MUNSON'S GAZETTA: "IT'S GONNA' BE ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT IT'S GONNA' BE ALL RIGHT

Nice. Glad to have you back :)

Maybe, just maybe, the fact that Bronco fans are so concerned about staying competitive that it helps show the coaches & players how important it is to Bronco Nation which affects the quality of play we see on the field.

I’m sure there are examples of teams that take past success for granted until they finally experience long term mediocrity (I’m thinking Texas and Notre Dame). Then they realize that it is not just going to be handed to them, it has to be earned, and it is at that point they finally realize they need to actually start asking the question “what are we going to do”.

We called him the Canadian Rifle. While Kellen was able to make a few good pooch punts, Guthrie was our double threat. Not only was he starting QB, he was also our punter. Always kept ’em guessing—is he going to punt, or throw for a first down?

Welcome back, Munson. Missed you, and we old dudes need to stick together. There’s a lotta livin’ and learnin’ yet to do.

Bronco history via Munson.

Good read. Here’s hoping that Jay Ajayi will become the next Super Needle.

Do you run, do you pass, or do run then pass or pass then run on the same play? Do play tall in the pocket or do you sneak around in the pocket? Do you power or run fast? The pallet will be full but the play will be picture perfect.

It’s good to hear you are optimistic about the 2012-13 season. I feel the same way; the Broncos are reloading, not rebuilding. Your recollection of Troy Ware is great; I had almost forgotten about him, as with many of the other redshirt freshmen. I’m sure many of these guys will step in and surprise many fans. Keep your insightful posts coming our way, munson!!

I figure our worst case scenario is another 2007 season with a mere 9-wins. There are plenty of teams who wish they could get just one 9-win season. Those are our down years.

And of course, we lose a lot of starters. The guys that are coming in to replace them will be hungry, hard-working and out to prove something. Not to mention the vast majority of them have tons of actual game experience as backups, co-starters and what not. So there’s that which could lead to a better than expected (or in our world, typical) stellar season.

I’m not worried at all. I’m hoping Michigan State doesn’t lose too much from their senior class and is ready to play some ball. I was always a fan of Big Ten smash-mouth football. Now we’ll show them how we do it (minus the Doug smash).

Broncos actually won 10 games in 2007. They lost to Washington, Hawaii, and East Carolina.

Look, we’ve had a very unusual last few years. When we lost to TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl I remember one of the announcers musing that TCU was a very good team, then looking to his colleague and saying “Did you notice how young the Broncos are, how many frosh and sophs we saw in and out?” As typhoon note our “rebuiding” year we laot as Wash. (rookies Young and Pettis would make key drops; we were in it), probably the best Hawaii team in the past decade, and an ECU team that was very good, we were flat for 2+ quarters, and still in it. I daresay this 2012 is a little ahead on experience, and considerably ahead on talent, that the 2007 one. No disparagement, but our recruiting went to the next level in the interim.

The 2012 team is considerably more talented and much deeper than the 2007 version. Not even close.

There was a reason we saw the “wildcat” last year so often, plus the gadgets off them (I forget how many different RBs and WRs were in it, plus Hedrick ran it straight and looked to throw a couple). Next year, we’ll see the “cat” w/o the “wild” as in South reading the D and taking off, or just flat out taking off. BTW his TD strike to Bold1, a 45 plus yarder on the numbers in either the spring or fall scrimmage (?), was done off a play that looked to be a scramble ’til he posted up as Bold1 got a step on Taylor and led him perfectly for a TD. For future ref.