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How big an impact can Williams make in the return game? Consider this: The Broncos last season had 53 kickoff returns, 43 punt returns and 17 fair catches. That's 113 touches - three more than Rod Smith (79 catches) and Darius Watts (31) combined for in the passing game. ... Jim Armstrong
Does anyone have stats. on our average starting field position, compared to other NFL teams in 2004?
How big an impact can Williams make in the return game? Consider this: The Broncos last season had 53 kickoff returns, 43 punt returns and 17 fair catches. That's 113 touches - three more than Rod Smith (79 catches) and Darius Watts (31) combined for in the passing game. ... Jim Armstrong
Does anyone have stats. on our average starting field position, compared to other NFL teams in 2004?
It couldn't have been good.
Half of the battle is field position. Not to pimp Martyball, by any means, but in our case, we have a pretty good long range field goal kicker still and if the offense could cut out some of the self defeating type plays, coupled with good starting field position on a regular basis, the offense could go from being productive, to being prolific.
Originally posted by boltzpride619
What's so funny is seeing all this mess that the Donks and the fans have placed on themselves. Can you say Raiders.
Originally posted by RunByDesign
True comedy is observing the Self Imploding Organization that is the Raiders and then asking yourself this question:
with a decent D
if you put a team back at their own 20, it makes it tough for them to drive down the field, whereas if you get to start at midfield, you've got a chance of going all the way for 6
Me and some of the other guys here have been stressing for over a year we need better Special Teams play and more turn overs. Those two things will win a team two or three games a season.
This brings credence to drafting Williams and Ernster. Lets hope the two of them can make a difference. The additional speed of Paymah and Foxworth should also help in covering punts and kick offs.
I thought one of our biggest needs was special teams and with the drafting of Darrent and the other speedsters, plus the signing of Burns we did a pretty good job filling that need.
BRONCOS fan is in my blood!
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Our Defense and Offense were top 5 last year. Finishing 29th in avg. field position only means that we were horrid on special teams. These facts make our draft even more sensible
I attended the San Diego game and suffered all day watching the Broncos pinned down deep, time after time.
I had heard from the very beginning of the offseason that Shanahan was interested in drafting a guy who could make a difference on Special Teams as a return man, hopefully Darrent Williams can fill that need for us.
I thought one of our biggest needs was special teams and with the drafting of Darrent and the other speedsters, plus the signing of Burns we did a pretty good job filling that need.
i honestly think that it was a great decision to get dj, he will give us an even more deadly secondary, and he does pretty well on runbacks. so he will help our special teams a lot which could change the outcomes of so many games.
i honestly think that it was a great decision to get dj, he will give us an even more deadly secondary, and he does pretty well on runbacks. so he will help our special teams a lot which could change the outcomes of so many games.
It finally makes sense why they took Darrent instead of Justin Miller because Miller only did kick returns, where as Darrent did punt and kick returns. Darrent is alot faster and elusive, so he's going to help us out so much on special teams. He's our dante hall but better i hope.
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