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The players must tell DeMaurice Smith to abandon the legal tactics and get back to the bargaining table before the paychecks go away and the players lose more than just the playing time.

The sooner the FANS become the higher priority, the sooner this mess will be resolved.

Maybe if we wait until like half way through the actual season to start we’ll have a chance of winning a majority of our games then we can be in the playoffs LOL!

RB Lance Ball

LG Zane Beadles

C/G Jeff Byers

WR Britt Clark

T Chris Clark

S Brian Dawkins

DT Ben Garland

TE Dan Gronkowski

LB Joe Mays

QB Tim Tebow

DT Mitch Unrein

CB Cassius Vaughn

C J.D. Walton

13 players out of 72 on the active roster!!!

It’s like instead of participation increasing, it is decreasing. I think I remember 16 participating last week. Like the balloon just recently inflated is deflating already, only adding to the sadness of all things NFL and all things Broncos right now. I can’t even envision how tough of a hill it is going to be for our team to climb when the off season or the season, whichever comes first, resumes. Playoffs!?! Playoffs!?!?! You’re talking about Playoffs!?! LMAO…

Just like their defense last year, the Broncos are soft taps.

They botched the “Hard Knocks” deal with HBO.

In the past five seasons, the once-significant, twice-champion Broncos became inconsequential, irrelevant and immaterial nationally.

Ouch!

The team descended into mediocrity (36-44 record from 2006-10) and, finally in 2010, was reduced to being drubbed and dubbed cheaters, laughingstocks and headless horsemen.

Ouch and Ouch!

Other than the drafting of Tim Tebow, which itself caused a hailstorm of positive and negative reaction, the Broncos were beside the point in the NFL.

“Beside the point”, now that’s hilarious!

Pat Bowlen’s strong ownership reputation and possibility of future induction in the Pro Football Hall of Fame had been sullied by the franchise’s protracted fall from grace.

Can’t argue with that since he was kept out of the top ten in last week’s ESPN top ten owners in pro football, finished 11th!

Then, Bowlen hired the revered John Elway to clean up the mess left by the reviled Josh McDaniels. Elway already has proven he won’t be some honorary, glad-handing, door-greeting VP.

And the Broncos have begun to rise from the slimy abyss. Opaqueness was replaced by transparency, evasive attitudes by frankness, closed-door policies with the public to conference phone calls with season-ticket holders.

No more creeps, lies and videotape of opponents’ walk-throughs.

The Broncos are back to the future — re- creating the old ways of the 1980s-1990s decades in the second decade of the 2000s.

John Fox, reminiscent of Red Miller as a no-nonsense — yet good guy — blue-collar (without a hoodie) veteran coach, was brought in, and the Broncos’ organization, for the first time in a long span, split and shared executive responsibilities rather than relying on autocratic rule.

The draft was based on consensus decisions, not one man’s whims. Although the Broncos didn’t select the defensive tackle they desperately need, they had a clean draft and chose good players who are good people. Rapscallions were rejected.

So the rise has begun!

But Woody doesn’t like the fact that the Broncos turned down HBO’s hard knocks:

So, it is disappointing that the Broncos have said thanks, but no thanks, to an invitation from HBO and NFL Films to appear as the spotlighted training camp team this year on the highly popular cable reality series.

“We appreciate the value of the show, but, at this time, we are going to pass,” said Patrick Smyth, the sharp young media relations director of the Broncos.

The Broncos didn’t want to be cellophane, after all.

They hadn’t been asked before. The previous stars of “Hard Knocks” were the Ravens (2001), the Cowboys (2002 and 2008), the Chiefs (2007), the Bengals (2009) and, of course, the witty and charming Jets (2010).

They weren’t even the first choice this year. First, the Bucs declined to participate — partially, it is believed, because they have player issues, and they are boring. Then, the Broncos were summoned — because of the interest in Elway and Tebow, Tebow and Orton, and Denver’s reconstruction era after McD’s destruction error.

“McD’s destruction error”, hahahaha, sndvl had McD’s error instead of era, but that’s even better, LMAO!

The request was politely refused because, we must assume: (A) The Broncos don’t want focus on Elway and Tebow, Tebow and Orton (if he’s still in town); (B) Fox, who was candid in telling me he won’t be candid when microphones and cameras are turned on (he is not Rex Ryan); (C) Bowlen is maintaining a very low profile these days; (D) the Broncos don’t believe they are ready for prime-time treatment; and (E) they don’t want to reveal secrets to the Chargers, the Chiefs and especially Al Davis.

Or maybe because (F) three of the six teams finished with losing records their featured year (the Cowboys were 5-11 and 6-10), and none of the other three reached the Super Bowl (the Jets lost in the AFC championship last season).

Either way I think Woody is getting carried away here by his three years spent in NY with ESPN, giving him feelings of fake grandeur for appearing on such show as hard knocks that only HBO TV snobs get to watch. I sincerely think that true blue collar Bronco fans won’t shed a tear over this one. And what’s a training camp hard knocks in the midst of a lockout anyway!?!?!?!

Anyhow, that’s how he rationalizes it:

However, after suffering hard knocks with the 4-12 record, the videotaping coverup scandal and the ugliness that ended McDaniels’ reign, “Hard Knocks” could have been beneficial to the Broncos.

Millions of viewers would have seen the new, improved Broncos and the cast of characters with good character — rookies Von Miller, the inspirational Nate Irving and converted power forward Julius Thomas, and astute, articulate star veterans Elvis Dumervil (returning from injury), Champ Bailey and Brian Dawkins, the delightful Eddie Royal and Mario Haggan and, yes, Tebow. Meet The Beadles. And the mountains always make a nice backdrop.

The Broncos could have used the positive pub.

And their fanatics would have gotten a fascinating look inside the hallowed halls of Dove Valley.

Who’s got next — the Silver and Black?

The Broncos’ Blue blew it for the Orange.

A little bit over the top don’t you think Woody? Why do you think other teams have turned it down too, the lockout dummy! Talk about a difficult transition it will be to go from lockout to whenever it is lifted, why on earth would you want the added pressure of having HBO witnessing all of that. It would of been a real bad move considering the circumstances. Thanks to the Bronco organization for showing more common sense than Woody on this one. Woody is all for cheap glamour while the Broncos are all for getting seriously back to work whenever possible.

I applaude that, let the Raiders do the stupid thing and bite to be on hard knocks, like when Woody dressed up as a Raider fan at Mile High to see what that was like, doing the stupid thing!

But it was like I said an entertaining read in this otherwise Death Valley, thanks Woody.