The Offense:
The Broncos offense looked sharp coming out of the gates. Kyle Orton proved he could engineer long drives and hit open receivers in the end zone. Jabar Gaffney made quite a few excellent catches, but he needs to finish off the drives. The pass he dropped in the end zone led to an ugly interception on the next play. My favorite players - Eddie Royal, Brandon Stokley, and Peyton Hillis - all looked stout and ready to play in the regular season. We sorely need Brandon Marshall.
The Defense:
It looks like we still need a lot of work, especially in the middle of the field. As far as the cornerbacks, when you're going up with the likes of T.J. Houshmandzadeh, chances are he's going to make you look bad. He burned Andre Goodman on a fade route for a TD. On the play before that he pulled an excellent ankle breaker move on Champ Bailey with a short sluggo route that Hasselback over threw him (should've been a TD too!) Early in the game the pressure on Hasselback was great, however it diminished greatly with a few short passes and screens. Our Blitz package needs to be disguised more. I hope Mike Nolan has some plans for improving the defense.
The Left-Handed Interception:
To me, pre-season give opportunity for situational football. Since the games are glorified practices, why not use them when given the opportunity? He's what I thought right away when we went for the TD on 4th down. First of all the starting offense was not going to come back out on the field, so in a sense, this was the final play of their game that mattered.
The situation: 4th and goal, play-off game, do or die, anything goes!
Although it turned out ugly in the end, I don't blame Kyle Orton for trying to make something happen. His right arm was being grabbed and he switched the ball to the left hand. Then he sent a floating dead duck up for grabs that was easily intercepted. He did what he had to given the situation. I could live with that play if it was the last play of the last game of the season.
Obviously if this was a real game with the time left on the clock in the 2nd quarter, then we would've kicked a field goal and gone in for half time to make adjustments on defense. But it's pre season and I believe the situation presented itself. It's nice to know that Kyle will do anything in a do or die situation, no matter the out come. Sure, he was ridiculed by the network for the play. I just don't think those that ridiculed understood what was really going on. I just hope I'm right, cheers! :-D
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