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A league insider raised a great observation in connection with the Denver Broncos’ recent decision to part ways with running back Travis Henry, after paying him $6.7 million for one year of service.
Several months ago, Broncos owner Pat Bowlen complained about the 2006 Collective Bargaining Agreement, due to the amount of money that the players receive.
But, in this specific case, the problem isn’t the CBA, but the decision of the Broncos (via coach and de facto G.M. Mike Shanahan) to give so much money to Henry.
So if Bowlen doesn’t want to spend so much money on players, he should at a minimum put measures in place to prevent his team from spending so much money on players who don’t deserve it.
One such measure would be to hire a strong G.M. to make the personnel decisions, with or without Shanahan sticking around as the head coach.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
How much axe-grinding does it take before the damn thing is sharp?
Seriously, if this keeps up Shanahan might have to take out an e-restraining order on Florio. It seems that every entry regarding the Broncos ends up being a criticism of Shanahan in some form or another, justified or not. If he took your lunch money at some point I’m sure he would apologize if given the chance.
By the by, I don’t think $5 million plus is outrageous for a starting running back. Ultimately it didn’t work out but every team goes through this every season with a player getting injured or underperforming.
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June 6th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Shanahan has run out of other people to blame.
How long will Bowlen put up with mismanaged personnel, bad drafts, and the annual re-making of the Donkey defense?
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June 7th, 2008 at 12:00 am
you guys make me sick. your hatred for the broncos is so obvious, you are becoming mike klis. any chance you get you rip on them. its rather pathetic.
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June 7th, 2008 at 12:14 am
a good idea would be to get rid of the fake tan having rat
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June 7th, 2008 at 2:37 am
The Broncos get ripped because they deserve it. Mike Shanahan is the most insufferable d-bag in the league, and think of the ground that statement covers.
His next excuse will be Cutler’s medical condition, just you watch. “It’s not my fault, the guy I picked got diabetes. You can’t blame me for that. I should get another 3 years as a do-over.”
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June 7th, 2008 at 3:31 am
thank you johnny leatherhead for agreeing with me. im sick of this web page taking every chance they get to rip on shanahan. pft is so quick to point out all the misses he has. what about all the guys who were undrafted and turned into studs for denver.
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June 7th, 2008 at 4:33 am
and now…. for my first impression… a broncos fan: “WAAAAAAAHHHHH WAAAAAAHHHHHH WHY YOU MOCK MIKE??? 2 SUPERBOWLS WAAAAHHHHHHH”
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June 7th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Shanahan has run his course, the Broncos wont even make the playoffs this year. Its Cutlers fault he’s a dork,and that hair cut of his?
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June 7th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I really like how you fail to mention Shanahan’s streak of winning seasons and how over the last 10 years hes one of the winningest coaches but oh well he must really suck. Also dont forget who was the first team to stop Brady and Belicheck in the playoffs.
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June 7th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Plus Travis Henry took a pay cut before this season so he wasnt getting paid that contract when he got cut you need better sources.
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June 7th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I detect no bias @ PFT regarding Shanahan… all of it is based on facts. Since Elway left, they have underachieved and overspent. I laughed everytime Plummer ran over to the sideline during drives to get his sip of water, cause the Broncos were sooo smart that they had figured out the key to getting the most out of Plummer. WATER!
The guy has proven on a yearly basis that he can’t get it done as a GM - the proof is in the results and there is no argument you can make otherwise… and I am sure it is hard to take when all you hear from the mainstream media is how he is a top coach and a classy coach and all that crap that gets you NO WHERE when you are watching the games in January from your couch.
They sign Henry with all his baggage and now they want to act like they are sooo classy for cutting a guy who simply acted within his character. Hell, even the Cowboys have been able to reign in Owens for the most part. And we all know the background of their GM.
I for one hope Shanahan stays around for a long time… it is one less team to worry about winning a Super Bowl.
And I’d swear I saw him during a time out whip out a block of cheddar and gnaw on it… but I can’t prove it. Maybe the Pats have some footage. But then again, the Pats probably weren’t too worried about the Broncs.
As always, keep up the unflappable great work PFT, and thanks! Couldn’t help myself with the cheddar/rat reference….
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June 7th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
the don, one shanahan is an amazing gm. all the trades and free agent signings are what has led to his great success. yeah he has misses but what about all the success stories. to many to mention. challenge me if you dont think i can rattle off a list.
and the patriots better be worried about the broncos they are 1-5 against them in the last 6 games. that is the only team the patriots have a lossing record to. broncos > patriots any year at any time.
cutler wont be an excuse he will pass for over 3500 have 25 plus tds and a 65% completion percent. qbs in their third years always do well, under shanahan.
ill make the prediction now. what ever the broncos record ends up being. they will beat the patriots.
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June 7th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I’m about half expecting one of these columns to end with “Laces out Shanahan!”.
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June 7th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Shanahan signed Travis Henry to a considerable signing bonus a year after being suspended 4 games for violating the league substance abuse poilcy: blew up in his face.
shanahan over paid for Daniel Graham a TE that caught an average of 20 passes for the previous 5 seasons, and he had a history of getting injured/ not being a hard worker: 1st year result was 24 catches and two tds. His production was no where close to Tony Scheffler 49 catches 5 td’s whom is paid a fraction of Graham’s pay and will be play a bigger role in the offense. its safe to say that was a very bad allocation of Pat Bowlen’s resources along with the signing of other key UFA Travis Henry. Both were outperformed by players that Shanahan did not have intial confidence in.
Shanahan drafted two very talented but troubled lineman from the Florida Gators. Both had drug problems in college. Jarvis Moss the 1st rd pick was MIA last year because of an injury, and maruc thomas was riding around in the offseason with a bag of cocaine. I know he the issue went away but the bad decision making is very much highlighted in the incident.
Brandon Marshall was percieved to be talented but risky because off the field problems in college: today he still that same charecter risk that he was in college which lead to Cutler blasting him a few months ago. Javon Walker singled him out as being the instigator in a incident at a night club that later resulted into the killing of fellow teammate Darrent Williams.
What More can I say, but thank you PFT and Florio for gving me ammo to verbally slap Bronco fans that run their mouth.
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June 8th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Your right Kabuki… Shanahan is great. And classy. And he won two superbowls* over 10 years ago WITH John Elway and Terrell Davis. The league is in a constant state of fear that he will keep up the good work. No need to “rattle off a list” because you had me at “Shanahan is an amazing gm.” If you are not already then perhaps you should consider a career in litigation…
* denotes organizational cheating on the salary cap
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June 9th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I don’t trust any man whom I’ve never seen blink.
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