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Posts Tagged ‘Boys and Girls Club’

Taking Stock as we Head into the Bye

October 9th, 2007 - 4:10pm by domonique_foxworthOther posts by

Let’s see… Tough weekend, one of the most disappointing games I’ve ever been involved in in my entire life. It just seemed like things didn’t go well for us. It was just a disappointing game. The thing that’s most disappointing about it is after watching the film, it’s hard to tie down exactly what particular player, or what particular defense is the problem. I think everybody on our defense and on our team made mistakes at some point throughout the game. A lot of time we can live through some mistakes and other teams don’t capitalize on them, but the Chargers definitely capitalized on every opportunity we gave them, and we didn’t make any opportunities for ourselves. It was really disappointing.

I personally have a tremendous amount of faith and confidence in the players and coaches that are here. It’s a very young season, so while we’re not happy with where we are, there’s nothing we can do about that. We came in today, and we’re going to come in tomorrow and work really hard and try to improve, just be more sound and more consistent, which is where I think most of our problems are — consistency.

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Thoughts on the Colts Game and Congrats to the Rockies

October 2nd, 2007 - 2:44pm by domonique_foxworthOther posts by

Alright, we’ll start with the game I guess. It was disappointing. I think most of the people surrounding the team and most of the fans were very disappointed in the game in Indy. There’s a lot of things that we need to work on and improve upon. While we are disappointed, we are not discouraged for the rest of the season. We’re only a quarter of the way through the regular season and we’re 2-2, so we’re pretty optimistic about the rest of the season to come and hopefully the fans can get behind us. I appreciate all the fans who left supportive responses about team and myself, and the fans who aren’t so supportive, it’s OK, I understand, I guess. But we will be getting on track real soon.

I think we have a lot of talent, a lot of good players, a lot of proven players and a lot of proven coaches. Combine that with the amount of effort that we give on the field and the accountability that each player has on the team, and I think we are a recipe for a very successful team. I think accountability is one of the things that’s most important. There’s been a lot of mistakes made so far in the season, but one of the good things about it is there’s not any finger-pointing, which is something that goes on in teams that aren’t successful and teams that eventually implode. But people here are taking responsibility for their mistakes and improving upon them. If everyone improves and tries to correct their own mistakes, it helps us all as a team to play better and eliminate our mistakes.

I’d say one of the things right now we’re really lacking and we’re working on is just experience with each other. We have a lot of league experience, but this is the first time for a lot of us working together, and that type of experience and continuity is very valuable. I’d say comparing us to some of the teams who are really successful right now in the NFL, that’s the major difference. A lot of their players have been able to stay together for a long time and build a level of continuity, understanding and trust out there on the field. While we trust each other and we’ve been working together, we’ve had a lot of changes. We have a new defensive coordinator who has been extremely successful in the league throughout the years. We have pretty much an all-new linebacking corps, even with D.J. Williams switching positions. Our D-line is almost entirely new, full of rookies and free-agent signings, and we’ve added a brand-new corner in Dre’ Bly. We’ve added a ton of talent, but just the continuity in working together is something we need to improve upon and just be able to trust that each other is going to be where we need to be on particular plays.

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Amon Gordon’s Homecoming

September 19th, 2007 - 2:52am by AndrewOther posts by

Amidst a thicket of Broncos players, team staffers, local media members and children headed for school, Amon Gordon glanced at his surroundings Tuesday morning and smiled.

This was the kickoff event for the construction of the Darrent Williams Teen Center at the Broncos Boys and Girls Club. But for Gordon, it was a homecoming. What he saw around him was his entire path through life — where he’d been, and who he’d become.

The presence of his teammates reflected his present and future as an emerging young defensive tackle, finally establishing his name as an NFL contributor. The teenagers and grammar-school students scurrying about the club, however, reflected his past.

“This is me,” he said.

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Preseason Doesn’t Count, But it Matters

August 21st, 2007 - 4:47pm by domonique_foxworthOther posts by

Well, I’ll start by thanking everybody. Week after week we set a new record. We’ve reached 53 responses, which eclipsed last week’s 48. I read them all, as usual, and I appreciate the support.

I guess a good place to start is probably the Dallas game. It was pretty funny — well, not funny.  Funny’s not the word. But after practice on Monday I went down to the Boys and Girls Club just to hang out a little bit, and that’s supposed to be a safe place, but it really is not for me.

All the kids had a lot of jokes and questions like, “So why’d you guys lose?” and questions that I can’t answer. I slipped on one play and a couple of guys asked me, “Why’d you slip?” I really don’t know what to answer to that. There’s really no good answer. It’s a pretty simple, yet complicated question. I slipped because it was slippery.

But it was good to see them, and as far as the game goes, it was really disappointing. We can make a thousand excuses, but you don’t get to this level making excuses and you can’t win as many games and go as far as we want this team to go making excuses.

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Finally, Some Time Off…

August 7th, 2007 - 12:32pm by domonique_foxworthOther posts by

It’s been a boring week. I guess not really boring, boring’s not the word. It’s like Groundhog Day, if anybody remembers that movie. Every day is the same.

We’ve been very fortunate. We have a veteran team, and coach recognizes that. When we work hard he gives us ample time off, so I would say this is a “smart” camp. Really productive, and at the same time we’re not pounding each other into the ground.

But when we go out there it’s full speed, so the fans who are here get to see that it’s a lot of contact, a lot of action, and everybody’s going full speed.  And when we do that we get some time off.

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Manning Up

July 16th, 2007 - 12:15pm by domonique_foxworthOther posts by

We’ve got to start with my man J.R. from Jupiter, Florida.

First of all, I thank FroHawk27 for standing up for me. Appreciate it.

But anyway, something I expect in my position is to have to deal with things like this and respond to it and it’s not something I shy away from. Something my dad taught me about being a man is to take responsibility when you don’t do so well and be proud when you do do well. So I’ve always been willing to take responsibility and I can think of a plethora of plays in games throughout my life from the time I was playing in Pop Warner to now where I wish I had done things differently and I wish I had played better.

The one that comes to mind first is actually my sophomore year in high school. The last play of the game, we were playing against the best running back in the state. He was a really good running back and also a really good linebacker. I was a sophomore, he was a senior. We were really close to beating them. There was no time left, we were on like the 3-yard line.

I was our running back so they handed me the ball and it was just me and him in the hole to win the game. He probably weighed about 210-220 and I was about 135. My ego got the best of me and I decided to try and run him over and score the touchdown.

Didn’t work.

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Sports and Arts

July 3rd, 2007 - 8:56am by domonique_foxworthOther posts by

We start by addressing Avrilanche — Joey, the goalie from last week. He played well. I was impressed — had a great game. Sorry that he came up on the short end of the stick, but he probably would have saved more goals if he wasn’t looking in the crowd. But I appreciate him finding me, I guess.

I do not know anybody on the Avs, but I don’t know that the Avs need a goalie. Especially one that’s checking out the people in the stands. Anyway, good luck the rest of the season to Joey.

And now that we’re on to hockey — I’m getting good at these segues — we can talk about last night’s game. Big Monday night hockey, 10:30 was the puck drop. The Broncos were able to notch their third win. They are now 3-2-1, which is the first time they’ve ever been above .500 in Broncos hockey history. Breaking down all types of barriers.

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Another Busy Weekend

June 5th, 2007 - 1:07pm by domonique_foxworthOther posts by

Busy, busy weekend.

Start with Fan Fair. Fan Fair was great. I got there an hour early to do a signing with College in Colorado, which was a hit. We had a ton of people there, and it was really cool because a lot of the kids were not so much talking about the football but they were talking about school.

We ended up meeting probably hundreds of kids, with paperwork and stuff about college as they were leaving. Whoever was there, we’d tell whoever would listen. They got paperwork and stuff and we linked them up with the web site — CollegeinColorado.org — just in case. I signed non-stop for an hour straight, then as I was leaving I had like a convoy of kids chasing me. I was trying to sign and run at the same time. It was really exciting.

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OTAs and Teaching Writing

May 22nd, 2007 - 12:33pm by domonique_foxworthOther posts by

OTAs have been going really well. I’m really impressed with how well the defense is learning, how quickly we’re learning, how well we’re all coming together. I’m not a coach, obviously. But I think we look really good right now and there’s a lot of talent, especially in the secondary.

Personally, I feel as though I’ve been playing really well. I’ve been rotating between corner, strong safety, free safety and nickel. Actually, to be honest it’s been kind of difficult because I’m learning a new system. Not only am I learning a new system at my position of corner, I’m learning a new system from the perspective of free safety and strong safety which are two different positions. I’m also learning from nickel which is technically a linebacker, so I’m learning four different positions and a new system all at the same time. It’s not the easiest thing in the world.

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Service and Community

May 15th, 2007 - 9:10am by domonique_foxworthOther posts by

I’ve done a lot of community stuff this past week. I went to the Boys and Girls Club Gala on Saturday. It was an amazing experience. It was just amazing to hear how much promise the kids have. And how much the money and time that’s contributed actually goes to use, because sometimes you feel like when you’re giving to charities you don’t know what really happens.

But just seeing the kids who received awards give speeches and then they had dances and performances and they just lit up. That was just a great experience on Saturday.

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