The San Diego Chargers are in town for the Broncos’ last game of the season and first game of the new year. The stadium is cleared of snow except for a few smile piles in the walkways.
For the second week in a row, the Broncos are wearing blue jerseys with blue pants. Stay tuned for more updates and field-level photos.
12:31 p.m. MST: Several Broncos have made their way onto the field to warm up. Tim Tebow is throwing some short passes, and Brady Quinn is tossing the football with Eric Decker.
12:47 p.m. MST: The Broncos inactives have been announced. Champ Bailey, Laurence Maroney, Chevis Jackson, Jeff Byers, Stanley Daniels, Eric Olsen and Louis Leonard will not be suiting up for Denver today. Kyle Orton is the third quarterback.
12:55p.m. MST: Brandon Lloyd and Jabar Gaffney have begun their pass-and-catch routine, and Eddie Royal is catching passes from Wide Receivers Coach Adam Gase. Britton Colquitt is out in full uniform to practice his punts.
1:13 p.m. MST: Lonie Paxton and Steven Hauschka have joined Colquitt on the field to practice field goals.
1:21 p.m. MST: The inactives for the Chargers have been announced. WR Patrick Crayton, RB Jacob Hester, S Darrell Stuckey, S Tyrone Carter, LB Darry Beckwith, LB Larry English, DT Cam Thomas and DE/DT Travis Johnson will not be active for San Diego.
1:30 p.m. MST: Denver’s skill position players have run out of the tunnel to take part in group drills. Below are some pregame photos courtesy of Eric Detweiler:
1:36 p.m. MST: The rest of the team has jogged out onto the field and huddled up for a pregame speech from Brian Dawkins. Strength and Conditioning Coach Rich Tuten is now leading the team’s stretching and warmup routine.
1:53 p.m. MST: The Broncos have run back into the locker room to prepare for kickoff. Check the first half blog for live updates from INVESCO Field at Mile High.
Tags: 2010, Denver Broncos, pregame blog, San Diego Chargers, Week 17
GO TEBOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go BRONCOS (and Tebow)
Does anyone know if Thomas is a go?
Yes, Thomas has fully practiced all week.
yeah Tebow is a go…why wouldnt he be?
sorry about the last comment! i have tebow on the brain lol
No Champ today. Inactive. Hopefully last week wasnt his last week as a broncos. I pray he dons the orange and blue again
Good Luck to one and all. Enjoy the game, it is a long time to pre-season so those DVD’s will be invaluable.
Man that’s to bad Champ inactive, I think The Fan’s would’ve given Him a standing Ovation today. I Hope They do any way.
Now that Champ is inactive, I hope Vincent Jackson don’t go off on our secondary today.
Champ inactive will definitely hurt us. If Goodie can play like he did before he got hurt then we will still have some hope haha. And Squid should see more time today too which doesn’t bother me at all
Go Tebow! I am excited to see what we can do today.
And Elway will be the new VP of Football Operations! He agreed to it today! They posted it on NFL.com!
So frazier is the full time coach in Mini, Garrett in Dallas. Smart moves. May not prove wise but like they have been saying…in this day and age of instant gratification…we have been burning through alot of coaches that no matter where u look there is probably just a new coach who just got fired or etc and who doesnt look too good. And the teams with Coordinators that are good will do their best to keep em. If we had a qaulified in house HC we may have picked one and stuck with em…for example if we had Nolan (altho Brady is torching Miamis D right now)….And yea I saw the article on Elway agreeing on NFL.com … Also its official…weis has accepted OC job in Florida so McHoodie might become one of our hated rivals…which is fitting…cuz i already dont like the guy….hes gotta be chosen by haley tho…and who knows how that will go after the whole “fingergate” incident lol
I think both Frazier and Garrett deserved the promotions. They paid their dues in their respective organizations. Garrett will take Dallas deep into the playoffs next year. There will be no 1-7 start. The NFC East just got a lot more competitive.
Raiders are about to stomp the chiefs…looks like they swept the afc west this season..
Looking forward to Ron Rivera as a possible Broncos HC …. will take some years to get that chargers stink off him tho lol but chargers are top in defense period…been looking at rivera during the season even before McD left lol so im all for him…but lets see what he does today agianst us lol. Kubiak was my only Offensive Minded coach I wanted but if no Kubiak/dennison….Rivera all the way…we still need a formidable DC and OC tho…..
Well it certainly has been an interesting and dissapointing season but the offseason should really interesting. Thanks to all the bloggers for keeping me entertained through a tuff season. Again a big thank you to Baylinor for keeping track of all our picks and his lengthy but always informative posts. Will check back often this offseason as it will be fun to see how it all plays out
Lookin at the Miami Ne game today glad to see Marshall on a bad team where he wasn’t realy the focus!!! He never had it so good as he did in Denver and may not ever be the factor he was while he was here. Players can say they play for the money but at some times they play for wins and at the WR position they play to be the guy
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Ego Maniac
Although I will still never forive MCd for letting a guy like that go
Me neither ben…will never forgive McD for letting him go. But he will be fine. Im sure sparano will be fired and with sparano gone, they will probably look for a new coach and that coach will probably be more pass happy. Their QB sucks…they run the ball alot (but not as effective as they used to be) their pass plays suck, Marshall got it done with shanahan and McDaniels so im sure he will get it together…took a new OC to get cutler going and now they are going to the playoffs. He said that after he got the deal and he knows him and his family are set monetary wise that all he wants to do now is win, doesnt care if he is the reason they win, just wants to win. But then later he was like, I dont mind if we are winning and im not getting the ball, the problem lies when what you are doing is not working and we are losing…either way best of luck to him.
ITS ABOUT TIME FOR SOME BRONCOS FOOTBALL!!!
The announcement on TV this morning was that Elway is going to Stanford and while there will be talking to thier coach about the HC job. That is the first I heard of them considering a college coach for this position.