I was actually planning on making a "Cutler traded for Shaun Rogers and Brady Quinn"-post today. For me, it's april first. Now before you go check, I might as well tell you, that the post on denverbroncos.com is stamped at March 31st.

This blows! McDaniels is on the hot seat. He has now used up all credit he might have had in good will. I refuse to blame this on Cook og Jay. Let's face it, there's maybe 10 guys out there, who can play the position well - on the f'ing PLANET! When you are the employer of such a guy, I don't care how you keep him happy. Just make sure, that you do!

I mean, this is basic general managing and head coaching 101. Pro Bowl quaterbacks under the age of 30 are worth keeping - Is this really rocket science?! This is just a bad, bad call by both McD and Bowlen. When it comes as far as this: If it's McD, that is Jays problem, then McD has to go. There are further between top tier quarterbacks than between top tier coaches. I'm sorry, but that's as simple as it gets. Besides, the situation is so rediculous, the quarterback, at age 25, has more experience than the coach!! This is a fucking no brainer.

I don't know. I'm still clinging on to the April fools-thing...

I check out the blog over at pro-football-reference.com on an almost hourly basis, and today the great Chase Stuart tossed an extremely well-written post. He basically tries to acces Jay Cutlers value in case of a trade, or in other words; on-field production potential. He does it by cooking up a nice little set of stats and metrics, compares Cutlers output to other players at the position, and comes to a very interesting conclusion.

I should say that this becomes pretty math-nerdy, but i don't think the post will suffer from you skipping the paragraphs with all the technicalities.

I'm just urging you to spend 15 minutes of your busy day to read this - allthough I don't think it will make you feel any better about the mess in Dove Valley. Or Maybe it will, if you're the kind of guy who likes multiple first day draftpicks.

And now a goodnight from Denmark!

Remember the 2008 Denver Special Teams? I do... It sucked. That wasn't only because of Praters 40-curse.

The returning was stinky too. Royal was, to me anyway, a bit of a disappointment. I'll give him a pass due to his heavy duty as a reciever - ask Hester what that combo does to your return-skills. That won't change in 2009 though as Royal isn't leaving Cutlers side for anything.

So, what do we do?

Football-outsiders wrote this today in their off-season preview for the 49'ers:

The 49ers were strong on both kick and punt returns last year, but Allen Rossum is a free agent. He ranked seventh in average kickoff return in 2008.

I didn't catch much 49'er action as i spent all my non-Bronco moments screaming into a pillow or crying myself to sleep, but Rossum does seem to be someone to keep an eye on - he's a low-profile player, that might come cheap. It's better to get him, than spending a 3rd-rounder on a undersized RB or WR to return kicks.

What do you think?

P.S. Need a laugh or a chukle? Check this out!

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Oh boy was I ever wrong. I spend the whole week arguing that we should scale down the runs - especially to Hillis since he's our best back, and everything would come crashing down with him on IR.

I'm hereby officially sorry for wasting your time. You guys were completely right, running the ball has way to much upside. Hillis and that O-line really stuck it to the 5th ranked rushing defense (according to DVOA, ofc). I think i noticed Kris Jenkins have one tackle.

And the passprotection! I noticed one time, maaaaaaybe two, where Cutler faced pressure. It was Clady getting beat inside, btw.

The inside rushing succes and the Cutler clean-ness with Kris Jenkins on the field leads me to give the gameball to Casey Wiegmann - the best, by large margin, FA-signing... And the cheapest, probably.

In other news - i really liked our pass defense. Those guys on defense absorbed tremendous numbers of injuries, and still made Favre look like Vince Young during a math-test or Plaxico Buress in a weapon-store or...I'll stop now. And it wasn't because of protection either, no it was the defensive backs staying tight with an above-average recieving corp.

With those good news, I'll forget to mention the couple of long runs by Jones (Fox didn't impress anyone) and the screen-problems.

Congrats to you guys. 3 games up i the division (hat tip to you, Mr Ryan)! SooOO close... But let's not look past Kansas - look what happened last time. I would really love for the last game i San Diego not to matter - I can't take any more nail-biters.

Hi, guys. This is the piece i sent to Guru, as my submission to the stat-guy gig on MHR. I put some hours into it, and want it to go public i some way, so here it is.

As always you will have to bear with me and my language!

If you disagree on any of my analysis, remember I'm Scandinavian. I'm the closest to a tree-hugging socialist you'll ever get (allthough electing Obama is a step on the way, Tee-Hee), so we can all be friends and sit in a circle and talk about it in the comments section!

Also: I know this doesn't include a lot of hard, cold stats, but I lacked inspiration so I was writing off the top of my head. Hat tip to SethGrandpa for some inspiration (He broke down the commons in the losses - it sparked my idea of the win-commons... before you get to exited about some positive writing, beware)

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