CORRECTION: It’s not this Saturday’s preseason home opener that has a change of kickoff time.
This Saturday’s game against the Bills will still kick off at 6:35 p.m. as originally scheduled.
We apologize for the mix-up.
Rather, the Aug. 27 game against the Seattle Seahawks has changed its kickoff time to 7 p.m. MDT.
It was originally scheduled for 6:35 p.m. MDT.
Tags: Preseason Week 3
So we signed a DT. Pressley looks like a wall of mass.
Gray, thx for the update, was this due to Naming rights changing hands?
So I FINALLY am getting to watch the game. I’m sure it was discussed at length, but 2 things stick out to me on the first two drives for both teams. First, we have first and 1 and Orton throws that stupid fade that he LOVES that works about 10% of the time. I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that’s his check. Second, did anyone notice Miller lining up as a DE on that one play? Hand on the ground. Glad to see we’re going to mix him up to play to his strengths.
Man, our second team O Line is getting owned.
These Cowboy announcers are very critical of Tebow. Almost brutal. One says he’s never seen a worse passer in his career.
To those critical of Green’s blocking skills. Apparently he has “highly touted” blocking skills according to this article.
Article: Kim Constantinesco
It’s always good to have options, and the Broncos have six of them at tight end. All big bodies, these tight ends undoubtedly need good hands, but they also need to be great blockers in John Fox’s run-heavy offensive scheme.
Getting introduced to the role that these tight ends will play isn’t easy, particularly for a rookie who was selected in the 7th round of the draft.
Virgil Green has spent 3 weeks in the NFL and he already knows what he needs to do to make the team.
“I’m trying to be real physical in the run game so I can stick out,” Green said.
The 6’5” 252 lb. tight end might just be a perfect fit for Fox’s system if he can bring his already highly touted blocking skills to this Broncos offense.
“I think blocking is something that I’m real good at coming from Nevada where we ran the ball a lot,” Green said. “I take pride in my blocking and getting people into the endzone.”
The Broncos have Daniel Fells, Richard Quinn, Dan Gronkowski, Dante Rosario, and Julius Thomas all competing for a spot on the Broncos roster. Green says that while it’s competitive out on the field, all of the tight ends try to make each other look good, and they’re friends in the locker room.
As for his first summer camp experience in the NFL, Green says he fell into the right situation.
“I’m enjoying camp and the NFL. I love Coach Fox and what he’s doing here. I’m excited to see where my career takes me.”
I dunno if anyone is critical of greens blocking skills but i haven’t seen him block yet to be critical… or maybe I wasn’t paying attention.
Julius Thomas on the other hand I was critical about because his blown gave a defender a Bline to tebows blind side … and other times in the game he struggled blocking. But he is young. He will be fine. He just started playing football like a year ago so got alot to learn and alot of upside, but that blocking is soo key.
Also those measurements for Green look out of whack … first Julius is the one that is 6’5 … I believe virgil is 6’3 and the weight is about right give or take a few pounds cuz weight fluctuates but last i checked green wasn’t that tall … he runs a pretty good 40 tho … better than Julius but Julius is pretty fast as well … Like I LITERALLY can’t wait for saturday and then the next game and the next and the next … man im glad football is back but this wait is killing me lol. Later days, TRB out…
I feel the same way TRB. I honestly thought the season wasn’t going to start on schedule. Talk about a bag of emotions!!! Lol
Yea TRB…
I hear you buddy!! We need to play another game of Madden tomorrow! Also, do you know how and where you could get the Madden 12 game early?? Some people that work at Game Stop and other places will sell the game for about 80 bucks or so and make a profit and sell it early!! I’m trying to find out where around where I live, in Charlotte, where they do that! Definitely check around your area and your local Game Stops to see if they would as well and let me know!
Moring Everyone………..
Another day down and another day closer to Sept 12th. Man, I can’t stop thinking about it and I’m so anxious for it to get here already……but then again, our team needs all the practice it can get! lol
Now for a chuckle to start the morning off……..
A guest on The Michael Kay Show on ESPN New York 1050, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning didn’t shy away from the question when asked if he is in the same class as Brady.
“I consider myself in that class,” Manning said.
Now THAT is hilarious!
Yah, you might have won a super bowl……..but so did Trent Dillfer. LMAO!
September 12…24 days 8 hours 29 minutes.
Man, I take one afternoon off and I get slammed by about 5 new blogs when I get back!!!
Legwold being realistic:
The Broncos have spent much of the last eight months rebuilding a roster that produced a 4-12 record last year. But there are holes that still need to be filled.
Injuries suffered by defensive tackles Ty Warren and Marcus Thomas in training camp have made the Broncos’ rebuilding job even tougher.
Warren (triceps) could miss the whole season. Thomas (pectoral) is out for the rest of the preseason and maybe Week 1 and Week 2 of the regular season. Those are big dents in Denver’s defensive line.
Warren’s injury threatens to put the Broncos back to where they started their rebuilding job. They can’t be soft or thin at tackle and expect to have a big year defensively. They’re probably hoping another team releases a defensive tackle that can help them.
And he has a follow up to the story I posted yeasterday:
Running back Willis McGahee, offensive tackle Orlando Franklin and linebacker D.J. Williams were named in a Yahoo Sports investigation that chronicled former Miami booster Nevin Shapiro’s allegations that he gave millions of dollars in cash and other illicit benefits to more than 70 Hurricanes players during a span of eight years.
Shapiro was convicted in a $930 million Ponzi scheme and is serving his sentence in a federal prison in Atlanta.
Franklin and Williams declined comment after the Broncos’ practice Wednesday. McGahee simply said, “You want to talk about the Broncos?”
Asked if he wanted to respond to the Yahoo Sports report, McGahee said: “I ain’t talking about Miami. I’m out of Miami.”
According to Yahoo Sports, McGahee was the first Hurricanes player Shapiro had an extensive association with.
Also according to Yahoo Sports, Shapiro offered to pay $5,000 to a Hurricanes player if he knocked Tim Tebow, Florida’s quarterback at the time, out of a game. Tebow went straight to the Broncos’ weight room after practice and wasn’t available for comment.
If I was a Hurricane I wouldn’t want to talk about those Miami days to anyone either.
Now, I find out the reason we brought in Pressley:
Broncos defensive coordinator Dennis Allen was with the New Orleans Saints when they made Pressley a fifth-round pick in the 2008 draft. The 6-foot-3, 301- pounder played in seven games for the Saints in 2009.
The following makes so little sense in so many ways it just shows how desperate we are at DTs, something most of the fans have been telling Fox all along, starting with the need for Dareus, but Fox passed on every imaginable DT possibility both in the draft and FA so here he is with only himself to look in the mirror about it, well Elway and Xanders too, not their finest hour, anyway this is where we are at now by Klis:
Broncos defensive tackle Ty Warren will undergo surgery Tuesday morning to repair his partially torn right triceps.
For now, the Broncos are not placing Warren on season-ending injured reserve. Recovery time for torn triceps is three to six months. The odds aren’t good, but because Warren’s injury isn’t a full tear, there is hope his recovery time could be closer to three months.
The best-case scenario for the Broncos is they enter the latter part of the season in playoff contention and Warren returns to play in the final four or five games.
I’m speechless!
Haha it could be “Elvis” & “Pressley” on the D-line. Hopefully he’ll be able to contribute and help plug up the middle for us. Don’t know too much about him.
Like I said on the other blog, I think Warren will be done if he has to have surgury and we should get rid of him if he has to have surgury and “if” Thomas does come back but doesn’t show improvement he’ll be gone next season. That’s why the Broncos only offered him a 1-yr $1 mil contract.
and the chances of him coming back at 100% are next to non-existent!
But we’ll be so far ahead in our division, we won’t need him……LOL
And it’s now looking like no cuts down to 75 players this Saturday as originally planned, by Krieger:
It’s looking more and more like Sept. 3 will be one of the biggest player personnel dumps in NFL history, with nearly 1,200 players coming on the market at once. The Broncos, with second priority on the waiver wire and certain . . . ahem . . . talent gaps, want to be ready to take advantage.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed Wednesday that the league is considering allowing teams to keep 90 players on their rosters right up to Sept. 3, the final cutdown date, when they must get down to the regular-season roster limit of 53.
Coming out of the lockout, the league had tentatively pushed back the first cutdown day, when teams would reduce rosters from 90 to 75 players, to Aug. 30. But officials now think any early cuts may be counterproductive.
“If they keep the 90-man roster limit to the end, I think it benefits a lot of the younger guys because it gets them a full game exposure in the final preseason game where they haven’t maybe got much exposure in the first three weeks of the preseason,” Broncos director of pro personnel Keith Kidd said.
BTW, I believe Krieger suffered from a brain fart about the 53 man roster limit, it should be 54, unless of course the NFL has changed that too….
LOL brian…………..I hope they don’t change it from Orange Crush to Blue Seude Shoes!
Maybe we can look for some more depth at DT when the cuts come around. Hindsight is 20/20 but we needed a DT in the draft and we passed. I’m happy with the Miller pick, but we still need a premier DT…or one of our guys to superman it up…
At least we have second pick at the “dump”, as we have known for a while:
Most of the players cut Sept. 3 will not be vested, meaning they have accrued fewer than four NFL seasons. Those players are subject to the waiver process. Because the Broncos had the second-worst record in the league last year, only Carolina, which had the worst, has priority over Denver in waiver claims through the third week of the regular season.
The Broncos will have 24 hours — maybe slightly more, since Sept. 3 falls on a Saturday — to put in their claims, knowing they’ll likely get whoever they claim. I’m told it’s unlikely they’ll try to sign any of the more expensive veteran free agents on the market.
We do have 24 mil room under the cap but we’ll probably spend half of that re-signing our own players and keep the other half in Bowlen’s coffer for a rainy day, LOL.
Brian, I hope Warren doesn’t get surgury, it sounds real painful, I would go for the plain old surgery myself, LOL/JK.
Think we’ll be able to find some gems in that pile of trash bay?
Maybe having the whole “Orton vs. Tebow” thing was Fox’s way of creating a distraction from our gaping hole in the middle of our defensive line. j/k
LOL baylinorcrush: Surgury: A process where the doctor “surgar coats” everything and then cuts you open…..I have no idea my fingers are going rougue.
This makes me feel all fuzzy, and sorry to the guys here who are hoping for a big aerial show once again:
Kyle Orton, walking away from a team drill Wednesday at Broncos training camp, pulled off his helmet, exposing the biggest grin on his face.
And for good reason.
The first-team offense had just pulled off a big running play against the starting defense, with tailback Willis McGahee taking Orton’s handoff and busting through a large hole opened by the interior linemen.
It was exactly the type of play the offense has consistently been missing in recent years, and one that epitomizes the type of “Fox Ball” mentality the Broncos are hoping to adopt under new coach John Fox.
“It is definitely an attitude we’re trying to change, an attitude we’re trying to develop. It makes everything else we do easier when we can run the ball successfully,” left guard Zane Beadles said. “The biggest thing is just getting that attitude and mentality that we’re committing to the run, and if we get a 1-yard gain on first down, we’re going to run the ball right after. We’re not going to throw it out the window. Knowing that is nice for us.”
Keep on running baby! Eat that clock up, that will be the best way to help our DTs, or lack thereof.
And the man at the helm said it all in one line:
“It’s the essence of football, I think, being able to run the ball and the mind-set it takes to run the ball,” Fox said.
Killerkod, yeah, that “dump” will have treasures in there for lowly teams like us when very good teams that are talent heavy loaded will be forced to get rid of possible gems.
All aboard the “K & W Express”….direct route from here to paydirt!
Gonna be like an episode of Storage Wars! lol
BTW, I’m not completely brushing off Clady’s injury like others have because it’s the same knee he had surgery on last year.
I guess we can only hope that indeed it is “irratation.” There isn’t too much we can do about these injuries. The only thing we can do is not let it raise our blood pressure.
Gray, you mean now I’m going to have to re-re-schedule my flight? LOL.
Yeah, sorry about that guys. Really apologize for the mix-up.
Don’t sweat it, it’s just a half hour either way, was only kidding of course.
“The first-team offense had just pulled off a big running play against the starting defense, with tailback Willis McGahee taking Orton’s handoff and busting through a large hole opened by the interior linemen”.
Maybe McGahee ran thru a big hole in the Defense,because we have no DTs to speak of that can stop him,maybe it’s not the running game getting better,but our lack of Run D??????
We’ll find out against Dareus, LOL.
If we can do that,THEN I’ll be impressed!
Anyone know if Clady will be playing Saturday,man I hope so,Buffalo had 9 sacks against the Bears,if Clady is out,plus the fact Franklin is a Rookie,Hell they might get 12 sacks on us!
Orton better lookout or he’ll get injured…………….
I don’t know if I could take it or not,if Dareus broke thru the line and hurt Orton,so he couldn’t start the season!!!
So what they are saying is if we run on first and get stuffed we will run it again? And if we get stuffed again then we have to rely on Orton to try a third and long play, or will we run it again just to give or D no break? That does not make since to me. And it definitely does not give me a warm fuzzy, like last year when Moreno got stuffed in the endzone for a safety because someone thought we should only run when we are backed up. All I am saying is yea running the ball is good but if it’s predictable and ineffective it could hurt more than help. I am for what ever works.
The starters should play the entire first half,at least I think so,they definitely will against Seattle next week,the final preseason game will be mostly for roster spots,for the guys trying not to get cut!
What can I say, I like the running game because I like to win the battles in the trenches.
I can’t say I’m surprised Ty is getting the surgery. Big blow. Though, we won’t really miss what we never had in the first place. The only thing that can be said is to wish him good luck and for a speedy recovery. Marcus Thomas too.
With Marcus being younger maybe his time frame for recovery will be quicker. Idk. We can only HOPE.
More incentive for our backups to work harder, that way when and if we get them back, we will have quality depth at the position.
I’m going to stay optimistic and say at least our starting O-line must be turning into a nasty sort of fierce. Taking out out top DTs. Watch out NFL! Lol. That kind of attitude will translate in the run game. Which will keep our D off the field. And open thing up for Orton to maximize his skill set (let the comments ensue, lmao)!
As for Dareus vs. Miller, I don’t think we will have any regrets picking him up over a top tier DT, I have a feeling he will be a dominate force for years to come.
I do however regret not going after Mebane or Cofield. We had the money and not to mention that they were proven. But I hope we pick up a DT from the Giants when the waiver time comes. they seem to be stacked at the position.
“Maximize Orton’s skill set”? Is that that new cast iron skillet set he got you’re talking about? LMAO, couldn’t help it, since you were waiting for ensuing comments, haha.
So, are the Orton jerseys flying off the shelves yet?
Orton’s red zone ineffectiveness has all been part of a master plan to catch defenses off guard THIS year. Just watch!!!! LMAO