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[The Dove]

Anyone have Jake Plummer's number?? I wonder if we can convince him to stop growing potatos in Idaho and come out of retirement...

[The Dove]

Okay..so now that whining little punk Cutler has changed his story and now claims *puts on a whiny voice* " I didn't want it to go this far...I love being in Denver!! I didn't want to be traded.." Oh phuleeeze!! The sooner we get this moron out of here the better!!!

http://sports.espn.g...tory?id=4034863

[tdalton]

Okay..so now that whining little punk Cutler has changed his story and now claims *puts on a whiny voice* " I didn't want it to go this far...I love being in Denver!! I didn't want to be traded.." Oh phuleeeze!! The sooner we get this moron out of here the better!!!

http://sports.espn.g...tory?id=4034863

I agree with you on this. I'm tired of hearing about this story, and I'm tired of the antics by both sides here. For a while, I really wanted the Jets to pursue this trade, but now that Denver is asking for 2 first round picks in exchange for him, as well as the attitude that has been on display in the last couple of weeks, I hope the Jets get smart about this situation and steer clear of the whole thing and just go with Kellen Clemens or Brett Ratliff at QB and spend our first rounder on Maclin or Harvin, if either of them fall to #17.

[The Dove]

BREAKING NEWS: Jay Culter has been traded to the Chicago Bears!! The Bears will be giving Denver a first round pick this year plus a 1st rounder next year and will send...Kyle Orton to Denver...ORTON??? WTF???

I'm speechless... this is NOT the trade I was hoping for!!

http://sports.espn.g...tory?id=4037373

[Tarl_Cabot]

BREAKING NEWS: Jay Culter has been traded to the Chicago Bears!! The Bears will be giving Denver a first round pick this year plus a 1st rounder next year and will send...Kyle Orton to Denver...ORTON??? WTF???

I'm speechless... this is NOT the trade I was hoping for!!

http://sports.espn.g...tory?id=4037373

*Higgins' voice* Oh My God.

[Tarl_Cabot]

BREAKING NEWS: Jay Culter has been traded to the Chicago Bears!! The Bears will be giving Denver a first round pick this year plus a 1st rounder next year and will send...Kyle Orton to Denver...ORTON??? WTF???

I'm speechless... this is NOT the trade I was hoping for!!

http://sports.espn.g...tory?id=4037373

Mike Vick may be available ...seriously, sorry to hear about this bad news Dove. I wouldn't wish loosing your franchise QB (!) on you despite our friendly AFC west rivalry.

[The Dove]

Well after consideration, this may not be as bad a trade for Denver as I thought.. Sure Kyle Orton is no Jay Cutler, arm-wise, but he isn't a crybaby either!! (I'm just glad it was NOT Rex Grossman we ended up with!) And it now turns out Da Bears sent an additional third round pick to the Broncos along with the two first rounders... I'm encouraged and hope that Denver does something smart with the picks on draft day... We need some defense and of course we could always trade up to get Mark Sanchez... but we'll see...

Thanks for the kind thoughts Tarl..This will certainly make our friendly little Denver vs San Diego matchups a whole lot more interesting!

[Tarl_Cabot]

Well after consideration, this may not be as bad a trade for Denver as I thought.. Sure Kyle Orton is no Jay Cutler, arm-wise, but he isn't a crybaby either!! (I'm just glad it was NOT Rex Grossman we ended up with!) And it now turns out Da Bears sent an additional third round pick to the Broncos along with the two first rounders... I'm encouraged and hope that Denver does something smart with the picks on draft day... We need some defense and of course we could always trade up to get Mark Sanchez... but we'll see...

Thanks for the kind thoughts Tarl..This will certainly make our friendly little Denver vs San Diego matchups a whole lot more interesting!

Kyle Orton is definately not a whinner. He won 15 starts as a rookie and was demoted without a chance to compete the next year for...Brian Griese!?? I always thought he got jobbed by the Bears but he didn't complain.He's got a strong arm and is 6'4...he's just as good as Matt Cassel,the guy started this whole thing, in terms of talent...etc.He was hurt his senior year so he could have been a higher draft pick...

I've always liked Orton. He's not a scary guy but on a good team he can win.

[hcmv007]

New and intriguing blog post on my blog!



Yes Cutler is a Bear, now can he handle having nobody to throw to? Will the Bears fans strip him of his manhood? Will his 'Dude' privileges be revoked? We'll find out this season!


Mock Draft will be done the Sunday before the Draft!

[The Dove]

Well the 2009 NFL schedule has been released!! What does everyone's teams schedule look like this upcoming season? (you can go to nfl.com and print out a schedule by team..) Any interesting games for you? Here is what Josh McDaniels and my Broncos will be doing this season..

Wk. 1 at Cincinnati Bengals
Wk. 2 Cleveland Browns
Wk. 3 at Oakland Raiders
Wk. 4 Dallas Cowboys
Wk. 5 New England Patriots
Wk. 6 at San Diego Chargers (a Monday night game)
Wk. 7 BYE
Wk. 8 at Baltimore Ravens
Wk. 9 Pittsburgh Steelers (a Monday night game)
Wk. 10 at Washington Redskins
Wk. 11 San Diego Chargers
Wk. 12 New York Giants (the third of this year's Thanksgiving games..)
Wk. 13 at Kansas City Chiefs
Wk. 14 at Indianapolis Colts (GULP!!)
Wk. 15 Oakland Raiders
Wk. 16 at Philadelphia Eagles
Wk. 17 Kansas City Chiefs

Well, this will certainly be a challenge for McDaniels and Co.. I'm really looking forward to the Cowboys, Patriots, Colts, Pittsburgh and Baltimore games.. If we can do okay agains them, then we'll know if the whole McDaniels hiring and Jay Cutler fiasco was worth it..

[Tarl_Cabot]

SD plays Tennesee on X-mas day for the first time in thier franchise history, friday night too.

[The Dove]

John Madden is hanging up his announcers mike and retiring..

http://www.nfl.com/n...mp;confirm=true

After some 30 plus years as a broadcaster for FOX, NBC and ABC, John Madden is calling it a career.. Oh man I'll miss him in the booth on Sunday nights with Al Michaels.. Those two made a great team.. It looks like Cris Collinsworth will be stepping in to call games with Al Michaels now.. He's good, but no John Madden!

[Tarl_Cabot]

I'm thrilled to see Madden go. He was tired 15 years ago. Yay.

[The Dove]

Two days to go until the NFL draft!! I'm getting pretty excited just to see what Josh McDaniels and the Broncos do with our first few picks... we better use them for defensive help.

Well it looks very much like the Detroit Lions are indeed working on a deal to make QB Matthew Stafford the #1 pick in this year's draft.. I hope for their sake he works out better than Joey Harrington did!

[SPECTRE ASSASSIN]

Well it looks very much like the Detroit Lions are indeed working on a deal to make QB Matthew Stafford the #1 pick in this year's draft.. I hope for their sake he works out better than Joey Harrington did!

I think the Lions should draft that offensive tackle, great teams always have one. Stafford does not have the intangibles compared to Matt Ryan in last year's draft, but hey it doesn't matter, it's the Lions.

[bondrules]

certainly the Falcons just improved their chances.....good for them.

Chiefs trade Gonzalez for 2010 draft pick
http://sports.espn.g...tory?id=4092471

[Tarl_Cabot]

That's odd. Why trade him now for a 2010 pick? Why not give Matt cassel someone to throw to until he gets comfortable as the # 1 QB? Weird.

[bondrules]

That's odd. Why trade him now for a 2010 pick? Why not give Matt cassel someone to throw to until he gets comfortable as the # 1 QB? Weird.

Yeah, that trade makes no sense at all. Glad it's not my team.

[Tybre]

That's odd. Why trade him now for a 2010 pick? Why not give Matt cassel someone to throw to until he gets comfortable as the # 1 QB? Weird.

Well, I'm just glad he hasn't been traded to the Steelers. Mind it would probably do well to send him to the Eagles. Lord knows the only reason I turned out a Steelers fan as a little kid is because the home team is atrocious. Ah, but I'm not going off on an Eagles bashing tangent now.

[bondrules]

If we are going to see dumb trades before the draft, I'd like to see Julius Peppers go to The Pats for a third rd pick in 2010.

[The Dove]

WOW!! This Tony Gonzales trade to Atlanta is gonna make things tough for Kansas City (rubbing hands in evil glee!! ) and with Larry Johnson still gripping about wanting out of KC, its gonna be a rough year for Kansas City..

[Tarl_Cabot]

WOW!! This Tony Gonzales trade to Atlanta is gonna make things tough for Kansas City (rubbing hands in evil glee!! ) and with Larry Johnson still gripping about wanting out of KC, its gonna be a rough year for Kansas City..

Cutler, Gonzalez...all I need is for the Raiders to trade their top player...oh wait, they don't have any decent players!

[The Dove]

Well the draft has come and gone...how did your team do? For me, I would grade the Broncos draft a C- ...and epic disappointment from what I was expecting.. Sure its great we got Georgia RB Knowshown Moreno, but the majority of our picks we spent on offensive players when we so desperately needed defense (you hear me Josh McDoofus?? ) I suppose DT Robert Ayers from Tennessee will work out and we got Fresno State QB Tom Brandstater is an intersting choice *crossing fingers he'll be the next Tom Brady!*

But overall, McDaniels and Company did NOT sufficiently address our most pressing needs.. at the moment, I'm predicting at best Denver will be 7-9 next season (subject to change once I see the team in action in preseason..)

So how did everyone else feel about their team's draft choices?

[tdalton]

So how did everyone else feel about their team's draft choices?

Despite all the rave reviews from the ESPN analysts and other TV networks, I thought that the Jets had one of their worst drafts ever. I don't see Sanchez being the answer at QB, and even if he turns out to be even halfway decent at the position, he has absolutely nobody to throw the ball to. Given the current group of receivers the Jets have, I'm not sure that even Joe Montana could find success with the team. They're so thin there that the TE they drafted last year (Dustin Keller) might actually have to move out to WR because there's no depth. Our current #1 receiver is Jerricho Cotchery, who is a player that is a solid #2 receiver, but he's not the playmaker that is needed in the #1 spot.

Anyway, back to the draft choices. What the Jets should have done was stay at their original #17 pick and select Jeremy Maclin (who was still on the board at 17), which would have done wonders for what is, honestly, the biggest weakness on the team right now. If they felt a desperate need at QB, maybe a trade with the Browns for either Brady Quinn or Derek Anderson could have worked. Going down that route, both of the glaring issues on the team would have been fixed without giving up the entire draft to make it happen. I'm not sure, though, that a change at QB was necessary, though. Brett Ratliff showed some great promise in the preseason last year (I know it was just the preseason, but he was good enough, IMO, to have been given a fair chance to compete for the job, something he won't get in Cleveland because he's sitting behind Anderson and Quinn). Kellen Clemens also deserves a chance at the job as he's been in the current offensive system for 3 years now, and he should have it mastered to the point where he can go out and be an effective QB. The purpose of the last few seasons has been to get Clemens ready to play and be effective, and now that plan is being thrown out the window in favor of starting it all over again with Sanchez. The Jets are built to win now at every position except for quite possibly the two most important ones on the field: QB and WR. I guess this is why the organization hasn't been successful in well over 40 years.

For the record, I have absolutely nothing against Mark Sanchez. He's a good football player, and he seems like a very good person from what I've seen from him in interviews. My problem is that I don't think the Jets needed to draft a QB in the first round (or at all, for that matter), and I really don't like the fact that they gave up two very solid defensive players (Coleman and Elam), a potential starter at QB (Ratliff), and a second round pick in order to make the trade to get in position to draft him.

Edited by tdalton, 28 April 2009 - 03:00 AM.

[Tarl_Cabot]

SD didn't get any star players but rather role players who will compliment an already talented roster. Getting more sacks, pressure in '09 was priority and SD got an OLB who is a QB killer.It was a ho-hum draft until I see results but I think the defense will get alot better when Merriman returns...

[The Dove]

Oh boy... Just when I thought all things had calmed down in Broncos camp, Kyle Orton has been named the starting QB, now Brandon Marshall is holding out and demanding a trade!! Thats it..we're ed this season if he gets his wish and is traded.. Tarl my friend, shall I conceed the AFC West to you right now?...Meh.. I'll wait and see how things go pre-season first!

[Tarl_Cabot]

http://espn.go.com/nfl/

He's baaaaaaaaaack. LOL I know people are tired of Farve but I can't help enjoy the thought of him playing against the Packers as a Viking...and I'm a fellow 39er who'd enjoy watching him play again; The Vikes are a much better team for him than the Jets so bring it on Farve!

[JackWade]

I'm so sick of hearing about Favre. Every single episode of SportsCenter for the past what... three years?

I remember reading on the Bottom Line that Favre's family bought tickets to a game next year. WTF? Are you serious?

I hate ESPN.

[hcmv007]

I couldn't agree more, JackWade. If only b/c they butcher the pronunciations of names of Louisiana players.


ESPN has been covering soccer more in the past couple of years and the awful ESPN Desportes updates have caused me to skip Sportscenter. Unfortunately there is no other sports network as Fox Sports is laughable.

[hcmv007]

NFL Reviews coming soon, and in rapid fire succession. Spoiler alert, the Saints will finish last in the NFC South.