getting the ball there. Bmores O-line looked great at pass-blocking (at least early on). If B-more can establish Rice more strongly early on, it will give Flacco the time he needs to contemplate what to do before he randomly chucks the ball downfield and hopes for the best.

Maybe the Ravens got lucky last year, maybe not. Either way, last night was hilarious. Did they field a secondary at all? I guess it'll be a few more weeks before we know if the Broncos are really that good, the Ravens are really that bad, or it was just the first game of the season and everybody was really rusty.

I don't think seven passing TDs constitutes a solid passing defense.


I didn't watch the game (was dying at the ASU game) so I don't know what anyone looked like. I only caught the last 7min when D. Thomas ran that 40yd TD in or whatever.

Watching the game tells a different story than looking at the box score, especially when a lot of the passing TDs were later on when the Ravens were playing a different game. A whole lot of what the Broncos got done was due to things like random luck (ball bouncing out of bounds post-fumble) and chance (failing to challenge the catch on that screen, a lot of throws into coverage that were saved by weak throws).

The Broncos pass O should be reminiscent of glory-era pats, perhaps even better. It's not there, but it's still at the kind of point where covering up DT and Decker until you've given up on the game and are avoiding injury is no small feat.

I heard they didn't even have to cover Decker. Bastard had TO hands and kept dropping the ball. :shakes head:

Letting Boldin go is looking fairly stupid right about now. No Pitta, Dickson wasn't good at all, Jacoby's hurt and he sucks 99 times out of 100. It's going to be the Ray Rice show this year. Baltimore's D apparently missed the flight to Denver.

Broncos D looked fairly good considering Miller and Bailey were out. Other than dumbass dropping the pick 6 outside the endzone. Peyton was Peyton.

also bear in mind that opening day in Denver has got to be tough for sea-level east coast wimps:icon17:

With the Broncos "stealing" the Pats' hurry up offense from last season, they seem to be chasing the records of the 2007 Patriots. Makes me that much more excited for the Brady vs Manning match-up later this season. I just hope the Patriots do better with their completely re-tooled offense than the Ravens did.

Which record? That 18-1 record? :p

If NE fields a D this year, they could be a real handful.

will be an intense game for sure.

I meant the offensive records, like total points for the season and most TD passes in a season.

They're defense's performance is probably tied to how much of an improvement their sophomore players made since last season. They should do better over the whole season since they have Talib at the beginning.

Oh, I know. I was just pointing out how much good those records did in the end. ;)

Peyton has always run the hurry up. Better so than Brady.

Not my words, that's what John Fox said. The hurry up offense the Patriots used was different and they got it from Chip Kelly.

John Fox is a dumbass.

I've never even heard of him either.

How about them Lions this year? :ugh2: :wtf2:
I just want a winning season this year. I don't have very high hopes lol

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Yeah I couldn't READ that with a straight face. '68 was a looooong time ago haha

You know he's the Broncos head coach, right? :ugh2:

He is a dumbass though :)

No, I didn't. I don't really pay attention to all that and I've more important things to Google than his name. :icon17:

Regardless, my statement still stands. :tup:

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Not with your sarcasm, but the statement.





I do not like the Broncos. I like Peyton, but that's as far as I'll go.

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pretty impressive for manning to get 7 TD's

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I'm serious, I'm not a fan of his style. I didn't like him in Carolina and I didn't want him here.

Sorry Ravens fans, it doesn't look like it's going to be a good year. :shakes head:

Damn its hot here...hope its a good game

just basing that off that game, yea it seems like that

BUT as Terrell Suggs told the team afterwards

" All this means is that we wont go 16-0" every week is a new week. in the NFL nothing is a dead certain.

It's honestly probably good for the ravens to have lost horribly. Got them clued in that the season isn't going to be as easy as they thought.

Go Panthas!!:icon17:

and the lions fumble on the field goal snap...gonna be a great year :icon14:


Edit: AND Peterson runs for a touchdown on minnesotas first play of the game.

Broncos want Von Miller to repay the team 1.25 million signing bonus'

Y! SPORTS

and the steelers fumble inside the 5 yard line and the Titans recover

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Fun fact: The last time I saw this happen, I was playing highschool football. Forgivable at that level. Not so much here.

OOOPS! :icon18: