That’s great stuff about driving for Mike Shanahan.

I am sure you have see and heard some interesting things during your time. Feel free to share any of those nuggets with us!!!

It never seems to fail that players do have a sense of loyalty to old coaches. Though certain players may and most likely will follow Shanny wherever he goes (due to Free Agency), I would think the market will determine if the players you mention stay or go. I could see the Broncos letting Marshall or Scheff walk, but they will do everything in their power to lock Cutler up (IMO). I think we’ll see more 2nd and 3rd tier talent walk away, but again, players will go to teams that a) pay them the most $$$ and b) give them a shot at winning. If we improve as a team, then we can at least satisfy the latter point. The former is up to our cap situation and how imporant “said” player is to the team.

Again, welcome to MHR!

PS – For laughs sake, have you ever yelled back to the players in the bus, “G-damnit, if you kids don’t shut up, I’m turning this bus around!” I’d be so tempted, but then again, keeping your job probably overrides cheap giggles.

I am sure you have some interesting stories you can share with us, and a whole bunch you cannot.

I share your opinion abuot our offensive free agents, but we will have to wait and see where Coach Shanahan ends up and what the new Broncos coaching staff looks like.

I’m with you on Spags. I hope Saturday went well with the Bronco brass.

Just wanted to point out one comment….

Jack " Ball Hawk " Williams

I don’t think any man when he reflects on his life at age 80 will want his grandchildren remembering his nickname if it is foul. I think we should show Jack’s future children and grandchildren some respect by calling him Ball Hawk.

…the number two driver position?

great to have you here!

Look forward to hearing from you!

Thanks for the nice article.

welcome aboard, and what a cool job. we will be listening to your de-classified stories with great interest. yeah, i guess this move takes a little venom out of the raider rivalry, but another team’s hate for them will begin anew(if there are any left) with shanny’s next team. i, too am concerned about “coach” taking not only players with him, but assistant coaches, especially on offense. hopefully he hires bates or slowick as his dc, so we get to play against that. i’m not sure this style of offense will/can be maintained with the new administration. we have got to keep bates/dennison in some capacity. does anyone else available know this playbook, scheme, or are even familiar with the previous structure? i really don’t want to start over on offense right now.

the defense, 2009 will be the year of the defense. it simply has to be addressed now, and it made bowlen’s tough decision, in my opinion. we need starters. i would like to keep many players on d, but as backups. this side of the ball is very fixable, 2 years max. we need a veteran dt, and a lb or safety. draft high likewise, and we should have a very solid foundation to work with. remember, we can win with a good defense, and not necessarily a great one. year 2, if we don’t go “all-in” this offseason, we need a de or 2, a corner, and one more player at the weakest position. that’s only 8-9 players in 2 seasons, and we still have champ, d.j., doom, bly?, and the youngins ww, larsen, barrett, jmfw, powell, thomas, even crowder and moss may work out better in a new scheme. ok, that’s a reach, but there is some talented players to sort through with our new defensive philosophy. the d-line must go from below-average to above-average, immediately. a real dt or 2, and another de would give quick results, i would imagine. use #12 pick at mlb. a real safety. done. good. realistically, we could be very deep here on d in 2 seasons if we want to, or just 1, if we really want to/can afford to. it’s all about priorities. ok, i’m rambling. i do that. either way, this is going to be one hell of an interesting offseason, that is certain. stay tuned, here at mhr.

feel free to ask any question here, this site is well-equipped to give answers to practically everything. enjoy, and please, tell us your secrets!

nice to have you here.

Everyone here is very pleased to have you with us. Talk about in ‘insider’ perspective on a few things!
To start with:

The new coach which should be Steve Spagnuolo. He is the best and brightest mind available today. I heard coach talk about him one day.

Wow, talk about a compliment to Spags! I know that most of us are hoping for him (according to our polling, at least) and I’m one of them. The MHR excellence came up with that stat of stats, in Cutler’s numbers when the D holds them to 23 (and thank you again to the man who found that one). We need to keep some emphasis on the O, move from good red zone nuimbers to higher scoring numbers but even to ‘hold serve’ and keep this level would put us deep in the playoffs quickly with a solid run at a D.

One of my concerns, which I haven’t voiced before, is reflected in this comment:

“we stand to lose several high impact players on offense over the next couple of years.”

My concern is that some of our top people will want to follow Coach S when it’s contract time. Even more so, I can see several assistants like Bobby Turner pssibly considering staying with a man they seem to like and respect. It could be quite a change in the system. The sooner we bring in a HC and establish our coordinators that better.

I am also new here, and the folks are nice and very helpful. Let me tell you though, the posts really fly! It is hard to keep up with the volume of information coming out of here…not a bad thing though.