13 thoughts on “Some Drew News and please add your Cutler trade comments”

1. Good Morning from Omaha!!

   Great pick again this week Drew.

   All of this publicity outside of denver can only help build your blogs following

   and put some change in your pocket. Thats always a definite plus. Have a great weekend.

   Gene

2. Good morning Drew – always love your stuff, and glad to see you getting some recognition outside of Denver.

   Meaghan

3. He’s gone, he’s gone, he’s gone….. at least, the Broncos had the smarts to deal with an NFC team.

   Oh, Joy! Kyle Orton

   Everyone got what they wanted except for the fans, right?

4. Good Morning from Chicago,

   Denver got the worst of this trade. Good luck with Orton. I’m hoping Denver can trade him (unlikely) or draft a decent QB. Looks like a rebuilding year for Denver anyways you slice it.

5. McDaniels was able to scrape two quality QB’s from Mid to Late rounds in NE. I suppose we’ll see if he can perform the same magic this go around. A few of the top QB’s around the league were not drafted in the 1st or even close. Stay away from Sanchez!

6. I’d sure like to see your cartoons on page 2 of the Denver Post sports section. Jay-C and the Broncos couldn’t get together, but I hope you and the Post do someday.

7. I’m stoked personally I cant wait till the season starts i want to see what all this rebuilding is about. Go Orton! I’ll pick up my jersey when it comes out

8. And from Cincinnati:

   I have a couple of Bears fans for co-workers. One came in this morning having heard that Cutler was a Bear. She was ecstatic. But she hadn’t heard that Orton was part of the deal. Her reaction when I tolder her: Who trades FOR a Bears quarterback?

9. We probably got the worst of the trade, but it is clear that Cutler thinks more of himself than the team. That is not the leader we need here.

10. As a Denver native and Chiefs fan since the 1990, this has to be funniest conclusion to anything that has occurred in Denver sports in recent memory. Jay Cutler is going to get torn up in NFC North by mediocre teams. He’s excited to go the Bears, wait until he realizes that he has no offensive line, no weapons and Jared Allen on the other side of the line of scrimmage. I know everyone was saying he was a franchise QB but I’m not sure. Look at his recent history, the last season or two, he started to act a lot like Brian Griese. He was off in his own world. He wasn’t the leader the Broncos needed him to be. Which was happening in KC since Trent Green got the boot. However, we won the Matt Cassell lottery so I think they have a QB again.

    In return, the Broncos get two high drafts picks out of the ordeal but as everyone has noted, they are in a rebuilding process. It’s going to take time and a little luck because as we learned with Mike Shananhan, you have to draft correctly.

    If I was McD, draft the franchise QB next year when you have Tim Teebow, Bradford, McCoy and others available.

11. Good afternoon from Omaha,

    gosh it is sad. I am sitting here watching Little Big league and rookie of the year. When did sports get to be so corporate.

    I am old enough to understand that it has always been that way. Roger Maris Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra- they didn’t play for free. and when you look at what they earned in comparison to the average working guy,

    I would almost bet that by percentage the gap was for the time HUGE.

    Now we have millionaires arguing with Billionaires over millions like when we find a dime on the street and think it is our lucky day.

    And all the while we pay and pay for the diversion from real life that there skills give us. We live vicariously through them and imagine what we would do if we were out on the field. We can make that play, tackle the running back, intercept that pass or make that shot at the buzzer.

    And even if we ignore them, with all the television money that prop up their house of cards this insanity will never go away. And the sponsors who support the t.v. money raise there prices to support the advertising that they do to get us to buy their products.

    So in the end we end up paying for it whether we want to or not. Don’t go to game but buy Miller beer,schick razors, coors light, ford pickups we keep the cycle going.

    Do we end the cycle by not watching the games. No, we still support the “game” with our purchases.

    Do we end the cycle by not going to the games. NO. the t.v. money keeps most of the professional teams in the green, whether they want to admit it or not. The pro teams bookwork is like the movie studio’s. While they may sell 70 million dollars worth of tickets, they still don’t make any money. They have production cost, advertising expenses,etc. they never make any “money”.

    And professional teams do the same with the fans, the cities, the unions.

    Eventually this has got to stop.

    Someday pro football, pro baseball, pro basketball will ONLY be on pay per view. the fans that want to see the game will pay just like they bought a ticket at Mile High or Arrowhead.

    And thy can pay the actual game in a colusium like the Romans. Corporate Boxes only.

    No atmosphere like the Superbowl, final four, NcAA football championship.

    Is there an answer? Can the fans ever gain control of their teams. Can the cities?

    Did we ever have control over anything but ourselves and our choices??

    some day like all things, this too shall pass.

    But will anybody notice.

    Gene

12. No idea if Denver or Chicago got he better. Won’t know until after the picks are made and we see what they can do on the field. I am taking a ‘break’ from the Broncos until McHoodie is gone. McHoodie is in over his head. We have GM that was running the Atlanta Falcon’s fitness center 3 years ago and an owner who is clueless when it comes to running a football team.

    When we fired Shanahan, I thought the plan was to re-build the defense, not completely tear apart the offense. I saw this morning that Sheffler is on his way too and the team is open to offers for all 3 RBs Hillis, Torian and Young. With Marshall out until training camp and likely to miss at least 4 games, it’ll be late October before the entire offense is on the field and in any kind of rhythm.

    Oh and the rebuilding of the defense, we now have the oldest secondary in the league and Champ hasn’t made it through an entire season for 3 years now.

    All this trade means is the Chargers have the division wrapped up the next 3 years. With the AFC full of such young good teams, we won’t see the playoffs for at least 2 years.

13. it’s time for the Bronco faithful to rally around their new quarterback. Give Orton credit for making a quick appearance in Denver and for saying all the right things to a fanbase that is still in shock over what has transpired over the last few weeks. Orton is NOT the bad guy in this scenario. I’m confident that he will provide leadership to a team sorely lacking in this area. Surround him with a healthy backfield and give him time to throw the ball and I think we will be pleasently surprised with how effective he can be, especially if McDaniels can develop him like he did Cassel in NE. It’s time to forget #6- Like it or not, it’s a new era in Denver Bronco football.