The Broncos have signed the first of their 2010 draft picks, inking seventh round pick cornerback Syd’Quan Thompson.
Thompson was selected with the first of the Broncos two seventh round picks (225 overall) out of the University of California.
While at Cal, Thompson was a first-team All-Pac-10 selection in each of his final two seasons with the Golden Bears.
The cornerback started all 52 games possible over his four-year career, setting a school record for starts as a four-year starter at cornerback for Cal. He finished his career as the school’s all-time leader in pass breakups with 36.
He started his career as a Sporting News Pac-10 All-Freshman selection after starting in all 13 games, and finished it with 257 tackles, seven interceptions that he returned for 204 yards, two sacks, 20 tackles for loss, one forced fumble, two fumble recoveries — one of which he returned 15 yards for a touchdown against rival Stanford — and two punt returns that he brought back for 389 yards, including a 73-yard return for a touchdown. He was named Cal’s Most Valuable Back on defense for his junior season, when he tied a school record with 18 passes defensed, and held the title again as a senior in 2009.
“Basically, I’ll do whatever the coaches what me to do,” Thompson said. “Any position they want me to play, I’m going to play it. I’m just happy I was able to be a part of something that’s good in Denver. I’m just hoping to go out there and compete and do my best.”
Tags: 2010 NFL Draft, Syd'Quan Thompson
OC, I’m sure they pick our brains, I have noticed strange similarities countless times. No better place to pick ideas from long time true Bronco fans, I can’t blame them, they have to come up with new stuff every week and we are an obvious bonanza of information, ideas and arguments.
Florio, I did read you scenarios, and I don’t need to think about why it may seem beneficial to start Tebow now rather than letting him sit a year since this is what I have been trying to convey here for quite a while now, but I figure it was just a figure of speech you used since I know you usually read my posts.
And OC, the difference between the Post writers and us is they get paid, we don’t, which gives us a major advantage over them on being able to tell it like it is about everything without worrying about standing on anybody’s feet, they have to be politically correct way more than we do therefore I think our discussions are often way more interesting than their articles. They are in shackles one way or the other, there is no such thing as freedom of the press in the sports world, you always have to kiss someone’s rear end. The way we deliver we probably wouldn’t be allowed access in the Broncos facility even if we had the credentials, LOL.
The other thing I think should happen is this.
If McD does start Tebow and starts our new future, and we can’t keep 4 QB’s, we should trade orton. he is the most valuable QB we have. We could trade him for a 2nd round pick to the Bills.
so how many of you were extatic when we drafted tebow? I know i was (I was literally dancing in front of my girlfriend haha) but while i know tebow is our future, is it really the best idea to put him in now? one thing to look at is that tebow really hasnt ever expierienced failure. failure is something he will face numerous times in his career everyone does, but if we throw him in and he cant find his feet right away could that mess with his psyche? Dont get me wrong I want Timtanium to start this year but i think between week 6 and week 9 would be a good spot! I would like to see all of the QBs in training camp before I start picking, but personally I would like to see quinn in there I think if he were on the right team he could look like a tom brady..just sayin!
If I were the coach I would continue through all of training camps with the four quarterbacks, then play each one half of the first two exhibition games, then maybe make the decision of who I think gives us the best opportunity to win now and in the future, let him play most of the third exhibition game and if I were satisfied with my decision trade or drop one quarterback and go for it. I worry that if T were named the starter early on and Orton is traded and T falls on his face we will be screaming for Quinn (like some were for Simms last year), be wishing we had someone who is a proven winner(like Orton) and then will have a real QQ. I know, I know-there is more than one way to skin a cat and we all have our opinions-just saying.
Man those guys on Nfl network and on nfl.com really have it out for us. I just read pat kirwans thoughts on who will make it and who wont make to the playoffs. Were not even on the not make it list. It is gonna be so satisfing when we prove all those idiots wrong.
Aaron Rodgers sat for a year! Look how that turned out!
Most of you automatically assume Tebow can come in and start right away with no learning curve.
A few of you are basically stating that if Tebow starts this year and we go 5-11, youre okay with that? Because its to give him experience for next season? What about gaining playoff experience AS A TEAM? Nobody has mentioned that.
If our team got to the playoffs this year, most of them have never been and its even been awhile for quite a few holdovers, doesnt that account for something?
But some of you are content with sacrificing another year, to gain the on-field time for somebody who hasnt even taken a snap???? I dont understand the thought process there…to each their own…just sayin.
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Specially for guys who are running out of time, like Dawkins and Bailey, but just getting to the playoffs won’t be enough for them, been there done that, but for the younger guys I could see your point that it would be good for their psyche to make the playoffs, problem for me is no matter what QB we have at the helm this year I don’t see us making the playoffs, even with Orton, hence my way of thinking the Tebow way earlier rather than later might be more beneficial. Not that complicated to understand my way of thinking other than I may be wrong if people think we have a legitimate shot at the playoffs this year, that becomes a different argument all together.
Rodgers sat for almost three years, didn’t he? Favre was in the way, there is no one legimately in the way of Tebow here that I can tell.
Rogers should still be on the bench. Favre kicked his butt twice last year… Brett should still be the Packer starter.
I hope Brett comes back and spanks Rogers and the stinky cheese heads again!!!!
I think, NO, believe, if we had beaten Oakland at home (with Orton), we would have been in the tournament. So yeah, I think our chances at a playoff berth are legitimate with Orton playing QB. Not as sure if Quinn or Tebow start. Ive maintained all along, Quinn has not proven to be worth 6 million, which if he takes a majority of the snaps, he will be paid that amount. And we’ll be lucky to win 7 if Tebow starts. Hence my 5-11 prediction. And we’d be lucky to beat Oakland at home…Im just being facetious. But I see nothing wrong with easing Tebow in to the starting job. And its not like he wont ever see the field this year. WILD HORSES ring a bell. We can really have a successful year with Orton starting, Quinn and Tebow backing up. And its reasonable to believe Tebow could step in much the way Griese did a decade ago…
GO BRONCOS 2K10!!!!!!!!!!
Favre also had the benefit of Adrian Peterson… at this moment Rodgers is the better QB but Favre has the better supporting cast.
sndvl,
That worked out real well when Griese stepped in… ??? huh¿.. fuzzy logic…¿
We could have gotten in the turny if Ørton wouldn’t have thrown 3 picks against Pitt and KC in our own house too…
We might have gotten in the tourny if Ørtman could have rushed on a couple 2 frickin yard scrambles!!! So I say Ørtman had his chance last year and he did not play balls out! He didn’t do squat except throw the ball away like a little sissy hot potato player just like the guy you so eloquently compare him to, “Griese”. Thank you for pointing that out to us….
Ørtman forced us to go out and find other options… Let us not Quaver about the great new players brought in to supplant the lesser athletic players from last year….?
wow all I have to say is I hope tebow never starts and either quinn or orton get it done.tebow needs WAY more TRAINING at the actual QB position to even be considered an option and honestly the two guys ahead of him have just as much heart and love for football,so we would be freaking morons to even think about starting tebow this year
Brady Quinn=super bowl period
I would have to agree with OC on that one , Griese is a road I never want to go down again, and I’ll tell you why, the guy was good when nothing was on the line and he was god awful when the game was on the line, come to think of it that pretty much sums up Orton, good without pressure and gets worse as the pressure increases, that’s a tough receipe to succeed with in the NFL. You might fool some teams while the pressure hasn’t been reved up early in the season, but you will fail when the serious games come up such as in post season or simply trying to make it to post season. It’s like an illusion of well being and then reality hits and all of a sudden you realize exactly what your limitations are, Griese and Orton are mirror images in that regard, we needed better when Griese was here, we need better than Orton now, just look at last year. Just my opinion.
Problem with Quinn he would be nothing but a band aid between Orton and Tebow, how is that going to really heel the wounds?
heal..
I think we need Timtanium pins and plates plus a little O-line traction to get this Broken Bronco leg back in the speed race……!
We need a great Bronco athlete QB to get us up to around 118+ MPH Offense!!!!
I can’t drive 55 Ørt per hr..
ILMSDTB!!!!
Bottom line I hope Tebow doesn’t do anything Griese did as sndvl seems to hope for, and Orton is kinda like Griese which should strenghten the belief that he is not the answer.
The Lost finale is about up, a weird reminder that with all of the McD QB moves this off season, lost is pretty much what I feel about our Bronco QB leadership. McD created the QB QQ and has to find his way out of the island, LOL.
Wow just read from the DP that McD is going to start using more two back sets. Why would he do that after trading a top five FB away?
When they say two back, I believe it means more two RBs, so Moreno and Bucky. They only use the FB to block, and Larsen can do that, he doesn’t need to catch or carry.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/23/broncos-let-it-be-known-orton-was-available/
http://blogs.denverpost.com/broncos/2010/05/20/broncos-o-stealing-from-chargers/ Just saying he could be more versatile with Hillis
but then again whats the use crying over spilled milk
Yeah, it seems like it might be more important to talk about Orton and the trading block… No big surprise here, having seen McD in action I wouldn’t be surprised one bit if Orton was still on the trading block as we speak.
Yeah it is an odd situation to be in, I think if McD thinks Quinn can go this year, then Orton is traded and Tebow will start next season. Just has that feel about it, that McD will do something like this.
Correct because as florio said earlier Orton is the only one with a trading value, nobody wanted Quinn when made available but us, Brandstater no way we could get anything for him, and Tebow is McD’s man, that leaves Orton as the dangling carrot.
Yes it does, that is why I get that feeling, McD and X-man will pull a swifty, would not surprise anyone if Orton is in a different camp during preseason.
Question is which team and what we get in return?
favre carried that team not adrian peterson check the stats in the 2nd half of the season
i don’t agree with SNDVL very offten but he is right on keeping TT on the sidelines this year. but I have diff reasons, shell shock, torn acl and out for a year, (we would only have Quinn and Brandstater left) but the most important thing would be if our older stars would even want to stick around if we finish under 500. Dawkins and Champ may just give up on waiting another NEXT YEAR. Champ and Hill and Goodman will be 33 in 2 years, Dawkins will be 38 in 2 years.
we have a great secondary, good linebackers and maybe a good D-line. with the o-line beefed up we should be able to run the ball and I (mho) have faith in our new receiving corps. with all of this in place why wait a year to make a run for the roses. and the only way to do that is to play KO
texark-fan, it may be the proper way to go not to start Tebow this year, but McD has done, does and will do stuff out of the box, getting rid of Cutler, Marshall, Hillis, Scheffler, drafting Tebow in the first, trading a first for a second and pick up Phonzie, talking smack with other team players, criticizing his own players in front of the media, etc, etc… Stuff that you just wouldn’t expect and I’m trying to start thinking kind of like he does and I’ve been seeing the reasoning why trading Orton might end up being just what he does, another shocker to the football world, but I’m kind of gearing up to it in case it happens since I don’t think it’s as farfetch as some may think. To figure McD out one has to think outside the box just like he does, and I have probably been guilty of that, but hey I’m in for the McD ride either way might as well try to think like he does to make some sense out of it. BTW, sndvl thought it would be a monumental gaff to let Marshall go, see what happened…
Did you guys see this on Nfl.com, Pat Kirwan said this:
24. Denver Broncos — Broncos fans looked up one day and their favorite stars — from head coach to quarterback and finally receiver — were gone. Now they may be asking, “Where do we go from here?” If rookie QB Tim Tebow plays this year, the Broncos are officially a tier five team.
That is our ranking of 32 teams, he thinks we will be worse if Tebow plays this year.
IMO, I’m on the Mcd band wagon! I thought it was crazy and just a bad move to trade Cutler and marshall, hillis and schef too, but what I have come to realize is that this is Mcd’s team now and the players from shanny’s system just were not fitting into the way this offense will work. so with all of the things going on in the franchise I really feel like its for the better! (and if it isn’t at least we can say we have the most classy team in the league HAHA) but as far as things go I can honestly say I am the most excited I’ve ever been for a season!
GO BRONCOS!!!
Tomorrow the NFL will vote on the site for the 2014 Super Bowl, Tampa and the new stadium for the Giants and the Jets are in the running and it seems clear that the stadium up North is the favorite. If so it could mark the first time ever that a SB is played outdoor in a cold part of the nation. It could be frigid! Every SB played up North so far has been in domes, this could be one for the ages, a second coming of the ice bowl maybe, either way I will not want to miss watching that one. With their luck the Chargers will probably pick the 2013 season to return to the SB in January/February of 2014 in 20 degree weather with howling winds on a frozen field, let’s see how great the beach boys do then, hahahaha!!!! On the other hand the Broncos would be fairly well conditioned for that environment if we happen to make it. A Super Bowl that might have to be won simply on the bases of your strength in the trenches! Imagine that, no dome pass pretty dominated game, bad day for Brees, Manning, Rivers and all those stars, great day for the running game and nasty D’s, how great would that be, as a trenches lover kind of guy, I would be in Super Bowl nirvana, just dreaming….
Baylin and OC, you guys are are seriously closed minded. If you would have read my post, I said nothing about comparing Orton to Griese. I said Tebow would be able to come in much the way Greise did a decade ago. I was not comparing abilities. You two seriously remind me of snobby wine drinkers.
I never compared abilities of the QB’s. I compared situations. Griese sat for a year. Then came in, with a GREAT supporting cast and every OPPORTUNITY to succeed. Sure, with hindsight you both look like geniuses about Griese. But at the time, it was a great SITUATION.
Just like the point Im trying to make with Tebow. He can seriously benefit by learning the nuicances for a year. Its not just about getting on the field and playing. Even I could do that. But, you have training camp; meetings; practices; film study; more meetings; more practices; more film study….baylin even you pointed out the fatigue in relation to Moreno. You dont think Tebow will endure the same fate?
I still think we are a playoff caliber team, if Orton starts. However, McD will probably trade him. Because thats what he does. It is what it is.
But if we scrap this season and throw Tebow to in the fire, you can bet your bottom dollar- Champ moves on. Dawkins moves on. And a host of other veterans, Jamaal Williams ring a bell. So tell me…is 2011 still looking brighter????
GO BRONCOS 2K10!!!!!!!!!! (not 2011)
For the record, I still think trading Marshall was a HUGE mistake. But Ive come to terms with it and have moved on.
Kyle Orton is what he is…and that is not very good. For those of you who support him and this philosophy that McD is a genius. Numbers don’t lie. Orton was trhe EXACT same player in Denver that he was in Chicago. I think we would all agree he was not good in Chi town…but he is with a “QB Genius” in McD. CHI Orton threw touchdowns on 3.9% of his passes in Denver 3.9% His completion percentage went up 4% in Denver, and that was thanks to the millions of screens we threw. Interception percentage in Chicago 2.6% with the genius 2.2 he is not the answer. Neither is Tebow I believe. But is Quinn? Who knows! I do know that from a team that was solid at QB and WR, we sure do have a lot of ?????? now
Close minded????? Sndvl’s solution to everything is FIRE MCD! Lol
Just sayin…….
sndvl,
I did read your post a little wrong but since you feel free to call me a “closed minded snobby wine drinker”, I’ll oblige you back and let you know I think you are a narrow minded little cry baby.
I do agree with you that bay and I both look like geniuses….
I LOVE ME SOME DENVER BRONCOS!!!!!
Uh-Oh. Sombodies feeling were hurt. To be fair Florio, I havent said that with any seriousness since the end of February. But I can pick it right back up once the season begins. And OC, you are too funny. Where is your cleverness?
GO BRONCOS 2K10!!!!!!!!!!
not 2011
VABronco, you forgot HB, TE, D-Coordinator, O-line coach, RB coach……
just sayin.
If my answer to everthing is FIRE McD, it looks like his is FIRE EVERBODY….lmao
OC you shoulda waited for that Tebow Jersey. Looks like you seriously overpaid for pure hype!
http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8184a051&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true
So orton loses a game for us, and its mcd’s fault.
Anit that right sndvl?
Ill play Florio, its called gameplanning! lol
Now my turn, Tebow starts the season, and we lose our first four games. Who’s fault is that?
UGH. One player is responsible for the team loss. I want to puke. Not even one player can win you a game (except Elway of course). It takes a team. And who is responsible for the team? The head coach. So logic says its the coaches resposibility.
Yet this coach throws EVERBODY under the bus. Except for himself.
Well, he will soon run out of people to throw under the bus. And that will lead to what I have wanted for some time now.
Unless he can get us to the playoffs soon.
Like this season
Not 2011
Or 2012
This fan has waited long enough.
Just my opinion.
GO BRONCOS 2K10!!!!!!!!!! (not 2011)
SIGN DOOM
Orton is a quick fix. If we make the playoffs this year it will be a one hit wonder type deal.
All it will do is set up a false hope for everyone on our team.
Think of it this way:
Our team is a house with out a roof. The rain is loses.
Orton is a tarp. We can quickly throw him over the house and keep the rain out….until its too much to handle and the tarp tears and the water pours in.
Tebow is metal roof. It might take a while to install, but when its done it will keep everyone dry for years to come.
So the question is, how long are we gunna wait and get drenched until we build that metal roof.
Good analogy Florio