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It’s time to lay off of Jake Plummer

        3-0 That’s Jake Plummer’s record against the 3 time Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots. He’s taken the Broncos to the playoffs 3 times in 3 years. Including last years AFC Championship game.

    Under Gary Kubiak, Jake Plummer has had the best 3 years of his career.  Yes, he’s had a lot of interceptions in his first 2 years, but last years performance should be an indicator of Jake becoming more mature as a football player.

    So how come 4 years ago Denver Bronco fans were cheering, `We Want Jake!!’ And now, they want him gone. Would it still be that way if he did take the Broncos to the Super Bowl?  And what if Jake did help them win the big one?  

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Another Rocky Mountain Revival

For 11 seasons the Denver Broncos have been transforming unheralded running backs into NFL stars. Now after a year of waiting and watching it seems to be former Heisman Winner Ron Dayne’s turn.

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Who Does Ashley Lelie Think He Is

By David J. Cohen

NFL mandatory mini-camps have started and in Denver there is a bewildering absentee: Ashley Lelie. Lelie is holding out and demanding a trade because the Broncos are not going to hand him the number 1 receiver position on the team. He wants to go to a team that would place him in that role. The top two receivers on the team are reliable veteran Rod Smith, who gets it done year in and year out, and Javon Walker, who is coming off of an injury but has proven he can be a volatile offensive weapon in this league. Instead of going to camp and competing for the top spot Lelie is whining like a little girl (as his first name would indicate) because he knows that on the field, he isn’t good enough to beat these two out for the spot. And when you look at Lelie’s career production, he shouldn’t be a number one wide-out anywhere.

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Bet on Denver’s newest Bronco

By Sean Quinn

Usually, when 100 players get drafted before you, the media doesn’t pay that much attention to you.  Usually, though, the 101st pick in the NFL Draft doesn’t have as much talent as Maurice Clarett.  

The story from this year’s draft won’t be how much of a gamble the Denver Broncos took on Clarett, but what a steal they got with the final pick of the first round.

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Broncos: Berry- Hayward and Shanahan

DE Bert Berry did a fabulous job for Denver last season. But he did so at the expense of Trevor Pryce, who took most teams double teams.

This year Berry will be the Arizona Cardinals’ Pryce. Will he be able to come up with 8.5 sacks facing double teams every down, as Pryce did last season? Probably not. And who will take advantage of Berry’s double teams for AZ? Berry got a nice pay day, and he deserved it, but it was also a move that will make him look like a one year wonder if head coach Dennis Green doesn’t get him some first rate help in the next year or two.

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In Defense of Griese

I’m a big Brian Griese fan and I have been since I watched him embarrass Ryan Leaf in the Rose Bowl.

Brian Griese is an excellent QB in his own right; in some ways superior to John Elway, and Griese certainly outperformed Jake Plummer as Denver’s starting QB. Making him the whipping boy for Denver’s woes during his stay in the Mile High City, or calling him untalented and worthless, is a considerable distortion of reality.

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Mike Shanahan: Off With His Head!

Every team in the NFL exists for one reason and one reason alone. It is their goal, their job, their duty to reach and win the NFL’s championship game; the Super Bowl – we’ll pretend there are no teams like the Bears whose ownership and management have either forgotten this or just don’t give a damn about it.

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Offseason Induced Scab Picking

The off season stinks.

At this point in the year there’s little news of any value. All that’s left us is speculation, and the upcoming season has already been speculated to death several times over.

So as any obsessive NFL fan might, I’ve begun picking open old scabs, just to see if there’s still any puss left to squeeze out.