So if you're a regular follower of my blog (and I'm not sure that there is anyone meeting that description), you might remember a couple of posts I made before the season outlining the best and worst case scenarios for the 2009 Denver Broncos. I had them pegged to finish somewhere between 4-12 and 9-7, and my gut feeling was that they would probably end up 8-8 like last season.
So they rushed out to a 6-0 start, and I thought that I had way underestimated them. And then they lost four straight and I realized that no, I hadn't. And so after today's last-second loss in Philadelphia, they are 8-7, lining up pretty much perfectly with where I thought they would be.
After they started 3-0, I did a post which maintained that all they needed to do over the difficult ten-game stretch in the middle of the season was go 5-5. With an 8-5 record, with home games to come against Oakland and Kansas City, they would be virtually assured of 10 wins, which would probably be enough for a playoff spot.
And they did exactly what I said they needed to do - they went 5-5. Of course, last week they blew the other part of the plan, by losing at home to Oakland.
And by also losing today, the Broncos no longer control their own destiny. Even if they win next week against the Chiefs, they will need other teams to lose in some combination in order to get a spot in the playoffs.
No matter what ends up happening, the real heart warming story has been Jay Cutler's horrible season in Chicago. He has a real chance to get to 30 interceptions this year! And the Bears have been bad enough that the Broncos (who picked up the Bears' 1st round pick next year in the trade) will probably have a top-10 draft choice next year! Some people say that it's not good to cheer for Jay Cutler to fail. And I agree. But it sure does make me glad when I read that he had another terrible game.
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