Thread: Broncos' Marshall to play Sunday

By Jeff Legwold
The Denver Post

Posted: 09/11/2009 07:12:43 PM MDT
Updated: 09/11/2009 07:17:22 PM MDT


Brandon Marshall (Denver Post file photo)Brandon Marshall has not spoken publicly in the days after his return from a suspension for conduct detrimental to the team, but today Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels said he likes what he's seen and heard from the embattled wideout this week.

So McDaniels said Marshall will play Sunday against the Bengals after a "good week" of practice.

"I don't want to talk about what his mindset is, that's for him," McDaniels said. "But he's had a good week of practice, he's practiced hard, he's doing everything we're asking him to do and we're excited about being able to put all those guys on the field together."

Marshall skipped all of the team's offseason minicamps and conditioning workouts as he recovered from offseason hip surgery. He had expressed displeasure with his contract and, through his representative, had asked to be traded if the team did not want to give him a new deal.

He was suspended for nine days, without pay, after being captured on video disrupting drills during a team practice and did not play in any of the team's four preseason games. Marshall returned Sunday.

McDaniels said all of the players who are in uniform Sunday will be needed for the game, including Marshall.

"Always a good thing to have everybody available and able to go in there and contribute and we talked about it a lot this week," McDaniels said. "We don't have six, eight, 10 guys deep at every position. We're going to need everybody to play and everybody to play well."

When asked to comment today about his return, Marshall said simply "no thank you."

There are NFL guidelines that require players to be available to the media at least once in the days leading up to a game as well as after games and players can be fined by commissioner Roger Goodell under those guidelines.

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Originally Posted by Jrwiz

By Jeff Legwold

There are NFL guidelines that require players to be available to the media at least once in the days leading up to a game as well as after games and players can be fined by commissioner Roger Goodell under those guidelines.

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The NFL usually gives a warning to the players before they start fining them, tho.

And reading what Sharpe had to say, he's thinking maybe BM will want to talk with actions on the field, rather than into a microphone.

in all fairness, marshall's in kind of a tough spot. . . if he doesn't talk to the media he's a bad guy for breaking a league rule. . . and if he does talk, he has to be super careful what he says because people will be looking for any snippet that can possibly be taken out of context, mis-interpreted or otherwise blown out of proportion to create drama for brandon and the team. . .

i think that, given the circumstances, keeping his mouth shut and paying the fine if he has to is the wisest course of action. . . .

Perhaps he needs to read a prepared text once a week. And learn not rise to the bait of reporters.

Originally Posted by dogfish

in all fairness, marshall's in kind of a tough spot. . . if he doesn't talk to the media he's a bad guy for breaking a league rule. . . and if he does talk, he has to be super careful what he says because people will be looking for any snippet that can possibly be taken out of context, mis-interpreted or otherwise blown out of proportion to create drama for brandon and the team. . .

i think that, given the circumstances, keeping his mouth shut and paying the fine if he has to is the wisest course of action. . . .

all things considered, I think the league would see "no thank you" as being available and saying the right thing.