Not all Bronco's are completely forgotten, but there are times when  the younger generation of fans need to remember the greats of the Bronco past.  When the Denver Broncos formed in 1960 along with the AFL, they team was filled with no names and castaways.  One of those men was a castaway from the Chicago Bears.  Lionel Taylor went to the Bears in his rookie season after a stellar career at unknown New Mexico Highlands University.  Taylor spent eight games with the Bears, mostly on the bench, logging zero pass catches and was released.

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Here's a Thursday edition of Horse Tracks.  Enjoy!

So when does a Bronco get involved with bulls?  We have an answer!  John Elway has invested in the Professional Bull Riders (PBR).  See here

John Lynch plans to prove people wrong this season.  See here

We have some news!  One of the draftees of the "vaunted class of 2003" has signed a contract.  Adrian Madise signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE!  Nice pick Shanny!  See here

Here's another item I stumbled into.  Looks like Shanny and family will be attending the Jenna Bush wedding in Texas this weekend.  See here

AFC West

The conquered fader nation added a LB yesterday.  See here

The Missouri Indians will get the largest share of the "rookie pool" money.  See here

That's all I have today.  Have a good one. 

MHR Radio Episode 35

Click the link above to listen to last night's MHR Radio, the Official Podcast of MileHighReport.com

Welcome to another edition of MHR University!

     Today we'll look at the modern systems run in the 3-4 defense. We'll also clear up some common misperceptions about the formation, as well as look at the strengths and weaknesses of each sytem, and prefered player types.

     Over the next couple of days I will be moving archived University posts into the MHR University section. This means that if you want to look up older editions, you need only go to the left panel on the main page and click "MHR University".

     Read the rest of the story below the fold...

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Here's a Wednesday edition of Horse Tracks.  Enjoy!

Mike Kils had some good responses to his mailbg.  See here

Jim Armstrong discusses what being a college free agent is like.  See here

Former Bronco D.D. Lewis hopes to fit with the Seachickens.  See here

AFC West

Here's an article that thinks the conquered fader nation messed up in the draft.  See here

Our favorite former writer from the Denver Post writes about Phyllis and his merry men taking the next step.  See here

NFL News

The NFL filed a FCC complaint against Comcast.  I'm so happy I have a dish again! See here

That's all for today folks!

     A Fanpost is like a good meal.  And what's important with a good meal?  If you said taste, you're halfway there.  A good chef not only makes food taste good, he makes it look good too.  With a fanpost you can write great stuff, and people will like what you are doing.  Use a little bit of MHR 2.0 Tech, and your fanpost becomes a work of art.  Not only is the fan post easier to read, not only can you highlight certain points with certain tools, but the post just looks good.

     There are so many features you can use that we are only going to look at a few today.  Look for the MHR Tech Tips series here to cover more features in the weeks ahead.  For today we'll cover the following.

1. The flag tool
2. The bold feature
3. The italic feature
4. The link feature
5. The blockquote feature

     FLAGS

     What can you do if someone is being innapropriate on the site?  We have a family friendly site, and it will stay that way.  Part of sports culture is trash talk, and trash talk is fun.  But certain things don't go over well at MHR.  Some language may be questionable, but language that is clearly over the top is not tolerated.  More so, comments that are personal in nature are not tolerated, and there is no room for threats of any kind.  Most MHR members follow the rules very well.  Sometimes someone comes to the site to cause trouble (we call such a person a "troll").  If they start a war in the comments section of an article we call that a "flame war".

     Problems like these are rare at MHR, thanks to a great community.  Our members have a lot of class, and your staff keeps on top of the site closely.  If you see something that is clearly over the top you can alert the staff.

      At the bottom of each comment under an article (article means story, fanpost, or fanshot), you will find a little picture of a yellow exclamtion point "!" and the word "flag".  Go to the offending comment (or article) and clik the flag icon.  Help will be on the way shortly.

     BOLD

     Want to make a word or sentence have the dark look like it does just above?  While writing a fanpost, go to the top of the window you are writing in and you'll see the letter "B".  Click it, then start typing.  When you want to end the bolding, just click bold again.  You can also use the left click on your mouse, drag the cursor over a section of your article, click again (now you've highlighted a section of your article), and click "B" to enbolden the section you highlighted.  Use the preview button at the bottom of the window to see if it worked the way you wanted it to.

     Go try it out!  Play around with the fanpost creator and use preview to see if these tools are helping you out!

     Italics 

     Do you want that effect?  Follow the instructions for bold, but use the icon that looks like a slanted letter "I" (it's next to the letter "B" that we used in the last paragraph).  Now you can get this kind of effect.

     LINK

     Would you like for folks to click on a word or phrase, and have them magicaly transported to another web page that you were talking about?  For example, I want you to click on this to read some NFL news.   When you click on the word "this" you get sent to another page (don't worry, you can come right back).

     How did I do that?  I opened another window besides the window I'm typing in now.  It was the NFL homepage.  I highlighted (that left mouse button trick) the name of the page, which was http://www.nfl.com/ and was at the top of that page.  I then right clicked to open a small window and selected "copy" from my choices.

     Then I went back to my article, highlighted the word "this", and clicked on the tool at the top of the article that looks like a chain (it says "insert link" if you move the cursor over it).  When the box opened and asked for the address, I made sure the box was empty (I erased the http stuff), left clicked in the box so I could type there, then right clicked to open the choices I had earlier.  Instead of clicking "copy" I clicked "paste" this time.  Then I clicked "ok".  Done!

     It sounds complicated, but this old dog got it done in about 10 seconds or less.  You can do it with little practice.  Again, try creating a fanpost and experiment.  Remember to click preview to see if it worked like you wanted it to.

     Sometimes you might want to do a little trick like this.  At MHR, we want you to use this feature when quoting an article from another site.  You can also use it for other purposes.

     Simply highlight whatever text you want to appear as above, then click on the " symbol (quotes symbol).  It is found at the top of the fanpost window, and is next to the ABC with a line through it.

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     Well I hope that helped some folks who may be a little confused by the fancy stuff they see on the pages.  If you have a question about these tools or any other Tech features, feel free to ask in the comments section below.  We're all here to help, and we're all looking forward to seeing your fanpost so we can check out what you've learned!

     Have fun!

The Denver Broncos on Tuesday announced several appointments to their Football Operations Department, including the naming of Jim Goodman as Vice President of Football Operations / Player Personnel and the hiring of Brian Xanders as Assistant General Manager.

      Goodman served as the Broncos’ Director of Player Personnel for the previous two years and has worked in the club’s personnel department for the last 10 seasons. He will oversee the day-to-day football operations of the organization and will continue to manage the Broncos’ overall scouting process. Goodman also coordinates the Broncos’ draft preparations and is involved in the evaluation and acquisition of both pro and college players.

      Xanders joins the Broncos after spending the last 14 seasons with Atlanta, where he served as the Falcons’ Director of Football Administration / Player Personnel Analyst during the 2007 season. A former linebacker at Florida State University who owns a master’s degree in business administration from the school, Xanders is responsible for long and short-term strategic planning of the Broncos’ salary cap along with assisting in overall personnel department matters.

      He will work directly with Broncos Assistant General Manager Jeff Goodman, who oversees pro personnel and handles contract negotiations along with roster management for the club.

If you have been waiting for a good reason to listen to MHR Radio your wait is over.  Broncos 4th round draft pick(119) Jack Williams joins me on MHR Radio this Wednesday Night at 9PM est(7PM mst). 

In 44 games at Kent State, Williams started 37 contests. He recorded 245 tackles (167 solo), three sacks for minus-26 yards, 14 ½ stops for losses of 53 yards and a pair of quarterback pressures. He caused and recovered seven fumbles and also blocked one punt. He deflected 25 passes and gained 209 yards with two touchdowns on 13 pass thefts (16.1-yard average). He also returned twelve kickoffs for 252 yards (21.0-yard average).

If there is something you'd like me to ask Jack, let me know in the comments. Can't make it live on Wednesday? Subscribe to MHR Radio NOW! Oh yea, how can I forget?!? MHR Radio is now part of the UBroadcast.com family. You can hear us every Wednesday Night on the Sports Channel at Ubroadcast, Channel 100!!!

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Here's a Monday "Cinco de Mayo" edition of Horse Tracks.  Enjoy!

Cutler's diabetes will not stop him and he will still have "game".  See here

Here are more links and articles about Cutler's diabetes.  See here , here

Wade Wilson gave Cutler advice on handling his diabetes.  See here

Cutler plans to use an insulin pump.  See here

AFC West

Phyllis and his merry men held minicamp this past weekend.  Looks like the "classy" LT would have played in the Super Bowl if they won despite the pain in the knee.  Ok then, why didn't he play at Foxborough?  See here

Looks like the conquered fader nation will try to add a front office person to the Al Davis fun house.  See here

No news from the Missouri Indians.

NFL News

Even though the draft passed us a week ago, it's never too early to see who the top prospects are for 2009.  See here

Bottom of the Barrel

Aren't you glad that we don't have Cedric Benson?  See here