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Denver Broncos defensive standout Von Miller isn't exactly thrilled with John Elway calling the team soft, but he does understand why the former quarterback would feel that way.
Per 2017 law, the Broncos lost (again) on Sunday. This time it was against the Cincinnati Bengals. Afterward, Von Miller addressed the softness topic.
“He’s the head guy. His comments — he’s the boss,” Miller said, via the Denver Post. “… I was kind of taken aback by it, which you should be. If you have any kind of emotion about you … your reaction should be: ‘What? I’m not soft.’ But if you take a look back at it, the truth is, that’s what we’ve been putting out there. That’s the type of team that we’ve developed into. That’s what we got. It’s the truth. He’s telling the truth.”
This is in stark contrast to what fellow linebacker Brandon Marshall said in regard to Elway's comments.
“We just stopped executing,” Marshall said, via Altitude TV’s Vic Lombardi. “We got sloppy. But we definitely didn’t get soft.”
For those lacking context, here is what Elway said last week:
“I will tell you, I think we got a little bit soft,” Elway said Friday at the Ring of Fame ceremony. “To be dead honest with you, we got a little bit soft. We went 4-0 in the preseason, we started 3-1 we get a bye week and if you exhale in this league? You’re in trouble.
“And you know what, to be dead honest with you, I think we exhaled, and it’s hard to recover from that. It will be a lesson that hopefully we all learned and can prevent it from happening in the future.”
For what it is worth, maybe it isn't about being soft, or not executing plays, or a billion other things that have zero to do with the actual issue … which just might be inept QB play and some first-year jitters by head coach Vance Joseph.
