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Contextless Football Thoughts

Well the University of Saskatchewan Huskies beat our illiterate arch rivals from the University of Regina Rams in a close game at Griffiths Stadium.  Congratulations to the University of Regina for making it close.  Someone just needs to help them understand the score.  While the U of S is 2-0 this year, they don’t look [...]

The Confessions of a NFL Addict

The NFL season is almost here and I am coming to grips with my ongoing addiction to NFL football.  Since it is a changing addiction, I thought I would offer up where I am at this year. I am planning to take Thursday and Friday of the NFL draft in 2010 as vacation days. I [...]

Brandon Marshall is an idiot

Check out this video, reflect on the fact that he dropped more catchable balls than any other WR not named Braylon Edwards, take into consideration he doesn’t know the Denver Broncos playbook yet, and ask yourself why shouldn’t he be suspended for many games without pay for conduct detrimental to the team.  Update: The Broncos [...]

The All Indispensible Team

Who are the players, teams in the NFC can’t lose?  The AFC players are listed here.  I got a kick of out of listing of Shaun Smith for the Detroit Lions.  What’s going to happen to the Detroit Lions if he goes down with an injury?  Get worse than last year?  Sadly for the Denver [...]

A New Era Starts in Denver

Charles Robinson writes in Yahoo! Sports about new coach Josh McDaniel and new QB Kyle Orton. “The distance you throw the ball down the field, to me at times it can be very overrated,” he said. “I’m worried about accuracy. I’m concerned with them reading the plays the right way, getting it to the people [...]

Pat Bowlen’s Letter to Fans

It can be summed up with, Jay Culter is lying to you about McDaniels and him not trying to contact him. “Understand this: it remains about team,” Bowlen wrote. “Our franchise has gone to the Super Bowl six times, with three different coaches and with many different players. It has never been about one player, [...]

Jay Cutler: I never wanted to be traded

This kind of cracks me up/makes me want to hit my head against the wall. "I was surprised they decided to trade me this soon," Cutler told Glazer in his first comments since the statement was released. "I didn’t want to get traded. This wasn’t me. (The Broncos) had been going back and forth saying [...]

What’s wrong with Jay Cutler?

Shutdown Corner has a post on what is going on with the Denver Broncos and their Pro-Bowl Quarterback, Jay Cutler.  They quote Peter King in his Monday Morning Quarterback column. Quoth Peter: I heard one other interesting thing Sunday: Cutler asked for a trade shortly after the Broncos lost offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates — Cutler’s [...]

It’s not your choice if you want to be a role model

Rick Reilly has an excellent article in ESPN about taking a grieving nephew to meet John Elway As locals, Cynthia and I took them to lunch at one of Elway’s restaurants so Jake could see all the jerseys and photos. The kid was so excited he hardly ate. And that was before a certain Hall [...]

Why Mike Shanahan had to go

Tom Curran of NBC Sports had this to say What had to clinch it for Bowlen, though, were the absurd losses Denver absorbed this season. Beaten by the lowly Chiefs 33-19 after a 3-0 start. A 41-7 destruction by the Patriots in Foxboro. A sloppy, staggering loss at home to Miami. A 31-10 ripping at [...]

Torn

I am a die hard Denver Bronco fan but I am also a Brady Quinn fan and while I am excited that he is starting, I really wish his first start didn’t come against my struggling Denver Broncos. Of course Cleveland isn’t doing much better and while Derek Anderson isn’t playing great, what is really [...]

Emergence of the gambling man

Michael Silver (who has become one of my favorite sports writers) has a good article on the return of Mike Shanahan. The true significance of Sunday’s game was Shanahan’s gutsy decision to go all in and play for the win – a course that he and Cutler plotted as the Chargers went up by 7 [...]

Week One

While my fantasy team is disarray, at least the Denver Broncos won big. Cutler threw for 299 yards with long touchdown passes to rookie Eddie Royal and Darrell Jackson that helped the Broncos beat up on their AFC West rivals in a 41-14 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Monday night. “There were a lot [...]

My love of football

I was wearing my Denver Broncos hat at work the other day and someone asked me if I was a casual or a hardcore fan. I replied I can tell them the names of every NFL starting quarterback over the last decade and probably the school they came from and the round they were drafted. [...]