In the final public practice of training camp, the Broncos worked in shells, wearing shorts and shoulder pads for the morning session.
Here is a recap of the morning’s events:
ROLL CALL
Offensive linemen Ryan Clady and Orlando Franklin both practiced this morning after getting a little banged up yesterday. Syd’Quan Thompson was also back on the practice field.
Brandon Lloyd and Brian Dawkins did not participate — a team decision, Head Coach John Fox said — and watched from the sideline. Both veterans however, were seen talking to their position groups often, lending tips throughout the session.
Marcus Thomas (pectoral), Demaryius Thomas (Achilles), Richard Quinn (knee sprain), Stanley Daniels (ankle sprain) and Ronnell Brown (ankle sprain) also sat out practice.
In addition, Fox announced that Ty Warren will have surgery on Tuesday to repair a triceps injury.
PRESSLEY JOINS IN
Newly-acquired defensive lineman DeMario Pressley took part in his first practice as a Bronco wearing No.76.
Members of the D-line greeted Pressley with a round of handshakes when he came out onto the field and joined the group.
Later, he completed the 20 up-downs that is required of any player when they join Defensive Coordinator Dennis Allen’s defense.
DAILY JUKEBOX
Today’s songs during the team stretch:
1. “Look At Me Now” — Chris Brown
2. “Rosa Parks” — Outkast
3. “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” — U2
POSITION DRILLS
The defense started the day with a pick-six drill. A member of the secondary would catch a pass and the entire defense turned upfield to serve as lead blockers, paving the way to the end zone.
The defensive line worked on properly using their hips during pass-rush situations by shedding a blocker and working their way around a complete circle.
Linebackers worked on their backpedaling and spent time knocking away short, quick passes.
The quarterbacks started off working with the tight ends, throwing hitch routes over the middle, while the running backs caught passes out of the backfield.
Later, the quarterbacks practiced their timing with the wide receivers on back-shoulder throws down the sideline.
The special teams coverage units got some work in as well with Assistant Special Teams Coach Keith Burns watching closely. Burns reiterated that the coverage team has “gotta be better this week” referring to the preseason opener in Dallas. At the end of the session he said, “we’ve got too many good athletes here to put that on film.”
TEAM DRILLS
After some short passes to start of the team drills, the Broncos worked exclusively on the run game for a good chunk of practice.
All four quarterbacks took snaps from under center but each one just turned around and handed the ball off to the stable of running backs. Knowshon Moreno and Willis McGahee split the first group of carries. Brandon Minor and Lance Ball took the next bunch and Jeremiah Johnson and C.J. Gable took the final carries of the run-dominated session.
The Broncos went back to the air in the next round of team drills.
RED ZONE RUNDOWN
2-MINUTE CHALLENGE
The offense had 1:35 on the clock and one timeout to move the ball from their own 35-yard line.
Orton was up first and after a few short passes he connected with David Anderson over the middle for a nice gain to set up a field goal.
Tebow was next and he started off with a short screen to Jeremiah Johnson. Tebow then scrambled up the middle for a big gain and he was on the run once again after the next snap — this time dumping the ball off to Johnson who got the offense in range for another field goal.
HAIL MARY
The team concluded practice with a couple deep prayers and the first one was answered.
On the very first attempt, Quinn launched the ball up into the end zone in the vicinity of Eric Decker. Decker went up for the ball with a group of defenders and the ball was tipped down — but right before it hit the ground, Eddie Royal dove and caught it for the score.
Royal celebrated with a huge smile and linebacker Wesley Woodyard proceeded to chase the wideout around the end zone in sheer disbelief that the catch was made.
The second attempt from Tebow was knocked away by Quinton Carter.
QUICK HITS
That does it for open practices this training camp, but the team will be back on the field tonight for a walkthrough, and again tomorrow for another walkthrough before camp officially comes to a close.
- Max Henson
Love the hail mary play by Royal!! But let’s hope we don’t have to attempt too many of those this season.
Is Fox the kind of coach who tries trick plays? Think we’ll see some in the playbook this season and pulled out at the right moments?
Seems to me Quinn is being talked about more than Tebow has(even tho he throws a lot of picks every practice) I don’t like that!!!
Looks like the young WRs and TEs are tearing it up!!!
GREAT to hear Clady and Franklin are healthy enough to practice!!!
and Sid the Squid,lol.
Lol @ sid the squid!
I posted on the last thread about a great pic in the Aug 22 issue of SI from the coin flip in Dallas last week. I wish I had a link. Sorry!
Great news about our tackles! Whew…
It does seem like Tebow is falling further and further away from his dream of starting, oh well at this point I honestly don’t care anymore, if they don’t want him here though they should have the decency to trade him, like Hillis let him have a shot somewhere, and whether it’s Orton or Tebow, who needs an 8 mil back up QB, or an 8 mil third string QB, makes no sense, and if they are indeed planning on not naming the 2nd or 3rd string QB just to appease the fans about Tebow like John Clayton suggests in the last blog then I say it’s pretty lame, transparency, wow it seems like years ago I heard that promise….
Talking about pics, man Vaughn has got some lean machine high definition sculpted legs…
Clayton just wants to sound brilliant is all, who cares what he thinks, I don`t
I have to agree with bay on this matter. It seems since the draft, transparancy has flown right out of the window. They have kept us LOYAL fans in the loop about things only on a “need to know” basis. As far as Tebow goes, I just say at this point that he needs to find a team that will play him. The only way he is going to learn is to play, and that is not going to happen here. If Orton gets hurt like he did last year they will put either Quinn or Tebow in, and that, as it was done last year will be doing it without the luxury of any practice time with the first team. How can we expect them to perform well in that scenario. Tebow pulled it off last year, abd just about came out with winning those games, but this year is different.
Oh by the way bay, you are going to learn about taking time off from this during this critical time of the year. I was wondering what had happened to you.
Whats funny is Orton and Quinn only have one year left on their contracts, next year there gone. I`m not going to give up on Tebow, far to soon. Rome wasn`t built in a day. I`m not into this instant gratifacation stuff. Grooming Tebow calls for patience.
Good to see Jeremiah showing off his hands. This guy is a stud. He will make the team and could eventually start. He just gets first downs. His Oregon teammates Jonathan Stewart and LeGarrette Blount are doing pretty well for themselves in the League, so why not Jeremiah too ?
Jeremiah is holding his own, he looks promising to me.
Bay happy late BDay! We haven’t even played the second preseason yet,we like the passion but, give the QB situation a little time to work out,a lot of scenariuos are possible. I live here in Las Vegas and I didn’t get a chance to see our second string QB play much. Everything hasn’t gone perfectly but now I get to see what all the TT fans get so excited about,rough around the edges but the potential excitement is one of the things that makes this part of the year so much fun.The fact that Brady looks so much better is a good thing these guys like competition. This next game should be fun ,you know Darrius will be hyped and this is the perfect time for young players to show rapid improvement.Go Broncos!!!!! Oh I watched the promo tape for this new guy he sure looked good but all the tapes are like that.
Gee bay,didn’t know you were a leg man…LMAO!!!
First off it is good to be back in the states.
So I was looking at practice blogs, highlights, stats, etc. and decided to create a guess at the 53 man roster (depth chart is in no specific order):
QB: Orton, Tebow, Quinn
RB: Moreno, McGahee, Johnson
FB: Larsen
TE: Fells, Thomas, Green, Rosario
WR: Lloyd, Decker, Royal, Willis, Thomas (If not DLed) Davis (If Thomas is DLed)
OT: Clady, Franklin, Clark, Taylor
OG: Beadles, Kuper, Daniels, Hochstein (G/C)
C: Walton
DE: Ayers, Dumervil, Jarmon, Harvey
DT: Bunkley, Vickerson, Thomas, I am assuming with the surgey Warren is done so Unrein takes the last spot for DT
LB: Miller, Mays, Williams, Haggan, Irving, Woodyard, Hunter (DL/LB)
CB: Goodman, Bailey, Thompson, Vaughn, I dont think Cox should be on this team and Jones is trash so I am picking Bing
S: Dawkins, Moore, Bruton, Carter, McCarthy
K: Prater
P: Colquitt
LS: Paxton
Any thoughts?
Few things:
Eron Riley keeps on impressing … with Dell down for the count his shot of making the team is improving.
Fan of Jeremiah Johnson … expected him to be 3rd string by now … can’t believe he is still behind Ball and Brandon Minor. Not a fan of them both. Like Ball less … He is a liability in the receiving game.
Quinn throws another pick. No surprise there. Tebow gets a FG too … good stuff. For what its worth, I believe they still believe Tebow can make it. I think Fox genuinely cares for the kid, and Elway was out there helping him after practice not too long ago. We just want it to happen now and it doesn’t look like it. Wish we coulda traded Orton, woulda cleared the way for Tebow (or Quinn) and we could have had an additional pick next year … this offseason possibly hurt us more than any other teams in terms of settign tebow back without OTA, setting whole teams chemistry back, trading Orton … ETC … anyway, looking forward to saturdays game … I bet Tebow shines.
Later days, TRB –
I like the 53 man roster with the exception of either Haggan or Hunter being replaced with Mohammad
I think Hunter will be a DE backup,and McBean is a backup DT over Unrein as of now,unless we pick up another DT,and I like what Anderson is doing at WR,and we might keep McBath if we carry 6 Safeties,we desperately need a CB,maybe we can get a DT and a CB off waivers.
The rest of your lineup looks dead on tho!
BTW there will be a 54 man roster this year,good news for McBath?
or a spot for another CB???
that’s why we may not keep 6 Safeties,no room!!!
Orlando Franklinstein is a monster. Did anybody notice how much of a push our first string o-line was getting for Moreno and McGahee? I have a feeling that Franklinstein is going to be a better and more consistant right tackle than Ryan Harris. Harris was a third or fourth round selection and if I remember correctly he wasn’t a starter right away. Kuper is only like 28 and he is our oldest starting o-lineman. Such potential and so many good things to come for our beloved Denver Broncos. To quote Bart Scott, “CAN’T WAIT!”
54 man roster? Must be a new CBA thing. Being in the desert for 6 months makes you lose track of all sorts of things.
Glad to see you made it back allright Cody.
sid’wick it’quan Thompson is going to be gross…i hope he get some playing time. I think we have a young corner back crew that has a lot of potential. Vaughn is going to fight for the second corner behind Champ. just cause that kid is fast. i just wish i already knew what the out come of Perish already. i really want this guy to stay on the team.
its pretty radiculous to think tebow is falling. man Fox just said on NFL network that Tebow is #2. I think it was monday after practice Elway spent time working with Tebow. doesn’t sound to me like he is being neglected. what you people need to stop doing is believe the idiots like John Clayton and Merrile hoge with the negativity about Tebow. you also need to remember that without a regular off season the team does not have time to mentor him like we would like. if orton makes it under center all season than Tebow will have an entire off season to learn and they can devote all their attention to him before next season. he will play
It has zero to do with what the media says and everything to do with Tebow’s involvement in practices, clearly Quinn has now gotten many more reps with the tows than he used to, you can sugar coat that anyway you want to but with Quinn’s play in the last preseason game I see it as not very far from the realm of possibilties that if Orton would go down now Q
Like the 53 man roster and if u listen to Fox, he still says its only a 53 man roster not 54. I’m ready to have a Lance Ball and Nate Jones waive party. I love J.J. and Squid and I really hope that Beal can make the 53 but i haven’t been hearing a lot about him camp.
pump blue,bleed orange!
Three more preseason games, that will help sort things out, but as of now after Quinn’s performance against Dallas I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Fox makes him the back up if Orton was to go down, as we always knew this lack of off season would hurt Tebow the most. Whether EFX already has that feeling and choses not to divulge it to save Tebow fans’ angst is a possibility for certain, just disregarding it all together is not very open minded is all.
That 4:16 post was not meant to post…
You are right since 86, this is where the confusion came from, this year the teams will be allowed 46 active players for each game instead of 45, that’s the change, not the roster which is still 53.
I am with Bay on this QB situation, i honestly dont care who starts anymore but atleast give Tebow a shot somewhere else cause it obviously looks like he wont start unless he throws 350 yards and 4 TD’s in our next game.
The sky has not fallen on Tebow. It is obvious that the media is impacting our view of the QQ. If there was little media hype about it, then what we have seen in practice would not be as pressing. It is very real to expect a Orton/ Quinn 1 and 2. Contracts expire and next year, Tebow will be full out #1 with no question. Either way, the sky has not fallen.
We have an Orton / Quinn style system in place. As so many have stated, players like Tebow need a system more friendly to his play style. Maybe some foresight is being utilized by EFX and they are not going to push Tebow into a system that would actually hamstring his growth.
I am Mr trade him if u wont use him but I don’t think its the case. I believe they still want him and people are panicking to much. Quinn be throwing ints and he played more drives than than tebow and orton against the 3rd team. Takes a while to get some rythm. Tebow will do well this weekend but even if he does the hate mongers will still sling hate. They had been making it seem like Orton was so far ahead of them until game time and the distance wasn’t that far. They will downplay Tebows succes and good things and upsell rumors. Its possible quinn is ahead but I will believe it when I see it not before. Cuz I don’t like to worry for no reason.
Later days, TRB out –
This is my first post, and I may be asking a really dumb question, but…., If Quinn is playing reasonably well, and assuming there is not trade deadline that I don’t know about, would the Broncos trade his? Does he have any value? ( Other than to MCD) ?
maybe quinn is doing well enough to pass tebow but i don’t think that’s the case. i think they are auditioning him to see if he is good enough to be TEBOW’s backup next year or maybe even possibly this year, because the plan to find the backup to our quarterback of the future(not KO)has to start with quinn since he has been here in the system and we also invested in him to bring him here
cant wait to see them play Saturday night hope every body play well and we get a win and i want to see Tim Tebow go off with 3 passing touchdowns and 3 running haha then he would be the starter
I am A big fan of Tim Tebow. After all the criticism, by the media, about how he can’t play football is probably taking its toll on him mentally. John Elway should probably help Tebow on his mechanics, just as Brett Favre did with the young quarterback Matt Flynn. Personally I think Tebow needs another year to mature as a starter in the NFL. Not a fan of Brady Quinn. He throws too many interceptions. Cleveland got rid of him for that very thing. Remember Elway did not do so good in his first couple of years either. Give the man a chance to prove himself. He can be used in red zone situations because of his dangerous ability to run the ball. Work with the man and help him be the QB he wants to be.
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