One side of Dove Valley is about to get significantly quieter for the next couple weeks.
General Manager Brian Xanders explained today that the personnel department and coaching staff will head out tomorrow for a little time off.
“We’re taking a two-week vacation where we normally have three to four weeks off in July,” Xanders said. “We’re taking it now because we don’t know what the court rulings will be. Then we’re going to basically be on call from the middle of June until early July, when we’ll probably come back in the office no matter what.”
While much is still up in the air, Xanders stressed that the team is ready for whatever system is put in place.
“We’re ready for unrestricted free agency and college free agents and we’re ready to do the draft pick negotiations,” he said. “So really those are the three major things left. Two of them affect the team, because there are two good player pools left in free agency and college free agents.”
Xanders had plenty more to say on how the team has prepared for free agency, and how the club will approach free agency when it is put in place — so look for a blog on that early next week.
And it’s not just the personnel department that’s ready to get back to work — the coaches are as ready as they can be.
“The biggest thing is the coaching staff is fully prepared for training camp,” Xanders said. “All their installations are done, all the playbooks are done, all the passing game, run game, situation manuals — all those schemes have been done and debated. They’ve gone through for five months straight purely on scheme, so they are definitely ready. They have a plan for training camp. We’re ready to go, all we need to do is get our players in here and our coaches are absolutely ready to coach them. We’re kind of on hold — a pause button — and it’s rare to have it, because it’s usually a fluid year. But now we’re all just ready to go.”
-Gray Caldwell, DenverBroncos.com
Tags: Brian Xanders
I need to learn how to spell. HaHa. TOTALLY!
As a USAF vet, I hope we’ll all take a moment to thank all vet’s, but most important of all, say a special thank you and prayer some time this weekend for those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
45YEARBRONCOFANSTILLONSTRIKE!!!
While mowing my lawn today I was thinking about football. I had the worst premenition. My buddy had earlier invited me over to watch soccer (which I declined because I’d rather watch paint dry). Soccer seems to be building a lot of steam in recent years, and is the dominant sport of the world. What if football becomes a second rate sport to soccer?
Futbol is number 1 everywhere besides the US.
Funny you brought it up 3G!
LONDON — Arsenal has received approval from the Premier League for American Stan Kroenke to take control of the club.
Kroenke, who also owns the NFL’s St. Louis Rams, the NBA’s Denver Nuggets, the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche and Major League Soccer’s Colorado Rapids, gained a controlling stake in the London club by buying shares from fellow directors and launched a mandatory takeover bid that values the club at $1.2 billion.
ESPN.com
I’m not going to lie, I’m a little worried. Most “football fans” I know are casual fans as opposed to diehards. I fear the majority may be influenced by the “trend” of soccer being cool, and if football doesn’t get its act together may contribute to a swing in soccer popularity.
I feel bad, i hear alot of people say they are giving up football and so on because they’re mad about the lockout…I feel the same frustration they do, I just don’t think I can give up my passion so easily, but I can lose respect! I don’t like what this game has become…it makes me sad how selfish these players have become…if only they understood!…just my two cents!
Yovi:
Just to be clear on my comment….I’m not giving up, I’m worried about the casual fan.
With all due respect, the least of my worries right now is about the casual fan.
Football the way I always knew it has been long dead, about the turn of the century I always say was the main start of the decline, not just the Broncos but the sport in general, the rule changes, the players attitude, the rebuilding stadiums all over the place to take care of the corporate fans giving them suites galore and pricing everyone else out, abolishing cool things like the South stands for being politically correct as to not be overly rude against the opposition, the security people and the fans asking you to sit down when you stand up, the wine sipping crowds outnumbering the beer crowds, the fans who could care less about seeing the game but more about being seeing at the game (the casual corporate fans) outnumbering the real hardcore fans by 10 to 1.
Just go to a Superbowl one day and you will be shocked how uncaring the fans are, most seats filled by corporate folks who don’t even know who is playing and are everywhere but in their seats during the game. That pretty much right there is the perfect barometer to understand what the NFL has become.
Like I always say the young folks are lucky because they have never experienced the true gridiron experience so they don’t know the difference and they think the sport is great. I happen to know better, but unfortunately that’s what’s left for me to watch.
Once again, if it wasn’t for my ingrained love of the Broncos, the NFL would have long lost this serious football fan, just saying.
Network’s Jason LaCanfora was reporting the Broncos are more likely than not to keep Kyle Orton when the season eventually gets underway.
I tell you what, if the triumvirate doesn’t have the ballsies to move forward with Tebow at the helm and ship Orton somewhere else with his 8 plus million dollar contract, you might as well put the last nails in my coffin.
The dude proved he was not a team player last year when Tebow took over, why on earth would anyone keep somebody like that on a team that has absolutely no shot at getting out of its slump this year without an off season anyway. There is absolutely no better time to start Tebow. That would boggle my mind to no end and make me vomit throughout the season, not to be mean to Orton, but the guy has no spunk and spunk is exactly what we need right now and Tebow has spunk. How difficult a concept is that to grab. Obviously very difficult for LaCanfora and hopefully he has no idea what he is rumbling about.
Well, this is so depressing, gotta get out of here to go do the important things, like baptizing out granddaughter this morning.
You know what just dawned on me:
THE LEAGUE AND THE TEAMS ARE NOW ALL JUST PLAYING IT SAFE ACROSS THE BOARD AND IT IS THEREFORE NO LONGER FUN!
That’s it in a nutshell, nothing else need to be said.
The NFL Network has nothing really to talk about accept the lockout day in and day out. It`s like a spinning wheel. So when they mention something idiotic like the Bronco`s say Kyle Orton is remaining a Bronco, you know that they are just talking out of their arse. They haven`t got a clue. Orton`s a gonner. I`m not believing for one second that he`ll be here, nope!! Tebow will be the starter whenever we play our first game.
La Confora aint no Adam Schefter. Adam is credible.
I agree with bay…
I will also “vomit” if I have to watch Orton play again this year….lol
Orton is a fantastic training camp QB. He has had ample experience lerning how to compete with other QB’s in the class room and at practice and he is very good at that.
His problem is that he has no intangables and thats what counts in real football action. His arm gets real tired around the 10th game of the season and his abilities become very limited in the red zone.
Orton presents more of a dissension among the team members as he woos them and some coaches in his favor during training camp and practices. It takes a toll on the solidarity of the players, the coaches, the fans and the GM’s when we are not unified on the identity of the leader of our team.
I think the Broncos are making a huge mistake by continuing this charade created by McDaniels that we are going to let the QB’s compete each year for the starting job and nobody knows who the QB is going to be until we start the season….
Maybe we just need to make somebody the QB and call it a mission to make it work.
My vote is for Tim Tebow
Just one Bronco fans humble opinion
I LOVE ME SOME DENVER BRONCOS!!!
I think Orton would do very well as the starting QB for a futbol team……
His arm will never get tired in that sport…..lol
LMAO…
But he moves on his legs like a wooden cigar shop indian, not a good quality for soccer, LOL.
Thanks, for the input guys! (bay haha) I am a young fan and my father always talks about how corrupt the league and its players are, thanks for clearing up for me why I didn’t understand that fully before! The fastest way IMO to get this lockout resolved is to have so kind of pressure the fans can put on both the players and the league… a hypothetical gun (if you will) that we could hold to the players and owners heads and if they didn’t cooperate (get a deal done by a certain time) there would be mass consiquences (empty stadiums come game day). the only problem with that is that all the fans would have to be united in their efforts (esspecially the diehards)…thats just a scenario I wish could happen…but neither the players or owners take us seriously.
Just to get this off my chest, I hate when players say they are “fully prepared” to sit out a full season! I’m upset now about this lockout thing, but if we start missing games…that will be the end of it!
3rdGen, I wasn’t referring to you haha I’ve just been seeing bloggers on NFL.com and season ticket holders (just fans in general) saying they have no respect for the league anymore and will no longer support it! I think when everything is resolved, the league will still be in a pretty bad way!
here’s an address for a facebook pace for boycotting the NFL….only 173 members…its kinda pathetic! The least I could do is join!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-NFL-During-Lockout/150658844993402?ref=ts&sk=wall
Page…send it to other pages if you want..maybe it will pick up steam!
Doesnt matter WHO the starting QB is during the lockout. Settle down old timers! lol (i mean that with all due respect)
How uncanny is the resemblance of our new/young ST coordinator to our former young HC? EEESH.
Can I add to your list baylin? This year during black sunday, i wasnt even allowed to boo. Well, let me clarify, I booed and it caused MAJOR problems in our section…
I’m not sure if I blame the leagues rule changes on the downward trend in football. Gear is better, ie helmets, so they got used to leading with their head. When I watch film today compared to yesteryear, including the early 90s and 80s, players hit with their pads as opposed to their helmet. So, I’m not surprised to see the league change that rule. With that said, I love watching a linebacker blow up a receiver as much as the next guy, but the technique is the point of debate. As an example, look at films of Ronnie Lott. He blew people up without leading with his helmet. Anyway, my point is that the downward slide of football is bigger then football in my opinion….like Bay pointed out with his corporate examples, its an American culture issue. Two other examples are this self entitlement attitude our players have coming in and the fact that these days everyone gets a trophy just for showing up, and its hurting competition in many arenas including sports.
I blame greed….Mario is freakin’ hard dude, I couldn’t get past firt world…on a side note
*first
Sndvl,
The funny thing is that I also was booing in the third qtr of Black Sunday and was yelling for Josh to just “put Tebow in” because we had “nothing left to lose”….. There was a Raider fan sitting a couple seats down from me yelling for me to “shut up and sit down”. I really didn’t listen and then the next thing I know this fiesty ol’e Bronco fan of about 65 years old in the seats if front of me turns around and clocks that raider fan right in the mouth for telling me to shut up, and then the fight was on…..hahahahaha
I, of course, doing the “politically correct” thing, stood up and cheered as loud as I could for the Bronco fan to “kick that Raider punks butt!”….hahahahaha!!!
Then security came and hauled them both off to the Clink, I went back to booing McDaniels, Tebow never played, and the rest is history…… lol
Orange:
I love it! No opposing fan, especially the Raiders, should get away with that in our stadium. The game I remember most getting into it with opposing fans was the Monday night game against the Steelers two years ago. Steeler fans are like a parasite that seems to keep growing and growing. They’ve got to be my least favorite outside of AFC West teams. I had some whale of a woman in front of me spinning her damn terrible towel….it hit me once…..but only once
Sndvl and OC, been there done that with raider fans at Mile High. It`s really rediculous. You cheer your team on and get excited when the Bronco`s get a first down and some god ugly raider fan lells me to sit down and shut up. There just mean cruel animals from the wild kingdom, FTR`s!!!!!!
OC, as I once told you, my dads a Raider fan. That’s all I have to say about that.
Though, him and my brother left for “better seats” at the start of the 4th. (Something I don’t condone)
My brother did get Tebows belt towel at the tunnel after that embarrassment. Which was his
highlight for the trip. And video of McDs “victory shower” which was my highlight! Ugh
There used to be a time back when I lived in Colorado when mainly only true fans went to Mile High to watch the games, therefore the fans of opposing teams were kept at a minimum.
Move forward to now, the time of corporate football fans, and you end up with thousands of opposing teams’ fans at every game because the guys holding the tickets could care less about watching every game so they sell their tickets to the highest bidders, usually fans of the opposition.
They call that progress in the NFL!
Shannon talking the truth about life in the NFL this year without an off season:
Sharpe sees potential for more players getting hurt.
“I think there could be some more of those muscle injuries, like hamstrings, quads, groin, things like that, just like you always see if a guy missed training camp because of a holdout or something,” Sharpe said. “And if for some reason the season is abbreviated, that becomes a big thing. If one of your key guys is nicked up in a regular training camp, you just say, ‘Oh, the season is six weeks away.’ You get a key guy nicked up in a situation where there is only three weeks of training camp and maybe the season is only 12 games, then you’re looking at a guy missing a third or half of a season with some kind of muscle injury.”
And correct me if I’m wrong, but the last year of the Shanny era we were kings of the groin injuries and during the McD error we were king of the hammies injuries. Doesn’t really bode all that well, LOL.
I don’t know about you guys but all this hoopla over the new local TV deal with NBC for the Bronco games seems totally inapropriate in this lockout time and actually sounds completely off the wall when they talk about televising the preseason games. What preseason games? Do they know more than we do:
How excited were KUSA-Channel 9 executives about again becoming the flagship television station of the Broncos?
A band played inside the KUSA-9 headquarters the day the announcement was made.
And the fact that veteran CBS sportscaster Verne Lundquist is scheduled to do play-by- play for three preseason games probably was music to the ears of many employees.
A source familiar with the KUSA-9 negotiations said Lundquist, a Steamboat Springs resident, has agreed to terms and will be in the broadcast booth for the Broncos’ preseason opener Aug. 11 against Dallas at Cowboys Stadium, if the NFL lockout doesn’t prevent that game from being played.
No football and yet the Broncos organization is making money and the players aren’t. Who are the idiots again in this mess? LOL.
On this Memorial Day I want to express my greatest heartfelt thank yous to all the military men who made the ultimate sacrifice of their lifes to defend our freedom and my deepest sympathy goes out to all the ones they left behind.
3rdGen, I was at that Steelers game…I didn’t really mind the Steelers..until I met their fans! I felt like we were in Pittsburgh with all the freakin terrible towels! Their so obnoxious as well! I was also at the last Raiders Broncos home opener I think it was 2003, but I was happy to see us whoop up on em’! my favorite was when the whole stadium was chanting “Raiders Suck!”
Also I am glad to see that Brandon Lloyd made the top 100! he deserved it! I hope he isn’t a one year wonder, personally I don’t think so…but you never know!
Congrats Lloyd!
Where is everyone? I’m so bored!!! hahaha
sorry bay! I know you hate when people say that!
This just in Tebow organizing workouts with Gaffney, Davis, and Lloyd! Check it out!
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6608302
Well, my youngest son and his wife are both in the AF … he became a pilot through an ROTC scholarship … hung in there when as a freshman his classmates voted him the most likely to pack it in … he had the mindset to be a tough athlete if he’d chosen that path … really proud of him … during the Vietnam war I was highly anti-war, but always felt the soldiers, et al, got the short end of the stick, so always supported THEM … maybe that’s why I’m more pro-player as opposed to pro-owner in this NFL mess … anyway, there are now quite a few VietNam vets in my senior softball leagues and tournaments … they proudly wear their hats and shirts … I always make it a point to thank them for their and their buddy’s sacrifices … in short (LONG??) I’d like to thank all the military people, veterans, and those who gave it all — if it weren’t for all of you, we wouldn’t have the priviledge of bitching about the NFL fiasco … THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Speaking of war – my wife’s nephew is now in Afghanistan … had two tours in Iraq … we who have never been (any war) just can’t fathom the horrors these people have to live through and with in their memories after … I personally am thankful that I never had to go through it … I can’t imagine carrying that with you throughout your life … you vets who blog here must know what I’m talking about … my thanks and appreciation go out to all of you … I guess this is one day that it’s alright to bring this up … anyway, it makes me feel better, just putting it into words … I remember, as a kid, people would sell these “buddy poppies” on the street for Memorial Day … didn’t think much about it then … I also remember listening to the Indy 500 on the radio every Memorial Day … the voice of Chris Econemaci (sp??? – I never knew if it was Chrisy Conemaci or Chris Econ… – just recently found out) was so iconic … they’d give the race rundown after each 10 laps – I used to try to write down the names, but could never keep up … in high school I had a freak accident in my dad’s pickup (ran into a huge oak stump, broke all four motor mounts, the engine took out the radiator, locked the truck in low gear, my head broke the windshield – all because I thought the people yelling at me wanted me to “squeal-out”, not look out for the stump) so my friends started calling me “Vucky”, after the Indy driver Bill Vuckovich – who then died during the ’55 race, my senior year in high school … so – memories of Memorial Days past … only now, I’m more in tune with the real meaning of the day … just thought I’d take a little trip down memory lane …
Here is a good article about how HOFer Little feels about the if we will miss games or not.
http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/news/story?id=6594179
I think Brady Quinn has a whole lot more upside than Orton.
His potential has not been explored to the extent that KO has. He was awesome at ND and has a very appeasing Gary Kubiak-esk personality.
And his price is just right to be the #2 QB this year…
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