I would add, that if you’ve watched the practices they’ve done some interesting substitutions for Davis in passing situations. Both Woodyard and Barret seeing time.

McD said early on that all they expect the OLB/DEs to do is drop into shallow zones.

For the life of me, I can’t come up with an opinion on how to handle Brandon Marshall. The Roddy White deal has to sting, and I understand his desire to be paid for his ability. Yet the recent incident with the new fiance would be a deal killer for me, if I was in the Bronco’s shoes. It shows that he has a real lack of judgement and an inability to control his emotions despite the possibility of dire consequences. I mean, how to you fight with a woman in public— even just verbally— when you know that the NFL just needs an excuse to derail your career? He doesn’t seem to have that tempering internal voice that defines most adults. I could forgive the passive-agressive teen aged angst, the camp malingering….pretty much all of it, but I’m not sure I could trust him to the point of a fair-market contract.

I feel for Bowlen on this one. It’s a very tough situation, and the Cutler multiplier makes it nearly impossible to ‘win’ this one.

I can’t quite understand what was wrong with counseling the players to show a little restraint about Marshall’s trial verdict. It would look extremely shabby to gleefully rejoicing in the outcome of a domestic abuse trial.

…He was just sayin’, you know, that he didn’t realize that Hester doesn’t, you know, have ball skills, and that he just assumed he did when he purposely underthrew that ball, and, like, you know, know he knows that Hester isn’t very, you know, good, and has to, like, be, you know, spoon fed. That’s all he was sayin’, you know. He wasn’t, you know, throwin’ Hester under the bus, you know, he was just saying that in the future he’ll adjust, you know, to the fact that Hester can’t really, you know, play, as shown by that perfectly, you know, and intentionally, you know, underthrown ball. That’s all he was saying. You gots to put it right in Devin’s hands or he is worthless is all he was saying. Nothing bad, you know. He will adjust, you know, to Deven’s incompetence. Geesh.

I look at the Raiders’, both their staff and their personnel, and the Chiefs, same, and don’t see how they get free passes but the Broncos are the ones who are going to be bad in that division, finish last, etc. The Raiders coaching staff doesn’t impress me, aside from their pugilistic skills, JaMarcus Russell continues to look poor in training came (maybe he’ll be replaced at some point this season by Garcia) and they don’t scare me on either side of the line. The Chiefs should be better, but after reading about and watching a little of their new coach in action I have to say I prefer being lead by McDaniels, and I’m not convinced Cassel will be the same guy with less weapons around him. In short they all have questions but I llike the direction the Broncos are going in, DESPITE what Mike and Mike have to say. I’m pretty sure they haven’t studied the Broncos in depth. I’m sticking by my 8 and 8 prediction, and a team that will at least compete in the games they play.