Here's something you probably can't alter ... an IQ Test. I went out on a $500 limb (offer's still open), so I can't show my membership card yet. But I took this online IQ test the other night, and I welcome all challengers:
Somehow I missed that. My god, what a pathetic piece of sportswriting.
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Broncos DC Vance Joseph didn’t just beat Patrick Mahomes. He didn’t just beat the Chiefs. He broke them.
Kansas City hasn’t looked the same since Halloween. Neither have the Broncos. Now that Mahomes has been losing his dang mind, we’ve got VJ to thank for it.
Vance Joseph didn’t just beat the Chiefs. He broke them like plates at a Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Before the Broncos turned Patrick Mahomes upside down in Week 8 and shook him like a snow globe, No. 15 was Showtime.
He’s been Redbox ever since.
Mea culpa, VJ. I was wrong. We were wrong. Broncos Country wanted a scapegoat for that 70-burger in Miami. Your office was the closest to the sacrificial altar.
And if the wonks who vote on NFL Assistant Coach of the Year are paying attention, that baby oughta be your to lose, Vance. You got it right. Sean Payton got it right. George Paton got it right. Greg Penner got it right.
Instead of shedding blood, the Broncos shed disgruntled veterans. Instead of blowing up the bathroom, they retiled the shower. Every little tweak hit like a sledgehammer.
They identified a new boundary corner (Fabian Moreau) who could handle the traffic from QBs avoiding Pat Surtain II. They found a star in nickelback Ja’Quan McMillian, a college free agent out of East Carolina whose quiet case for a Pro Bowl nod — seven TFLs, two interceptions and two fumbles forced over his last eight games — gets louder by the week.
They handed the keys to Baron Browning, Jonathon Cooper and Nik Bonitto, then watched them drive tackles batty. No team in the NFL has more sacks over the past three weeks than the Broncos’ 18.
Explosion plays vanished. Missed tackles felt like unhappy accidents. In his 13 games as defensive coordinator, Joseph’s defense somehow transformed from a rusty, flaming dumpster into Optimus Prime. Welcome to The Vance Vance Revolution.
If the buddy-cop tandem of Payton & Paton are half as smart as they think they are, they’ll get in Penner’s ear, rip up whatever’s left of VJ’s contract and let Joseph name his price.
It’s been so long — too long — since Broncos Country found something they could trust falling in love with again. You don’t let that feeling walk away easy.
Now that you mention it, the last seven weeks have been so much fun, the only thing missing for Joseph’s cadre is a clever nickname, right? Some proper shorthand, along the lines of “Orange Crush” and “No-Fly Zone”, for one of the most remarkable defensive units in the history of a franchise that’s been defined by them.
Open to suggestions, of course. “Team Takeaway?” “The Turnover Train?”
Here’s another stab, take it or leave it: The Mahomes-Wreckers.
The NFL is an unabashed cut-and-paste, copycat league. Other great defensive minds have proffered theories toward an antidote for the logic-bending, gravity-defying, generational genius of Mahomes, the Chiefs’ QB1.
Joseph might’ve just written the definitive book on the subject.
Before Kansas City visited Empower Field on Oct. 29, the Chiefs were 6-1. The Broncos were roadkill.
On a cold day in Hades, VJ’s defense forced five turnovers, picking off The Grim Reaper twice and sacking him three times.
“Well, you know, Mahomes was sick”, they sniffed.
“Yeah, it was the snow,” they scoffed.
Was it?
In Kansas City’s six games that followed, the Chiefs are 2-4. The defending Super Bowl champs have scored a Shurmuresque 19 points per game during that stretch, while surrendering 1.83 sacks per tussle.
Context: In the seven games before Broncos 24, Mahomes 9, Andy Reid’s finest averaged 25.4 points per game and allowed just one sack per tilt.
During that 6-1 start, Mahomes threw for at least 280 yards four different times. During the 2-4 run since, one that includes the Chiefs’ first loss to the Broncos in forever, No. 15’s only managed to hit that mark once.
So much for sick.
So much for snow.
“Vance and these guys have done a really good job of bringing combinations, if you will, which makes it a little harder,” Payton reflected Monday.
“I think it’s a little bit contagious. I think there (are) certain plans you have for certain styles and certain quarterbacks. Some of these guys are too good to sit in the pocket and they’re too talented. Somehow, you have to disrupt the passing game. And it’s either at the line of scrimmage and re-routing receivers, or it’s with the quarterback. (VJ’s defense has) done a good job.”
When the recovery becomes even more impressive than the failure, it’s not just good, coach. It’s historic.
And when the stuff this league is cutting and pasting is yours, it’s not just flattery. It’s gospel. The AFC West is a race again, and Hallelujah.
Originally Posted by jjchieffan:
Rofl! 1960-1973. Chiefs dominate. So I'm starting with 1973. Screw those first 14 seasons. They don't back my narrative. Got it.
Yeah, especially when they started playing games at the same time, in the same league, against the same teams. And every measurable sanctioning body recognizes the games and statistics... But Buffy, being a "Mensa" and all, sees it differently! :-) [Reply]
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Originally Posted by brdempsey69:
Tex, I'm sure that you & countless other will agree that Buffy's defense of his Donkeys is a s ludicrous as the seeing-eye dog in the image below that's supposed to be defending his blind master:
Originally Posted by TEX:
Absolutely! The deal is, Buffy has presented this argument literally for more than a decade. It's the same shit he used to spew over at the Mane. And then he took it to the Huddle. And the funny thing is, while he's been cutting and pasting, he's been losing ground the whole time because the Chiefs now have every advantage that he used to brag about. :-)
Sorry that the image didn't post, but I'm not able to post images or links, yet.
Buffy follows the same protocol of "p!ssing on his own head & telling himself it's raining" that his Donkey buddy Schlereth posted on X/Twitter just a few days ago when Schlereth posted to the effect of "Donkeys whipped ass in that '97 playoff game at KC".
Nothing can be further from the truth -- Donkeys were CHARITY GIFTED that '97 playoff debacle. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BroncoBuff:
Reynard I see you there ... please, wtf are you referring to?
Your own example falsely equivocates pre-merger championships with post-merger championships. Then you state that you only make apples-to-apples comparisons.
Then, after that hypocrisy, you have the balls to call us hypocrites? Get the fuck out of here. [Reply]
Originally Posted by jjchieffan:
Rofl! 1960-1973. Chiefs dominate. So I'm starting with 1973. Screw those first 14 seasons. They don't back my narrative. Got it.
Originally Posted by rydogg58:
Guys, he took an internet IQ test and it said he was Mensa!
Mensa! Lmao, you're such a ****ing moron.
Originally Posted by TEX:
Yeah, especially when they started playing games at the same time, in the same league, against the same teams. And every measurable sanctioning body recognizes the games and statistics... But Buffy, being a "Mensa" and all, sees it differently!
All three of you misquote me. ALL THREE! Geez, maybe I am being passive aggressive, but not realizing it.
This whole thing feels really strange .... none of you read my posts, but you're still hostile as all hell.
TEX, "every sanctioning body recognizes?" Come on, I've posted three, four, five times the past few days: "Yes, the games count. The results are accurate, they're part of the historical record." So what's the point of saying "everysanctioningbodysez......"?
And also very strange ... that certificate is obviously not Mensa..... ??
I didn't even mention the bad ball spots on both 3rd and 4th downs last week ... Imagine what that might've provoked.
Originally Posted by RedinTexas:
**** you. Get off the board. You have ZERO credibility. It's asswipes like you that make the rest of the Denver fans look bad.
You dated me - DARED ME - to respond to you.
So I did. And all you have is insults? Not my fault those 4+ decades passed like that. You shouldn't pretend like they didn't happen.
Guys, how is it I have you running for cover? I didn't mention how the refs screwed the Bills on those spots ... Sad [Reply]
