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in the words of coach Vance Joseph, “he’ll wreck practice.”
So, Miller saved his wrecking ball for Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
Miller collected four quarterback hits, three sacks, three tackles for loss, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery in leading the Broncos to a 27-24 win
in Case Keenum’s Denver debut .
Miller was in the Seahawks’ backfield seemingly as much as Seattle running back Chris Carson, who was pick-pocketed in the second half as Miller simply
snatched the ball out of his hands in one of the best plays of opening
weekend.
“Technically, that’s not a good move,” Miller said with a chuckle, noting he should have set the edge instead of tossing aside fullback Tre Madden.
“You want to be stout, shock and scare. But I ‘ole’ed’ outside, so I knew I needed to get back down to be able to make the tackle. I just saw the ball and I
just grabbed it.”
Miller said in the lead-up to the opener that he hates playing Wilson, whom he considers the best QB in the game. Yes, ahead of Tom
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“I still don’t like playing against Russell,” Miller said. “Running around out there, 20 yards, getting everybody tired. Luckily, we were able to get him
before he could get started. That was in our scheme this week, we wanted to keep
him in the pocket and (make) him beat us with his arm, which he’s capable of
doing.
“But we’d rather pick that poison and that strategy worked.”
Wilson threw for 298 yards and three TDs, but was picked off twice and sacked six times and ran just twice for 5 yards.
“He got out of the pocket a couple of times, but that’s Russ,” Miller said. “He’s a great player. He’s going to get out of the pocket, but we kept some of
the great plays to a minimum.”
Miller didn’t get to face Wilson in Super Bowl 48 because he’d blown out a knee toward the end of the 2013 season, the only one in his first seven years in
the NFL when he didn’t reach double digits in sacks.
Miller was back in the Super Bowl two years later and won the game’s MVP honors after harassing Cam Newton, whom he strip sacked
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The Broncos haven’t been back to the playoffs since, going 14-18 over the past two years.
Although Miller collected 23½ sacks in that time, too many deficiencies on the roster and deficits on the scoreboard kept him from being the difference
maker he was Sunday.
That doesn’t mean he saw his performance as anything more than a good start.
“You know me, I never move faster than I have to. I never move slower than I need to,” Miller said. “I just stay in the moment. We’ve got a great team. We
got a great win today. We played great defense. This is how you want to start a
season.”
His three sacks moved him into 50th on the NFL’s all-time sack list with 86½.
“It’s great, to be 29 and in the top 50, the league has been around for close to 100 years now,” Miller said. “It’s great, man. It’s a true blessing.”
At one point Sunday, the giant scoreboard showed Miller inhaling oxygen on the sideline after one of his big plays and the crowd roared.
“I wasn’t even paying attention and I look up and Case is telling everybody to be quiet,” Miller recounted. “I kind of felt bad for a second.”
It wasn’t the only time Miller interrupted Keenum’s focus, either.
Keenum normally spends his time between series on the bench studying pictures of formations and talking with to his coaches, “but it’s hard not to notice when
the crowd’s going crazy and Von’s out there crawling or whatever he’s doing,
whatever his sack dance is. That’s impressive to watch.
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Wilson wasn’t so lucky.
“I think that when it’s third-and-3 or 4, I’ve spun out and make a lot of plays,” Wilson said. “I would probably say most of the time it works.
“With a guy like Von, sometimes it doesn’t.”
Dougie Hamilton got home from a workout, turned on the TV to watch the NHL draft and saw his name on the
screen as part of a trade to the Carolina Hurricanes.
”That’s where I found out,” Hamilton said.
He might want to stay tuned because the Hurricanes are just getting started.
Carolina acquired Hamilton, winger Micheal Ferland and forward prospect Adam Fox from the Calgary Flames on Saturday for center Elias Lindholm and defenseman
Noah Hanifin in the latest move during a time of drastic turnover. The
Hurricanes, who have missed the playoffs each of the past nine seasons, have
gotten a new owner, general manager and coach so far this year and will have a
very different team on the ice.
”When you’ve gone as long as we have without making the playoffs the message is we want to be better, we want to compete and we want to win,” GM Don Waddell
said. ”We have a lot of other possibilities, pieces to move around. We wanted to
acquire the best players we could and let the rest shake out as we move
forward.”
Waddell started shaking up the roster by shipping out two pending restricted free agents in Lindholm and Hanifin and added a right-shot defender in Hamilton
who could make co-captain Justin Faulk expendable. The Hurricanes should trade
for a goaltender and could move Faulk and winger Jeff Skinner soon.
”We’ll stay busy,” Waddell said. ”I can’t say for sure anything will get done. I’m pretty confident something will get
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The 25-year-old Hamilton now has been traded at the draft twice after going from the Boston Bruins to the Flames three years ago. Waddell said there were
”no red flags” about Hamilton because of that and was thrilled to pick up an
offensive-minded blue liner who has 220 points in 423 regular-season games.
Hamilton figures being traded is easier this time.
”It’s definitely a learning experience, something that helps you grow,” Hamilton said on a conference call. ”You have to go through different
experiences and stuff and I think you get growth from that.”
The Hurricanes have gone through some growing pains over the past few months. Tom Dundon bought the team from Peter Karmanos Jr. removed Ron Francis as
general manager and replaced him with Waddell and promoted assistant Rod
Brind’Amour to head coach.
This trade changes Brind’Amour’s mix as Carolina looks to end the league’s longest playoff drought. Ferland gives the Hurricanes a big winger who can
produce after putting up a career-high 41 points last season with Calgary.
”We talked all along that we feel like we’ve got a lot of skill pieces up front and we need a little size and muscle up front, so Ferland, who scored 20
or 21 goals last year, fit that bill pretty well for us,” Waddell said.
Giving up the 21-year-old Hanifin and 23-year-old Lindholm was a heavy price to pay for the Hurricanes. Hanifin was the fifth overall pick in 2015 and joins
an already deep blue line that includes Mark Giordano and T.J. Brodie.
Hanifin and Lindholm are reunited in Calgary with coach Bill Peters, who stepped down from the Hurricanes at the end of the season amid uncertainty
within the front office.
”Obviously Bill spoke very highly of both players and really likes both players,” Flames GM Brad Treliving said. ”Both guys are great character. He
liked both players. It was a great resource to have.”
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This story has been corrected to show that Micheal Ferland had 41, not 78, points last season.
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