"Tuning ... into each other ... lift all higher”
“I’m just different!”
“ . . . Picture a cup in the middle of the sea”
Draft
1st round— Cooper Dejean CB
2nd round— Jack Sawyer OLB
3rd round— Will Shipley RB
4th round— Ricky Pearsall WR
5th round— Ladd McKonkey WR
6th round— Cash Jones RB
7th round— Carson Steele RB
"Tuning ... into each other ... lift all higher”
“I’m just different!”
“ . . . Picture a cup in the middle of the sea”
Draft
1st round— Cooper Dejean CB
2nd round— Jack Sawyer OLB
3rd round— Will Shipley RB
4th round— Ricky Pearsall WR
5th round— Ladd McKonkey WR
6th round— Cash Jones RB
7th round— Carson Steele RB
"Tuning ... into each other ... lift all higher”
“I’m just different!”
“ . . . Picture a cup in the middle of the sea”
Draft
1st round— Cooper Dejean CB
2nd round— Jack Sawyer OLB
3rd round— Will Shipley RB
4th round— Ricky Pearsall WR
5th round— Ladd McKonkey WR
6th round— Cash Jones RB
7th round— Carson Steele RB
Wonder where he will end up or what he would sign if retained by the Broncos?!
April Showers and Easter!
I never liked Clark; did you forget how I harped on his strip-sack-TDs in THREE STRAIGHT GAMES as proof Fox was nuts to publicly call Clark "the best backup OT in the NFL"? We were lucky to even get a FINAL round pick in trade for him, but that's not the point: Bad as he was, Okungs 2016 was no better, but ate FAR more cap.
I believe in spending premium picks/cash for premium OTs, not perpetually and vainly seeking the Terrell Davis of linemen—but that does NOT mean spending premium picks/cash for crap OTs. If Elway insists crap OTs protect his young QBs, I agree we shouldn't pay more than league minimum for THAT.
As to me being bad luck: Begging to dump Fox for Kubiak, Wade & Dennison worked out well, yes? Imagine if we'd done it when I wanted instead of a year later. There's quite a number of Broncos players I like: I just don't automatically love every who wears orange and blue.
Oh, valid point. I thought you meant all starters, you should take the time to be more descriptive, don't be shy. —Jaded
Never confuse frustrated candor and disloyal malice.
Love can't be coerced. —Me
Oh, valid point. I thought you meant all starters, you should take the time to be more descriptive, don't be shy. —Jaded
Never confuse frustrated candor and disloyal malice.
Love can't be coerced. —Me
That's been my point all along. There are NO PREMIUM let alone elite LTs available in FA. None at all.
Whitworth is the best of them and he's 35. Teams lock up their premium LTs in long term contracts and they never hit FA. If a guy gets to FA that indicates he has a problem with his former team.
Example: Clady. Premium LT when he was healthy, he signed a big payday contract extension in 2013, then immediately blew out his knee. Came back and played in 2014 and was mediocre at best. Then blew out his knee again in a non-contact practice in July.
The Broncos let him go. The Jets, thinking "this guy's still relatively young and could be a franchise guy for us if he can get healthy. So, it's worth a gamble to us to sign him." They lost that gamble. He only played nine games for them and they paid him $7.5 M. Naturally, they passed on giving him the rest of his $20.5 M contract. The rest was not guaranteed, so they released him.
This is typical. If a guy was an elite talent, why would his team let him go?
According to Mark Schlereth the state of OL play in the NFL has never been worse, and college is going more to spread offenses so NFL style offensive linemen are getting fewer rather than more.
If you can find an average guy you'd better lock him up. If you have a better than average guy you really need to keep him, cause it's slim pickings out there in FA bargain basement land!
I liked Nate Potter, he disappeared...I guess Joel liked him too.
"Tuning ... into each other ... lift all higher”
“I’m just different!”
“ . . . Picture a cup in the middle of the sea”
Draft
1st round— Cooper Dejean CB
2nd round— Jack Sawyer OLB
3rd round— Will Shipley RB
4th round— Ricky Pearsall WR
5th round— Ladd McKonkey WR
6th round— Cash Jones RB
7th round— Carson Steele RB
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