Left tackle Ryan Clady and running back Willis McGahee, who were named alternates for the Pro Bowl when the rosters were announced in late December, are now officially headed to Hawaii for the NFL’s All-Star Game.
They join Champ Bailey, Elvis Dumervil and Von Miller as the Broncos now have five Pro Bowlers. Bailey and Miller are starters for the AFC squad, and Dumervil, currently a reserve, might end up a starter since New England’s Andre Carter — who is on injured reserve — is slated to be a Pro Bowl starter ahead of him.
Clady replaces Miami’s Jake Long, and McGahee replaces Houston’s Arian Foster. Both players could not participate due to injury.
Clady announced he would be making the trip to Honolulu on his Twitter account, thanking everyone who voted. The fourth-year player has started all 64 games to start his career.
McGahee ran for 1,199 yards this season and accounted for five total touchdowns as the Broncos set a new franchise single-season rushing record.
The Broncos’ remaining alternates for the Pro Bowl are quarterback Tim Tebow, safety Brian Dawkins, kicker Matt Prater and punter Britton Colquitt. We will let you know if any of the four are called up to the game.
-Gray Caldwell
Tags: Pro Bowl, Ryan Clady, Willis McGahee
Anyone know when FA starts?
March 13th
So what do you all think our RB situation will be like next season? Looks like McGahee won’t be carrying the load……….does KM get another crack at it? Do we draft a QB and put TT in as fullback? lol (had to throw that in there for kicks)
While I love McGahee and the way he runs, I think age is catching up to him and he just can’t carry the full load……….so we need a nice complement to him. As much as I loathe KM, there is a glimmer of hope in me that those two could be a nice complement to each other…….McGahee with power up the middle and KM with speed to the outside.
Or do we draft a RB or bring in a FA?
Your thoughts?
I do hope we lock down Colquitt and Prater………..would be a shame to lose those guys……..
Problem is KM doesn’t have much speed either … but he is plenty agile and a finese player of sorts with great hands. So he would be the ideal complementary back. That was to be his role this year. Its obvious he keeps getting hurt. But when he ran this year in a real scheme behind a rejuvenated Oline … he looked like a man before he got hurt. The problem was that, that game much like the first game of the season when he got hurt, he was starting, which means he was the back primarily carrying the load. On 3rd down duty, he shouldn’t take to much shots. Altho his second season ending injury was so fluke on that big gainer. The season enders often come in the most flukish everyday tackles.
But to answer technically our RBs are McGahee, Moreno, Ball, Jeremiah Johnson, and my fave Mario Fannin. Altho the fact that Mario Fannin was not signed to a future contract worries me … not unless he is already locked in. But to draft a RB … sure I guess. Maybe a fast guy in the later rounds who can double as a specialist ala McCluster. But no need to spend a high pick on one in my book. At least not this year. Lotta quality FA RBs. Jason Snelling for example is McGahee -esq.
TRB
For those of you who are worried whether Tim is committed to football, here you go:
http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_19763367
He is already wanting to get started.
Shaz … anyone that would question the kids work ethic and focus is beyond me. Sure he has other aspirations … but he is no Mark Sanchez. TRB
I am sorry and I know that you are tired of talking about him I just don’t want anyone to doubt his commitment. I have spoken to 4 or 5 different people who know him personally and they all say the same thing. Tim is so focused on being a QB that sometimes it is scary how he goes about his training. He has lots of “People” to do the other stuff like his charity etc. Of course he will want to visit the Phillipean’s but nothing wrong with that. Ok, I am done with that topic.
HEY COACHES, how about when the OTA’s and mini camps start we have one solely dedicated to tackeling? LOL
We need an all purpose reciver like Harvin and then a TE like Hernandez LOL.
How do you guys feel about Denard Robinson out of Michigan?
thanks for the response TRB………and I agree with what you said.
So shaz … pretty much the 2 guys that TT won his championships with? lol
Tebow has the commitment, but he’s also gotta stop lifting like a lineman lol. Its good for when he has to shed tackles but his QB training should take priority over his weight lifting. Not sure how much tim ehe allocates for each but u can tell he is a work out finatic.
Dunno about Percey but Desean is clearly an available option … I doubt we have the money tho. But we might. Thank the stars for the rookie wager scale.
ps: When I personally say I have no desire to weigh in on the TT debate, I mean the worn out … can he or can’t he. He should be, he shouldn’t be. As it stands he is, and that fact won’t change until possibly training camp.
TRB
Dunno much about denard robinson but he won’t be coming out til next year 2013.
Fox wants to draft for talent verses position so it always makes me laugh that almost everyone here spend their off season evaluating who we should draft by needs, haha.
Broncos coach John Fox refers to the offseason as “the business side” of pro football. He’s also fond of saying the Broncos are interested in acquiring “the best human talent available.”
That’s why the Broncos sent their scouting staff to the East-West Shrine game this week and why they will send the entire football operations department, including Fox, executive vice president John Elway and general manager Brian Xanders, to the Senior Bowl next week.
Tebow does all this heavy lifting because his body is what has made him the QB he has been all his life, problem is they want him to be a different QB now, one who can throw from the pocket and therefore doesn’t need to be 250 lbs to take the abuse in the running game. Tebow may be the nicest guy in the world but that doesn’t necessarily make him the smartest football mind. He certainly hasn’t figured out all that. Until he believes himself fully that he can cut it in this league mainly as a pocket passer, he will not alter his conditioning regimen, at least on his own, somebody is going to have to make him, maybe the Tuten replacement guy because he is definitely overbuilt in the upper body area to have the fluidity required in his throws, at least in my opinion. Excess body mass equals stiffness, I should know I used to lift weights for speed skiing training for years, while getting bigger is great from a safety and feel good stand point, remaining flexible is much more important. If you over do the body mass thing your performance in a position like his is going to suffer, he is not a fullback that I know, no matter what Urlacher says, haha.
That’s the age old question. Do you take the “best” player available overall or the “best” player available based on your needs? In Madden I’ve done both and it’s worked out well..and we all know if you can make it work in Madden you can make it work in real life. haha
Ironic that the injury occurred in the pocket, no?
By Adam Schefter
ESPN
At the start of the third quarter, Tebow tore cartilage on his first rib where it attaches to his sternum, bruised his lung and had fluid buildup in the plural space of his chest, according to an NFL source.
The injuries came as the result of a hit in the pocket when Tebow was pressured after throwing a pass. Even so, he was determined to finish the game with his teammates regardless of the score.
Bay, I agree with your assesment of Tebow’s needs in the strength and conditioning department. But, I don’t blame him for his condition now. The people to blame for this started back in high school and continued on through college. Those are the strength and conditioning coaches that need to hold the blame for Tebow and his currnet problems. I believe that is where a lot of the problem lies with a lot of players coming into the NFL.
He sustained those kind of injuries wearing the great ‘rib protector’ too. Standing like a frigging statue in the pocket.
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How do you guys determine your draft priorities? I have a point system that I use… the variables involved include Talent (game film), Physical Gifts (Combine Scores), Team Need, Number of Years Starting in College etc… and as an example, if a guy started only one year in College, but had a player at his position that went pro the year before, he is not punished for the short starting window.. i.e. Trent Richardson, who played behind Ingram who was drafted by NO… So out of a possible 5 points, (4 year Starter) he would be credited with 3.5 points instead of the 1 for starting for a single season…
It’s a 50 point scale, and it’s real raw… but fairly affective for seperating most of the Chaff from the Wheat…
I’m looking forward to this offseason… Foxxy made some really good moves in Carolina in his first few Seasons, but I really feel the beginning of the end for him there was over signing/paying Jake Delhomme…
Shaz? do you remember watching Ingram play TE in College? we signed him to a future contract and was wondering if maybe you had some insight on his skill set?
I’m off to brand some cows we bought on Monday! See you all this evening…
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Id expect nothing less from Tebow. Very Roethlisberger-esq. Finish through the pain. Man our Oline got Owned that game. Granted there were time she held it too long but for the most part the pressure was instant.
Yup, the muscle does make him stiff. And thats why when he throws he looks awkward. Same way these days Bay Bay looks a bit awkward when he runs because he piled on more muscle. Definitely affects fluidity and makes u look more clunky. Im sure they will address that. You can be as big as Roethlisberger without having to work out like a line man. Thats probably why guys like Wilfork say he is the strongest QB they have ever faced, because he is stronger than most athletes on a football field in general. But yup, weight lifting gotta take a back seat to QB training.
TRB
True its his strength and conditioning coaches fault to an extent because they shoulda long told him to stop. But its mainly Tebows doing. Its said that as a Qb he knew the best way to do his job well was to gel with the oline. The guys that would be protecting him. As a result he used to hang out with them alot and lift with them alot … thus the Tebow we know now was born. So his unique skill set as a QB of running tough is a result of his early conditioning not the other way around. At least thats the way I understand it. Guns don’t equal throwing power tho … lotta tiny armed men can sling it. TRB
A monster arm can only help you throwing the shot put, not a football.
But hey Tebow disciples are always gawking and awing at Tebow’s “guns”, so here we go.
There is no telling where his train of thought was or even is on the weight training. Maybe back in high school and college he felt that he needed the muscle mass to endure some of those hits he continually watched some of his professional idols taking. Who knows.
Some of Tebow’s passes look like a shot put throw.
Unless you are 100% lefthanded, you don’t have a clue about Tebow’s throwing motion. I not talking about people that do can anything righthanded , I’m talking about people who’s right hand is only good for picking their nose. Lefthanded people are built different than right handed, whether this is trained by living in a righthanded world or is a natural effect of being born a south paw I don’t know that answer, nor does that seem relevant. It is what it is. What I do know is that it is very difficult trying to do things in a right handed manner for me and sometimes it’s down right painful. I’m more concerned about his footwork, his reads and his awareness in the pocket. The latter may be his undoing as a QB in the NFL. Some say that can’t be teached but maybe if he can get thru his reads faster he will be more aware of what’s going on around him. You simply can’t turn the ball over in your own end zone and win in the NFL.
In the power running game, you need a powerful running back tandom. The idea is to punish defenders and wear them down. KM doesn’t fit that bill but he might be ok as a third down back but a little slow. I rather have a Sproles kind of guy but he has to be a good blocker too. There have been some good fullbacks in the last 30 years that could run as well as block. Love to see somebody like that on the roster.
With TE’s becoming so prolific in the “new”passing NFL I would think it would be time to draft players specifically to handle those kind of guys. I wonder why teams don’t draft a tight end and teach them how to play defense to cover TE’s. Seems like a simple solution to a common problem across the league. That would take away the size/speed match up advantage the offensive TE is having right now.
imready: I like the way you think, but unfortunately this isn’t backyard football. Teaching a TE to play coverage would be rather hard, I would guess. I think that’s why we need linebackers who have both size and speed to help cover TE. Guys like Al Wilson and Ian Gold seemed to do a pretty decent job of it back in the day.
Well Brian, we will see if Suggs and Ray can match up with those monster TEs Sunday!
It did seem like our Oline couldn’t block anything last week. When the week before we handled Blitzburgh almost perfectly…
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I think that’s the difference a dominant DT can make. Hampton is a force in the middle for Pittsburg and he went out with an injury, which probably helped our situation. Wilfork is also a force and a lot of times requires a double team or help which probably caused confusion on our o-line and not allowing them to get to the second level on running plays. We just got dominated overall.
The Ravens also have Ed Reed who will maybe cover one of their TEs as well. We’ll definitely see this weekend sndvl. I could see the Ravens getting pressure on Brady just because of their defensive front is pretty good.
he needs to continue to work out like he always has but add stretching into his work out. You can build muscle mass as long as you add yoga and or some form of stretching in with it. that comes from a number of trainers i have talked to and learned personally over the years. don’t want to see him change who he is just improve on what / how he is doing things.