During the 2011 season, the Broncos offensive line had even more reason to put defenders on their backs.
For every pancake block the line made last year, Zane Beadles donated $250 to Brent’s Place as part of his “Cakes for Cancer” program.
This Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to noon MDT, Beadles and his teammates are holding a Pancake Breakfast to benefit the Cakes for Cancer program even further, helping kids and families of Brent’s Place.
“This event is big for us,” Beadles said. “We’re going to try to raise a little bit of money, but the biggest thing about it is just trying to get the word out. Get people on board, companies on board, and get fans informed about the program. We want to have them be able to come in and interact with us.”
The event will include a pancake breakfast from Snooze, a photobooth by Bamboo Booth and a station to decorate cupcakes with D Bar Desserts along with facepainting, frame making, bounce castles and a few more surprises.
Tickets are still available — $50 for adults and $25 for kids age 12 and under.
More information can be found here.
“The program has been going well,” Beadles said. “We raised $15,000 (in 2011) just from the offensive line here. The goal is to really expand that as we go through this year and get some corporate sponsors — we’ve already started to get that. So it’s going well.”
Beadles’ inspiration for the program came while playing at the University of Utah, when he met a 7-year-old boy named Ryker, who was stricken with Glioblastoma Multiforme cancer.
The Utes adopted Ryker as a member of the team, but about a year later, he lost his battle with cancer.
“I knew I wanted to do something with cancer and something with kids,” Beadles said. “I just looked around the area and found Brent’s Place. I learned about them and what they do and it seemed like a perfect fit. That’s how it kind of came about.”
Brent’s Place operates two hospital hospitality houses — one near Denver’s Presbyterian Saint Luke’s Hospital with six apartments primarily for adults with cancer and their families, and one adjacent to Aurora’s Anschutz Medical Campus with 16 apartments primarily for children with cancer and their families.
The new facility also includes social and activity spaces, a meeting room, commercial kitchen, library, exercise room, and an outdoor play space designed specifically for immune-compromised children.
“Specifically, the money raised by Zane will be used to provide specialized housing for pediatric cancer patients who have been required to temporarily relocate to Denver, along with their families, to receive life-saving medical treatments,” Brent’s Place Executive Director Sean Meyerhoffer said in a statement.
“It’s awesome,” Beadles said. “Especially when I go into Brent’s Place and interact with the kids and the families and they say, ‘Thank you.’ Really just being around them is huge for me and really fulfilling.”
The program is important to Beadles, whose family has also been affected by cancer. He said the rest of the offensive line has taken up the cause, as well, allowing for a little extra excitement while watching tape looking for pancake blocks.
“It’s been fun,” he said. “The offensive line, we do everything together anyway — that’s the whole thing with us. So something that we could do for charity and kind of incorporate everybody in the room was definitely something I wanted to do. It’s been successful so far.”
Tags: Cakes for Cancer, Zane Beadles
Great Work Zane!
I think he (Janois Jenkins) is right there with Morris Claiborne as far as talent. He may not be as big but he is faster and dang he’s got ball skills!!!
Doing a bloggers mock draft. Need at least two more people. If you want in just say so and name the division you want. Only doing round 1.
The AFC West wont be given out just yet.
I have the AFC South
Freak has AFC South
AFC East is available
NFC North is taken by TRB
NFC West is taken by VonDoomBronco
NFC South and East is available.
Mock im hoping to start no later than 6 pm blog time. If your participating please make sure your at that time. The mock draft will be on a different blog. I will post the link to that blog later. It is going to be on Rice Takes Previewing QBs and DBs.
15 minutes to make the pick (please do it as fast as possible though.) After 15 minutes pick is forfeit and we go to next pick.
The pick is said as
With 16 pick of Round 1 of the 2012 NFL draft The:
Team takes Player Position School
About a paragraph why you make that pick.
Description followed by previous selections.
Between picks everyone can state their opinions on the pick. Please no arguing as it is the person acting as the GM and going what they feel best.
way cool Zane, stepping up to help your community is a great .
Can We make trades? and only the first round or full 7 where the 2nd round and beyond move quicker?
Zane very good of you to help out. Keep it up!
LUKE KUECHLY is CRAZY GOOD!!!
I took this from Wiki to show his tackles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REMEBER THIS IS IN AN AVERAGE “12″ GAME COLLEGE SEASON!!!!!!!!
12 GAMES!!! Look at his total for each year and his SOLO’s!!!!
THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF PRODUCTION*************************************************************************************************************
As a true freshman in 2009, Kuechly became the Eagles starting outside linebacker after Mark Herzlich announced that he would miss the season after being diagnosed with the rare form of cancer, Ewing’s sarcoma.[4] He finished the season with 158 tackles (87 solo), which led the team and conference, as well as being second nationally (first among freshmen).[5] He was the first true freshman in team history to lead the team in tackles and almost broke the freshman tackle record set by Stephen Boyd in 1991.[4] He also had a sack and returned an interception for a touchdown.[6] For his play he was named the 2009 ACC Defensive Rookie of the Year, was on the 2009 CFN All-Freshman Defensive Team.[7][8] In the Emerald Bowl, Kuechly was named the defensive MVP, registering 16 tackles in a losing efforts.
2010See also: 2010 Boston College Eagles football team
He moved to middle linebacker at the beginning of his sophomore season. He went on to lead the country with 183 tackles (110 solo) and has an ongoing streak of 21 straight games with at least 10 tackles.[9] Kuechly was named a finalist for the Butkus Award and the Nagurski Award. He broke BC’s single season record for tackles, topping the previous record of 165, held since 1991 by Tom McManus. After the season, Kuechly was named a unanimous consensus All-America selection. He was the first consensus All-American for the Eagles since Mike Cloud in 1998.[10] Boston College played in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl (the same bowl as the Emerald Bowl from the previous season with a change of corporate sponsorship) at the end of the season and Kuechly was named the defensive MVP for a second time.
2011See also: 2011 Boston College Eagles football team
Kuechly led the nation with an astounding 191 tackles (102 solo) during the season, averaging nearly 16 tackles per game.[11] Kuechly compiled his stats in the 12-game regular season, as the team finished with a 4-8 record and was ineligible for post-season play. He still almost broke the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) single-season tackle record (193, set by Lawrence Flugence in a 14-game season) and did break the single season tackles-per-game record with 15.9 (previously held by Rick Sherrod with a 15.6 average over a 10-game season).[12]
Kuechly broke the BC and ACC career tackle records with 532 tackles, eclipsing the previous record of 524 held by Stephen Boyd and only 13 tackles short of the NCAA FBS record held by Tim McGarigle.[12] He also broke the BC and ACC single-season tackle records, records that he had set the year before. On December 4, Dick Butkus personally presented the 2011 Butkus Award to Kuechly at the Boston College team banquet a week before the expected formal announcement of the recipient.[13] Kuechly went on to win the Lombardi Award, the Lott IMPACT Trophy, and the Bronko Nagurski Trophy for 2011.
LAX Only round 1 and no trades.
I also would love Martin. He reminds me a lot of Richardson.
Here is a vid of him vs Nevada. Very dominant!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9fhe5OROhM&feature=related
http://www.nfl.com/draft/2012/mock-drafts/mike-mayock/150251
Mike Mayocks 1 and only mock draft.
OMG, watch that vid of Martin I posted. Richardson who??? Martin is a BEAST!!!
Luke, Martin, or Fleener!
GET MARTIN IF NOT LUKE!!!
Here is the bowl game where he goes against Burfict and makes him look bad!! Haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONBzZDKI7IY&feature=related
We may not get him and probably won’t, BUT we can’t let the Chiefs get him either!!!
If he doesn’t go to Denver than I hope he get’s banished to the NFC West or somewhere we don’t play him very often!!!
GO BRONCOS!!! LUKE KUECHLY IN 2012!!!
Watch Martin break Burfict tackle at 2:02. haha
Alright… Would you be interested in a full mock just me and you one of us can take AFC the other NFC?
Can you imagine Kuechly next to Von Miller for the next decade???
DECADE OF DOMMINATION!!!
Thanks Buck, wich blog was you mock on? I would like to go back and take a look at it.
LAX That would be a lot of work. Having to keep track of who your taking as well as my boards lol. If the draft wasnt tomorrow I would.
For those participating get boards set up for round 2. If we can get the first round done quick then we can go to the 2nd.
If not all the divisions are chosen then i will split up the teams in those divisions and hand them out.
OC, not sure where its at it was one of the first ones. Not really so much same order as same players.
Freak Martin vs Nevada 4:10 run was great!!!!
I think Mcgahee is a great back, but as a change of pace Martin could be great. He gets real low out of backfield but can break tackles and catches also. I believe he also returns kicks so very versatile and valuable.
ab, ill do the AFC East if i am able to do it when you all do it
BNO14 are you going to be able to do it? All of it? Cause I dont want to give it to you if your not going to be able to do it.
depends on when we do it.
6pm blog time tonight (I think) … which is 7pm central, 8pm est and 5pm pacific lol
TRB
6 pm blog time. 8 pm ET 5 pm PT 4 pm My time lol
if all of my homework is done i should be able to do it
I watch something about the rookies from last season and I almost forgot FRANKLIN (our RT) was a rookie last season. He played great and is a beast of a man! Good Job Fraklin – KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
Ok BNO14 I got you marked down for the East. Right? If you arnt able to participate i will split the teams up among others.
Prepare for round 2 also. If we get round 1 done fast enough than we will do round 2.
Round 1 will now be 10 minutes before forfeit
Round 2 will be 7 minutes before forfeit.
For round 2 you dont need to have all the 1st round picks following your choice. Just previous round 2 picks.
Picks will be made the same way. Round 2 will also need a reason but not as long as round 1.
so does anyone else on here like trading up for Melvin Ingram?
ab, can you put me in the running for the AFC West as well? I would prefer the AFC West over the AFC East.
BNO14 Yes I will mark you down for the running of the West also.
for the first time in a while, I actually agree with someone from the bleacher report:
Despite the incessant clamoring for the Denver Broncos to draft a defensive tackle in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft, I just don’t see it happening.
Defensive tackle is a position that is one of the deepest positions in this year’s draft. Not only is it incredibly deep, but also defensive tackle is one of the riskiest positions to draft and one of the positions most likely to find a bust as opposed to a gem.
John Elway and the Denver Broncos will hold a best player available attitude when they approach the 2012 draft and as the top talent at defensive tackle will likely be gone early, the scraps available rated at probably second or third round talent will be all that is left late in the first round.
I think prospects like Jerel Worthy, Kendall Reyes, and the like will have a good chance of making it in the NFL, but do they warrant a first round pick? Not if better talent at other positions is available.
Some of the better options in the first round for example, might include Alabama’s Donta’ Hightower at middle linebacker. He’s a beast in the middle and he would be a perfect match alongside Von Miller and D.J. Williams. He has lots of intelligence and has the look of a defensive quarterback. He can call plays on the defense, has experience in a pro-style defense from Alabama, and is ready to start Day 1.
How about top, first-round talent like Lamar Miller from the University of Miami? He is a home run hitter on offense and would be an awesome complementary back to Willis McGahee, a fellow Hurricane alumnus. In open space he is nearly impossible to run down. A threat out of the backfield, Miller would further boost the increasingly dynamic Broncos’ offense.
Recent news of the Broncos’ interest in cornerback Asante Samuel, points to the Broncos possibly acquiring South Carolina’s Stephon Gilmore at cornerback with their first overall pick. Gilmore had an awesome NFL Combine, running a speedy 40 time and impressing in defensive back drills. Imagine what next year might look like: Gilmore, opposite of Tracy Porter, Champ at free safety. That might ease some of struggles the defensive backs had in 2011.
So what does the Broncos’ VP of Football Operations say about their likelihood to draft a DT in the first round?
He was recently quoted in a pre-draft press conference on ESPN.com saying, “We don’t feel as bad about our tackles as everybody else does. I think that we feel OK there and Ty Warren will be back coming off an injury and (Kevin) Vickerson is coming back and then we have some young guys in there where we feel like we’ll be OK. It’s not nearly the need in our minds that people think it is.”
Despite last seasons’ struggles, mostly due to early injuries during the preseason, the Broncos are not looking too shabby at defensive tackle come into training camp. They have Ty Warren and Kevin Vickerson returning. Justin Bannan was brought in on a one-year contract during free agency. Air Force DT Ben Garland is coming back to the team after being on military reserve. Mitch Unrein is returning after an OK rookie season. Plus, there are a whole handful of others who will be wrestling over a roster spot during the offseason.
Unless a “can’t miss” defensive tackle happens to fall into Denver’s laps at No. 25 don’t assume the Broncos will be “buying” Jerel Worthy or Kendall Reyes with their first pick. Don’t even assume that the Broncos will be looking to pick up help on the defensive side only with their first rounder.
“We’re going to go in and continue as we get closer if we hear some things about going up or down, we’ll look at everything” Elway said during his pre-draft press conference. “We’ll continue to work on our board, set our board, do our mock drafts, see how things might fall. Again, we don’t have a mindset of exactly what we’re going to do. We’re going to have to wait and see until we get close to that pick at No. 25 and see how the board falls, we’ll never know. It’s a mindset that we want to find the guy that is going to come in and have an impact when it is offensively or defensively.”
Lots of positions on the Broncos’ roster could use upgrades. A first-round pick at a sure starter and instant impact player would be just what the doctor ordered.
My bet is, it’s going to be somewhere other than defensive tackle.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1159237-2012-nfl-draft-predictions-denver-broncos-wont-draft-dt-in-1st-round
OC – here’s bucks mock draft….. quite a few blogs back…lol!
Well here’s mine
#25
Doug Martin RB Boise Srare
Cyrus Gray RB Texas AM
Isaiah Pead RB Cincinati
#57
Fletcher Cox DT Miss State
Chandler Jones DE Syracuse
Mike Martin DT Michigan
#87
Ben Jones Center Georgia
Alameda Ta’amu DT Washington
Reyes DT Conneticut
#108
Tank Carter LB TCU
Dale Moss WR So. Dakota ST.
Dereck Wolfe DT Cincinati
Blog Community mock. Will be 1 round with the possibility or round 2 if we get round 1 done fast enough.
It will start at 6 pm blog time. Please be on about 10 minutes before in case not all divisions are handed out and I have to split up those teams and hand them out.
Round 1 you have 10 minutes to make your pick and type it up with your description. Round 2 will be 7 minutes.
Picks will be made like the following:
With the # Pick of Round # the:
Team Selects Player Position School
Decription
Before the Previous Picks please state: The Team is now on the clock.
Previous picks will be shown as the following:
Pick # Round # Player Position School and the handle of who made the pick.
The mock with be done on previous blog. Link will be posted before the start. Rice Takes: Previewing QBs and DBs is the blog. I dont want to disturb bloggers who dont care or dont want to know. But if they do care and want to know they can follow on the previous blog.
Between picks you can state you opinion please try to keep the debating to a minimum. This is a friendly mock lol.
AFC
West To be given out later. If interested in the West please have a backup plan.
North AlaskanBronco06
South BroncosFreak30
East BleednOrange14
NFC
North 1n0nlyTRB
East
West VonDoonBronco
South
If any questions feel free to ask.
Thanks RBF1, I would have never found it. Looks like most of my picks will be gone but ya never know.
Fletcher cox in the 2nd round? THat is wildly optimistic. Lol
No prob buck – OC may have already gone back and found it.
AB..
Unfortunately I am going to have to step out of the contest. I just found out I will not be available. Sorry man.
Ok Freak. Its all good.
TRB, you’re right, wildly optomistic. Just picked who I wanted and where.
AB….Man, if I would have known I would be down for the mock!!! I would commit but it will be almost 6PM when I get to the house and I don’t want to screw everyone over if I’m late.
I will check in though and if someone has to drop out in the middle of it, I’ll pick it up for them????
Its all good. I did the same. I had a mock long ago before Doug Martin rose in ranks and it had my hopes of getting hima t 57. Because of that I never changed it. Even tho that is ridiculously optimistic as he is now scheduled to go late first/early second which would mean our first round pick would be ideal for him. But I love to have my cake and eat it too (ha, kinda works with blog title.) TRB
Mike think youd be able to be on by 6:30? If so I dont mind waiting a bit if you want part of it. Then we can start when you get on if its going to be before 6:30
well mike … depending on your division … u may not be selecting for a while after 6pm lol. Not unless u have the colts or redskins or vikes divison or something.
TRB
Who ever selects the NFC south will only have 2 picks … both in the top 10. Bucs and Panthers. Falcons and Saints both traded away thier first round picks this year.
TRB
If I get the Colts, I’m going to pick Weeden just to screw up everyone’s draft board!!! Can you imagine???
Mike if you want the AFC East has yet to be claimed. (BNO14 wants it but hes also in the running for the West) The first pick for the East is #8.
AB…I’m solid at 6:15 to 6:30….so if you need me I’m there!
Done…I’ll take the East. The West is too easy!