but I wish everyone, including this site would just leave this alone. It’s like picking at a scab and is beneficial to no one. You folks (and I say that with utmost respect) seem to be stirring the pot as much as anyone. Can we just take a breath – please? Go Broncs!

I couldn’t agree more. The press tries repeatedly to bait Brandon and he really never bites. Today even Lindsay Jones is trying to turn this into gossip. Brandon takes full ownership of not knowing the play book and tells the writers he wanted to work with the second team. That was completely ignored by the Post.

I also agree with John, the sports guru, that there is no excuse for Brandon Marshall not knowing the playbook, none.

Donkhead, we are sorting the truth here. Marshall has had some emotional times in his life and is being portrayed as an angry man wanting to totally get out of Denver. He actual interview shows a different side altogether. That deserves to brought up IMHO.

My mistake was I took the" Marshall said he was disgruntled" statements as true. When I watched the video again he said, “Its hard to be disgruntled when your doing what you love….I love playing football” This says he’s not disgruntled.

Its funny how one misconstrued word can set off a firestorm. (Vision of the California hillside burning)

colquitt was doing field goals? Anyone with first hand knowledge of what he was really doing beside what the PM blog says?

Not physically, just emotionally. Say what you want about contracts, etc., but I think he was hurt to find out that the PR guy was saying those things. I’ve been standing by the Broncos all summer, but that singular event weighs very heavily on me — it’s a very creepy thing for the team to have done. I understand issues of risk and message control, but this was way overboard at a sensitive time and someone on the team showed very callous judgment. I have to say I’m not sure I would have taken that issue as gracefully as BM just did. He has clearly matured and is not going “loose cannon” on anyone.

I was on my way to Camp this morning and about to get on the Interstate when I got the news over the radio, that this mornings practice was canceled. Today’s practice will be at 1pm. So I get a nap before I head up there, :-)
Thanks NYC.

that Brandon has been given a goal of showing he is healthy and can play in this offense and by mid-season he’ll get his contract? Just a question, but you’d think he’d be trying to soak up the playbook if that was a possible scenario.

I just don’t get the sense he is as disgruntled as the MSM paints him to be. The man wants to play football. He has missed a lot of time with the team, including time the last couple of weeks in camp. The court stuff certainly didn’t help him keep focused on the game, but, now that that is in the past maybe, just maybe we’ll start seeing Brandon work his way back to the starting squad.

but the press surely seems to be playing it up, and we are just following their lead . . . which is what they want. Really, I’m beginning to wonder if all the practices should be closed to the press. Well . . . maybe I wouldn’t go that far, but I’m getting sick of some of these “journalists.”

plead guilty to a two year sentence. Didn’t he pass up an earlier deal that would have been 6 months that is lawyer begged him to take?

Moron.

Although, 2 years for carrying a gun and shooting yourself, 30 days for killing a guy with your car. How many years did Vick get? Man, I get so confused.

Meanwhile, the article about Scheffler linked above was an example of someone working through their issues and worries with maturity. He wasn’t happy about losing his friend the QB or the coach, but he’s come around, he’s working hard to adjust and he’s putting the team’s scheme first. Kudos to him. There’s someone else on the team who should take notice.

According to that Chronicle article, the Raiders might be without Javon Walker for awhile longer. I am shocked, shocked!

Honestly, I still can’t comprehend how anyone in their right mind could be looking at the Broncos team and the Raiders team, and the Broncs practices and the Raiders practices, and with a straight face pick the Raiders to finish ahead of Denver in the standings. Not saying it’s not possible mind you, and of course who cares, but it just boggles the mind.

I watched the San Fran game a couple of times over the weekend and it irked me how many times the hacks in the booth mentioned McDaniels ‘pursuing’ Matt Cassell and how Orton was ‘Booed at practice because he wasn’t Jay Cutler’.

Many of these things are just people in the press repeating what they’ve heard elsewhere, and they have no idea really that their statements are not necessarily the truth. But in the end what we have is a modern news environment where the news day never ends. Everyone wants the story and if it means overstating something, distorting something for sensational effect (I won’t name names but the initials are ESPN) or going with a story before you have all the facts (I am looking at you, Jamie Dukes) then so be it.

But the problem of course is, if you repeat something often enough – whether it is true or not – it becomes taken as fact. And as passionate as Broncos fans are about their team these things get the Nation whipped into a frenzy. Its has been an uncharacteristically turbulent off season for the Broncos, but the point made here is a good one.

Maybe everyone should just back off a bit and let these guys take care of their business and play football.

is mad about the team not seeing the tare in his hip. I would be mad also. I personaly think he wants to be a Bronco for a long time. The trust issue is all about his hip. The media is blowing a lot of this up just to have a story.

Ted did a great simile on Tuesday regarding old relationships. I’d add something – did you ever end a relationship with someone and suddenly find that all sorts of folks had ‘heard’ about all the terrible things that you supposedly did? The media’s approach to Marshall struck me much that way – a little exaggeration, a little ‘out of context’, a little pure nonsense.

It’s not that my opinion has changed much. I still think that he needs to stop bellyaching, work hard and show them that he’s worth a new contract (and likely to remain blissfully un-suspended throughout it’s timeframe). However, after listening to the way they set him up and played him. I do feel for the guy. He can’t win on this one. Silence isn’t really possible either, since the league requires him to answer at least some of the questions. If they asked him if the grass was green and he answered, ‘It sure looks that way, doesn’t it?’ they’d run a headline saying, "Marshall uncertain about turf’.

golfdoc – most of the reports have Smith and Royal taking the majority of snaps at returner. McKinley and some others are getting a few, but it seems like Eddie and Alphonso are at the top of the chart right now.

I was working in the pro shop at the time. He came as a guest of Dan Reeves and I still remember everyone commenting on how much further he could hit the ball than anyone else had at the time. Of course, this was before the PGA pros played at The International. I remember him being really relaxed with the staff f the club (not the prima-dona that everyone thought he would be).

I know we have the last two seasons, and it was always interesting to see how we stacked up against them in training camp.

“Update: No sign of Matt Prater, either. More interesting now that we saw P Colquitt practicing field goals yesterday. Stay tuned.”

I know a few of you were wondering if we should make any more of that from yesterday, and I figured no, he’s just doing that to see if he has added value. But this is interesting. Or maybe Prater just pulled or strained something and is being held out. Don’t know if we need to make too much of this yet.

He said that Prater is fine and will make the trip to Seattle