Month: December 2015

David Bruton Played With A Broken Fibula During The Steelers Game

4-6 weeks doesn’t necessarily end Bruton’s season, but it sure seems like the Super Bowl would be the only game that Bruton could have a decent chance of appearing in.  Bruton, for his part, gave a bittersweet message to the fans:

Market For Osweiler May Be Overstated

Call me inspired after taking a few days off from writing, but I wanted to get something in quickly regarding Brock Osweiler and whether or not the market for his services is really going to be as big as some might think it will be.

First of all, we need to remember the season isn’t over yet and that, while Osweiler has had good moments, he’s had his bad moments as well. He’s not yet in the category of where Colin Kaepernick once was (two NFC title games and a Super Bowl trip), and not in the category of what Andy Dalton was when he signed his extension (playoff trip every year he started). And while Nick Foles got a nice extension, he already had two full seasons as a starter under his belt, while Osweiler will have no more than seven regular-season starts this year.

Second, it’s not just a matter of teams throwing money at a quarterback just to do so. A team that is going to throw money at a QB is going to be a team that’s desperate to get over the hump and has a regime that senses its necks are on the line in 2016 if it doesn’t do something big. Furthermore, no team is going to give Osweiler big money if it already has money tied up in a quarterback, is developing its own QB, considering extending a current QB or won’t have the cap space to play such a game.
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The Morning After: Answering A Few Questions

If any words were to describe yesterday’s outing by the Denver Broncos against the Pittsburgh Steelers, it would be “mixed bag.”

The problem, of course, is the first half was mostly positive while the second half was mostly one we’d like to forget.

I don’t think anyone who is frustrated would feel as bad if it had been a back-and-forth game in which the Steelers happened to get the game-winning drive and the Broncos’ final drive fell short. Instead, we get a “tale of two halves” narrative and we are ready to throw everyone under the bus.
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Broncos/Steelers Injury Reports

Feel free to add more as the reports continue to come out, but being out at least two, if not three, safeties is not a good thing in anticipation for facing Ben Roethlisberger.

Meanwhile, the Steelers will be coming in incredibly healthy as far as their current roster goes: nothing but probables, and only DeAngelo Williams was limited in practice on Friday due to an illness.

Not So Scientific Rankings And A Note About Life

I don’t have much to say this week for reason I’ll explain once I’ve rolled out this week Not So Scientific Rankings. As always, they average the following:

Pro Football Focus Power Rankings

Pro Football Reference Simple Rankings System

Five Thirty Eight ELO Playoff Probability Rankings

Football Outsiders DVOA Rankings

Andrew Mason’s Power Rankings
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Raiders at Broncos: The 10 Things I Liked and the 10 Things I Didn’t

Clancy Barone, our offensive line coach, needs to be fired. How can the offensive line not improve over a 3-month period? It’s beyond ridiculous at this point. A tackle sled would’ve performed better. Osweiler’s success in this offense has a mix of the I-Formation, and a mix of quick feet to get away from the line and scramble when necessary. In an earlier post I wrote about Manning, it’s very obvious why this offense struggles. It’s not who is at quarterback; rather, it’s who is protecting the quarterback.

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