Peyton is a jerk
Oct03
on October 3, 2013
at 12:01 am
In two weeks the Broncos play the Jaguars. I’m hearing that the point spread on the game will be something like 28 points, the largest in NFL history. So this comic is a touch early, but whatever. It’s gonna happen.
A good buddy of mine is a Jags fan. We tease him constantly for his relentless optimism – though credit where credit’s due, he at least recognizes they need to rebuild unlike some who still believe Blaine Gabbert can work – but every single one of us is quick to try and cheer him up after the game, too, because he doesn’t deserve the kind of letdown they’ve given him since 1999.
Jacksonville’s one of those teams that you just root for no matter who they’re playing as long as it’s not your team, because they’re so bad it can’t possibly hurt your team’s playoff odds, and those poor bastards deserve a win for once.
It’s crazy to think that, looking at Denver’s weak schedule and Jacksonville’s fairly strong schedule, we could feasibly see 16-0 and 0-16 in the same year…
The Broncos schedule is weak early but gets pretty tough towards the end. We play the Texans, Patriots, and the Chiefs twice in a five week span. That’s three of the major contenders right there. There aren’t very many other strong teams in the league right now anyways; I’d call the Saints and Seahawks elite, maybe the Niners depending on the alignment of the cosmos. I honestly think our best shot of losing a game is at Arrowhead, assuming the Pats don’t get it together.
I do really, really wish we had the Seahawks on our schedule though. Hell even put the game in Seattle. It’d be a near guaranteed loss but we’d be prepared in the more-than-likely chance that we meet them in the Superbowl.
Dude, are you psychic?
Oh come on, don’t start that “weak schedule” crap, Clarificator. When the schedule was announced, the only guaranteed wins on there outside of the division were the Jags and Titans, and maybe the Eagles at a push. Of course, now we know the Broncos are rolling on everyone so it’s easy to say “oh look how easy the schedule is!”. The top 3 teams in the league are always going to have a so-called “easy” schedule. What do you want them to do, only play the Patriots outside of the AFC West?
And of course, the divisional games are going to be easy. Chiefs/Chargers/Raiders. It’s not the Broncos fault, nor the scheduler’s fault, that they’re easy outs. Though the Chiefs are much improved and should be able to take the fight to Denver, and the Chargers could be a tough out at home.
On the flipside, the Jags could play Cleveland 15 times a year and still have a hard schedule…
The Broncos had an easy schedule even before the preseason started as far as I was concerned.
The AFCW is weak outside of KC, but they looked weak last year too, so that was six games right off the bat I had them for. Jags and Titans looked awful last year, and anyone who thought any NFC East team, even last year, had any chance of beating Denver except maybe Washington if RG3 was back 100% and the secondary wasn’t horrifyingly bad – which we have learned it indeed is – was either lying or a team employee. So that’s another six wins, we’re up to twelve games that were easy for the Jags in the offseason when it was announced, and should be easy for them this year.
The only games that could actually challenge Denver from where it looked last year were Baltimore, New England, Indianapolis, and Houston. Baltimore’s been shellacked, Houston’s looking down, so Peyton has a grand total of two tough games all year. Sounds pretty easy to me.
Compare that to, say, the Saints, who have Atlanta twice, San Fran, Seattle, Chicago, and New England. That’s six games that sounded tough last season, and by and large still sound tough this season. Or the Packers, who had San Fran, Chicago twice, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore, all of whom looked to be having good years last year, and while Pittsburgh’s 0-4 and Atlanta’s 1-3, now Detroit’s 3-1 and looking dangerous, especially with as soft a D as GB.
The Broncos don’t have a powder-puff schedule of nothing but Jags, Raiders, and Browns, but they definitely have one of the league’s easier schedules. Now they still are certainly one of the league’s best teams, but to say they had a grand total of three guaranteed wins when the schedules were just announced and we were going off of each team’s 2012 season is absurd and severely underrating their roster.
Meant Broncos, not Jags at the end of the first paragraph. Herpadep.
What about the Giants? Before the season started, who would have thought they would be so bad? Or the Colts, who are on FIRE with Andrew Luck? The Cowboys this early in the season too can be a tough play. Same with the ‘Skins. I stand by my point that outside of the division, only the Jags and Titans are the guaranteed wins, and the Eagles are a push.
Of course, we all know differently now…
People overrated the Giants coming into this season, as is now evident(Sorry Dave). I had my doubts about David Wilson and Andre Brown, as well as the secondary. It turns out on top of those, the line decided to suck too. I didn’t think they’d be anywhere near as bad as they are, but 9-7 for the third year would’ve been lucky.
Dallas could put up a fight, but they were never going to win. The only position they’re better at is OLB/DE, and that’s only because Miller’s suspended for two more weeks. That aside, name me one position Dallas is stronger at. Name me one position they were stronger at last season. That was always a win for Denver as far as I was concerned.
Skins I mentioned as what I thought might be a possible challenge if RG3 were 100%, which he’s clearly not, and the Colts I mentioned as one of their only tough games. I do concede those two. But aside from Indy, Baltimore, Houston, New England, and maybe Washington, there were no tough games on their schedule. And now two of those four certainly don’t look as tough as they seemed when the schedules were announced, with one already being a blowout.
As for Philly, it was never a secret that defense was going to suck. Transitions from a 4-3 to 3-4 or vice versa are always messy. And living in Maryland so seeing a ton of Ravens games, anyone that thought Cary Williams would be a shutdown corner for Philly was fooling themselves. Peyton can carve up a good defense, a defense like Philly was going to be child’s play even before the season started.
I don’t think anyone overrated the Giants coming into the season. I don’t think anyone, anywhere, expected the Giants to be as bad as they are. We were in a weak division (which has been proven more than true) and playing the AFC West and NFC North. The North expected to give us the most trouble, but no one expected the AFC west to be as good as it is, either. The Chargers look back on target, at least for a mid-range record. The Chiefs are much better than expected, the Broncos are killing everyone and even the Raiders (Who many expected to be drafting #1) are overperforming, as long as Pryor stays healthy.
I legitimately don’t think 9-7 was an out of reach possibility for the season. I personally expected anywhere from 6-10 to 10-6. The O-line got a lot worse than I anticipated. 6-10 might be our ceiling now.
(Loved the comic, by the way. Especially the Papa John’s bit. Did you see that the Broncos’ o-line was responding/confirming Peyton’s audibles with “Papa John!” against the Eagle?
That was actually Fletcher Cox of the Eagles shouting “Papa Johns!” He was trying to taunt Peyton and failed miserably.
I stand corrected!
I like your inclusion of “eat papa johns” after hearing the audio for a broncs, eagles game where eagles fans were heckling manning with yells of “papa johns!” while he was trying to call plays. These jeers were easy to hear due to pin-drop quietness of mile high during the offense since manning has been whining at his fans to quiet down during his “perfection drives”
Dat forehead.
Two Sexy Rexys?!
Six, if I’m counting right.
sand in yo asscrack
“I’m hearing that the point spread on the game will be something like 28 points…”
Only 28???
That’s the same thing I thought. You’d think that it would be closer to 35-42 points.
If the spread is 35-42 points, that makes it easier for people to bet on the Jaguars to beat the spread (or whatever the term is, I’m not familiar with the lingo), which is why it won’t be that high.
Still the Broncos are going most certainly beat them by 35-42 points.
Not necessarily. They could rest starters 4th quarter (even late in the third), and give up a few garbage time TDs.
But if it’s too low, everybody that bets the over will win. And since this is the Jags we’re talking about, don’t bet on them stopping Denver’s 2nd or even 3rd stringers, or getting garbage time scores.
Btw, Saints 5-0. Who Dat!
I wanna Sexy Rexy Bucket
I hope you do a Tony Romo one tomorrow.