Horse Tracks - 6/10/10 - Broncos Playing Hardball With Elvis Dumervil?

You can’t treat your high character stud players like poo and expect talent to want to come to Denver.

Penny wise — pound foolish.

then Im extremely disappointed in the team.
Dumervil has come to Denver to work out voluntarely with the team…
sure, you’re working on a new deal with him, but did they seriously think Dumervil wouldnt sign his tender?
He lead the league in sacks last year, and if you want to keep him happy (and accept a deal thats both good for him AND for the team), then u don’t do stuff like this.

That Elvis intends to sign the tender. Once that is done, like a lot of other players, the new deal can be worked out and the tender offer tossed. This is more press and anonymours sources inventing a story where none probably exists.

and show your other players what happens when you buy into a system and produce. this isn’t rocket science.

The Denver Broncos are going to sign Elvis Dumerville to a multi-million dollar contract! What they want him to do is sign the tender and get that out of the way so they can get the rest of their draftee’s signed before TC. Don’t worry he will get him payday, he is to valuable to not get it. The media is just posturing and making noise…Just to get you all riled up!

I read the article and I’m waiting for the part where they establish the Broncos are playing hardball with Doom. If sending a letter out that states something factual (that is actually probably a formality) is hardball, then I would hate to see what softball is. There is so much we just take from the media and accept. They paint this artificial world for us and we take it hook, line, and sinker.

Elvis will get his contract.

What Elvis is asking for is what matters here. That’s the important variable. But it’s still way early.

 Ware is a better player than Doom. He shouldnt expect that kind of money. $8m-$10m is okay. Above that and he puts oour FO in a tough position.

“the Broncos threw a cut block at NFL sack king Elvis Dumervil.”

“Would the Broncos really play hardball with their Pro Bowl linebacker by paying him a relative pittance?”

“Although such letters are not uncommon, and Dumervil had intended to sign his tender this weekend, the Broncos declined to make the goodwill, negotiating gesture of not reducing his salary if he opted not to sign.”

To me it seems like most of his piece is centered around opinion and conjecture…

P.S. how do you make those little quote box things?

Check out this quote from McDaniels from a June 8th (two days ago) yahoo story.

“When it gets done, it progresses really fast and everybody is content with the result and when it’s not done, while you’re working on it, everybody can say what they want. We’re going to continue to work. We know what we want and we know what they want and we’re trying to make it happen."

Let me restate that.

…and we’re trying to make it happen.

Isn’t this a bold (and, as of today, accurate) prediction?

…while you’re working on it, everybody can say what they want.

The DP has to put up pieces every day and sometimes they have filler articles to fill the spaces, but I couldn’t find any indication of animosity between Doom and the Broncos in that article. Until the deal gets done, we can talk, debate, worry, doubt, and hit each other with sticks but it doesn’t mean that any of it is worthwhile because things happen behind closed curtains. We have no reason to assume that the Broncos and Doom are or aren’t in contract discussions. These letters that are sent out are just an NFL protocol that are used by every team. If the deal gets done in the next week or so then it’s no big deal. This letter becomes null and void and we move on with our lives.

With that said, if Doom comes out with a statement this afternoon and says he’s pissed like San Diego’s Jackson and McNeil, then we have a whole new story. But since that hasn’t happened, I think we’re still in good shape to get a Doom deal finished.

In my opinion, the DP is just causing a stir.

Come on TC!

Now, more than any time this offseason, do I want to just skip some days and have it be past the 15th….. Or we could just skip to the end of July. Now what’d I do with that cryogenics sleep chamber, free pass for a month?

Thanks for the Horse Tracks!

so what does he like?

And congrats to CU on their Pac-10 move. That was brave and the right thing to do. Should serve their University well in terms of athletics, revenue and most importantly, academics.

In pretty much every way… Stanford, Cal, USC, UCLA > Texas Tech, Iowa State, Kansas State.