I could care a less about the Marshall record today.  The more people that are involved in catching the ball the better the offense will be.   Not sure why our Young Jedi is allowing Orton to do this.   

Ouch does our O-line suck.     Need to spend some draft picks on replacing the slugs...   Even Clady has looked lazy lately.    Somebody needs to light a fire under them.   

We sure did miss Larsen's blocking today.     Great use of Hillis today as well.   Why not give him a chance. 

The best way to slow down an agressive pass rush?  Maybe a screen pass to a RB or TE.

Jedi gets an D- for play calling today. 

Just thought I would give everyone a heads up on how Tim Crowder is doing.   He had 5 total tackles in the game against Carolina.    He looks a lot better than Gaines Adams and I just don't understand why  the bears would trade a second round pick for Adams...   Tough times in Tampa,  sure hope they get a high profile couch next year and a new GM.     

Go Broncos!     they need to wear those uniforms until they lose a game

Below is my post right after the draft.   Kind of funny to look back at some of the comments.   Are you brave enough to find your post from April's Draft and grade it now..

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Looks like they just updated the Broncos Depth Chart again. 

   It will be interesting to see if Moss makes it.  What a game yesterday.  Thank goodness for the turnovers,  I was begining to wonder if we were cursed or not.     I can't believe I have to do 75 words for this to post.    Only women write that much.... Just kidding Only up to 61 words.   Can't wait for Beatles Rock Band 9/9/09

The preseason is over and I have to admit I am impressed with what I have seen.    I am not saying it will be a great year, but we are moving in the right direction.   Nice Job by Josh and the coaches pulling this all off.   Here are a couple of thoughts after looking at the preseason stats

Offense

•  Turnovers Ranked #29 with -5.   Thank goodness for that last game.  It could have been worse.  At least the defense will be allowed to be aggressive in this area
• Time of Possesion Ranked #3 at 32.40.  This is a nice surprise for me and this will help our defense improve greatly as they are not on the field all the time.
• Offense penalty Yard Ranked #29 @ 164 yards.  Nice job except that bears game was brutal.  We could have been ranked 32!   This shows Josh's detail this year in training camp.  Thank You
• 3rd down percentage ranked 24th at 36%.   No worries yet.   We were evaluating talent not padding stats.
• Points per game Ranked 24th with 16.2.   We must improve this number over laster year in order to have any success this year
• Yards per game Ranked 19th @ 308.   

Defense

• Points per Game Ranked 13th @ 17.8.    Great to see this with all the change!
• Yards per Game Ranked  7th.   Way to go D!
• 3rd down percentage Ranked 5th @ 35%.  My slogan for 2009 is "3 and Out Baby!"  

Still have a few openings for the league

Well,  since I have not seen any unoffical fantasy leagues I thought I would make one.   I used Yahoo.   20 teams  Please feel free to join if you are a hard core player.     

Custom League named MHR Fantasy League .

League ID# 239036

Password MSM.

You have chosen for your league to take part in a live online draft on Thu Sep 3  7pm mountain standard  time.  Arrive about 10 minutes before the live draft

We also suggest that all league members custom rank their players in case a manager can't make it to the draft. Managers can do this at any time by simply going to the Fantasy Football home page and clicking on their team name.

Thanks for joining. Good luck.

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/mhrfantasyleague

--Fantasy Football Commissioner
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1

Let the fun begin

Scoring & Settings

Ok,  I know we have some serious talent when it comes to writng psts.   I was hoping we could come to some sort of standard with Text Slang.    Feel Free to add your creative terms.   

Sample

I know I am not suppose to hate, but……

Type          Meaning

IHAD  =   I hate Al Davis

TRS     =  The Raiders suck

PRSD  = Philip Rivers sucks Dic*

IHCBAL = I hope Cutler breaks a leg

Just kidding.......

Here are the real ones

HROTD = Hillis ran over that defender

NC        = Nice Catch

GR      = Good Run

WTFTRNG = What the Fuc*, That Ref needs glasses

TWH  = That was holding

CTO   = Call Time Out

OJWD  = Orton Just went Deep

RIAS  = Royal is a stud!

I think it might be time for us to start looking at new uniforms.   That seemed to get us over the Super Bowl hump last time.   What ever design we use it should be intimidating to the oposition and give us a true advantage.  Here are my design thoughts

The uniform should make Eddie Royal look 6'3.

slippery enough to enable Ryan Clady to not allow one sack.   Whoops we already have that with 1/2 a sack

The new uniforms should make 30 second commercials seem like 15.    HDR's are the best! 

Allow Hillis to run a 4.2 40 yard dash in wet conditions .  

Enable us to be on national television every week.  This would save me my NFL ticket money

The uniforms will need to create enough buzz that I won't  have to listen to those two idiots on the NFL Network talk at half-time. 

They need to change colors as the game wears on.   Broncos Orange Crush if we are doing well.   Pink if we are loosing to the faiders or chiefs.

Let me know what you want to see in the new uniforms

Well he did not take long to get comfortable.    We miss you JC!

We're keeping an eye on Jay Cutler during his first Bears training camp.

Ho-hum day: Nothing too spectacular from Cutler on Day 3. He completed his first 12 passes during 7-on-7 drills. His first incompletion was an uncharacteristic drop by Matt Forte. Cutler started full-team drills 0-for-3, including a high throw that Devin Hester couldn't quite corral. Cutler completed 18 of 23, by our count.

Wild side: The crowd buzzed as Cutler split out wide left and Hester lined for the direct snap in the "Wildcat" formation. Cutler pretty much stayed out of the way as Hester did his thing.

Lovie-ism: (On the Wildcat) "Jay Cutler's an athlete too. So who knows, we may throw him a pass out there." Smith quickly recanted his statements, saying the Bears wouldn't be throwing to Cutler and that it was a "bad joke." Guess he didn't want to give the Packers advance notice.