I agree that as long as he passes the drug test, then we shouldn't cut him.

If Shanny just cuts the guy tomorrow because of the "zero room for error" thing, then we will be in worse shape than we are now.

That said, "WHAT THE F*** IS HE DOING BACK WITH THOSE IDIOTS!!!!!" Honestly he seems like a nice guy, but dude is a moron.

Let's let this play out before we make any judgements.

On the one hand, I appreciate the guy passing a drug test.  On the other hand, in some jobs you just can't get into a car with a friend who uses drugs.  It's not a matter of fairness, it's PR.

As a teacher, if I had been an innocent passenger in a car pulled over where drugs were found I would fully expect to lose my job.  "Appearance of evil" can be a factor in some jobs.

I could go either way on this one.  But I think the best thing to in a lot of these cases is to wait a few days to see what the coach says.  I trust Mike's judgement on these things.  He has gone to bat for guys (Henry) and booted guys, and showed wisdom in how he decided (in my opinion).  I imagine I'll support whatever Mike does and says on this one.

Whatever happens, someone needs to yank this kid into an office and give him some fear.  Better yet, maybe an older guy on the team should take this kid under his wing and "explain" how things need to be.  Sometimes a mentor can go a long ways towards saving a career or saving more important things.

I know the guilt-by-association issue and think this was an incredibly stupid thing for him to do. Why is he even going back to Jax at all? Dude, move to CO and stay year-round.

That said, the police found a trace amount of coke in this little baggy inside someone else's car. That means they found the baggie and had to swab it to find anything in it. He didn't have any in him so it couldn't have been him.

The only thing he's guilty of here is stupidity.

The first paragraph had me freaked out, but to find out the dork wad who he got a ride home with is the coke head makes me feel alot better.

I see nothing but embarrassment for Marcus Thomas, hopefully he high tails it back to Denver and stays there for a year or two!!!!!!!!

to lose the "friends" or "homies" because this could have been a lot worse.  Marcus, move on and leave the "friends" behind.

I keep waiting for the story about a Bronco being arrested for soliciting a prostitute.

That being said, these stories are tiresome. Everyone makes mistakes, but learning about Player X this week, Player Y three days later, and Player Z the next week . . . something is wrong.

In the grand scheme of things this is not that big a deal, assuming the facts are as described by Thomas's side. If this was someone viewed as "high character" it would barely be a blip on the radar, but Thomas has to know that he is on a short leash and has to make sure that he is not even putting himself in potentially bad situations. He made a comment when he was drafted about knowing he had two and a half strikes against him (or something like that). I think he is lucky that he is a DT and the Broncos are desperately thin there. So this will probably end up being strike two and three quarters and not strike three (which would have been much more likely if Thomas was a different position, like RB)

is that the Broncos provide support for this kid.  This team is his new 'friend' and obviously he needs it very badly.  If Denver gets after him and chews him out and then leaves him on his own to sort it out, it won't end well.  He places a high regard on these old 'friendships' of his, so asking him to give them up will be a losing battle.

It would be much better if he could establish new friends in Denver, ones that didn't put him at risk with no regard for his career.  I think the organization is on this track, and that part of taking Stephen Harris in the draft year was to give Thomas a bit of familiarity with someone, to get over any issues about leaving Florida.  I'm sure Shanahan will address Marcus, but I hope he also thinks to keep Marcus close within the organization.   But the organization can't live his life for him.  The players need to reach out to him now, and I would love to see an article in the near future about how somebody, maybe DOOM or Moss took him in and wants to look out for him.  It doesn't have to be a veteran or a star, it just has to be a human being.  He needs that.

This isn't about the Bad Bronco.  This is about yet another person's life coming this close to being a meaningless collection of minutes hours and days, to be abused by others and never constructed into anything worthy of being called a human life.

As a Broncos fan, I'm sick of seeing it, and I haven't even seen it as much as some...