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Posts Tagged ‘2012 Rookie minicamp’

Fox on Closing Camp

May 13th, 2012 - 12:39pm by Gray CaldwellOther posts by

At the close of this weekend’s rookie minicamp, Head Coach John Fox met the media one final time to wrap up the event.

Below are some quick hits from his press session.

On how the rookie minicamp went:
“Very good. We have a good young bunch. I think they’ll definitely contribute and help the Denver Broncos be a better football team. They went about their business well and we had good focus and very good effort during the camp.”

On how CB Omar Bolden looked:
“I think he had a good camp. I thought he played well and he reacted to our install very well. He has good football awareness and football intelligence. It’s just a matter of learning to compete at this level at a consistent basis and I believe he can do that.”

On whether Bolden will return kicks:
“We’ll get those opportunities. We didn’t do much of that in this camp, but moving forward, we have time to help every one of these guys develop.”

On the addition of CB Drayton Florence:
“He’s another piece that will hopefully make us better. I don’t think you can ever have too many corners with a lot of the multiple receiver sets that you get—and we will get with the types of quarterbacks that we have on our schedule this year. That was problematic for us a year ago and hopefully with some good competition we can fix that.”

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Jackson Adapting to the NFL

May 12th, 2012 - 6:44pm by Stuart ZaasOther posts by

After defensive lineman Malik Jackson’s first day as a Bronco he tweeted, “Wow first day of minicamp is over. I’ve never been this mentally and physically tired in my life.”

A day later, he feels better adjusted to the NFL level.

“I really didn’t know what to expect for the first few days out here,” Jackson said. “Yesterday hit me kind of hard, especially with the playbook and going out there trying to learn on the fly. Today kind of slowed down. I really got in the playbook last night and am just trying to go out there and have fun. I’m just happy to be here.”

While the NFL hours are demanding, Jackson said he is learning to embrace it as a fulltime job.

“Just waking up at 7 a.m. and leaving at 8 p.m. is kind of new to me,” he said. “I just have to learn to do it and learn to love it. This is what we do, so it’s what I’ll do.”

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Blake’s ‘Long Story’ Leads to Broncos

May 12th, 2012 - 5:42pm by Gray CaldwellOther posts by

Philip Blake’s story has been well-covered.

The Baylor offensive lineman grew up in Canada, playing one year of high school football — his senior year.

Immediately he knew it was the sport for him.

But getting to play it at a Division I college was quite a process.

“It’s a long story,” Blake smiled.

He started by playing two years at Champlain Regional College in Quebec, Canada, and got recruited by Baylor Head Coach Art Briles and his staff.

The NCAA clearing house didn’t accept his high school and Canadian regional college grades, so he thought going to a school without football for a semester — University of Houston-Downtown would allow him to transfer to Baylor.

But he wasn’t academically eligible to play at Baylor, so instead he spent a year-and-a-half at Tyler Junior College in Texas, graduated and then joined the Baylor Bears as a 23-year-old sophomore.

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Trevathan Plans to Learn from Woodyard

May 12th, 2012 - 3:04pm by Stuart ZaasOther posts by

Even though linebacker Danny Trevathan never had the chance to play with linebacker Wesley Woodyard at Kentucky, he heard plenty from the former Wildcat.

Now, he’ll have a chance to be teammates with Woodyard, a player Trevathan said he tried to model his game after.

“I had to be myself, but at the same time I learned from him,” Trevathan said. “He was a great football player – he played every aspect of the game, he even returned kicks. That’s why I wanted to return kicks – until I broke my wrist and that was over.”

Despite never overlapping at Kentucky with Woodyard, Trevathan said that Woodyard, who was, “just been born to be a leader,” gave him advice all through college.

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