Second-round draft pick Brock Osweiler, from Arizona State, poses Saturday with Broncos executive John Elway at team headquarters. Osweiler passed for 4,036 yards last year, his only full season as a college starter.
McDaniels still around. Looks to me like Broncos executive John Elway is getting his NFL draft advice from former Denver coach Josh McDaniels.
Jim, Denver
Kiz: The Broncos didn't like anyone or anything on Day One of the NFL draft. Then, it seemed as if Denver liked everybody it drafted too much on the second day. If Elway believes Derek Wolfe of Cincinnati is better than all the defensive tackles that were on the board, I have no problem going against conventional wisdom. But taking Arizona State quarterback Brock Osweiler to collect dust behind Peyton Manning? Let's see how many plays Osweiler makes this season compared with Nebraska linebacker Lavonte David,
grabbed at No. 58 by Tampa Bay before Osweiler could be fitted for a Broncos ball cap. San Diego State running back Ronnie Hillman was taken by a below-average defensive team to erase the mistake of Knowshon Moreno. Wolfe. Osweiler. Hillman. If that out-of-the-box thinking was exhibited while McDaniels was in charge, he would have been called names I can't mention.Talkin' Tebow. You should charge Tim Tebow rent for all the time he spends sitting on your brain. I know you are fully invested in the Tebow-as-a-failure narrative, but you've lost all sense of perspective. You wrote that the drafting of Tebow was an unforgivable error by McDaniels. On the contrary, Tebow took over a 1-4 Broncos team, went 7-4, led Denver to the playoffs and beat Pittsburgh in one of the most glorious wins in franchise history. Not bad for a huge mistake. Thank you, Josh.
Rush, Littleton
Kiz: In your blind praise for Tebow, I'm afraid you miss the point as badly as Tebow bounces passes at the feet of receivers. Tebow did perform heroics for Denver. But long after McDaniels was fired. That is what happens to an unproven coach who commits the huge error of using a first-round pick on a player unable to come in and immediately help a struggling team. It made no sense for McDaniels. Know what else qualifies as a wild-and-crazy idea? A Denver team that ranked 24th in points allowed last season using a second-round pick on an Arizona State quarterback who is likely to play as much this season as any staffer at Kickin' It Headquarters. How's that going to help Manning win a Super Bowl?
Dumb decision. The Broncos blew it. They had an opportunity to take an impact player in Boise State tailback Doug Martin, who would have been a major complement to Manning. Big mistake.
Doug, feeling a little blueKiz: The Broncos traded out of the first round, blowing by Martin when they could have taken him at No. 31. For what purpose? To acquire an extra draft pick that would, in essence, be used to trade into the third round to draft Hillman, who plays ... you guessed it: running back. Wow, those were more drastic cutback moves than Hillman made when he scored a 99-yard touchdown against Wyoming. Coach John Fox has already compared Hillman to Marshall Faulk, who ran all the way to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Say what? Let's hope Hillman can outshine LaMichael James, a rookie from Oregon, before comparing him to a player whose bustis parked in Canton, Ohio.
Foreign language. If the latest cheating allegations of eavesdropping on opposing coaches are true, I think the New Orleans Saints are just complete nincompoops! How, in the limited window that the microphones were open, do you relay information to the coaching staff? I like football because I can view it as a chess match with violence. Charges of cheating against the New England Patriots and now the Saints are ruining it for me. This is akin to learning that Santa Claus isn't real.
Michael, Littleton
Kiz: Nincompoop? Watch your language, mister. We have sensitive ears at Kickin' It Headquarters.
Making weight. Please tell wrestler Rulon Gardner, who won an Olympic gold medal, there is a 12-step program called Compulsive Eaters Anonymous.
Jeannie, Loveland
Kiz: During the past two years, Gardner dropped from 474 pounds to 269. He fell 5 pounds short of reaching the required weight to wrestle at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Some people called him a failure for missing his goal. I think he won.
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NFL draft for dummies
And today's parting shot suggests that the official theme song of the Broncos should be "Don't Worry, Be Happy":
The answer to the mystery of Denver's NFL draft plan is simple: The Broncos are going to average more than 35 points per game this year, so they really don't need a defense. Just being sarcastic, but that is the only explanation I can come up with for their actions, or lack thereof, during the draft.
Eric, Westminster
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