After a day off, the Broncos were back on the practice field on Tuesday. Last week, dark clouds and rain greeted most of the afternoon practices, but today the sun was shining with very few clouds in sight. A crowd of 1,593 gathered to soak in the sun and watch the Broncos return to work with the preseason opener less than a week away.
In a pre-practice media session, Head Coach Josh McDaniels said he and his staff were productive during the two-day break, while it gave players a chance to rest and get treatment. It also gave the rookies, whose new and ridiculous haircuts created quite a stir at Saturday’s INVESCO Field workout, time to fix their veteran teammates’ clipping mistakes. Tim Tebow was among the freshly shaven rookies.
HAPPY RETURNS
After missing varying amounts of time last week, Chris Baker, D.J. Williams, Dustin Fry, Spencer Larsen and Justin Bannan all returned to action this afternoon. Williams and Dawkins sported non-contact orange jerseys but still worked through some 7-on-7 and 11-on-11 drills with the first team. When they sat for portions, Darcel McBath and Wesley Woodyard saw time with the first-unit defense.
Early in the practice, several other players walked to the team’s weight facility for individual workouts. The list included Chris Kuper, Eric Decker, Demaryius Thomas, Knowshon Moreno and Correll Buckhalter.
FINAL DRIVE FIREWORKS
The final drives of the day put the top two quarterbacks into a situation where they started at the 50-yard line with a minute left and no timeouts, needing a touchdown to win.
Kyle Orton led the first drive against the first team defense. He hit Brandon Stokley for a 19-yard gain to begin the drive. After an incompletion, Orton found Stokley down the seam for a 31-yard touchdown catch, setting off a celebration by the first-team offense. Stokley proceeded to toss the ball to a young fan on the far sideline.
Then, Brady Quinn stepped under center with the same stakes. This time, the defense came up with the big play. After an incompletion, Quinn found Jabar Gaffney for a short completion. On the next play, Alphonso Smith jumped Quinn’s quick out pass, snagging a finger tip interception that likely would’ve gone back the other way for a touchdown if played all the way through.
PLAYMAKERS
QUICK HITS
TRAINING CAMP JUKE BOX
Brady Quinn’s offseason champion status gave him the right to pick today’s warm-up playlist, and the quarterback brought a distinctive sound to the stretches and warm-up exercises.
Quinn’s mix began with a pair of Bon Jovi offerings, “Wanted Dead or Alive” and “Livin’ on a Prayer,” before finishing with Tupac’s “All Eyez on Me.”
- Eric Detweiler, DenverBroncos.com
Below are some photos of the workout:
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It’s pretty easy to see that the guys who have not participated in the off season conditioning program and OTA’s this year have had a very tough time with injuries, to wit: DJ, Doom, Decker, Thomas, White, and probably some I forget.
Wow another RB. Fargas is a good strong back.
Got it, but in order to be cramping you have to be doing physical activity, meaning White is healthy enough to exercise hard enough to cramp up, even so it might not be practice, so it leads me to think it’s nothing serious, just my opinion.
And Klis has more good news for us:
Second-year outside linebacker Robert Ayers left the practice field Wednesday with an apparent injury to his left elbow/arm.
agreed Bay, maybe doing drills inside the complex. Leg workouts, weights, etc…
This up on this blog
Early in the practice, several other players walked to the team’s weight facility for individual workouts. The list included Chris Kuper, Eric Decker, Demaryius Thomas, Knowshon Moreno and Correll Buckhalter
doesnt mention White, but I believe he is doing some off field work
damn, ayers down also
Is it to early to call ourselves the Denver M.A.S.H.
The Bad Luck Bug keeps on biting, how do we change our luck? The Karma thing?
Maybe our Karma will be to have a bad pre-season, but a great season, LOL.
To tell you the truth, I dunno how we can tame this bad luck or bad karma, guess we just have to let it run its course. Branson and Now Ayers. Branson not important cuz we rarely use TEs and have 2 others. For a second round pick, I need Richard Quinn to start working more on the recieving aspect of a TE instead of just blocking. Who drafts a blocking TE in the 2nd round?
The injuries to Thomas and Decker were my biggest concerns when they were drafted. Easy to say its a one time thing and hope they never get injured again, but injuries linger and reinjury increases. Sigh, hope they do better. I think they should just spend the majority of the next couple of weeks on conditioning cuz at this pace anyway, they wont be the starting WRs. We still got Royal, Willis, Gaf, lloyd, and stokely. They can do the work while the other WRs condition and rehab better or something.
I can`t wait until sundays game. Bring it on.
haha I assumed that with the QB situation we have we would go 4-0 in the pre-season haha…to bad it doesnt matter!
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weareamr, about my thoughts about Fargas, I posted about four or five posts about it on the previous blog this morning. Touched on about the power backs and EVERYTHING, check it out, haha.
Sorry, above post was meant for next blog, haha.