Anytime the Broncos are on the field two times in a day, the second session is strictly a walkthrough with an extremely brief shooting period. For that reason, we most likely won’t have many photos for the P.M. blogs — if any.
But below are some quick hits from Monday’s evening practice.
Newcomers Derrick Harvey (No. 95), Dante Rosario (No. 49) and Daniel Fells (No. 86) hit the practice field at Dove Valley for the first time, watching the walkthrough from the sidelines.
Another new Bronco, David Anderson (No. 89), stood beside Brady Quinn during the first half of practice looking over the script of the session. Offensive Coordinator Mike McCoy joined their huddle a few times to interject.
D.J. Williams participated in the walkthrough after sitting out the morning session.
Von Miller wore his trademark glasses throughout the practice and a Broncos hat with the bill bent back up toward the sky. As I said, shooting period is limited so we didn’t get a shot of it — we’ll try to find it next time. Looks like it took a lot of work to bend it like that.
If Miller wearing glasses during practice didn’t emphasize the lightness of the walkthrough, maybe this will. After jogging through a play, Brandon Lloyd noticed a rabbit on the field and proceeded to bend down and try to coax it towards him. It didn’t work. The rabbit ran away and Lloyd ran back to the huddle to hear the next play call.
When he wasn’t on the field, Rahim Moore was almost always taking a knee beside Brian Dawkins, listening intently to the 16-year veteran.
The players have a day off Tuesday, but will be back on the field Wednesday afternoon at 2:20 in a session open to the public. Both McCoy and Defensive Coordinator Dennis Allen spoke to the media after practice, and we’ll have more on what they had to say on DenverBroncos.com shortly.
-Gray Caldwell
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Side note my beloved Broncos are coming to Minnesota this season…finally! My brother-in-law is a Vikings fan so it will be one fun time!
Anyway, we went from having 3 DTs to now having 9! Of course a few of those are very long shots, but Fox did know we were in need of DTs, haha, he just did it from the bottom of the barrel pool of players, not exactly what I was hoping since I was a Dareus guy, LOL. BTW, that trade kind of fell on his lap too, the Eagle guy who turned down the Cleveland trade to play with Tebow, I hope he knows Orton may start, LMAO.
Bottom line as I have said plenty of times is Fox is NOT a DT man, it’s just an inconvenience to him that he even has to bother filling those two spots, DE and LB man, all the way through, that’s how Fox rolls, hope it works. In fact he is not that enamored with CBs either, never has been, and it’s obvious since he has yet to address that position. Hopefully Allen can whisper in his ears how important CBs are to him….
They have a stadium now in Minnesota? haha, we’re playing there December 4th, hopefully there is no snowstorm…
I hope Goody stays healthy all year, last year was a bad season for him.
Glad to see you made it to practice yesterday strand, good for you, any autographs?
According to small write up on Goody here on website, he was contemplating retirement after last season. Good to have him back and hope he’s ready to rebound and have a great season!
I bet Harris wanted to stay. I used to follow a bunch of Bronco players on Twitter (I stopped following most of them because they “tweeted” so much it got annoying). Anyway, Harris was frequently mentioned by Eric Decker like they were BFF or something, so maybe he didn’t want to leave his friends.
I bet if Harris signs Franklin plays guard. I don’t see them not playing Franklin.
strand – thanks again for sharing with us re: practice.
Really liked what you had to say re: Decker and Thomas!
By the way, anyone interested in following Bronco players on Twitter I’d recommend Royal, Elway, The Denver Broncos, and Bill Romanowski. They all say productive things about football. Royal actually frequently has contests and giveaways as a perk. I know a few of you are gamers and be offers to play xbox with people frequently.
Couldn’t be Marcus since he is newly signed FA and can’t practice til Thursday, can’t be Demaryius because he can’t practice since he is hurt, so it must be Julius, LOL.
3rd we could use a big nasty guard. I hope we do re-sign Harris.
Heck I’d put that beastly looking Franklin at DT! No one would dare run it up the middle on us anymore after taking a look at that guy, LOL.
Tebow over tweeted, DJ Williams never talked about football, Decker never talked about football, Champ never says anything. There were a few others who I can’t even remember. Granted it’s been off season so maybe they’ll talk about football now.
Very glad to hear we may resign Harris,he is a great young RT,hope he starts at RT and Franklin starts at RG,Beadles is overrated in my book,but either way we have quality depth at RT and LT with Harris!!!
Things are starting to look up my fellow Bronomaniacs!
Now if we could just lose Orton and Bell and Fannin pan out!!!
That’s because DJ could care less about football, it’s only a job to him anymore and his actions have demonstrated that over and over, but that was yesterday’s am subject, don’t want to revisit it so soon.
bay,like the idea of playing Franklin At DT,LOL.
Champ never says anything, LOL, I know I thought he may be dead.
Yes, bay that’s right Julius…. only Thomas eligible/able to hit the field right now. lol.
Do you suppose an o-line man would have the upper hand at DT? They would kind of know the technique of them and maybe what ways they try and block them? You think of it the o-line and d-line are pretty much the same. Franklin would just scare some people I think. LOL!
Tebow over tweeted, LOL, isn’t that what he always does, overdoing everything, the guy has like an unending supply of everlasting energy, come to think of it that’s a pretty good problem to have on the field for your leader, a guy who you must control his adrenaline, not one you must lit up a huge campfire under his arse to get him going, haha.
That’s fine Bay, I truely believe we have a winning season if Orton starts. It may be 9-7 but that’s better than what I’d predict with for Tebow, at this point 5-11. If Orton gets traded, I’d love to see Tebow play well and lead us to a conference championship, I just don’t think he’s ready. I also think Fox and the players expected him to show up looking better than last year, which I don’t believe is the case. I think the coaching staff are in a pickle. What about the other guys on the team, you think they don’t know who is better prepared to lead them this season? What are they going to think if we trade away their best chance to win? Bay, for a guy who does the research and always picks the most logical statistical choice, your choice of Tebow befuddles me, as does your hate for Orton. I just want to win and I trust the coaching staff will make the decision that gives us the best chance. I’ll support their decision 100%, that is, until the team tanks it. LOL Then I’ll quit watching and go fishing.
I’d love to see a real vote from the players on who they think should start!
Then no one could talk for them.
After this season Orton probably won’t want anything to do with the Broncos. He knows we were looking to trade him, so he’s going to play this season collect his $8.9 million and then get the heck out of dodge on the first decent multi-year contract that someone throws out to him. Then we’ll have Tebow who hasn’t started a season and what…Quinn as his backup or vice versa. I don’t hate Orton, but he had better produce and produce well because of his paycheck. Another 4-12 season and him sitting there collecting his lucrative one year salary wouldn’t sit well with me.
I think it has been clear ever since Tebow came on the field last year that all the players rallied around him 100% something they were no longer doing with Orton last season, that is the only thing that matters to me.
And imready, if by now you still don’t know what rational thinking I use to prefer starting Tebow over Orton with all the countless comments I have posted about it, then there is nothing more I can add, and this subject was SO over used here yesterday I am amused that folks still find the energy to discuss it, frankly.
I have spoken my peace about it, I think at times very well and I now have rested my case, the ball is in Fox’s court.
So we have 9 DTs so will we keep 4 on the active roster with 1 on the practice squad or what? I sure hope that a couple of these pan out to be decent and help sure up our d-line. I still have nightmares about our poor run defense.
Fox will go with the least amount of DTs he can get away with, keeping more roster spots for his DEs and LBs, that’s a gimme.
So does he plan on using DE to rotate in at the DT spots?
That gets down to details about Fox’s way of going about it I’m not familiar with, but DEs are considerably lighter than DTs so that would not be good to stop the run up the middle, our achilles heel, that much I do know.
Here is the thing. Everyone says orton would be bettter with a run game and a defense. If that’s the case what about when he was with the bears. And wasn’t he there when they had their superbowl run. Just let tebow have his shot. If he can’t do it then he probally be gone. Cause we know orton wont be here next year. This team is a work in progress still. Even at the qb spot.
Actually I don’t think anything is a gimme at this point! Fox doesn’t really use receiving TE’s but we sure got them now, haha!! I love it!! Thomas is looking like a stud!
From what I’ve read Bunkley is supposed to be pretty good against the run. Also the DE Derrick Harvey is good vs. run. He did lose his starting job with Jags a couple of years ago.
McBean will be back plus Marcus Thomas. Jarmon – couldn’t really find anything on him other than he was a supplemental draft pick for ‘Skins a few years ago.
What does stand out is that they’re all fairly young or younger than what we’ve had in the past.
freak 30, that’s all because of Tebow, whether now or later Tebow will need those easy TE targets and remember McCoy will run the O, Fox said it himself, but Fox will concentrate on D, he said it himself, and he will do it the way he knows how, that’s why I said it’s a gimme and I stand by it, haha.
Aye bay why don’t you like DJ??…lol jk..I really don’t wanna go back into the highlight from yesterday blog….but I do hope he can change and change your opinion as well
Fox did use Rosario as receiving TE on third downs or least that’s what I gathered from his post practice media session.
I do remember Rosario making a big catch a few years go to beat the Chargers at end of game or OT.
I mean look at the quality players we got a DE vs. the quality we have at DT, it’s like two different worlds, night and day, the proof is in the pudding.
You know every year its always someone on our team who I can’t stand…like realllly hate..like before I hated George Foster then Nate Webster and most recently Jarvis Moss..but for some odd reason I don’t like Ryan McBean and want him OFF THE TEAM..lol.do y’all have that same hate towards any player or is it just me??
We got cottage cheese in our pudding. LOL!
Bay: I think there were more high class DE’s available. Once you got past about 3 DT’s in FA you reached the middle/low performing DTs. Not saying a disagree with your Fox on DT perspective, but there wasn’t as much opportunity either (but then again the draft speaks volumes). The good news is that Fox historically has good defenses (I think anyway, I didn’t actually go back and look at Carolinas rankings over the last ten years because I’m at work and waiting for a meeting to start so I don’t have time).
Yeah, looks like we’re scrapping the bottom of the barrel – no doubt. lol.
Actually with the research TRB and I have done on Fox’s defense in Carolina it was never good on stopping inside runs, everything on a Fox D is built to contain the edges and apply pressure from there, the middle is kind of secondary and it has shown, hence some bloggers concerns over how he will turn around our biggest weakness, stopping teams from running it down our throats up the middle, which indeed are valid concerns.
Haha Bay…
I wasn’t trying to deter your mind. I know I could NEVER do that so I never try. Regardless, I am just very glad that we have great TE’s who are all around TE’s and can do anything that is asked of them!
I guess we can say bye bye Quinn and Gronkowski!
Now, I’m all for that!
Shame about the wasted 2nd round pick for Quinn though.
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bamz0
This article says the Broncos have more than $26M to spend. That just does not jive with other reports; but I wish it were true.
On we could still make a strong play for Ty Warren. This move into a 4-3 at this stage in his career would be perfect. There just isn’t very may other options out there at this point.
As for Franklin; I would let him compete with Harris for tackle and if he doesn’t make it put him back at guard, his college position. Our run game will be back in business!
3rdgen, I went back and looked at the Carolina defenses from ’06 on and they ranked 16th, 18th, 8th and 18th. His run defenses ranked 18th, 20th, 22nd, and 23rd. Fox hasn’t had a really good run defense since ’05 when they ranked 11th. They got to 8th in ’09 with a really strong pass defense.
Another thought, if our options at DT are exhausted, let’s move on to spending money on upgrading our corner back position. How about pulling in Carlos Rodgers from Washington?
Repeatedly last season, the Panthers were gashed by opposing teams rushing attack. Ranked 23rd overall in rushing defense, the Panthers were also the 7th worst team giving up Rushing points at 408 last season. The most alarming stat however is the fact that opposing teams rushed against the Panthers 121 times (out of 503 total attempts) on first down. This means that everyone in the stadium was looking for run, the opposition handed the ball off, and they still moved the sticks forward.
Granted 23rd is an upgrade over 32nd, haha.
Thanks for the backing material henryac.
Yeah bay, not much to get excited about with the DT’s so I will focus on the positive that they’re young and maybe Coach Nunnelly and Coach Allen can help get a couple of these guys to fill in and do an adequate job in shooting the gaps. lol.
Yeah, running it up the middle will probably still be the best way to attack us for sure and if we don’t make a big move at CB, deep balls opposite of Bailey shall be another point of attack for opposing teams, however the middle of the field is where I see us having a huge improvement over last year, short passes down the middle to TEs and slot receivers, with our new LB corp and safeties that should be the most improved part of our D no doubt, that and the QB pressure from the DEs.