@DangeRuss ordered to play in first preseason game.

[bileever]

I suspect that after last year, he is questioning his approach. He wants to please Sean Payton by staying on script, while wanting to go back to playing the way he did before. Having too many different voices in your head is not a good thing. I don't know if you can be an effective NFL QB if you become indecisive because you are thinking too much.

 

[onanygivensunday]

Perhaps Russ will leverage his underwhelming performance last night into getting his in-facility office back... Coach, if you let me have my office back, I promise that I'll play better next week.

 

[Ostatehawk]

TD pass from Wilson, 7-0, let's see if Payton will rest Wilson for the rest of the game.

Sadly, for the broncos it didn't happen until they were up against their 2/3rd stringers.

 

[ronnieboycefanclub]

I watched on Gamepass and did anyone notice after the game was over, Wilson gathered some players in a circle for what appeared to be a prayer meeting. Apart from Wilson and one other, they were all Cardinals. Was the Bronco, someone who had not heard it before. After hearing it, they did not wish to hear it again?

 

[Ostatehawk]

Does anyone else think the announcer in the Cards game sounds like Jesse Ventura?

Every time he talked I kept waiting for someone to come in off the sidelines swinging a folding chair screaming "STONE COLD".

 

[Throwdown]

Same ol Russ, never developed and he won’t now. Payton bought into fools gold, our 3rd rounder from them is gonna be practically a 2nd at this point.

 

[Spin Doctor]

Same ol Russ, never developed and he won’t now. Payton bought into fools gold, our 3rd rounder from them is gonna be practically a 2nd at this point.

Payton had nothing to do with Wilson. He inherited him and put the hammer down on Wilson.

 

[keasley45]

Payton had nothing to do with Wilson. He inherited him and put the hammer down on Wilson.

I think hes talking about the pick we traded from them this year. Not as part of the Wilson trade.

 

[keasley45]

Just hopped over to the Broncos forum. Surprised to see zero threads (post first preseason game) on their passing game, Russ's performance under his new HC, the look of the new offense, etc.... zero conversation.

Is it denial time already?

 

[onanygivensunday]

Just hopped over to the Broncos forum. Surprised to see zero threads (post first preseason game) on their passing game, Russ's performance under his new HC, the look of the new offense, etc.... zero conversation.

Is it denial time already?

I visit there occasionally, and my take is... Donkey fans have their fingers crossed... and their mouths shut about Russ... all the while trusting Sean Payton to eventually elevate the Donks back to being relevant again (with or without Russ).

 

[strohmin]

Just hopped over to the Broncos forum. Surprised to see zero threads (post first preseason game) on their passing game, Russ's performance under his new HC, the look of the new offense, etc.... zero conversation.

Is it denial time already?

It looks like they are already blaming the O-line and receivers for dropped passes and wrong routes.

 

[SantaClaraHawk]

Wussy cards deleted their troll tweet! Wussy!

Cardinals delete video trolling Russell Wilson

After the Cardinals beat the Broncos in a meaningless game on Friday night, the Arizona social-media team tweeted a video trolling Denver quarterback Russell Wilson.

www.nbcsports.com

Happily some kind techie on Twitter saved it,

 

[toffee]

It looks like they are already blaming the O-line and receivers for dropped passes and wrong routes.

Wow, the spirit of John63 lives on.

 

[evergreen]

It never gets old.

 

[toffee]

This is one of those unstoppable-force-vs.-immovable-object things. Just as it's hard to answer the question of whether an infinitely powerful god can create an object so heavy that even the god itself can't lift the object, it's hard to answer the question of whether L.J. Collier isn't good enough to be a starter even on the worst defense in the NFL, or if the worst defenses in the NFL are so bad that even L.J. Collier could start there.

Cardinals' team website listed Collier was their STARTING defense end.

 

[toffee]

It looks to me like he's even less mobile abet the small
sample size but these were 2nd/3rd string he faced-Yikes!
You see on that sack that he can't even do his whirly spin
move?
This does not bode well for his game of off script sandlot stuff.

I read that he is now 215 lbs after an off season of serious weight loss. Does he looked noticeably slimmer? 215 after, what was before? 230?

 

[Scout]

I read a Broncos website head line that Wilson led three successful drives and the botched field goals were an anomaly. While true the context that is missing is that the Broncos had favorable field position for the most part and would have a combined 13 points only to show for it. Furthermore, the inability of the offense to convert third downs and punch the ball into the endzone when it mattered the most still haunts the Broncos offense dating to last season.

I am sure Payton will fix and improve things for the Broncos offense in general. But there is something fundamentally wrong when the Cardinals are starting LJ Collier out there and the Broncos made it seem like a struggle to move the football and score points against one of the most pedestrian defensive line front in all of football. Of course credit to Gannon's coaching staff for having these guys play up to their ceiling even if they are on paper not recognized as being good. Cardinals defense whether first string or second string looked very competent and polished out there against the Broncos 1s.

P.S. Broncos defense will be fantastic again but the Broncos offense being very pedestrian again will make it harder for them to win games if they can only muster 13 points in the first half and then lay goose eggs in the third quarter. That was the big flaw last season for the Broncos and priority #1 for Payton to fix.