Mostly in regards to the weather – if it’s going to be hot and sunny, the smart thing for the Bengals to do is elect to wear their white uni’s, forcing the Broncos into the darker and hotter blue uni’s. These decisions have to be made well in advance, so I guess we’ll find out tomorrow.
Forecast for Cincinnati tomorrow is a high in the upper 70’s, partly cloudy, and humidity around 50 %.

You know, just talking. ;)

bwahahahahaha… love it

Josh certainly must think he knows best. Otherwise he will surely fail. I see things here and there that give me hope (even tho I’m not a McD fan), this is one of them. He has a clear idea of how he wants to (re)build the team and let’s no one sway him from that. Gotta appreciate the balls!

Also I’ve been loving his play calls in pre-season. I look forward to his real game calls & especially the half time adjustment that Shanny used to be known for (not so much the last few years) and NE still is.

I my mind this game could really have a huge impact on our success this year.
Huge.

Should have traded a 1st round pick several years from now for an all all-pro guy who will only be with us 1 year.

Thanks NYC — sure is good to have you back.

I agree about our division. I think we do better than the experts project, but still end up 2nd in our division (certainly NOT behind oakland and kc that’s for sure). I just think the Chargers know their window is closing and are hungry for it. They look pretty good IMO.

Gosh I do hope you’re wrong about the Dolts.

It is nice to have a QB who is less of a baby than Rivers!

Oops, thanks, and corrected! I always appreciate such catches, B!

Your kind words surely mean a lot to me. There is an OCD aspect to my personality which makes me want to collect as much information as is humanly possible; hence the thoroughness. I’m glad you (and everyone else) appreciate what I do; it’s why I keep doing it and am always trying to improve Tracks. I wish I had the time to comment on every link, but the more sources I find to add each morning, less is left for throwing my take out there (which I LOVE to share, haha). Thanks again, Spock.

But here is where I VERY definitely disagree with him:
1/ You cant look at Shanahan without looking at his staff. They were HOPELESS, bar Dennison and Turner. Has Shanny more runs on the board than McD/ Defintely. But when you look at the staff’s overall, this years staff is SO much better, and I honestly think in about 2-3 years, we will see McDaniels as one of the best in the game.
2/ I think Cutler is no dummy. I also think that he has an over inflated opinion of himself, and that leads to him not wanting to be coached, as is obvious by his lack of progression in the last 2 seasons. He is MAD talented, but is devoid of football smarts. When you look at last years games, Cutler RARELy checks down and always goes for the glory throw. It is so damn irritating. My wish was that Cutler wanted coaching, and he would have learnt so much from McDaniels and McCoy. In the area of smarts and leadership, I will take Kyle Orton every time.
3/ Shanahan was not moving in the right way. Not even clsoe. His wish to keep Slowik as his DC tells me all I need to know about Kike’s decisions in the past 5 seasons.
4/ I am not seeing the down grade on offense. With the addition of KM, Gaffney, Lloyd and the continuing development of Royal and Hillis I am not seeing what Kyle is seeing. The offense was not all Jay Cutler last year, and I will argue that Royal, Stokely. Marshall and Sheffler made Jay look a lot better than what he really was. Orton is a down grade physically, but thats not everything in a QB.

Thanks fro the link Whidbey. Broncotalk is a cool site.

Peace.

I thought Kyle’s dissertation reasonable even if I disagree with some of his conclusions. He also did not need to include such terms as “McKid” and “Hatoradors”. He supported his opinions with facts but in the end the piece is primarily opinion.

He starts with his assertion that (1) firing Shanahan, and (2) trading Cutler was the worst things that ever happened to the Broncos. All of his conclusions are built on those premises. He dismisses Bowlen’s response as overreacting to a couple of missed phone calls. OK. I get it. If you have a disgrunted employee who slams you in the media, won’t return your phone calls, demands a trade, won’t show up for training camps, etc., then the only logical response is to hold his feet to the fire and force him to stay on the team because he has skills.

I share Kyle’s concern about using more power blocking offensive schemes instead of the ZB. We saw troubles in the preseason executing these schemes. Time will tell.

thinks he’s in the MDDDDDDT time zone!

ooops, meant as a response to diviesti