Just kidding.

Thanks, McG. I added that link after the fact, and was already in quite a rush to get done with Tracks and ready for work; I had gotten off to a late start. Appreciate the heads up.

It appears to me that Josh has his priorities straight; Team first- Media relations last.

Thanks NYC. The colorful remarks made me smile this morning.

Mark Kiszla is mentally retarded. I’m not trying to be funny, that is a fact. Please don’t waste your time reading anything he writes.

Other than Bill Williamson, there is not a less qualified sports writer in the business than Kiszla.

funny story. the chiefs neglected to tell people that thigpen played the last game with broken ribs

his agent spilled the beans

than that is something they are going to have to deal with…..TOUGH.

…that Reilly doesn’t have three sources.

Sheesh. Bowlen wasn’t even in town when Cutler’s agent claims he spoke to Bowlen in Denver. This is all so “yesterday”. Let’s move on. Cutler demanded a trade before McDaniels was even hired. McDaniels turned down an offer that another team made, and Cutler used it to up the ante. This gets forgotten by a sloppy press that reported these same facts before the story tunred into an inferno.

remained unidentified then that says it all right there and why now? It is like those people that accuse athletes of something several months after the alleged incident happened.

This is pure bogus.

How often did Favre play with a splint on his finger or something like that.

That blood on Orton’s finger, by the way, was the result of an open dislocation (meaning it penetrated the skin) of his right knuckle. I felt pain just typing that.
— from the DP Mailbag

And I felt pain just reading that.

I think he is on waivers now.

Yeah, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Denver pick him up if Orton is out longer than 2 weeks. Since McD is familiar with him. He’s young and has some talent but looked bad in camp.

or off (though he gpt a big much with some gushy Cutler love later in the game); but his criticisms earlier seemed valid and he praised how good their line is, and was very effusive about Eddie Royal (“I just love this kid”) and a few other guys. I think people were prepared for him to be obnoxious about Denver so had tunnel vision with his comments. Probably true about some of the other guys above, that just because someone expresses concern or criticizes Denver we shouldn’t lump them in with the true idiots in the MSM like Dukes. That said I wouldn’t say that Krieger or Schlereth have been right or fair 100% of the time in their Broncos comments either. So people need to be fair and have a longer fuse when judging each person in the MSM but should also be allowed to express reservations about what they right.

I’m not going to waste my time filing in the blanks on that one again.

And I agree with them. It gets annoying that every analyst in the league feels the same way, and I think that’s why posters here get so frustrated. For the record (and I know many will disagree) Al Michaels and Collinsworth are the best announcers on TV. I thought they did a great job on Sunday, and the biting criticism of Rodney Harrison was right on— he knows McDaniels well enough to warrant consideration of his opinions.

Honestly, McG, I’m kind of insulted by your comment. I don’t think it’s fair to throw a blanket statement out that MHR “berates” the MSM or reacts “with disgust” to criticism. Not that I (or any other single staff member) represent MHR on our own (especially since we all have our own independent opinions), but you’re being unfair when you use such generalizations.

You are not the only member of MHR who can handle reading/hearing criticism of the Broncos.

…is that they copy others material without researching for themselves. An example is when those same writers change their stories (probably without malice). Example (from C-Style above)…

I remember at the time when this all went down when Cutler’s camp denied the attempts of Bowlen & McD trying to call him. The immediate statement released from The Broncos was "we have the phone records". Cook & Cutler shut right up on this topic after Bowlen said that.

I recall that as well.

I’ve seen them be reduced, treated and be adequate in a couple of weeks on several occasions. Good luck to him

this is the return of the “unnamed source”. All I expect to see from this latest round of non-info on the Cutler situation (to go with all the non-info and non-sources that surfaced during its original incarnation) is an orgy of bias-confirmation, both ways. I read the Reilly blurb (I don’t think Reilly would even lay claim to this piece as being a researched piece of journalism, more just something he felt was important to throw out there, but not important enough to do a longer piece on that explored all the angles and just what it might mean).

And as long as we are entertaining non-info, I’ll just state for the record that I think one of the unnamed sources is, once again, Bus Cook. Its never too late for an image rehabilitation campaign, and prior to contract negotiations is a particularly fine time….

Is that Schlereth?

I wouldn’t expect him to be a homer for his former team, and he’s free to be critical, but saying they “have no talent” if that’s what he said is just… sorry if this offends but… retarded. Gotta do better than that, Schlereth. But then again, NFL Live has become sort of like ESPN’s baseball tonight, more bombast than insightful analysis. Just as I switched over to the MLBNetwork for better commentary, I usually watch the NFL Network, despite the couple of people there I can’t stand they have generally more insight and less of the football version of John Kruk.