I don't write a lot of FanPosts anymore, but I wanted to write one tonight, because I think this situation calls for as much gravitas as this site can muster. Guru wrote a great front page story, speaking for MHR, and he is 100% correct. This will represent my own spin, but the same basic idea. Consider this to be akin to the best practices of political messaging, where if your constituents don't believe you the first time, you simply keep repeating yourself.
After missing a week due to vacation, we're back with another edition of ST&NO. As we're in a pretty slow season for football news, be glad I am not a paid reporter, or I might make up some trade rumors or something. Ready.... BEGIN.
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We're back with more ST&NO, after taking a one-week sabbatical. Well, actually, my day job kept me too busy to write anything, so it wasn't really like a sabbatical. It was more like continuously cranking through re-forecast revenue plans and depreciation schedules, and simultaneously trying to figure out a bunch of new duties on top of that.
I deliberately didn't take my work computer home this weekend, and I plan to make up for my absence last Monday morning. Ready, BEGIN!!!!
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This should have been a great weekend to be a Broncos fan, but it definitely has not been. I don't want to belabor the Cutler mess much more, so I will try to work around it. Ready... BEGIN
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Political capital is a term which is always invoked right after a politician is newly elected, or re-elected. It more or less equates to the concept of benefit of the doubt. In 2004, when George W. Bush was re-elected by a slim margin of 51%-48%, he claimed a wide mandate for his agenda, and openly spoke of using his accrued political capital. His chosen agenda item was a tremendously unpopular scheme to re-cast the social security program. Mr. Bush over-reached by a mile, and that failure ultimately began the long downslope of his presidency, really just a few months after being re-elected. It remains to be seen how long President Obama will be able to keep such a high degree of public goodwill, while implementing programs which can be divisive.
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It would be difficult to overstate just how good Ryan Clady was in his rookie season. I was trying to think of just how a person would go about doing so, and decided to float a bunch of test statements, and evaluate them for overstatement.
Entering the 2008 re-loading season, I was pretty down on our offensive line. The 2007 season saw the worst performance by the group since Mike Shanahan had become Head Coach in 1995. Particularly in pass protection, the performance was just atrocious, especially over the last 4 games of the season. It is fair to say that i considered the deficiency to be no less profound than the deficiency we see on defense heading into this re-loading season. The starting five at the end of 2007 was a pretty motley bunch: Matt Lepsis, Chris Kuper, Chris Myers, Montrae Holland, and Erik Pears.
Since everybody likes my stuff at its shallowest and most nearsighted, I am going to try hard to stick with that program this week, as always. Thing is, to make the point I am going to attempt to make, I'll necessarily be borrowing from some pretty deep and farsighted economic concepts. Just take comfort in knowing that somebody else thought of them, not me, and try hard to picture me as just the meathead football guy who talks about what players and teams and games look like on video. Thanks in advance. Ready,,,,,,,,,, BEGIN.
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Happy Monday to you, or whatever day it might be as you read this, from the Department of Shallow Thoughts & Nearsighted Observations. It's been a slow news week for the Broncos and the NFL, but that can't slow us down. Ready, begin...
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1. I decided to do a Pro Bowl edition of ST&NO, to mark the occasion of what I believe is the first time I've ever deemed it worth my time to watch the Pro Bowl live. I expect that this will be the first of many for Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall, and it should have been the first for Ryan Clady also.
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