The hot, sunny weather was back in full force as the Broncos hit the training field today after rain and clouds brought some much needed relief from the heat during practice yesterday.
Some players were hoping that the clouds, and the cooler temperatures they brought, stuck around for today, including the offensive linemen. As five linemen came out of the locker room squinting, one of them said to center Jeff Byers, “What the heck, Byers, I thought you promised it was going to be cloudy.”
To which Byers responded matter-of-factly, “No, I said there were clouds on the horizon.” It was good to see the heat didn’t take away the players’ sense of humor.
ROLL CALL
Linebacker D.J. Williams, running back LenDale White, wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, cornerback Brandon Bing and defensive linemen Mitch Unrein and Louis Leonard all sat out practice.
Running back Mario Fannin got carted off the field during 9-on-7s with a knee sprain, and offensive tackle Eric Olsen suffered a hyper-extended elbow, but continued practicing.
PLAYMAKERS
There were a number of one-handed catches that it almost deserves its own subhead. Lloyd started it off while running a fade route to the back corner of the end zone. The pass from quarterback Kyle Orton was coming over his opposite shoulder so he twisted his body, jumped and snagged the ball with his right hand as if there was Super Glue on his gloves. He never brought the other hand over to help. Lloyd made several other impressive catches, albeit with two hands, during individual drills. Tight end Dante Rosario continued the one-handed trend during the first team portion. He caught a 20-yard pass from quarterback Tim Tebow that he tipped in the air before bringing it down.
During the first play of individual drills, Orton threw a 50-yard bomb to receiver Eddie Royal, much to the crowd’s enjoyment. Royal showed his excitement by laying up the ball through the goalposts.
Cornerback Syd’Quan Thompson continued his camp of picks, intercepting a Tebow pass he tipped to himself during one-on-one drills.
During 9-on-7s, defensive tackle Ty Warren made a big stop at the line, as defensive end Robert Ayers along with linebacker Wesley Woodyard ran onto the field hollering and dumped water on Warren’s head to celebrate.
Also during 9-on-7s, defensive tackle Ryan McBean stuffed running back Mario Fannin at the line of scrimmage, after which Fannin was taken off on a cart. As a result, tensions were high and the next play the defensive line made another stop and some pushing and shoving ensued before things calmed down.
Running back Jeremiah Johnson turned in a couple of good reps back-to-back during 9-on-7s. The first one he found a hole and Running Backs Coach Eric Studesville shouted, “Way to go Jeremiah!” and the offensive line gave each other high fives. On his next rep, Johnson found another hole to close the session and Studesville gave him props again.
Linebacker Von Miller blew by rookie right tackle Orlando Franklin with a quick first step during one of the first plays of the team scrimmage to get in the backfield and help defensive end Elvis Dumervil record a virtual sack, but Franklin held him in check him on the next rep.
Safety Darcel McBath gave receiver Jamel Hamler a wake-up call with a huge hit right as he jumped to catch a ball during the team scrimmage.
Tebow had a swing pass to Moreno during the red zone scrimmage, where the running back turned the corner and leapt into the end zone.
DRILLS
The defense returned to a drill it did a few days ago, but with a new twist. Like last time, the five players started facing a coach at midfield, and when the whistle blew, they sprinted to the sideline he pointed to. But instead of four balls lying on the sideline, there were three, so two men were left without a ball and had to do extra up-downs.
The defensive backs again worked on playing aggressive. They did a 1-on-2 drill where two defensive backs had to hold up and strip the ball carrier.
Kickers Steven Hauschka and Matt Prater split kickoff duties during a kickoff drill.
QUICK HITS
Long snapper Lonie Paxton spent the first five minutes of practice animatedly talking with a referee and Head Coach John Fox, going over new rule changes.
Orton talked with Brandon Lloyd on the side several times during one-on-ones.
Tebow ran a few goal-line plays during the drills and the team scrimmage that incorporated his trademark jump pass. One notable pass was to newly acquired receiver David Anderson, who went up and got the high ball.
Speaking of Anderson, he was a popular target throughout the day, catching multiple passes on short routes.
Receivers Matt Willis and Britt Davis got some first team reps. Willis had two touchdowns during the red zone scrimmage, one each from Orton and Brady Quinn.
Miller spent a drill with the defensive line as they went through their sets.
Tight end Daniel Fells started at the position during team drills. Julius Thomas swapped in with him.
Safety Brian Dawkins gave rookie safety Rahim Moore a fist pound before they got into position during the first 7-on-7 drill.
Safety Nick Polk showed awareness and talent as he dove and caught a pass that ricocheted back into play off the uprights. The ball was dead as soon as it hit the goal posts, but it was a cool play.
Tebow threw with Demaryius Thomas during special teams drills at the end of practice.
Quinn connected with Julius Thomas for a 60-yard catch-and-run touchdown on one of the last plays of practice in which Thomas reached back for the catch and sprinted past two safeties.
DAILY JUKEBOX
These are the songs the team listened to during stretching period. Players submit song requests and three got played.
“Not Afraid” by Eminem
“Oops Upside Your Head” by The Gap Band
“Heart of the City (Ain’t No Love)” by Jay-Z
“You Give Love a Bad Name” started playing for just a few seconds before stretch period ended and the players returned to drills sans music.
The team heads to INVESCO Field at Mile High for a free practice open to the public tomorrow from 2:05-4:05 P.M.
Check below for more photos of today’s action.
-Kenny Legan
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This from NFL.com
Tim Tebow told reporters Friday that statements he made to The Denver Post about the Broncos starting quarterback job being taken away from him were “a little bit out of context.”
In talking with The Post ‘s Woody Paige on Wednesday, Tebow opened up about his competition with Kyle Orton , who has brushed off trade rumors and outplayed Tebow in training camp.
Tebow told The Post that he felt his starting role “was grabbed back away.”
On Friday, the Heisman Trophy-winning star out of Florida addressed those comments, clarifying that he was never promised the starting job by the Broncos’ coaches or front office.
“(The Broncos) never said anything to me like that at all,” Tebow told the team’s official site . “The plan all the whole time was to come in and compete … that’s what I love doing.
“I don’t feel like anything was taken from me, and I don’t want anything given to me, also,” Tebow said. “I want to work for anything that I get, that’s for sure, and I’ve always been like that.”
Tebow showered Paige with compliments, while suggesting that his quotes in don’t mirror his feels about his role with the Broncos.
“Well, I have all the respect in the world for Mr. Paige,” Tebow said. “But sometimes, when your doing interviews, it doesn’t come out exactly … I don’t feel like it was exactly how it came out.”
Tebow started Denver’s final four games last season. First-year Broncos coach John Fox hasn’t publicly announced his starter, but he has acknowledged that Orton is in the lead.
It looks as if everybody got an earful from the organization after that interview, Tebow rescinding some of what he said and I noticed this morning they changed the title of that article in the DP to a much more Bronco organization friendly one. The Broncos have long arms in Denver.
Yea I read the article sndvl, and I saw the vid on broncos website. it was probably taken out of context, but even if it wasn’t, he is human, im sure he gets frustrated and pissed when things go bad. But like he said its usually frustration in himself. Things have happened for the guy since the begining, so whether he starts this year or not, or for our team or not, he will get his shot and he will shine, because this kid has something we Christians call Favor, and its been apparent throughout his life. There is a reason for everything and everything happens in its time. Kids just gotta be patient and keep doing what he is doing cuz that has never let him down. I keep telling people he is ready, people didn’t think Big Ben was ready his rookie season, he was behind 2 vets, but they went down and he stepped up. Vets will almost always beat the young guy out at practice. They have been through enough of them. But Gamers are Gamers through and through and the most effective way they learn is through experience. TRB out…
Any word on Mario Fannin yet?
Congrats to Shannon Sharpe on being inducted to the NFL Hall of Fame. Shannon, you are an elite TE that not many TE`s have accomplished. In my eyes, your the best TE that ever played in the NFL.
Fanin has either a strained or sprained Knee according John Fox’ injury update
bay, any other FA running backs still out there?
As far as I can tell, Jason Snelling who I have been wanting to have all along and who has ties with Xanders is still available and we should sign him right away for sure.
Here is a breakdown of the FA RBs who have been signed, so if one you like isn’t it there chances are good he might still be available:
Player Pos 2010 2011
Marion Barber RB DAL CHI
Andre Brown RB WAS NYG
Ronnie Brown RB MIA PHI
Reggie Bush RB NO MIA
Thomas Clayton RB NE SEA
Korey Hall RB GB NO
Tim Hightower RB ARI WAS
Brandon Jackson RB GB CLE
Vonta Leach RB HOU BAL
Le’Ron McClain RB BAL KC
Willis McGahee RB BAL DEN
Jerious Norwood RB ATL STL
Darren Sproles RB SD NO
Lawrence Vickers RB CLE HOU
Carnell Williams RB TB STL
Ok great thanks bay… much appreciated. We should look into signing Snelling.
i dont think we should sign anyone right now unless a good CB becomes available.. i say we wait till august 30 and see who gets cut
Congrats Shannon Sharpe!!We want a healthy Fanin!Go Broncos!! All you guys that go have to give good descriptions of Mile High today.
There`s an interesting read in the Denver Post:
Q&A: Broncos may add O-Line on waiver wire.
Check it out.
First and foremost I would like to say congrats to Shannon Sharpe. I was extremely rude earlier in my post forgetting to do this so I wanted to make up for my forgetfulness now.
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I was doing a little research and came across this article from the Bleacher Report
by Tim Arcand (Featured Columnist) on July 17, 2010 and thought that I would share it.
Tim Tebow and the All-Time Top Left-Handed QBs of the NFL
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/421550-tim-tebow-ranking-the-top-left-handed-qbs-of-the-nfl
This article is really interesting so I thought that I would share it.
Second, the point that I was trying to make earlier, and I think that bay caught it, was the fact that Orton, to my knowledge, has not done any practicing with the #2 squad. All of his reps are with the #1 squad. All of the others do their reps with the #2 squad and occasional reps with #1 squad. Now before you go on a high horse and blast me for saying something that I know nothing about, I am simply making a statement from what I have read on here about all of the practices. It is kind of hard for me to make the practices in person since I live in SW Florida. So I strictly have to go on what I read. Therefore, I have to agree with bay in the fact that this “competition” is just about as lopsided as it can be. That is why I made the statement that I made about their minds being made up before anyone hit the practice field. I am not, nor was there any intention to bash anyone. That was my opinion, and that is one thing that I still have my right to. Bay, you were very correct in correcting my error of statements earlier and I appreciate that, as I always do. As you know, sometimes I let my mouth overload something else. But, I say what I say and it opens up more discussions I guess. Good for the soul.
One other thing that I would like to say and this is for imready. I have to offer my apology to imready, I, like Tebow, am a rookie. He is a rookie in his position and I am a rookie to this blogging. I have only been participating in this for over a year now. But make no mistake; I have been a Bronco fan for most of my life. And that spans back for almost 60 years. I have followed them for as long back as I can remember. Just because I have not been on here as a blogger, and do not know all of the LOL and that kind of language that you guys use, nor do I know all of the players like you guys know them, make no mistake that I am orange and blue to the bone. Have been and always will be. As I pointed out earlier, I live in Florida, and I can make the statement publicly that I can not stand any of the three teams here at all. Never have, never will. If I said something earlier that offended you, I offer my apology. I do hope you can accept that because if you don’t, then oh well, I really don’t know what to tell you.
I forgot one important thing.
GO BRONCOS!!!!!!!!!!!
Seweatherman: you’re a great blogger despite your age and inexperience….. Haha just kidding. No really, I always value your comments and perspectives.
JUUST TRADE TEBOW ALREADY FOR A #2 ROUND PICK OR LOWER HES A DISTRACTED TO OUR TEAM WE HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING GAMES WITH ORTON ………..
Weatherman, absolutely zero reason to ever apologize to me here, you are your own man and have every right to be, no matter how upsetting your comment might be to some, it would be their problem.
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Soooooo Glad to se Jerimiah Johnson doing well!!! GO DUCKS!
GO BRONCOS!!!!!
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