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Post Bears … RAIDERS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!

November 30th, 2007 - 9:47pm by mark_cooperOther posts by mark_cooper

Hey folks, sorry for the delay on my reply but my interface to this blog has been having technical issues. I’ve replied a bunch of times and they never show up as responses??? So I posted this. I’ll try to get it fixed for next week. Hopefully this helps.

Wow!! Broncohowie you get the prize for the longest blog … this week … I know you feel better after that …b ecause I do. I love the passion you guys and gals bring to the blog.

Let’s face it, I’ve never seen a perfect game and never will. I really like what I saw out of the offense and moving the pocket with Jay Cutler the pitch options to the running back.

We’re making a lot of headway and like most of you said, if we stay ahead of the “Bolts” we have a shot at the playoffs and that would be a great experience for this team.

Can we win the Super Bowl? I don’t think this year with the Patriots playing on another planet and if you watched the Green Bay-Cowboys game (even without Brett Favre) they looked good and the Cowboys and the Colts are all playing at another level.

Hey, it’s “RAIDER WEEK.” The hair on the back of my neck still stands up when I think of the rivalry we had with those guys.  Ted Hendricks, Howie Long, Lyle Alzado, Matt Millen, Lester Hayes, and the trash-talking and late hits. It was like going to a Halloween biker bar for a football game … fun stuff.

I have to tell you a funny story about RAIDERS week. We’re in Los Angeles – I forget the year,  ’85 or ‘86 – and we’re going into overtime. We’re on the sideline waiting to take the field and I forget who, but I think Paul Howard tells one of the rookies we get paid by the minute in overtime or something ridiculous and the rookie bites and is already thinking about what he can buy for Christmas.

So we end up beating them and it was a tough game and we forget about it until a day or two later when the rookie starts talking about all the stuff his wife bought with the overtime money he made and we all fell off our stools in the lockeroom rolling around on the floor laughing. You should have seen his face.

Coop

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Friday Update: Walker Questionable; Henry, Young Probable

November 30th, 2007 - 3:10pm by AndrewOther posts by Andrew

Javon Walker

As the Broncos hoped, the status on Travis Henry and Selvin Young remained quo as they went through Friday’s practice. They both fully participated in the session, and are each listed as probable for the game.

Henry’s off-the-field status also remains unchanged, Head Coach Mike Shanahan said after the 90-minute practice, which took place in sub-freezing temperatures.

“I haven’t heard a thing,” Shanahan. “There’s been rumors. I haven’t heard anything. It’s just speculation. I think it started with the NFL Network; they came out with something, but we haven’t heard a thing.”

The wait for a ruling on Henry’s appeal — which he made a fortnight earlier in Phoenix — isn’t a distraction, Shanahan said.

“When it happens, it happens,” Shanahan said.

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Plaudits for My Fellow Blogger

November 30th, 2007 - 2:17pm by AndrewOther posts by Andrew

Domonique Foxworth

Domonique Foxworth was so taken aback by being named the Broncos’ Walter Payton Man of the Year recipient Friday that he had no clue that he was now a nominee for the league-wide award, bestowed upon one player during Super Bowl week.

“Wow,” he said, laughing. “It hasn’t even crossed my mind. Technically I’m in the running for that?”

Indeed he is, I told him.

“That’s a good one,” he said. “We all know that’s not happening.”

Ah, humility. It’s one of my fellow blogger’s finer traits.

Sure, it means he’ll dismiss his chances of winning the league-wide Payton award.

But I would personally beg to differ and claim that no one could be more deserving this year, not with a flood tide of off-field activites that range from teaching a writing class to promoting collegeincolorado.org and even opening his life to fans via his blog.

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Henry, Young ‘Should Be Ready’ Sunday

November 29th, 2007 - 2:23pm by AndrewOther posts by Andrew

Young and Henry

So far, so good for Selvin Young and Travis Henry.

“They should be ready to go,” Head Coach Mike Shanahan said after a practice that took place much earlier than normal for a Thursday at Dove Valley, with the Broncos wrapping up their work by 12:45 p.m. after hitting the field at just before 10:45 a.m.

“I’m ready to play,” said Young, who missed last week with a strained knee suffered in the Nov. 19 Monday Night Football win over the Tennessee Titans.

“My knee feels real good,” added Henry, who has been sidelined since suffering a partial tear of the posterior cruciate ligament in the Nov. 4 loss at Detroit.

Meanwhile, Brandon Stokley returned to full work after sitting out Wednesday’s session with a knee injury. Wide receiver Javon Walker also had a full practice, Shanahan said.

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Blogging Anniversary

November 29th, 2007 - 10:01am by jim_saccomanoOther posts by jim_saccomano

According to the Wall Street Journal, December 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of blogging.

What began as — what? No one had ever done this before, and now it is in a period of exponential growth which marks blogging as being on the verge of legitimate journalistic enterprise.

And the key word there is enterprise.

What blogging has done is allow anyone with an opinion to express it.

News organizations often make use of their reporters as bloggers, and we have embraced it here at the Denver Broncos, including the recent addition of General Manager Ted Sundquist.

Competition should never be discouraged, and news organizations do not have a monopoly on thought or expression. Businesses and sports teams know a lot about their product, ususally more than outsiders, and the more they tell people about how things work, the more they let outsiders in, the greater degree of understanding they potentially can gain from interested parties.

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Walker Limited; Henry, Young Return

November 28th, 2007 - 3:47pm by AndrewOther posts by Andrew

Javon Walker

As one position gets healthier, another becomes fraught with injuries. That’s how it’s seemed to be for the Broncos this season, and it continued on Wednesday as two of the team’s three injured running backs returned to action, but wide receiver Brandon Stokley did not take part due to a knee injury.

“Stokley is a little banged up,” Head Coach Mike Shanahan said.

Javon Walker did not join Stokley on the sidelines for the full session; he was in uniform but was limited in his work three days after playing sparingly in the loss at Chicago.

“I’m sure he will feel a lot better this week than he did last week,” Shanahan said. “We will evaluate him this week in practice.

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Sympathy for the Redskins

November 27th, 2007 - 6:09pm by domonique_foxworthOther posts by domonique_foxworth

I guess Sean Taylor is the best place to start. I think if any organization, any group of players or any city can sympathize with what D.C. is going through right now, it’s definitely Denver, the Denver Broncos and myself as an individual. Clearly they lost a great player, an important person to their team and I’m sure a very important person to a lot of people’s lives. Like I said, if anybody knows how they’re feeling, we definitely do here. My personal deepest condolences go out to the Washington Redskins and the friends and family of Mr. Sean Taylor.

Being from Baltimore and going to school at the University of Maryland which is about 10 minutes outside of D.C., I know how important the Redskins are to that community and historically how much they’ve meant to the people in that area. I fully expect the D.C. community to rally around the Redskins and help them in their grieving process. I imagine that this organization and I definitely am open to doing what we can to help seeing as we’ve gone through and are still going through an almost identical situation.

I know here everybody handled their grieving process differently. The Broncos offered psychological and emotional support to the players and I fully expect and hope the Redskins will do the same thing for their players and the friends and family of Sean.

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I Feel a “Draft” in Here - Part 4

November 27th, 2007 - 4:19pm by ted_sundquistOther posts by ted_sundquist

Needless, senseless, tragic. Some of the words that best describe my feelings regarding the passing of Sean Taylor. We all only know too well the emotions of the Washington Redskins and their fans at this moment with our own loss of Darrent Williams. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and teammates.

And now, Maurice Clarett. Clarett’s much maligned career at Ohio State has been well documented and I won’t go there, only to state that we were fully aware of what had transpired over his brief stint with the Buckeyes. What I will say is that this organization knows RB’s and has proven that enough without having to be questioned on the ability to do so.

Clarett had burst on the scene in ‘02 as a 1st team All-Big 10 selection and Freshman of the Year, while helping the Buckeyes to a National Championship win over Miami. He had 1,237 yards rushing, averaged 5.6 yds per carry and he tallied 16 TDs on the ground. He caught 12 balls for 104 yards and 2 scores to supplement his rushing statistics. He had the size, vision, instincts and patience that had added up to success for others in our system. The staff sat down with him at the Combine and listened to his explanations regarding his past, as well as sought personal input from many who had dealt with Maurice, not only at OSU but in high school as well. I think we all found him to be engaging, intelligent and contrite, while fully aware that there were character issues that would have to be handled correctly in order to maximize his potential. However, we did not leave Indy with the sole intent of taking Maurice Clarett.

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Johnson Waived; Snell Re-Signed

November 27th, 2007 - 4:14pm by AndrewOther posts by Andrew

Kyle Johnson

Kyle Johnson’s return to the Broncos only lasted five days.

Tuesday, the team waived the veteran fullback, two days after he saw some fairly substantial work at fullback and on special teams in the 37-34 loss to the Chicago Bears. Johnson saw sizable action on the Broncos’ final three series after Andre Hall finally succumbed to the high ankle sprain he suffered on the Denver’s first play from scrimmage. When Hall left, Cecil Sapp moved to running back, placing Johnson back on the field at his customary position.

Concurrent with the waiving of Johnson, the Broncos re-signed offensive lineman Isaac Snell, whom the club had waived on Thanksgiving to make room for the five-year veteran fullback.

Snell first joined the team off the Titans’ practice squad on Oct. 10, but has yet to see game-time action.

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Thoughts on Sean Taylor …

November 27th, 2007 - 3:47pm by AndrewOther posts by Andrew

Taylor Memorial

The shrill beep that heralds a text message on my phone roused me from an all-too-brief and fitful slumber at 7:04 this morning:

taylor died … how horrible!

It was the news no one in the NFL wanted to hear, but after the smattering of reports leaking from South Florida over the previous 24 hours regarding Sean Taylor, it was anything but a surprise. When I had told my anesthesiologist girlfriend about the extent and location of his wounds, she seemed amazed that he’d managed to cling to life throughout a day as harrowing as it was sad for his nearest and dearest. Such is the heart of a champion athlete, unbridled until its final beat.

In Denver, it reopens wounds that have healed for some in Broncos Country, but have only begun to scab over for others.

Another death by gunshot.

Maybe I’m wrong, but my brain repeatedly circles around to an idealist’s notion, that all killings at the barrel of a gun are ultimately preventable. It certainly isn’t part of the natural order of things for vibrant, healthy 24-year-olds like Taylor and Darrent Williams to leave the world like this — or for the thousands of others who die in similar fashion, leaving friends and families mired in grief after such senseless extinguishment of life’s glowing flame.

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