LouGrant
09-19-2002, 08:28 AM
What Planet is this guy on? We lead the league in scoring!
Krieger: Bills a passing fancy; expect to be bored (http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/sports_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_83_1425836,00.html)
September 19, 2002
Rocky Mountain News
Here's your exclusive scouting report on Sunday's tilt in the old Mile High Stadium parking lot, but keep it to yourself, because you know how things get out on the Internet:
Bring reading material. Maybe one of those mobile e-mail devices. Knitting, if you have some. This could take a while.
The gaudiest statistic of the young NFL season, not counting Terrell Owens' false starts, is this: The Broncos' defense ranks first in the league against the run. If this doesn't tell you what's coming, you haven't been paying attention.
Or, possibly, you sit in the club section and haven't left the bar in a while.
The last time the Buffalo Bills played a team that could stop the run - Minnesota, for example, which ranks first in the NFC for some reason - Drew Bledsoe threw the ball 49 times.
That was restrained compared with Oakland's Rich Gannon, who glanced at Pittsburgh's front seven and threw the ball 64 times, six short of the record.
I pointed this out to Broncos coach Mike Shanahan because, frankly, I didn't know what it meant, except that June Jones must be back on the mainland.
"That's an interesting observation, because very few teams have been able to win Super Bowls without having a balanced attack," Shanahan said. "Once you start playing in the bad weather and some of the defenses are a little bit better than you see during the season, you've got to be able to do both, you can't be in a one-dimensional game."
See, this is what I'm saying. ...MORE... (http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/sports_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_83_1425836,00.html)
Krieger: Bills a passing fancy; expect to be bored (http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/sports_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_83_1425836,00.html)
September 19, 2002
Rocky Mountain News
Here's your exclusive scouting report on Sunday's tilt in the old Mile High Stadium parking lot, but keep it to yourself, because you know how things get out on the Internet:
Bring reading material. Maybe one of those mobile e-mail devices. Knitting, if you have some. This could take a while.
The gaudiest statistic of the young NFL season, not counting Terrell Owens' false starts, is this: The Broncos' defense ranks first in the league against the run. If this doesn't tell you what's coming, you haven't been paying attention.
Or, possibly, you sit in the club section and haven't left the bar in a while.
The last time the Buffalo Bills played a team that could stop the run - Minnesota, for example, which ranks first in the NFC for some reason - Drew Bledsoe threw the ball 49 times.
That was restrained compared with Oakland's Rich Gannon, who glanced at Pittsburgh's front seven and threw the ball 64 times, six short of the record.
I pointed this out to Broncos coach Mike Shanahan because, frankly, I didn't know what it meant, except that June Jones must be back on the mainland.
"That's an interesting observation, because very few teams have been able to win Super Bowls without having a balanced attack," Shanahan said. "Once you start playing in the bad weather and some of the defenses are a little bit better than you see during the season, you've got to be able to do both, you can't be in a one-dimensional game."
See, this is what I'm saying. ...MORE... (http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/sports_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_83_1425836,00.html)