Day on the Ranch – Day 4
Day 4 was a big day with 6 cheerleaders all prepared to capture their perfect shot. The morning began with an early 4 am call time for hair and make-up to make the 5:45 am departure. Nikki and Katie W. traveled to a private residence with a gorgeous view and spectacular pool. It was a cloudy and chilly morning and the girls were freezing, but the shoot must go on! Katie W. was first and looked stunning as she layed poolside in her Blue and Orange bikini. Time was not our side today because we were fighting the clouds and rain all day. By the time Katie W. wrapped up her shot, it was time to head back to the hotel, and Nikki’s shoot was pushed back to the afternoon. But first both girls had to jump in the hot tub to rejuvenate their bodies from the cold.
The day continued back at the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch were the next group of cheerleaders were getting ready for our next location. Nikki, Kim, Jenna, Lauren H. and Jess all headed back out to 4 Eagle Ranch and spent the day as “cowgirls” YEE HAW!
Nikki started us off as our “Patriotic Cowgirl” complete with her red bikini, American Flag and of course her rustic cowboy boots. She looked adorable and stunningly beautiful as she saluted to our soldiers.
Next to shoot was Kim as our “Flamin’ Hot Cowgirl” cozied up on the porch with her black hat and boots and the fire roasting in the background.
Mid-afternoon the clouds finally rolled over and opened up a gorgeous backdrop for our next shoot. Jenna, our “All-American Rodeo Cowgirl” headed out to the pastures for her scenic shot. She rounded up her Palomino horse named Tony while strutting her “daisy dukes” and classic cowboy hat.
Lauren H. was our “Barbie Doll Cowgirl” all “dolled up” in her pink and white polka dot bikini and of course, our infamous white cowboy boots! Her playful and cute personality shined as she captured her photo on the ranch’s swing set.
Our day wrapped up with Jess, our “Frontier Cowgirl” as she posed perfectly in an old, wooden wagon. Her black and white themed bikini and cowboy boots fit great with the ambiance and setting while capturing a rustic, cowgirl shot.
In true Broncos fashion, our “cowgirl” cheerleaders and crew had a great, successful day on the ranch!
That roaring fire pit has got my vote on this galery! Kim the “flamin’ hot cowgirl”, thank you!
Gotta say, I love that broncos blue and orange top lol. The ladies just keep getting more and more beautiful with each blog post. Alot of great shots. Props to the camera crew. TRB out…
After Ali and all the girls Mike Rice is going to have a tough act to follow… Man that’s a lot of blogs today, feast or famine, was everybody ordered back to work because the NFL is about ready to go back to work? I’d say it’s more than just a coincidence….
The tan body isn’t bad either….
If this is the last of the girls my final voting goes like this:
#1 Leopard Lady Michelle
#2 Kim the flamin’ hot cowgirl
#3 Orange and blue Katie W.
Man , how can you put those girls in any specific order when they are all so beautiful!
Think you got that one right Bay, that’s a good sign that everyone will be heading back to Bronco headquarters soon. Information should becoming fast and furious once the ball starts rolling. Can’t wait to see who we’ll sign and how the rookies look once camp starts.
Maybe the cheerleaders should get the credit, if I had something like to cheer for me I’d be heading that way too!
ESPN NFL – Sources: Players, owners agree in principle to new rookie wage scale
You know me, I see a contest everywhere! LOL.
Good news, that was the last of two hurdles, I guess the last one is now the right of first refusal/franchising the owners want and the players don’t and if they do as they thought they would, tomorrow is the day everything shall be agreed upon.
From AdamSchefter twitter
Filed to ESPN: two sides agreed to new Rookie Pay System. Still i’s to dot, t’s to cross on rookie system, but it’s not impediment to deal.
This is the full story on it by Doug Farrar of Yahoo! Sports:
Day 125 of the NFL lockout may have the most encouraging news yet that a resolution to the lockout is actually on the horizon. On Thursday afternoon, several reports from Manhattan indicated that the owners and players made major breakthroughs in the rookie wage scale that has been the major sticking point over the last few weeks. Later in the day, ESPN’s Adam Schefter was the first to report that the two sides came to a basic agreement on the broad strokes of the rookie compensation model. Yahoo’s own Mike Silver then reported that the owners came through with more money on possible option years in rookie deals.
Over the last three days, both sides have seen their negotiating committees expand. Today, the league was represented by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and eight of the 10 members of the labor committee), and the players had half a dozen player reps and NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith at the table.
During a lunch break in the talks, the news broke that the differences between the two sides in the rookie pay issue had been resolved. No specifics were given, though we know that based on previous reports, the main issue was the number of years in every rookie contract and the ability to negotiate better deals for players selected later in the draft whose production had exceeded their relatively slotted pay scales.
The players had already given up approximately half of the total pay scale per season, and felt that they had reached the limits of their ability to negotiate fairly and reasonably on that issue until something was given back.
Of course, there are ancillary issues to be resolved, as well — where the money siphoned off of rookie player costs will go and whether the owners will match any percentage that goes to the retired players are but two of those matters — but this was the last major hurdle in the way of getting a deal done and agreed to in time for ratification at the July 21 owners meetings in Atlanta.
“We want to be very careful about any ups and downs in this process; there are ebbs and flows to any negotiation,” Breer said in a mid-afternoon report. “And yesterday wasn’t a good day. The two days last week when the players and owners got together weren’t’ particularly good days. But it looks like they’ve finally rebounded. Players and owner have had a much more productive day so far today, I’m told. In fact, I’m told that they’ve made major progress in solving the rookie salary issue, which is the one big issue left on the table — or, at least, the biggest issue left on the table. And, they’re only a couple of minor issues away from maybe solving the thing [the rookie pay scale issue] altogether. That’s not to say that the thing would get done, but it is the biggest remaining issue on the table between the two sides. If they can get this thing fixed soon, it’s possible that it could give them the momentum they need to close a deal.
“I’m very, very hesitant to use the word ‘close’ or anything like that here, but this is a big development,” he continued. “Getting the rookie salary structure fixed would be huge for these two sides. They’ve been working for it for three weeks, and it’s been a tremendously frustrating subject for all involved.”
We’ll follow Breer’s lead and caution against over-exuberance here after so many false starts, but now that the owners and players have avoided sliding back down the hill after a morning of major progress, Thursday will be known as a huge day in the direction of a full season of NFL football in 2011.
They can’t be far!
http://www.nfl.com/videos/auto/09000d5d820c7aa0/Tebow-talks-off-season
Tebow talks on NFL Network I believe. They also asked him about the Knowshon thing. Nothing but political correctness from Tebow. Would expect nothing less. Just thought others might wanna watch it. TRB out…
We might have to celebrate with the party boys tomorrow night!
Nikki is sooo HOT!!! ^_^
That would be BFE and strand, LMAO…
To follow up on the latest last night:
NEW YORK — Significant progress on a major sticking point in the NFL labor impasse — soaring rookie salaries — during marathon talks Thursday raised hopes that a tentative agreement in principle could perhaps come within 24 hours, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
They cautioned, however, that other key issues remained for owners and players to resolve, including free agency and new offseason workout rules.
Whatever, obviously players want to make as much as they can with as little workout as possible, nothing new there as all vets hate off season workouts, and the FA issue is probably the one issue left I mentionned yesterday, about teams right of first refusal like for 4 year players if that’s what they indeed go to.
Now I may be NFL labor agreements uneducated, or I may be just plain stupid on top of being crazy, but take a close read of the following:
On rookie salaries, four people familiar with the talks said that first-round draft picks will sign four-year contracts with a club option for a fifth year. That represents a compromise; owners were hoping for five-year contracts, while players wanted highly drafted rookies to be under a team’s control for only four years.
What on earth kind of compromise is that if the owners have a fifth year option???? The way it is here described represents the same exact thing as to sign a player for five years up front, unless that 5th year is for mucho more bucks if they opt for it. It’s all in the details and obviously we never get any. The way it reads now makes the players look even more foolish than they ever been for buying into such play on words by the owners….
Legwold gives us his take of what it will be like now that players have basically missed the entire off season conditioning but training camp and touches on what I said many moons ago about watch out for those pulled hammies and pulled groins in Denver that we have grown accustomed to EVEN with full off season workouts:
Coaches and personnel executives have routinely said offseason workouts are essential to build a winning team; that everyone needs to attend; and that it works best if any off time is spaced between workout sessions to avoid having players off for too many consecutive weeks and away from the team complex.
One season, in an effort to control the calendar a little more, Mike Shanahan even held a July minicamp — a rare thing in the league — to try to get the players back into the complex one more time before cutting them loose until the start of training camp later that month.
By contrast, players say they understand football is a year-round endeavor now, that they work out enough on their own, and that they shouldn’t have to spend weeks and months during the offseason at the team complex in group conditioning workouts if they don’t wish to.
They say those offseason workouts should be a matter of choice, not a requirement disguised as voluntary.
Because of the lockout, no team had its usual offseason conditioning programs, passing camps, minicamps or any other full team workouts.
So, players have been left to their own devices to keep themselves in shape and ready to play once training camps begin and they can return to the team facilities.
Many players have enlisted personal trainers or have worked out with their former college strength coaches during the down time. Those players have a better chance of arriving ready to go and then practicing without incident.
In talking to a few strength coaches in the league in recent days, the key for players who have worked out on their own will be whether they also maintained their flexibility to avoid potential hamstring, thigh and groin muscle pulls.
Those types of injuries, which many people believe could be a potentially bigger issue this year, routinely cost players several weeks’ worth of recovery time. And there is always an increased chance of that if players have leaned their workouts too far toward the weight room without the flexibility work as well.
The players who did not do all they could on their own to maintain their flexibility and conditioning, who didn’t do the work, will have a difficult time avoiding injury.
It will also be interesting to see how much discipline the coaching and strength staffs show. Piling on three weeks’ worth of two-a-day practices may not be the way to go if there is any uncertainty about what the players can handle.
The teams may have to be a little more patient, control those pent-up, got-to-get-going impulses after an offseason of no coaching. Teams may simply have to take it a little slower when camps open, even if the training camps are shortened in any way because of the labor negotiations.
Seriously, who on this blog thinks that Moreno can come in here without any organized workouts and go the season without any pulled something to make him miss significant time…. It’s going to be a medical ward type of season for sure to a degree we have never seen, I’m sure of that. And the idea that the coaches will have to take it easy on the players in training camp, which I honestly think they have no choice, will make it all that much more difficult to get the teams ready.
With that in mind, I see 80% of the teams who were in the playoffs last year repeating and 80% of the teams who were at the bottom of the barrel repeating as well. It will NOT be like seasons of late where teams can rise from the ashes from one season to the next, not as dramatically anyway, and that is the truth of the matter we are all facing this year because of that stupid cba mess, we will live to curse it throughout the entire season is my take.
Ok, with the positive, can’t wait for FA, undrafted rookie brought in, rookies signings, seeing what they got in preseason and seeing what the new Fox team will look like on both sides of the ball. Lots to be looking forward to, but after that I expect I will be mainly biting my nails and pulling my hair throughout the entire regular season but loving every bit of it none the less, just coming out of it a lot older, as if I need that, LOL.
Something solid to sink our teeth in:
According to ESPN’s John Clayton, the 2011 cap will be set at $120 million, with over $20 million more per team allotted for ancillary benefits, which means that every NFL team will have to spend at least $108 million in pure player costs [not deferred payments and filmy rarely-to-be-earned incentives] this season.
So 108 mil is the minimum that we know Mr Bowlen will spend on our team and the max 120, good info. As long as we don’t have Tebow AND Orton acounting for 18 mil of that we should be ok, LOL.
More interesting info about how teams are spending their moneys:
Current cash-to-personnel numbers are approximate at best, but based on the figures given to us by Football Outsiders cap analyst Brian McIntyre, several teams will have a lot to do when the league year hits. According to the numbers we have, 18 of the 32 NFL teams are currently under the projected minimum obligation of $108 million [which may be higher based on the final cash-to-cap percentage], and some teams are tens of millions off at this time.
The Panthers, Kansas City Chiefs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills, and Indianapolis Colts are the furthest off — though we can take the Colts off that list based purely on whatever they wind up doing with Peyton Manning.
Interesting to see how the Chiefs are doing spending little money, hate to see how they will do when they will be forced to spend 108 mil minimum, LOL.
Our problem is not that we haven’t spent money as we hold the dubious NFL record of most FA acquisitions (since the inception of FA in 1993), our problem is how we spend it and late Shanny and McD completely went freakishly overboard in that department while the Chiefs did not, rather chosing to rebuild through the draft. Another way to get to learn that lesson….
And that should also be a lesson to all the bloggers out here who think we will go after the high priced tickets in this free agency… NOT!
Question???
WHEN this CBA is reached and it is a done deal, how many years is this good for?
Reason I am asking is this. Whatever the years is, there should be a stipulation in this (or clause) that 12 months prior to the end of this aggreement the lawyers for both sides should sit down and begin this process so we are not looking at another 4 months of WASTED TIME!
The latest figure is 7 to 10 years so they have backed off the original goal of 11 years.
And a clause like that most likely wouldn’t make any difference since both sides wait until hard deadlines to make any concessions as if to force the other side to bend first. It is what it is.
I think it sucks to put us through this every timr though. But, I guess it is no different than any other two party system. Neither side wants to give an inch, so, the public is who suffers.
Bay, alot of good info this morning, thanks for the updates. I like what I hear for the most part.
And as far the BRONCO BABES, I guess this is BRONCO HEAVEN. YAAAA!!!!!
I think Lauren H. with the Pink with white Polka dots is very hot. WOW WEE!!!!
So do the owners as a group still have to take a vote on all of the deals? If I remember correctly there has to be a 24 out of 32 yes votes from all of the owners to press on, is that right?
Aww, hell, do I really have to chose. Lets face it I am at a stage where it is “anyone who will have me” so I would be lucky to get a date with any of these beautiful cheerleaders.
Party on bro! lol
Damn…I miss a couple of days and miss everything..WHOOOOOO!!
LMAO@Crazyhorserider!
BTW…I’d have to agree on the polka dots…me likey!!!
Alright BFE We`re gonna have to fight to the finish. LOL
10! I give it a 10! WOO!
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