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Broncos - 31
Saints - 20

Deuce carries 20 times for 118 yards, with 106 coming on his first 9 carries. The rest are predictable middle leads on first and10 or 3rd and short.

Brooks throws for 220, 1 TD, fumbles two center exchanges, and is sacked 4 times. Champ makes him pay dearly on a poorly thrown seem route intercepting it and going 47 yards down to the Saints 12 sometime mid third quarter.

Droughns rushes for 105 yards and a TD on 11 carries in the first half, and follows that up with another 83 in the second half, most of it coming on a 52 yard scamper from deep in his own territory late in the game when the Saints need a stop and have the Broncos pinned inside their own 10.

Plummer goes 23 of 31 for 287 and 3 TDs, shredding the Saints secondary. He also scrambles 3 times for 26 yards. Elam hits a 50+ yarder at the end of the first half to put the Broncos up 24-10. They add one more score in the second half, fumbling once in scoring position. Still, the Saints can make it only 31-20.

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Mike Shanahan and crew had 2 weeks to prepare a gameplan to beat Haz/Venturi/McCarthy.

My money is on Broncos.

Deuce doesn\'t break 90 yards
Brooks doesn\'t break 250 yards
Saints have 4 turnovers

Droughens (or whoever they decide to play) has career day, over 200 yards.
Plummer-3TD\'s, 300 plus yards
Broncos aproach 600 yards total O

Broncos in a laffer!
Boo birds rule the 3rd quarter
WhoDat rejoices, but still praises Horn\'s effort.
The rest of the doom&gloom posters frolic joyfully in the ensuing misery orgy.

Broncos 51
Saints 23

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I wasn\'t gonna bother since everything I predict is always wrong. Correction, everything I predict about this team is wrong. But here goes anyways. If the Saints mastermind 2 drives to open the game like last week, the prediction is pain, of the 42-10 variety. If they come out firing for the first time this year, then we could be in for an entertaining match of the 28-24 variety. Either way we lose, god that kills me to admit it. Danno, sometimes the good guys may win, but this weekend my money\'s with yours. ;)

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trouble looms -- Denver has a better coach == an extra week to prepare == more experience in winning. The Saints have a clueless coach -- a team that is used finding ways to lose -- a team that just had a monster lucky win (does lightning strike twice). As much as I love the Saints I really see no way we stay in the ball game. Denver has a much better defense than Kansas City -- and their offense isn\'t that inferior. All in all -- my prediction is Denver 37 Saints 21

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Denver \"takes it easy\" on the Saints after pulling out to a big, early lead. Saints mount a comeback, but not good enough to pull off a win.

Denver 34 New Orleans 23

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The only prediction I make: Saints sleepwalk through the 1st quarter.

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Saints 26 - Broncos 17.

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Prediction:

Reuben Droughns will look like Jim Brown.
Rick Venturi will look like Jim Carrey.

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whodat do you have to be so honest

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I went www.orangemane.com to see what the Bronco fans were saying about the game this sunday. They are basically calling this game as we predict it will turn out. Their main concern is being \"over confident\" with a sure-win because they lost a sure-win to the Bengals earlier this season in Cincinnati 23-10. They also fear Deuce,Horn and Stallworth (not sure why Donte..). They also think Brooks is a \"mobil\" QB with a Vick-like run threat..... they must be watching 2001 Saints highlight film.

Broncos 31
Caints 17

:peer: :givebeer: may the football gods prove me WRONG once again.

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Or if we somehow manage to beat Denver, what happens exactly?

The Moonshiners cower in their closets, clutching their Jim Mora dolls to their heaving chests, pouting for the days of Swilling, Jackson, Johnson and Mills (the odds are heavily against their return, fellas, deal with it). Angrily certain that if that idiot Haslett would just throw away the rest of the season, the next Vince Lombardi awaits hiring and the next Joe Montana awaits drafting.

I ain\'t happy with Haslett, Venturi, McCarthy or Brooks but if the jokers managed to put something together, I wouldn\'t complain about it. Wanna take your own advice? Consider the odds that whoever we hire to replace these monsters will be any better. We\'ve been waiting on that savior for years, gentlemen, where is he?

I\'m listening...

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Oh yeah, for the fun of it...

Saints 34
Broncos 27

\"We all shine on ... LOL!\"

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LOL - Probably exactly right.


LMAO. How did you know about my Jim Mora doll? If only we had hired his son... :)

Oh, to answer your question - what happens if we win? The number of dreamers on this board grows substantially and we start to hear about how THIS year is different and the Saints really can make the playoffs with all that parity and all. Bring on Atlanta! Unfortunately, ATL beats the Saints in a game where Mike Vick sets 7 different NFL records, then the Saints beat Dallas and Carolina and people start saying PLAYOFFS, PLAYOFFS... then we lose to Tampa Bay again and manage to end the season, you guessed it, 8-8 and a game out of the playoffs. The Saints demote Venturi and promote Pease and people on this board applaud the move and begin to rationalize it. \"I always did like Haslett. A tough, defensive minded, players coach.\" 11-5 is predicted for next season, but alas the Saints finish... 8-8, going 3-5 in one part of the season for the fifth straight year in a row. :)

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your not going to believe this..especially the way i have been bashing the team...but...

saints 31
bronchos 20

the saints manage to get the fire lit this week...only to crush our hopes again when the heat is really on...this will be one of the maybe two wins that we have left this year...

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:thumbsup: Can\'t argue with that, I think a universal groan went up from the NFC South when Atlanta hired him. I wasn\'t sure if he\'d make it or not, but I was afraid he would...

P.S. - I think I was in line behind you buying my own Jim Mora doll. I got the one that has a nervous breakdown when you pull the string in it\'s back... ;)

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I agree because the Saints could win this one it won\'t be pretty especially if they can make it through the first quarter.

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Definitely not good with Horn being questionable, not to mention covered by Champ Bailey.

Of course, I did pull him from my starting fantasy lineup, so he\'ll probably burn the Broncos for 150 and 2 tds.

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More good news:

Saints Offense: 19th. Broncos Defense: 3rd.
Broncos Offense: 5th. Saints Defense: LAST.

This is going to be a fun one. I\'m changing my prediction. Broncos 77, Saints 10.

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Do you really think Shanahan will spend all two weeks gameplanning against our boys? I don\'t. It\'s more likely he\'ll spend 45 during warmups gameplanning against the Saints. The rest of the time he\'ll be looking at worthy opponents.

I\'m not saying that our boys can\'t turn things around and play decently. It that they just wont turn things around and play decently. Saints still might win though. I have Jake Plummer in a fantasy league. I have Trent Green in the same league and he scored about half his average so factoring in my luck...

Plummer will get only one TD and have two interceptions. Droughns will go for 200 yards in 3 quarters. At that point Denver puts in 2nd team with a 34 - 13 lead. Oh yeah, Haslet will elect to kick a field goal with 10 minutes left in the game to make it 37-16 and it\'ll end that way.

I\'m sounding more and more like a moonshiner, but enough is enough.

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I\'m going against the trend. Sometimes the Broncos look like the Saints, so I\'m going to go with

Saints 17
Broncos 13

in one hellofa defensive struggle. Lots of yards, lots of turnovers, lots of injuries (due to cut blocking nightmare).