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What went wrong in Denver

Michael Lombardi writes that ownership didn’t buy into McDaniels plan When Belichick was hired in Cleveland, Modell had no idea what he had, or what Belichick could eventually become. He never thought in three dimensions, or hired with a plan; he just hoped for success, in large part because Modell based every decision on what [...]

Jake Plummer on Mike Shanahan

Jake Plummer says the same thing about Mike Shanahan that Les Carpenter said earlier this week. "I had a coach that, regardless of how well I thought I was playing or how well the majority of fans across the country thought I was playing, it was never good enough for him," Plummer said, not bitter [...]

Searching for the next John Elway

Les Carpenter at Yahoo! Sports has a good article on how Mike Shanahan’s constant search for the next John Elway is ruining his coaching career and the Washington football team. When it comes to quarterback, the position he played and loved and has nurtured through his 35 years of coaching, Mike Shanahan is never a [...]

Tim Tebow Drafted by the Denver Broncos

So the Denver Broncos drafted the heir apparent to John Elway by drafting former Heisman winner Tim Tebow from the University of Florida Gators.  Tebow has been called the greatest college quarterback ever and is probably the most popular college player in recent years which means that he has his fair share of Tebow haters [...]

It’s My Fault

I was watching

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 [...]

Kyle Orton will do fine…

For those of us who are trying to tell ourselves that things in Denver will be fine without Jay Cutler and Josh McDaniels will be great, here is are some stats to think about. Super Bowl wins for Mike Shanahan without John Elway: 0. Super Bowl wins for Chuck Noll without Terry Bradshaw: 0. Super [...]

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 [...]

2008 Christmas Buying Guide for Men

One of the secrets of the house is that I do all of the Christmas shopping.  Wendy sees it as a task to endure, I see it as a work of art.  We know who gets the better Christmas gifts around here.  At the same time I keep hearing for people that they don’t know [...]

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 [...]

Oliver Scott Cooper

After listening to the doctors suggest Wendy could be heading home today with her blood pressure under control, of course it spiked to dangerous levels during the night and at 5:20 a.m., Wendy called me and said, “They are taking the baby this morning”.  She was beyond maxed out on Labatatol and the nurses were [...]

My favorite ten NFL players of all time

Rick Bennett has a list of his ten favorite NFL players. I know such a list is subjective but he has it all wrong. How can one not cheer for the greatest backup of all time, Steve DeBerg? You can check out his list but I’ll post the correct list below of favorite players of [...]

Joe Torre

I am not a Yankees fan, nor a Yankees hater, partly because I appreciate what Joe Torre has done but I am saddened that he may be fired and has to go through this each and every year under The Boss. I don’t know what a manager can do when your bats go silent in [...]

The end of a mediocre season

Just a note of thanks to Jake Plummer who managed to regress horribly this year and cost my beloved Denver Broncos some key games. Yes the defence had a lot of injuries but when you give the ball away like Jake Plummer did over and over and over again, you aren’t going to win a [...]

Tennessee Titans ban McNair?

This makes no sense until you start to look a little deeper at the last couple of years Cook said the quarterback was told the Titans were worried about a potential injury, but said the general counsel told the agent they don’t want McNair working out on team property until his contract is reworked. The [...]