In the mean time, we should all be hoping that both QBs are pushing each other to learn this complicated new system and improve. Surely our staff has no real idea of who’s leading at this point at any position without a previous year’s starter in place… Can’t wait to see how it turns out. Fingers crossed.

PS I’m thinking the ‘swipes’ we constantly hear here, are more from the entire NFL world agreeing with we disgruntled fans than anything said here. Still, we’re all fans. We’ll get past this, it really only just happened after all.

It’s just too easy to let rude crap fall out your neck from the safety of your keyboard.

and for the record, imho, I think some folks need to thicken their skins a little. This is not a non-biased news aggregation feed. This is a blog post, full of opinions of every stripe and color. If some feel so strongly about their opinions that they can’t put up with someone else’s, maybe they should post their own version of tracks every day or just do their own surfing every day. Asking NYC to temper his own opinions in his own blog post when he has made it of the most regular, consistent, generous contributions on the site is a little unfair. For some of us, the humorous asides are what give this feature some editorial teeth, even if we don’t agree with every comment.

was that I suspected that Marshall’s trip was more about his MRIs than his decision to ask for an extension, given his blog post the other day. To me, the request for an extension is good news — it shows me he wants to play here, that he’s integrating himself with the new staff, and that he has every intention of remaining a Bronco. Although few actually land an early extension, many players routinely ask for one as they approach the end of their current contract. The timing was a little odd, but I just think that his interest in a new deal shows more that he’s interested in staying here than anything. Let’s remember that he’s in his fourth year of a four-year contract. If we can do an extension this year, once his legal issues and health issues are put to rest, we might actually have some leverage in the deal.

There is nothing here today that I really want to read, past the headlines. I am thankful for NYC giving me the opportunity to make that choice to filter through all things Bronco related each day. He makes it so easy for all of us, that I must show my appreciation daily.
You did some serious scrounging this morning NYC, Thanks.

I can’t wait until the season to see which MSM pundits will eat their hats.

Dolts: 0 Championships, 7 HOFers.

I knew this…and yet hearing it again just gives me heartburn. Ugh.

Thanks for tracks, NYC. Much appreciated, as always. :-)

As always, NYC for the hard work. I love the fact that I can come here and have a page like this, where I, like Kirk, can decide that there’s nothing really I want to read today.

I think we’d better call the waaaaambulance for those worried about getting “needled”. This is football, there’s no crying in football!!

“I think he has been a great flamboyant quarterback, but he has made more stupid plays than any great quarterback I have ever seen.’’

Remind you of anyone we know?

I saw some insider article headline said something about marshall to the bears… does anyone have any insight into what the article itself said and how much speculation rather than fact it contains?

thanks =)

Rather than post directly below anyone’s comments let me make some general comments here;

I’m against personal attacks, since they don’t accomplish much, but any comment that cites as ‘fact’ defamatory and/or libelous claims is likely to be responded to by me. I’m not posturing when I say that I’d be happy to read any argument someone has to support their viewpoint, but a common argumentative technique has been to allude to “problems” which are themselves inferred from libelous claims.

I certainly endeavor to be polite but if the point of someone’s post is to frame the issue by relying on false claims then I’m going to point out their error. And this applies to posts here as well as articles in the MSM. The passage of time doesn’t ‘heal’ the problem of relying on dubious information and making illegitimate inferences based on that information, so saying that one would like to leave the issue behind doesn’t mean anything if it’s only a pretext for re-inserting a libelous claim later on.

Even though many here have tired of hearing about Cutler, I’d like to see someone actually try to support his claims. The general tendency seems to be to resist a determination of facts, which then provides cover for insisting that certain claims are true because the facts have yet to be determined or are in dispute. This argumentative technique is like the “teach the controversy” or “wedge” approach used by the Discovery Institute, whose goal is to have Intelligent Design taught alongside the theory of Evolution in science classes. In essence, it uses the fact that there is an argument itself as justification for teaching non-scientific points of view on the theory of evolution. However, the goal of the wedge approach is avoid a scientific argument in a common arena in which disputes can be resolved. Curiously, much of Cutler’s position during his dispute with the team resembles this approach. He claimed to have a dispute (which is impossible to deny since it’s self evident) whereas the team offered to resolve the dispute. Cutler’s claim of a dispute was in turn used by him to argue that the problem was unsolvable.

The argumentative technique of referring to all “problems” as problems caused by the team is invalid. Players, and their agents, are quite capable of causing problems with a team solely on their own. Much of the criticism of the Broncos’ so-called mistakes lately hides behind a veil of vagueness rather than make explicit, concrete claims. This strategy prevents any factual determination from being made on the issue, while at the same time purporting to avoid the issue because of it’s ostensibly unresolvable nature.