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Will Broncos move a little faster in Week 3?

Posted by Mike Florio on September 22, 2022, 3:00 PM EDT

The Broncos have played two regular-season games under coach Nathaniel Hackett. And a troubling trend has emerged; they can’t get plays selected, communicated, and started before the clock gets dangerously close to zero.The next test comes in prime time, on one of the biggest stages in football. Against one of the league’s better teams. With [more]

Jerry Jeudy misses second straight practice

Posted by Josh Alper on September 22, 2022, 2:51 PM EDT

Word earlier this week was that Broncos wide receiver Jerry Jeudy is day-to-day after injuring his ribs and shoulder in last Sunday’s win over the Texans and the first two practice days of the week offered little good news about his chances of playing.Jeudy missed practice on Wednesday and head coach Nathaniel Hackett told reporters [more]

Kyle Shanahan: George Kittle will be a limited participant in Wednesday’s practice

Posted by Myles Simmons on September 21, 2022, 4:23 PM EDT

49ers tight end George Kittle is getting closer to returning to play.Head coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters that Kittle will be a limited participant in Wednesday’s practice.Kittle was also a limited participant in last Friday’s practice — the first time he’d been on the field since suffering his groin injury right before the start of [more]

Geno Smith files to trademark “they wrote me off but I ain’t write back though”

Posted by Mike Florio on September 20, 2022, 9:04 PM EDT

After the Seahawks beat the Broncos last Monday night, Seattle quarterback Geno Smith trotted out a new catch phrase. He’s now looking to cash in on it.Via Josh Gerben on Twitter, Smith filed last week for trademark protection of the term “they wrote me off but I ain’t write back though.”The application reveals that Smith [more]

49ers sign Marlon Mack to 53-player roster

Posted by Charean Williams on September 20, 2022, 5:58 PM EDT

The 49ers are signing running back Marlon Mack to their active roster from their practice squad, his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, announced.San Francisco is running short on healthy backs.Elijah Mitchell went on injured reserve last week after spraining his medial collateral ligament. He is expected to miss two months.Now, rookie Ty Davis-Price will miss a “few [more]

Nathaniel Hackett: I need to do better making faster and quicker decisions

Posted by Josh Alper on September 19, 2022, 8:40 PM EDT

The first two games of the Broncos season have been filled with clock management errors by first-year head coach Nathaniel Hackett and things got bad enough during Sunday’s game that the home crowd counted down the play clock to make sure that the Broncos knew to get the snap off in time.On Monday, Hackett said [more]

Report: Pat Surtain, Jerry Jeudy both considered day-to-day

Posted by Myles Simmons on September 19, 2022, 2:35 PM EDT

It appears two of Denver’s major contributors avoided significant injury during Sunday’s win over the Texans.Cornerback Pat Surtain had to exit the contest with a shoulder issue and receiver Jerry Jeudy left with what’s now being reported as a chest/sternum issue. But according to NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport, both Surtain and Jeudy are considered day-to-day.That [more]

Russell Wilson: There will be tough times, all that matters is the win

Posted by Josh Alper on September 19, 2022, 9:40 AM EDT

The Broncos got their first win with Russell Wilson at quarterback on Sunday, but there weren’t a lot of smiles in the home crowd during the 16-9 win over the Texans.Red zone mistakes, penalties, poor clock management, and six points through the first three quarters all contributed to the negativity in the crowd and the [more]

Nathaniel Hackett brushes off boo birds: “I would be booing myself”

Posted by Mike Florio on September 18, 2022, 11:27 PM EDT

The bar is high for the Broncos. Maybe higher than it should have been. The fans aren’t quite ready to come to terms with that. Which resulted in some boo birds flying during the first regular-season home game of Nathaniel Hackett’s time as coach, Russell Wilson‘s time as quarterback, and the Penner-Walton group’s tenure as [more]

Broncos fans tried to help offense by counting down play clock

Posted by Mike Florio on September 18, 2022, 9:46 PM EDT

The Broncos won today, but it’s not going well in Denver.The team under first-year coach Nathaniel Hackett has already developed a bad habit of not getting plays called and snapped quickly enough. It culminated in Sunday with an unusual — and potentially unprecedented — effort by the fans of the home team to chant a [more]

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