Horse Tracks - 3/14/10 - Start Hot, Stay Hot
by John Bena on Mar 14, 2010 4:01 AM MST
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Good Morning Broncos Country! I hope everyone remembered to 'Spring Forward'! That means it is time to move your clocks forward - for those in the U.S. that is(and don't live in Arizona, right??). Anyway, I'm about to head off to do 90 minutes of Yoga and figured I would get HT out of the way early for all of you. 36-4. That is the Broncos win-loss record the past 9 years during their various 'Hot Starts'. The starts are relative - from a 3-0 start in 2002 to 6-0 in 2009 - but the idea remains the same. The Broncos, for nearly a decade, have been a team that gets out of the gate hot only to struggle late. The results - 22-34 to end seasons - show why the team has just one playoff win since 2001. In that year - 2005 - the Broncos finished 4-1. The Broncos are efforting themselves this off-season to end that trend. Size matters in the NFL, and the Broncos have gotten bigger along the defensive line. I expect them to do the same on the offensive line as well. Instead of being the team that wears down, look for the Broncos to be the team doing the punishing. That's the goal, anyway. Enjoy your cup of 'Orange and Blue coffee', and GO BRONCOS!
Klis: Broncos build up for fantastic finish - The Denver Post
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Krieger: Broncos' Brandon Marshall much deeper than any caricature - The Denver Post
In an era when few pro athletes are willing to sacrifice street cred by taking a stand against gangs, Marshall spent much of the 2008 NFL season donating one afternoon a week to Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives, the Rev. Leon Kelly's gang prevention program in northeast Denver.
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Jake Delhomme has a new NFL home and the Browns have another new quarterback.
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The Jets announced on their Web site Saturday night that they will flip a coin with the Giants to determine which team will host the first regular-season game at their new 82,500-seat, $1.6 billion stadium this season.
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Agent: Cincinnati Bengals agree to re-sign safety Roy Williams - ESPN
The Cincinnati Bengals reached a one-year agreement to re-sign safety Roy Williams Saturday, according to his agent, Jordan Woy.
Tennessee Titans' Kevin Mawae re-elected unanimously as NFLPA president - ESPN
Free agent center Kevin Mawae was unanimously re-elected as president of the NFL Players Association during the union's board of player representatives meeting Saturday.
LaDainian Tomlinson heads home after visits with New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings - ESPN
LaDainian Tomlinson flew home to San Diego on Saturday to consider his options after spending a day with the New York Jets and leaving without a deal.
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The Bears have made free-agency acquisitions at an alarming -- and incredibly expensive -- rate, but there is no doubt as to whom the future of Lovie Smith, and probably the entire front office, is tied: Cutler.
Did the Redskins make the right call with LJ? | National Football Post
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Is Whitehurst on the move? | National Football Post
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Titans expected to keep talking with Crumpler | National Football Post
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BYU tight end Dennis Pitta has strong Pro Day | National Football Post
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Thanks John!
was already thinking WOW ur early, but the U.S. daylight savings changes 2 weeks before we do in Europe.
That article by Klis raises some good points. The staff will need to seriously evaluate the off season programs because it’s been the same story every season for the past few years…
Is it the head coach who decides the intensity of the workouts, or does the strenght coach have a lot a freedom to set up his workout programs?
Bleeding Orange & Blue in The Netherlands
moving the time change 2 weeks early
was our goverment’s first attempt at an stimulus program back in 2007 to get the economy moving again.
Worked pretty well, didn’t it? ; )
"All we're trying to do is win the *********** game!" -- Josh MF McDaniels tearing into his offensive line after three false starts in the red zone. The tirade turned the tide of the game, and the Broncos dominated from that point on.
by broncosmontana on Mar 14, 2010 10:02 AM MDT up reply actions
Enjoy your cup of 'Orange and Blue coffee'
well its black coffee but the mug’s got the horses head on and its orange and blue
Thanks, John.
"All by their heads, he places crowns."
"Brandon Marshall isn't as good as you think he is." - a random hobo I met
by Tempestuous Binary on Mar 14, 2010 5:06 AM MST reply actions
Yoga
John,
What kind do you do? Have you ever tried “hot yoga?”
by Baltimore Bronco on Mar 14, 2010 6:39 AM MST reply actions
I think I would die...
No, my Yoga is part of the P90X program….Pretty standard I’d imagine….
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P90X is awesome
the plyometrics workout is my worst enemy lol
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by BroncoJoe311 on Mar 14, 2010 11:52 AM MDT up reply actions
I hate it....
but I love it!
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"All we're trying to do is win the *********** game!" -- Josh MF McDaniels tearing into his offensive line after three false starts in the red zone. The tirade turned the tide of the game, and the Broncos dominated from that point on.
by broncosmontana on Mar 14, 2010 9:59 AM MDT up reply actions
I would love to root for the NFLPA on negotiations
But it’s getting harder and hard to. Based on the link title, I thought before I clicked the article that finally the NFLPA were beginning to focus on welfare of player issues rather than just money.
But no, it’s Goodell that is making the welfare of former players an issue that should be a part of any new deal. The NFLPA should have a good hard look at what the point of their organisation is. Unions have a proud history around the world, and rightly so, but they do themselves no favours in this day and age outwardly representing themselves as greedy rather than caring.
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes" Douglas Adams
by orange&blue_aussie on Mar 14, 2010 6:47 AM MST reply actions
Demaurice Smith
isn’t looking like a very good choice as leader for the players is he?
Character may be manifested in the great moments but it is made in the small ones -- Philip Brooks
Nope
Middle ground consensus can also be called win-win, right? Why’s this guy playing such hard ball? From the outside looking in he’s not being constructive.
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes" Douglas Adams
by orange&blue_aussie on Mar 14, 2010 8:16 AM MST up reply actions
If the owners lock the Union out and the Union just rolls over and says, that’s fine, we’ll go along with it, what’s to keep them from doing it again? Smith isn’t impressing me too much, either, but then I ask myself — how would I play it? Comporimising with the other side’s demands without making demands of your own is a bad bargaining strategy.
Of course
That’s why I’m talking middle ground here. The NFLPA just doesn’t – at outward appearance – seem to be making too many concessions to the cause which they will of course have to in order to avoid a stoppage.
But I’m not advocating rolling over either. Just approaching the situation from a perspective of player welfare in addition to money. If they can come out with some significant player safety commitments, future player welfare commitments and some support for players at the lower rung of the NFL ladder and veteran conditions then I would count those as some wins that may count as much as the pure money equation they’re currently spouting. I would think things like the removal of franchising, severance pay when cut and things like that may compensate players for what appear to be reasonable net cash issues that franchises are currently experiencing.
Lets face it, there is not one player in the NFL who is poor unless they mismanage their money. But there are many who sacrifice a lot only to have their career cut short or who just don’t quite cut it. These “near made it”’s are in many ways just as important to the standard of NFL as the mega stars. Unions should look after them more.
There are not many business sectors world wide where 60% of revenue is tied up in one component of operating cost. Through in all the other running costs of the businesses (scouting, facilities, coaches, stadium payments etc etc) and you need to see the NFLPA recognising that the owners have a fair case too before sitting down to nut out a deal.
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes" Douglas Adams
by orange&blue_aussie on Mar 14, 2010 11:01 AM MDT up reply actions
Goodell is very smartly seizing on popula4r support for retirees to popularize his goal of cutting salaries. It’s a false equation, right — that’s one way to pay for benefits for old players, but there are others. If the Union just comes out and says, sure cut our salaries to pay for those guys, they haven’t pushed back at all on the piece where the owners have unilaterally decided they get a bigger piece of the pie.
In other words, why is it solely the union’s resposibility to look out for these players? In other industries worker’s compensation arrangements and OSHA regulations (on the rare occasions when the feds can be bothered to enforce them) distribute the occupational healty costs of doing business across management and labor. The NFL is basically saying it’s labor’s job to pay. Why? If the union “compromises” (i.e., accepts the owner’s postion) on that right out of the gate, they’ve essentially lost the argument. They’re left to argue over distributing their shrunken portion of the pie.
I agree with you here about Goodell
That was pretty much what I was alluding too in my comment above.I think smith should be showing some support to the pensioners, but in all I read, he seem to be too concerned about them.
My solution would be a 20% cut of the top of the pile and give 10% to the pensioners. Then leave the other 10% for us fans and get back to work!
Character may be manifested in the great moments but it is made in the small ones -- Philip Brooks
You're right in a way
It’s not the union’s responsibility to give up money to look out for those players.
But it is their responsibility, IMHO, to represent those players. Because most of their current players will one day be former players also – big call I know. So it becomes one facet of the negotiations that unions should have to contend for.
I’m honestly not sure about the state of unionism in the USA specifically right now. But I do know that worldwide, union membership in OECD countries is declining. This is due, in large part, because businesses have learned to deliver to employees directly what they desire as individuals rather than what the union can negotiate for the whole work force. It’s conniving, but not necessarily wrong. Goodell is certainly smart. But does it make the tactic morally wrong? I think no. He’s just showing that the NFL can deliver what players want better than the NFLPA can. Smart.
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes" Douglas Adams
by orange&blue_aussie on Mar 14, 2010 9:54 PM MDT up reply actions
Well, I am a Union member
(Retired now), IMO, it has been on the decline for 15-20 years. People don’t seem to care what their neighbors have, as long as they have more. And better.
Character may be manifested in the great moments but it is made in the small ones -- Philip Brooks
by KaptainKirk on Mar 14, 2010 10:19 PM MDT up reply actions
Yep
And their bosses know what they want more than their union does. Shame huh?
Sorry for the state of the union speeches!! It gets me going…
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes" Douglas Adams
by orange&blue_aussie on Mar 15, 2010 7:16 AM MDT up reply actions
Nobody wins if the owners lockout...
I’m going to hate it that there won’t be any football for a season and they don’t need to have a half of one either. The last time was terrible and hit to watch.
by bfree2bronc on Mar 14, 2010 10:34 AM MDT up reply actions
Paging Ken Karcher
(shudder!)
"All we're trying to do is win the *********** game!" -- Josh MF McDaniels tearing into his offensive line after three false starts in the red zone. The tirade turned the tide of the game, and the Broncos dominated from that point on.
by broncosmontana on Mar 14, 2010 10:42 AM MDT up reply actions
Yoga?
Are you in my wife’s class? Your street cred just took a major hit with me. Hahhahaha. Joking. Thanks for the tracks!
From Michael Lombardi at NFP
2. I keep hearing from my Jets sources that they’re having internal discussions regarding Brandon Marshall and would love to put together a package of players that might entice the Broncos and still keep their first-round pick.
http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Sunday-at-the-Post-1029.html
Bleeding Orange & Blue in The Netherlands
The Jets are the only team I see making a move for Marshall... still, I don't see Marshall going...
"So tell me what happened."
"Well, the last thing I remember is seeing this flash of Blue and Orange and the #22... then everything just went black..."
by HillisRanUover on Mar 14, 2010 10:16 AM MDT up reply actions
The comment was made the other day that UFA's are usually taken first, then the RFA's
Owners are being somewhat cautious this year with the uncertainty of the CBA.
by bfree2bronc on Mar 14, 2010 10:38 AM MDT up reply actions
It's a travesty that a coin flip will decide who opens the new NY stadium
with the other team even getting a chance to touch the ball. ^^
"All we're trying to do is win the *********** game!" -- Josh MF McDaniels tearing into his offensive line after three false starts in the red zone. The tirade turned the tide of the game, and the Broncos dominated from that point on.
without… ack, need coffee.
Great story on B Marsh. Gratifying to see what he’s telling the kids about who he is and what he represents to them, which is an opportunity to learn from a flawed man who wants to turn his life around.
"All we're trying to do is win the *********** game!" -- Josh MF McDaniels tearing into his offensive line after three false starts in the red zone. The tirade turned the tide of the game, and the Broncos dominated from that point on.
by broncosmontana on Mar 14, 2010 9:55 AM MDT up reply actions
my half empty side feels it appropriate that we lose him just as he gets his head screwed down...
…course that’ll take more than a few turns… fine thread i reckon.
by Whidbey Bronco on Mar 14, 2010 10:15 AM MDT up reply actions
I see Marshall as a child that didn't get a lot of the right attention when he was growing up.
We’ve seen several players put on displays to get attention and all in a different manner. Terrell Owens on field antics where he has no off field issues, Oucho-Cinco’s little attention grabbers, Randy Moss running his jibbs (he has settled down though). Then some go way over the edge like Pacman Jones and a few others. I sincerely hope this court decision has put a proper perspective in the value of life for Marshall and hope he becomes a decent citizen and ball player.
by bfree2bronc on Mar 14, 2010 10:56 AM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
The right kind of attention? You think?
Growing up in a middle class background in Montana, it’s hard for me to really understand what people like Brandon Marshall and the kids he was speaking with have to deal with in their lives. I watched “The Wire” and “The Corner”—David Simon’s masterpieces about poverty and perverse justice in an American city. I listen to the early Wu Tang Clan records where the GZA, Meth, and ODB spun stories straigt from the slums of NYC. I put on a vinyl of the Drive By Trucker’s “Pizza Deliverence” for epic narratives of growing up poor in the south.
I just cannot fathom what it would be like to grow up without hot water or heat in the winter, scrambling for meals, the temptations of the drug trade, and dealing with drug addled parents. I just can’t. Maybe some of you on this board have come from that background and can really provide some insight on what Brandon Marshall’s character is all about. I’d like to hear about it. I just can’t really bring myself to judge him or TO, or Moss, or anyone else that came from this background too harshly.
To me Brandon is already a decent citizen and more than decent ballplayer. We all know what he can do on the field, but the fact that he takes the time to speak with kids about his background says a lot about him. Sure it’s good publicity and all, but you still have to show up. You still have to put the time into it. It’s like when people like Sandra Bullock gave $1 million to Haiti. I heard people at my office say, ’we’ll she has enough money, she should do it". No, these people had to sit down and write a check for One Million Dollars. That’s a big deal, I don’t care who you are.
I really like Marshall, and really enjoyed Krieger’s simple, touching piece. Brandon one of my favorite Broncos of all time, but I hope he gets a new chance and the contract he deserves. Ideally, it would be with us, but if it can’t be then I want him to succeed elsewhere.
by ButteBronco on Mar 14, 2010 12:27 PM MDT up reply actions
The giving of time is far more valuable than money.
I can really appreciate what Sandra Bullock – and Tiger woods, for that matter – did. I applaud all athletes and celebrities that write those checks. Still, Brandon impressed me with the time he spent with those kids. They’ll be affected by it, and remember it more than a donation of money. It has a larger potential to affect their lives going forward.
"People who live in glass houses...shouldn't."
by jayrockstone on Mar 14, 2010 1:03 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
well said, big sky bro
well said.
"All we're trying to do is win the *********** game!" -- Josh MF McDaniels tearing into his offensive line after three false starts in the red zone. The tirade turned the tide of the game, and the Broncos dominated from that point on.
by broncosmontana on Mar 14, 2010 10:45 PM MDT up reply actions
so, lost in all the case-of-the-Mondays-posts-on-a-Saturday comments yesterday
was any comment about Larry Johnson getting picked up by Shanny. What do you think? Anything left? Another case of Shanahan nabbing an old guy who haunted him back in the day? I still think of LJ fondly — not so much for the bruising runs he had against us as the swell job he did for us in the KC locker room. ; )
"All we're trying to do is win the *********** game!" -- Josh MF McDaniels tearing into his offensive line after three false starts in the red zone. The tirade turned the tide of the game, and the Broncos dominated from that point on.
by broncosmontana on Mar 14, 2010 10:34 AM MDT reply actions
I'm sort of confused with the LJ acquisition.
Didn’t Shanny just let Ladel Betts go? If you look at all of the transitions of late you’ll see Shanahan is cleaning house over there pretty much the same way McDaniels did when he got to Denver.
bet the fans are on edge ; )
"All we're trying to do is win the *********** game!" -- Josh MF McDaniels tearing into his offensive line after three false starts in the red zone. The tirade turned the tide of the game, and the Broncos dominated from that point on.
by broncosmontana on Mar 14, 2010 10:46 PM MDT up reply actions
I hated the Klis article
That’s the very definition of cherry picking statistics. It’s just total garbage, and should be taken out and shot.
Yoga & Eddie Vedder
What more do you want?
The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that.
EVERYONE
JAY GLAZER REPORTS BRADY QUINN WAS TRADED TO THE BRONCOS FOR PEYTON HILLIS AND 2 CONDITIONAL DRAFT PICKS!!!!!!!!!!
Arrrggghhh!!
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes" Douglas Adams
by orange&blue_aussie on Mar 14, 2010 6:33 PM MDT up reply actions
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