A tale of two teams

The Cubs made a huge mistake by signing him. It’s too bad, he had such a good year last year (I think). Anyway, good point. When Josh McDaniels came here, he decided to build a team, not a group of individuals playing a game. Those two groups are totally different. Nice post and rec’d.

But sorry for you and the Cubs…

Good lead-in to McDaniels though…I believe that some people are just simply born to be great leaders…Like some are just born with great athletic bodies/talent…Josh McDaniels was born (IMO) to be a football coach and leader of men…At 33 years old, to be in charge of (and seemingly suceeding with) the talent that he has assembled is just an amazing thing to watch…

Go Broncos…13-3 Baby!

And it deserved it. Simply and eloquently put!

I was trying very hard to forget that the Cubbies exist atm and you go ahead and bring them up. Sigh, Maybe next year.

The first major league game I attended as a kid was the Cubs at Astros in the ‘Dome. Billy Williams hit 3 home runs. It’s a great memory.

Moved up to Philly last year, and the people here were heartbroken when Dawkins left, and for good reason. Maybe it was time, but then I thought the Eagles D would do a little more when I picked them to cover in the pick’em league vs. NO last week.

Coming from where we were last year, Dawk couldn’t help but improve the Broncos, but I’m wondering if they don’t miss him a little more in Philly than they expected? (You could maybe say the same thing about those years when we let Atwater, Sharpe, or even Pryce go.)

Where I followed the Dukes, AAA affiliate of the Dodgers. So by extension I grew into a Dodger fan. I would have thought the Dodgers learned their lesson with Bradley, but they had to go get Manny. I too love the philosophical difference in approach the Bronco’s have. I live in Cubs country now, I have to hear my co-workers pain every day. I also let them know what they inherited with Cutler… = ) I empathize with you completely… but you too have the Broncs… things will end well for you =)

You build some cred in the “quality of fan” department by remaining true to the Cubs. The Broncos at their most disfunctional must seem like a success machine (in truth, even though the Shanahan train had pretty much jumped the tracks, we never had a REALLY bad season).

Trying to succeed takes many paths:
Change everything but the godhead (Oakland, Dallas)…so change nothing
Coach rules…were’ just one player away (Broncos until 98-08)
If we just spend more money…(n/a in NFL – Cubs, Yankees)

You’ve got to hand it to Bowlen for the guts to bring in a smart, nuts-and-bolts, system guy coming off a (relatively) poor season when flashier options (Spagnolo, Cowher) were out there, and the security blanket of an old friendship and mediocre (and profitable) guarantee were already in hand.

This site provides a rounded, multifarious perspective, thanks for adding to it.

On an aside, have you ever noticed how many teams this can be said of:?

[insert team name here] were supposed to good this year, just like last year and the year before that. The main nucleus of the team was returning and yet again the team had spent big money during the offseason.

He wants to be in the spot lite all the time. Im so glad we dont go after any of the ego maniacs in the off season. We almost had one,BMarsh, until coach put him in his place.