Thread: Again, Broncos' Marshall seeks pay boost

He deserves nothing more than he's already scheduled to earn. If the team and he come to agreement on an extension, so be it. Otherwise, they can revisit the issue after the season is over, when there will be no salary cap, but there will still be a franchise tag.

Originally Posted by honz

Franchise his ass next year and make him prove that he can stay out of jail.

unless they sign a new CBA he is a RFA till the end of 2011.

Which means he will get a #1 tender and we have the right of first refusal should someone offer him a contract.. IF we refuse we get their #1 in the following draft.. IF we match the contract he is OURS..

The Denver Post
Posted: 08/19/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT
Updated: 08/19/2009 01:54:03 AM MDT


Brandon Marshall may be recovered from hip and hamstring injuries that kept him out of much of the first two weeks of training camp, but the Broncos' star receiver is finding that he's not going to just resume his place as the team's top receiver.

Marshall was relegated to the second team for much of Tuesday's practice. Even worse, he was asked to practice as a gunner of the scout team on punt coverage.

Defensive teammates on the sideline playfully heckled Marshall as he engaged in physical blocking drills with cornerback Joshua Bell.

It's not exactly the treatment a Pro Bowl receiver is used to.

Marshall, who, along with his agent met with team officials Monday to discuss the possibility of a new contract, left the field

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without commenting Tuesday.
Coach Josh McDaniels refused to talk about Monday's meeting with Marshall and said he was confident that Marshall's ongoing drama will not be a distraction to the team.

"Our players understand what we're trying to do and get done, and Brandon's out here and performing the way he's capable of performing," McDaniels said. "I don't have a reason to feel otherwise."

McDaniels said it was too early to decide if Marshall might start in Saturday's preseason game at Seattle. The team opened in a four-receiver set in San Francisco, and if that is the case again Saturday, Marshall likely would be included.

"Certainly, every day he gathers more information about our offense and system," McDaniels said. "We'll make that decision as we go forward here, certainly a chance he could be on the field."

Only a maybe.

Safety Brian Dawkins has practiced this week wearing an orange jersey — marking an injured player — with a large cast on his fractured right hand.

McDaniels said he wasn't ready to commit to Dawkins playing against Seattle.

"We'll make the decision here as we go," McDaniels said.

Dawkins had surgery the first week of camp to repair a fracture and did not practice until Monday.

Pump up the volume.

The team spent time practicing with loud music blaring as it prepares to play at Qwest Field, which is regarded as one of the league's noisiest venues.

McDaniels and assistant Mark Thewes created the playlist, which included rap (Notorious B.I.G.), pop (Michael Jackson) and rock (U2).

But the mix wasn't universally appealing. After the offense scored during a red-zone drill, defensive end Kenny Peterson shouted at Thewes to change the artists away from U2 to something a little more up-tempo.

Footnotes.

Wide receiver Brandon Lloyd, cornerback Jack Williams and running back Knowshon Moreno were injured players held out of practice. . . . With Moreno out, Correll Buckhalter, LaMont Jordan and Peyton Hillis are getting the bulk of the carries with the starting offense. . . . Dawkins and rookie safety Darcel McBath took repetitions with the first team in the nickel package. McBath started in place of Dawkins in the first preseason game last week.

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Arnie Stapleton, AP Sports Writer
ENGLEWOOD (AP) ― Brandon Marshall has one more reason to be miffed at the Denver Broncos.

Marshall, who is unhappy with his contract and wants either a raise or a trade, is annoyed with the way the team handled his acquittal on misdemeanor battery charges last week, a person close to him told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

Marshall learned upon rejoining the team that a member of the Broncos' public relations staff told his teammates after their preseason opener at San Francisco on Friday night that they shouldn't gloat over his acquittal hours earlier in an Atlanta courtroom.

The Denver Post, quoting a person it didn't identify, reported that players were told not to say they were happy for Marshall but instead to say it was good for the organization that the issue was behind them.

Marshall figured the directive came from someone higher up in the organization, so he met with Broncos chief operating officer Joe Ellis, who apologized to him Monday, the person familiar with the matter told the AP.

Broncos spokesman Jim Saccomano said the issue was handled internally and the team would have no comment.

Marshall walked off the practice field Tuesday without speaking to reporters, and coach Josh McDaniels declined to discuss the latest developments in this saga.

"Those are all private meetings and we're trying to do what's best for the football team," McDaniels said.

Marshall's agent, Kennard McGuire, declined to confirm reports that he had reiterated his request for a raise for his client and, barring that, a trade, during a meeting with the Broncos on Monday.

"Not sure where that story came from," McGuire said in an e-mail to the AP.

McDaniels said he's not concerned that Marshall's desires for more money or discontent over not getting it right away will detract from the team's preparations for the season.

"Brandon's out here performing the way that he's capable of performing. So, I don't have any reason to feel otherwise," McDaniels said.

He declined to say what he needed to see from Marshall to rework his contract, which calls for him to make $2.2 million this season.

"Those things are private matters, and when or if or what we're doing at this point, we're going to keep behind closed doors," McDaniels said.

Now that Marshall has cleared his name in the court of law -- and, he hopes, the court of public opinion -- the Pro Bowl receiver wants to put his signature on a hefty new contract. He hoped the verdict clearing him of charges he beat up his former girlfriend 18 months ago would give him leverage for a fresh start either in Denver or somewhere else.

But the Broncos are taking a wait-and-see approach with their recalcitrant receiver. They want to make sure he can keep out of trouble, stay healthy and deliver on the field like he did before he hurt a hip that required surgery in March.

Marshall hoped to follow Pro Bowl quarterback Jay Cutler out of Denver this offseason, but McDaniels didn't want to send a second superstar packing before he had even coached his first game and quickly quashed that notion.

Marshall contends that with back-to-back 100-catch seasons he has outperformed the modest four-year contract he signed in 2006 as a fourth-round draft choice out of Central Florida.

Yet, Marshall has issues on and off the field that are hindering his trade value and preventing him from cashing in.

He has already been suspended once for violating the league's personal conduct policy over a series of domestic disputes. Another misstep would subject him to another, perhaps lengthy suspension.

After boycotting the team's offseason workouts over his contract and his contention that the team made him play on a bum hip last year, Marshall has only practiced about a half-dozen times at training camp. He sustained a hamstring injury on Aug. 2 and didn't return to practice until Sunday.

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If he wants more pay, fine, I don't blame him. How could you blame anyone for wanting a higher pay check?

The problem is that his attitude is not deserving of that contract at the moment.

Regardless of what anyone from the Broncos says, this type of thing will become a distraction.