Live from the 19th hole at the Mike Shanahan Golf Classic, where I unexpectedly found a wireless Internet connection that is functional, if balky …
… As for the news of the day, the Broncos finally got their beefy veteran defensive tackle.
Back in March, the team executed a trade with the Miami Dolphins for Dan Wilkinson, but the 14-year veteran of multiple teams opted not to join the Broncos, rendering the swap null and void. Two and a half months after the deal hit the compost heap, the Broncos got a player at the same position, of nearly the same massive dimensions and with a strikingly similar résumé — 14-year veteran, 1994 first-round pick, peripatetic career.
Sam Adams has donned many jerseys, and the Broncos will be his sixth team. After spending the 1994-99 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks, he had a two-year stay in Baltimore, played one season in Oakland, toiled for the Buffalo Bills for three years and then one year — 2006 — with the Cincinnati Bengals. (With a name like “Sam Adams,” it’s surprising he hasn’t been a Patriot.)
At 6-foot-3 and 350 pounds, he can still clog run lanes. At 33 years of age (he turns 34 later this month), he remains durable, having started all 16 games for the Bengals last year, when he notched 25 tackles (12 solo), two sacks for eight yards and a pass defensed. He was also a Pro Bowler as recently as 2004, which represented his third trip to the NFL’s annual all-star game.
The impact of this move on the Broncos’ D-line will bear itself out over the next couple of months. Gerard Warren and Demetrin Veal have been the primary D-tackle tandem throughout team camp so far, with March signee Alvin McKinley rotating in from the second team and rookie Marcus Thomas working his way up from the third unit.
Also worth noting about Adams is that he is already a professional sports team owner. He founded and runs the Everett (Wash.) Hawks of arenafootball2, the Arena Football League’s developmental circuit.
Tags: Demetrin Veal, Gerard Warren, Sam Adams
High reward, little risk. I love those types of moves. From the sound of Adams a couple weeks ago on Sirius NFL Radio it appears he is motivated to put last year behind him and focus on being a factor again…
More depth, more beef, more hot dogs needed in the Training Camp cafeteria…
Nice move…
TSG
I was hoping this one would pan out, I agree TSG, big upside, not too much risk.
Andrew, not participating in the Shanny classic? Just sitting and taking in the day huh? Will you have photos of the golf day?
KMA
No doubt, Mase…
How do you do it???
TSG
http://www.milehighreport.com
Man this year’s offseason, by far, has to be the best in a very long while…..our FA signees and draft….man we are gonna have a very strong defense…outside of the choice for SLB…we will have no weak links….now if Hixon or one of the others pan out as a great returner…our weak spots from last year will be better…..Our defense took a beaten in the end last year….and our Special Teams well..what can say more than our last placing, in average drive startingpostion…so Mase what you think??? atleast 11 wins this year…if no injury bug hits us???
KMA:
My golf game is displayed for close friends and family only. Even a scramble/best-ball format like they used at this deal wouldn’t mask the fact that my game is in need of a Steve Austin-like reconstruction.
TSG:
How do I do it? Lotsa caffeine and not a lot of sleep!
Wanagi:
I’m out of the prediction business. I’m not saying I had any forecasts as bad as Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder selecting the St. Louis Cardinals to win Super Bowl XX (they finished 5-11 that year, went 2-10 after a 3-1 start, got their head coach fired and saw attendance fall to the point where they would move to Phoenix within 30 months).
What I will say of the 2007 season is this — a good start is crucial, and I fret that backloading the schedule with road games could mean the difference between first place/playoff home game and second place/wild-card road trip. Travel does take something out of you … even when it’s a road trip that takes about 36 hours to complete. (It’s never easy on the ol’ circadian rhythms to land at DIA at 2 a.m.) But there’s no use complaining … you’ve just got to play it as it lays.
I loved the move,now with the beef upfront we wont here L.T. all the time.The pick-up of Bly will make the Broncos say go ahead to the rest of the QB’s try it out 70 int’s so far.I feel we have the killer B’S!!!I am a great champ fan anyway.I have been a fan since 1977,and I think this year will be like Keyworths song Miracles!Denver will enter with a D-line,TOUGH runner,the best secondary out there,not the greek but we will WIN just watch as the rookies begin to learn the system.AFC CHAMPS then flight to AZ.I will always be a fan but this offseason is very fun,thanks to the DENVER BRONCO’S!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK why is this guy out at the team request?