For the past couple of months I was very fearful that we would never get a look at Larsen in the MLB role and the he would fade away as another late round draft pick into obscurity. My thoughts were the other players in front of him would play just well enough to keep him off the field and that come draft time we would draft a super stud with one of our first two picks. But yesterday we saw something special…. This fickle crowd of all things Broncos is already discussing draft stratagem changes. And I am sure some of the top college MLB recruits are scratching the Broncos off their list of possible landing places. This vision brings a warm smile to at least one Bronco Fan.

Play with heart = Win fans hearts.

As i live 10+ hours from denver by car, we don’t get to very many games. However, I will be there next week sitting in the south stands with my two oldest boys (10 and 8). Their first game. Believe me when I say, we will be watching Larsen very closely. And hopefully, I will be able to teach my boys about playing with heart.

on keeping the Stormin Mormon in the middle. (kudos to whoever came up with that name) I think the real dilemma will be finding a way to keep WW on the field with Winborn playing as well as he’s been. Great point on Larsen keeping Winborn emotionally in check, he needs it. That guy does alota celebrating.

This entire rookie class seems to be pretty even keel. From Clady to Hillis, they all seem well grounded and team oriented. Great job by the front office going “character” in this years draft!

I found bringing him in strange, except that he is an utter stud on ST and did well for us there yesterday. In addition, I suppose that he is backup for both SAM, which he played for Buffalo last year, and MLB if Larsen goes down

I that guy brought a ton of energy, enthusiasm, and great play. He brought so much enthusiasm that I had to chuckle on several plays. You can see him boyishly jumping on a pile at the end of a play or see him in the background mimicking Winborn’s big play celebration gyration. Gotta love it. I think Winborn played very well too (yes, yes he missed a pick six…but he was also in perfect position to make a pick six). All in all…I was very impressed by the play of our LBs.

Our DBs on the other hand…

What did everybody think about Josh Bell?

I liked Bell for several reasons;

1) He played hard and played well overall
2) He is VERY young and so it is all upside with him at this point. He was basically able to hold his own in his first NFL game after being shot out of a cannon up the depth chart.
3) I generally trust the denver decision making. They have been doing a great job with personnel decisions and hell, even they’re defensive schemes have started to make sense.
4) His last name is Bell. He should have a very suprisingly productive 2-3 years before we give him the axe and, if he’s lucky, we will then save him from a bad retail job (Incase of further RB injury, Shanny has Mike Bell’s # on speed dial who is actually working at a kiosk in the mall demonstrating over priced cutlery sets) ;-)

when he has a bad game….because he will. The one thing I liked the most was the lack of celebrating after every single tackle. That got annoying after a while….some of them would even celebrate after tackling someone for a 15-20 yard GAIN. I’ve had enough of that crap….do you J-O-B.

DJ and Woodyard both play Weakside Linebacker. Winborn plays Strongside (replacing Boss).

The problem will be what to do with Woodyard when DJ returns.

When your ‘guy’ goes down and his replacement is doing better than he was, what do you do now?

DJ was/is one of the best. Winborn has been everything we have asked of him. Larsen may have earned himself a job, at least for a while. Woodyard? Hmmm…

Shanahan himself said that Woodyard would start in this league at LB. I hope that we can keep him there. Whatever the outcome, this is the place where the depth we talked about at the begininning of the season has saved our bacon.

I do love his intensity and hope he can “hold up” and not get injured like so many others. When you play with that much Intensity, It is inevitable that and injury will happen eventually, but now we know what kind of depth that we have and we need to hold on to most of them. I think we should elliminate some of the high priced players in the possitions.

These guys remind me of the Replacements starring Kaenu Reeves.
Seriously, Larsen is like Danny Bateman….

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