All this guy does is fumble!!!!!

This guy doesn’t hit the hole, he tap-dances to it.

is stuck in Shanny’s head. When Tatum broke some long runs and won the game for us. We were stuck in the mud so to speak. Well I agree with Broncoboy….NO!!

He’s healthy! …for now….

This guy was a cry baby, fumbler, no blocking, thief and we resign his sorry ass. My only hope is that they are signing him to be Spencer Larsen’s personnel tackling dummy in practice.

…I’m not too excited about this signing…I would have rather had Mike Bell than Tatum. I don’t know…I think just keep Hillis as our back and run it right up the middle…he said it himself in a lockerroom, that this week with more preparation and practice at running back, he’ll do A LOT better.

the Broncos have a road game and need someone to carry their bags!!!

HATE IT

Let’s see what will come… Perhaps he manages having a good day for us!

why would you sign someone who only fumbles?

…he:

a) Doesn’t fumble the ball

and

b) Breaks off a few big runs putting us in position for Cutler to throw 3 TDs to Royal…

don’t want to lose the “change-up” ability of the running game. Tatum was a runner who needed defenses softened for him, but outside of one year with Mike Anderson, he never had that (BFSISD, remember anything special from that year?)

I think that Hillis is still the starting RB (unless Pope has been spectacular or something). Bell could be useful as a changeup guy, but only if the defense is on its heels and not able to get too many hats or hands on him. I am 50/50 on the signing, but i’m sure it doesn’t have the potential to destroy the team or anything. In other news, luggage locks are flying off the shelves in Denver…

Shanahan has an aspect to his ‘meritocracy’ that has always frustrated me, namely that he will let ONE good performance cloud his mind to what a player consistently does.

“We are what we consistently do—excellence is, therefore, not an act, but a habit.” ~Aristotle

not playing the whole game. I hope he is starving for work. Good luck. All Ready!

With Haynes Denver has a big 230 pound bruiser and with Bell they have a guy who (despite being a merely average back) has proven he can pick up yards and knows the system. Yeah he had some issues. He caught the fumble bug toward the end of his run – and because of that I was sure he was done here in Denver. Usually when Shanny ships you out of town you don’t come back.

But ask yourself this – the Broncos are in the almost unimaginable position of having lost ALL their top tailbacks. It’s going on week 11. The free agent market is slim pickings; anyone out there on the waiver wire in week 11 is not with a team for a reason. You take the best guys you can find and right now Alex Haynes and Tatum Bell are it.

Let’s try to look on the bright side of this – Haynes is going to need some time to learn the system. He’s not going to start this week. Bell already knows the system and can hit the ground running, so to speak. In a sense it was lucky there’s a relatively young back out there who has already been in Denver and did have some decent production while he was here.

You have to realize, none of the tailbacks on the Broncos roster are going to be expected to put up 150 yards a game. If they do, great. All we need is enough of a running game to balance out offense a little bit. It’s all about making lemons out of lemonade and I think it may end up being the best possible move in a situation where there just aren’t a lot of good moves.

I’ll call it what it is. Tatum isn’t going to bring the roof down, but now we have something absolutely necessary to a football team: some semblance of depth at the RB position.

Tatum has too many upsides to worry about his slippery hands. Biggest of them being that he KNOWS THE SYSTEM ALREADY. That is a HUGE benefit.

I’m sure Shanny will have a talk with him about running “hold the friggin ball” drills all week to shore up his problem holding the ball.

Otherwise, I agree with what others have said…he is a perfect change of pace and a very dangerous weapon (don’t forget screens and underneath routes…he could totally break some big yardage for us).

…now having said that watch him fumble 2 times in the next game and lose it for us. LOL If so, you have my permission to flame me good. :)

Perhaps Shanny told Bell that the Football was a gym bag. Maybe the fumble issue will be cured!

I hope brought a bottle of Elmers glue with him.

I really am pissed, Shanahan has stressed character this year, and what do we do, bring back a this clown, who whinned while he was here and was happy to leave. I understand the depth but then get Mike Bell, he “knows the system” and had about as much success holding onto the ball as taum. At least he has been a standup guy.

He’ll get hurt by week 12.

not a church youth group, so I don’t particularly care about his incident with Rudi Johnson’s bag. I care about winning football games, and if Tatum Bell can help do that, then I’m fine with this signing. I think any worries about his character are probably overblown, because he’s now a minimum wage guy who just took the only job he has been offered. If he’s a problem, you can just bounce him. I think there’s a fair chance that he has finally been humbled, and maybe he’ll be ready to just be a member of a football team that is trying to win.

As for fumbling, Tatum has fumbled on 1.7% of his career touches, which is equal to Michael Pittman’s career total. For comparison, Terrell Davis fumbled on 1.1% of his, and Selvin Young is at 0.8% in his short career. Tiki Barber fumbled on 1.9% of his career touches, and Shaun Alexander has fumbled on 1.3% of his. Obviously, we’d like our backs to be closer to TD and Selvin Young’s performance, but my point is, 1.7% isn’t THAT outlandish, for a guy you pick up out of the unemployment line.

It strikes me that I can’t think of a better RB than Tatum Bell who was unemployed at the start of today. There’s very little downside here, and some potential for upside. If he blows this chance, his career is probably over, and nothing was really lost by our team.

“I’m humbled,” Bell said. “I didn’t think I was going to get another chance, to be honest. I thanked coach [Mike] Shanahan for giving me this chance. I’ll do whatever it takes. I’ll play special teams. I’ll play center. I’ll do whatever it takes to help the Denver Broncos win.”

The Seahawks cut Keary Colbert.

Brandon Marshall has reported his wallet and his black and white glove missing . . .

Good

Fumbles? Yeah. But also a lot of yards. A humbled guy who seems to want some redemption.

Bad

We’re really getting to the bottom of the barrel to call the guy up.

I’m going to reserve my opinion until I see him play. It’s an opportunity for Bell to play again, and Shanahan’s grace may pay off or not. We have little to lose at the point that we’ve run out of RBs.

apparently they are not playing an unmotivated cleveland team this week:

"On a day off we had 40 of our players in today," Smith said. "Again, I think that speaks volumes of where our football team is to have 40 to come in and work out on a day off.

i dont think we can count on sloppy play. it speaks volumes that we are hoping for the other team to play sloppy so we have a chance to win.

He said he didn’t care about the accusations outside his club. If he didn’t know Bell, then Bell wouldn’t be here, Shanny added, but because he does know him as a person and values him, he signed him because he knows what Bell can do on the field.

Actually, I’m pulling for Tater, and I hope he really picks it up this time around . . .