Horse Tracks 7/15/09 - Two big dates on BMarsh's calendar
by Douglas A. Lee on Jul 15, 2009 5:43 AM MDT
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DP - Broncos' Marshall must report July 27
BMarsh is required to report with the rookies and other rehabbing players on July 27, three days before the official start of camp. Plus, if he does not report by Aug. 11 he will forfeit a year's service time and push him another year away from unrestricted free agency. So, it will be quite a stunner not to see him by then.
DB - NFL Network: Broncos 2009 Outlook
Here is Rod Smith's guest appearance on NFLTA; Smith, Mike Lombardi and yes, Jamie Dukes discuss Brandon Marshall and the Broncos. Rod points out that Josh McDaniels has added more discipline and pleads with Dukes to give the Broncos a chance before judgment. Wow, I cannot believe I just watched Dukes speak for that long. OUCH. Thankfully, Rod reminds Dukes of his two SB rings; no comeback, eh JD?
DB - NFL Network: Top 10 Homefield Advantages - Mile High
UGH. Another reminder of the home-field advantage gone by. Mile High ranks as the 2nd all-time advantage on NFLN. Ahh, those were the days. The shaking stadium, the false starts galore, Elway with the hard counts, this is too much for me...
DB - Young Leaders Promising Change - Karl Mecklenburg
The Snow Goose makes an entry as a guest blogger; here, he looks at the parallels between the Broncos and the U.S. - the new administrations for both (with young, new leaders) and the fear, expectations and realities that accompany great change.
RF91 - Ronald Fields Official Website
I know you've all been waiting for this...Ronnie Fields has got a website. All kidding aside, Fields does have a decent blog entry from the other day.
NFP - Diner morning news: A look at two coaches
Lombardi has some nice things to say about Shanny and expects him to come back better than ever. Man, if only he would've let Bowlen fire Slowik and bring in a personnel man. Obviously, those things were never going to happen, but oh well...
SI - GAME CHANGERS Fifty years ago a group of would-be owners
The current issue of SI has an article featuring stars of the AFL, including Denver RIng of Famer Goose Gonsoulin.
KCS - Chiefs sign QB Cassel to multi-year deal
As they had to do, the Chefs will give Matt Cassel $28 million in guarantees as part of a possible 6-year, $63 million contract. Honestly, I'd say they got off pretty easy - Cassel's franchise tag promised him $14.5 million in 2009, and then KC probably would have had to franchise him again after the season to keep him. Then again, how much money does one guy need?
KCS - Cassel extension: An analysis | Upon Further Review
Apparently, Football Outsiders says Cassel cannot throw the deep ball.
KCS - Matt Cassel speaks on his new deal with the Chiefs, and some reported contract terms
KCS - Cassel has Moss to thank for his good fortune
Jason Whitlock abandons his usual good sense and calls Randy Moss the "greatest football player of our lifetime" and "the most influential football player of any lifetime." Wow. Good thing I was between spoonfuls of oatmeal, as I would've choked to death otherwise...
CCT - Candid Cam: Cassel 'long-term' Raiders foe
NFP - Supplemental draft preview: Part 1
Wes Bunting looks at the top prospects for tomorrow's supplemental draft. For what it's worth, Denver does not have any extra picks in the 2010 Draft.
NFL - Union chief, current and former players plan meetings with Congress
NFL - Other sports leagues, anti-doping group support NFL in case of Williamses
PFW - AFC North training-camp previews
CST - Cassel contract just one deal that could pave way for Cutler's pay day
Brad Biggs considers whether the Bears need to give Cutler that ginormous contract before this season.
NFP - Preseason coaching carousel: NFC - Robert Boland
NFLN - NFL Videos: Top 5: Coaches
How about that?! Jamie Dukes puts Josh McDaniels among the top 5 coaches around the league. Just kidding. Okay, obviously you didn't fall for that one but can you imagine?!
NFP - NFP late hits: Do the Eagles need Dunn? - Matt Bowen
SI - New York Jets' Mark Sanchez could open Hispanic market for NFL - John P. Lopez
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Thanks NYC
"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left." – Yogi Berra
"No, I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space."
Thanks, NYC.
"Who speaks for Charlie?"
by Tempestuous Binary on Jul 15, 2009 7:19 AM MDT reply actions
Thank goodness Cassel signed a long term deal in KC. Chasing Cassel is a temptation I did not want The Coach to indulge next offseason.
See ya August 11th BM. He has only himself to blame for not scoring a Greg Jennings type extension this offseason. To paraphrase Clinton Portis, you’ll being play for "the low" in 2009.
I doubt Denver participates in the supplemental draft tomorrow.
Don’t quote me, but I believe Denver has one pick in each round of the 2010 draft.
We have traded away our picks in the 1st & 5th round.
We own Chicago’s pick in round 1 and the Dallas pick in round 5 (M Holland trade).
You are correct on the 2010 draft choices.
As for BM, his injuries would be a factor, even if the off-field issues were never there. How could Denver give an extension to someone whose hip is not in full health? Not to harp on this, but had Green Bay not called and accepted the Broncos’ offer for Javon, we’d probably have BOTH Jennings and BMarsh. OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Douglas A. Lee on Jul 15, 2009 7:45 AM MDT up reply actions
Where are they now? Ian Pierce.
Eddie Royal and BM comprise the best young WR duo in the NFL (by far). Jennings is a great great player, but I’m happy with what we got at wideout.
Terry Pierce?
I hear ya, obviously mine is a pointless pursuit. Then again, maybe we’d have all three!!!! Haha just kidding.
by Douglas A. Lee on Jul 15, 2009 9:28 AM MDT up reply actions
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"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left." – Yogi Berra
"No, I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space."
My first mobile comment
I am writing this from my iPhone, just because it occurred to me that I should try it.
Thanks for Horse Tracks, as always NYC.
"I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning." -- Robert F. Kennedy
by Ted Bartlett on Jul 15, 2009 7:47 AM MDT via mobile reply actions
More importantly....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Douglas A. Lee on Jul 15, 2009 8:10 AM MDT up reply actions
Happy B'Day Ted and Thanks for the daily updates nycbroncosfan
Victor Frankl:
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Thanks NYC!!!
You make the morning a lot more palatable with all the Bronc and NFL news.
Take my advice... I'm not using it!
Just click your heels together three times and say, "There's no player like Hillis... there's no player like Hillis."
Rod Smith
Man, Rod will never last as an analyst. His comments are articulate, rational, thought out… he is the antithesis of everyone else in that room and won’t appeal to the knee jerk fans out there.
He is fun to listen to though.
Tis better not to throw it to the deep receiver but the open receiver.
sad, but true
Reasoned insightful analysis just doesn’t cut it in infotainment. Rod’s commentary is just a small taste of what the MSM would be like if it were staffed with the likes of the MHR staff.
"My job description is to win football games. I'm a hard worker. I'm not flashy by any means, but my job is to play football and win and I plan to do that." Kyle Orton
Dukes.....what a putz!
I truly believe he will be forced to eat crow at the end of the year!
I have posted a few times this off season about how badly losing the Mile High advantage made me feel on game days. It was gut wrenching to say the least….I also believe that will be back this year, even with the schedule we have!
Thanks for the post!
A proud prognostication of 10-6 in 2009!!!
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
John Adams
why not
It looks like he eats everything else.
"You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left." – Yogi Berra
"No, I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space."
That old, "Mile High home field advantage" was always special.
We’ve talked about it before here at MHR. I’ve been to both stadiums and it’s not the same anymore. I can’t tell you exactly why.
Maybe it’s because some of the old “neighborhoods” have been broken up. Some of those people in Old Mile High had been sitting next to each other for decades. It’s a lot easier to get rowdy with people you know and trust. I suppose that feeling could come back as the new stadium ages.
Someone here said before that the New Mile High can’t be as loud because of it’s larger “foot print”, much more square, and I imagine cubic, footage to fill with noise. I can’t really see a remedy for that.
I think it had something to do with the patchwork construction history of the Old Mile High. It started out as a baseball field (The Denver Bears) that was eventually modified (at least twice) to accommodate the growing attendance for the Broncos games. The last major remodel involved those floating seats that were the east stands. I’m not sure how sound they really were but they sure gave you the feeling, when the fans started stomping their feet and the whole place began to rock back and forth, literally, that the stadium might collapse into one big pile of concrete and steel, sending everyone inside to Valhalla.
It was magic.
If this be Hell, let us make the most of it!
by Trinidad Jack on Jul 15, 2009 12:02 PM MDT up reply actions
I used to sit in the top row of the east stands
I’m not sure how I we kept getting the nose-bleedingest seats in the house, but when people started to stomp, it felt like a ride at Elitch’s.
"It's the first time that I've probably ever seen a 260 pound back run into a free safety and go flat on his back, I mean it was exciting." ~John Elway
The stands were unsafe, wobbly and wonderfully loud
there was nothing like that simple steel construction that rang when your feet stomped. I was an old school South Stander, and it was a grand time and a wonderful ‘neighborhood’ to sit in. I really do miss that.
Hillis/Moreno in '09
The neighborhood is rebuilding, I think...
its just not in the stands anymore. ;)
There is no army so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
by Jeremy Bolander on Jul 15, 2009 5:28 PM MDT up reply actions
Meck!
Great to have him writing and that was a thoughtful post from him. Really interesting. Man, I wish he was a Broncos coach in some capacity.
Thanks for the links, as always.
karl mecklenburg
once again- the most underrated player in the history of sports. hof now!
taste my blintzkrieg!
2009-year of the secondary?
Loved what Fields had to say
I have been learning the defensive playbook and since I have experience with 3-4 defenses, I have been helping some of the other players learn it and become more comfortable and familiar with it.
I like head coach Josh McDaniels. He is a stand up guy and is up front and to the point. He lets you know what’s on his mind, he’s honest and tells you things straight. He tells you like it is, and doesn’t hold back. I like that. He’s a winner.
Given that he was happy with his performance in OTAs, his experience and his willingness to teach, I think that we’ve got a winner in this man. It’s nice to see him commenting so favorably on McDaniels – sure, he wasn’t going to slam him, but he didn’t have to comment at all. It’s more evidence that the players are buying into the system and the team. Great stuff!
Hillis/Moreno in '09
San Diego quarterback Philip Rivers gets beaten in a skills competition by a high school player
The “Shutdown Corner” has an article ( http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Philip-Rivers-gets-beat-by-a-high-schooler-does?urn=nfl,176581 ) about how Philip Rivers came in 2nd place in his own football kids camp.
Victor Frankl:
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Link problem
Above link did not add in the 176581 portion. Looks like the entire link:
will need to be copied into the browser to reach the article.
Victor Frankl:
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
It makes sense
since that’s about Rivers’ maturity level. ;-)
(Btw. yahoo links are always funky anyway and tiny.url doesn’t usually work for them. But I do recommend bit.ly, which is a better tiny link conversion tool and seems to convert Yahoo sports links better. Just fyi.)
fixed
Now try it.
"If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences". W. I. Thomas
Isn't Weigman still with the Chiefs?
NFLTA says the Broncos signed him THIS off season. Wasn’t he in the pro-bowl last year? So the Chiefs let their pro-bowl center get away? Too bad Rod Smith didn’t call them out on this obvious ID-10T error.
Denver signed Wiegmann last summer, and he’s here to stay – just signed a new two-year deal
by Douglas A. Lee on Jul 15, 2009 12:45 PM MDT up reply actions
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