Nelson, Jones stand to explode against Denver

[MJZiggy]

I say we never get around to Jones. Finley and Rodgers have some making up to do and I expect them to do it this week.

[Fritz]

I nominate Brad Jones for the new whipping boy. He's about as useless as tits on a bull.

[Guiness]

How can you say that. He hasn't fumbled the clipboard once all season.

I wanted to post his completion percentage, but all I got was this

[denverYooper]

I wanted to post his completion percentage, but all I got was this

f(x) = 1/x?

[Guiness]

f(x) = 1/x?

Yup. It summarizes one of my favorite prof quotes: "you can divide by zero for very large values of zero"

[Smeefers]

I'm not sure that those numbers will stay that way. Champ Bailey has been out for 2 games and practiced yesterday. If he's back, that should change things for the Broncos back there. Dumervil has been practicing this week, also. He played about 5 snaps this year so far. He can affect the passing game if he's a go. He's a just a little bit better than Jason Hunter.

Overall, the donks' D is better than last last year's sieve and look as though they might even make the middle of the pack this year there, which would be a huge upgrade for them. Von Miller has been awesome. Their defensive improvement alone might lift them into the bottom of the mediocre teams as they'll fight to keep the team in many games.

Their O is pretty weak, though, and IMO doesn't match up very well with GB. They have some good receivers but Orton has been pretty ineffective when his protection breaks down and that has happened a lot thus far. Their line is not very good. Clady's one of the better LTs but even he has struggled some. The interior line is getting beat like Kerouac. I won't be surprised to see Wynn and Raji get some this week because that interior unit is the weakest they've seen this year. Their running backs are a few shades below what GB has seen so far. Their TEs group is nothing to worry about, either. In fact, the Pack's pass D might end up looking much better because of the matchups at those 2 positions.

I would be tempted to take the points on this game (13.5 as of last night) were I a betting man, but I don't Denver winning this matchup 95% of the time. More than likely, GB will build up a 2.5 score lead into the 3rd quarter and then cruise on their 8 minute O until Denver puts Tebow in and scores a garbage time TD to beat the spread and cause more idiot fans to throw money away on pro-Tebow billboards.

What makes you such an expert on the Broncos Anyway?

[Iron Mike]

[MJZiggy]

somehow this thread title makes me think of burritos...

[Joemailman]

"Nelson, Jones stand to explode against Denver"

I think sexually explicit headlines like this are uncalled for in a family site like Packerrats.

It's okay because we're a dysfunctional family.

[MJZiggy]

It's okay because we're a dysfunctional family.

You've missed the obvious irony here...

[Guiness]

You've missed the obvious irony here...

Or you missed his Steven Wright-like response.

[Pugger]

I doubt Jones drops substantially more balls than the others but the timing of these drops come at the absolute worst times! I'm sure we can think of 4 or 5 sure TDs off the top of our head that he let slip thru his fingers. These plus the fumbles in a few bare games make us pull our hair out.

[Upnorth]

I would really like to see Jones and Cobb explode, err have big games (for the sake of a PG audience), to make other teams worry just a bit more about our depth. It would be nice to make them a least tink about taking some double teams of of Jennings. On two of his catches last week if it wasn't for the saftey cheating to his side he could have gotten 6 it looked like.

[mraynrand]

John Fox can coach the hell out of a defense. But does Denver have the horses? Their D line and LBs aren't better than Chicago, are they?

[denverYooper]

John Fox can coach the hell out of a defense. But does Denver have the horses? Their D line and LBs aren't better than Chicago, are they?

No. They have very good players in Dumervil and Von Miller but they're nowhere near as complete as that Bears front 7.