The Broncos Continue to Crumble: Brandon Marshall Packs His Bags, Tells Pat Bowlen to Trade Him
NFL June 16th. 2009, 10:30am
Likely destinations for Denver’s law-breaking, but talented WR, Brandon Marshall, who notified the team Friday that he wants out of the Mile High city:
- Baltimore: Flacco would be thrilled.
- Jets: If they can’t land Plax, Marshall could be the next Keyshawn.
- Tennessee: Kenny Britt, Nate Washington and Marshall would make an awesome offseason haul.
- San Francisco: Pair him with rookie Michael Crabtree? Alex Smith would love that.
- Minnesota: Marshall and Berrian catching passes from Favre, with Adrian Peterson in the backfield? Super Bowl lock.
Wherever Marshall ends up, that team can offer a tip of the cap to the Outside the Lines crew. Broncos brass couldn’t have been thrilled with this report, which was followed by salary demands.
Marshall must run go route (Denver Post)
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June 16th, 2009 at 10:33 am
I’m sure Marshall would love Alex Smith throwing him the ball.
/sarcasm
June 16th, 2009 at 10:33 am
how about Marshall to Chicago? Do the Bears have anything left to trade?
June 16th, 2009 at 10:35 am
hahahahahhahahahahahahaha
June 16th, 2009 at 10:35 am
This isn’t Madden. What are those teams giving up to get one of the 10 best WRs in the league?
June 16th, 2009 at 10:36 am
i really like this one.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:36 am
TBL did you miss how your Jets played with Favre at the end of the season? You think Marshall is going to make the Vikings better than the Giants or Eagles?
June 16th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Well, the Bears gave up a few draft picks for Jay cutler …
you wouldn’t give up a No. 1 next year for a stud WR?
June 16th, 2009 at 10:37 am
they should trade hester and a 3rd rounder. that should do it.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:39 am
i’d say right now giants and eagles are the best in the NFC.
but the vikings would prob be 3rd. and if they add a stud WR – something neither NYG or PHI have … why not?
as long as the defense is as good, sure, marshall would put Minny over the top
June 16th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Yeah who doesn’t like to watch a vertical offense. Especially from the great view Smith will have from the bench.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Wow! That only puts them behind the Cardinals, Saints, Falcons, and the Eagles with a healthy Westbrook for the best offense in the NFC.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Dear Ravens,
Please trade for Brandon Marshall.
Thanks,
Joe Flacco and Derrick Mason.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:41 am
sure the Bronco’s will give the Skins a call so they can fleece Danny Boy out of some more draft picks. Snyder would certainly give up next years #1 for Marshall.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:43 am
<with a healthy Westbrook>
Are you trying to be funny?
June 16th, 2009 at 10:43 am
As a Jets fan I would love to have Marshall. I could really care less about what he does off the field as long as he is on the field on Sundays. I’d rather have him over Plax as Plax will disappear in about half of his games. Marshall is a better receptions guy
TBL- when are you gonna realize that Farve hasn’t been good in 5 years and he is the main reason why the Jets bombed last year? Should I remind you what his stats were at the end of the season?
I’ll give you 20-1 odds the Vikings don’t appear in the Super Bowl – pending they actually land Favre
June 16th, 2009 at 10:44 am
didn’t they give up next year’s too in the cutler trade?
fixed
June 16th, 2009 at 10:44 am
cards? LOL … like wells, dont see them getting on that lucky of a postseason run again
saints? right. fierce defense.
falcons? maybe it was a fluke.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:44 am
why isn’t Tampa on the list?
June 16th, 2009 at 10:45 am
2010 1st went to DEN for Cutler as well
June 16th, 2009 at 10:45 am
The Redskins gave up a #3 and a #4 to get Brandon Lloyd. I’m sure they’d give up 3 1st rounders to get Marshall.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:45 am
he was great in 2007-08.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:47 am
lucky postseason run? they got hot, but i wouldn’t call it luck.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Most uninformed football quote I have ever seen.
/Giants fan who watched Plax pull Double coverage for 3 years and win a Super Bowl and’
/His NFC Championship game is one of the great individual playoff performances of all-time
/enjoy David Clowney Jet fan
June 16th, 2009 at 10:48 am
I didn’t call those teams Super Bowl contenders. I was comparing offenses. Yes, I’d take all of those teams and quarterbacks over a Favre-run offense, especially in December.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:48 am
uh, because Tampa sucks, has a new coach, no QB … they’re building, it seems odd that they’d give up the future to just get a really good WR.
Favre was good in the 1st half of last season. remember? he had the jets in first place for a minute
June 16th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Marshall’s value is overrated (I’m not saying his ability). Isn’t he suspended for at least the opener already this year?
Also, this is the last year of his contract. Something tells me this guy is not going to be easy to sign, or come cheaply. I don’t think a team is going to pay a ton in terms of talent/picks for a WR that is batshit crazy and wants to get PAYED (see Braylon, Boldin as other examples)
His next deal is going to have a ton of “incentives” to make sure he keeps his shit together, and he isn’t going to want to sign that kind of deal.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Until it counted.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Bengals!
Carson-Marshall-CJ-Henry
June 16th, 2009 at 10:50 am
i think Mccoy will do some damage for the Eagles as well. they might be really good.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:51 am
/Corey Webster
NO i will give you that spence – his stats during the regular season were good. But look at his 05 and 06 stats
TD/INT 18/18, 20/29
June 16th, 2009 at 10:52 am
I’d rather have him over Plax as Plax will disappear in about half of his games
Most uninformed football quote I have ever seen.
I think he meant Plax will disappear behind Roger Goodell’s wall of invisibility (ie. suspension).
June 16th, 2009 at 10:52 am
I think you are forgetting one little thing called chemistry. How many pro-bowlers did Dallas have when they Giants beat them on the Super Bowl run? Gluing together two key pieces during the off-season doesn’t mean they will stick. The cores of the Eagles and Giants have been playing together for many years now. That’s one huge intangible that always goes unaccounted for.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:53 am
why do you think the Giants running game was so great the last few years? he was one of the main cogs. teams shaded a safety on him every game. he is also one of the better blocking WRs in the game. but sure, go ahead and get Herman Moore 2 instead.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:53 am
i don’t deny this…he was an abortion those years.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Joe Flacco should have been aborted.
/Spencer’d
June 16th, 2009 at 10:56 am
I’m beginning to wonder if the only reason he won a Super Bowl was because he faced an expansion team in the NFC Championship and a hardly-great Patriots team in the Super Bowl.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:57 am
I think Marshall is a beast, but I wouldn’t want him near my team, especially if his contract is about to be up. He is a walking jail sentence and he is going to want some serious money.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Dear Ravens,
Thank you for relocating a horribly inept franchise to Baltimore and winning a Super Bowl within 6 years. Also, thank you for consistently being superior to the replacement team of the original franchise. Now just trade for Marshall so that the only position in which the Browns were superior will no longer exist.
Thanks,
Ravens Fans
June 16th, 2009 at 10:58 am
If Daniel Snyder were a blogger instead of a baby squire, he would have written this post.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:59 am
So wouldn’t you want that contract year performance? Then send him on his way.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:01 am
I don’t know if it would be worth giving up a #1 or more for just one year. Not saying that someone won’t do just that, but I don’t think it would be worth it for one year. Maybe if you are only one WR away from a title, like NYG, but I still think that is too big of a gamble.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Wait a minute. What does any of those have to do with Artie Lange?
June 16th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Most uninformed football quote I have ever seen.He will either be injured, complaining, or at court for half the games in 09 and possibly ‘10. He’s not getting any younger either, 10 years in the league already.
I would still take him, but would rather have Marshall
What does that have to do with playing a full season? I never said his contribution wasn’t integral to Giants success or lack there of the past 3 years
If he gets open and catches it, it will be a bigger accomplishment then whatever Sinorce Moss has done in his entire career.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:04 am
For one year? No way. The only team that I could imagine turning a sure thing into an even surer thing would be the Eagles.
If not, and I know this is a baseball reference, ask the Tigers if 6 weeks of Doyle Alexander was worth John Smoltz.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:06 am
So wouldn’t you want that contract year performance? Then send him on his way.
Nick: Like I said in #26, no, not if it means giving up a lot to get him. Who’s gonna give a #1 for a one year guy who’s already suspended for one game, and who knows how many more (based on what he could do or already has done)?
A lot of these owners have clamped down BIG TIME on the bucks, because they are hurting (Snyder’s Six Flags filed Chapter 11 Monday, rumors that Bowlen, Jerry Jones and others are tapped out-no liquidity).
They’re not going to want to pay a ton of money to a guy they may not be able to count on.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:06 am
for that one year. yes he was. Alexander went 9-0 after they made that trade.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:10 am
He’s not suspended for any games this year at all, yet.
That could change, depending on what happens in the Atlanta court case. But Brandon should tighten his headscrews–he’s severely overestimating his own value. He led the league in drops last year and has a habit of fumbling at big moments, and his reception totals are inflated because Jay-Jay would force it to him no matter what.
I doubt he gets traded. I see Denver sitting on him until he comes to his senses and realizes he has no leverage at all.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:10 am
My point was that it looked like a good idea at the moment, but the Twins still went to the World Series.
I think if you don’t win or at least go to a Super Bowl that one year, the trade wasn’t worth it.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:11 am
I like how you guys are picking number 5 picks
June 16th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Starting to wonder if there’s a line of players outside Bowlen’s office waiting to ask to be traded.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:13 am
that didn’t make any sense, i meant to say i like how you guys are making fun of each others number 4 or 5 wideouts
June 16th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Geauga Lake was the shit.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:16 am
I dated a girl from Geauga. I hated that f’n place
June 16th, 2009 at 11:16 am
He started it
June 16th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Snyder’s Six Flags filed Chapter 11 Monday
I’m sure he’ll trade the franchise for the rights to a fair in Alexandria.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Let them go. Sometimes you have to blow a team up. Especially one that can’t win that division or even make the playoffs with the talent they’ve compiled.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:21 am
He’s not suspended for any games this year at all, yet.
And that’s the point: Yet. His case is now postponed and he could wait till 2011 for a final resolution.
All of which ignores the fact that Chairman Roger doesn’t care what the legal system says and will suspend players who bring shame on the Shield.
Put it this way: Until there’s some resolution as to his status this year, I can’t see how any team with realistic SB aspirations makes Plax the kind of offer that he’d agree to sign for.
Snyder’s Six Flags filed Chapter 11 Monday
Vinny Cerrato running that ship into the ground too?
June 16th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Maybe Joe Gibbs can save it.
But in Cerrato’s defense, it wasn’t his fault. He only had two team’s drafts and an owner who would sign anybody when he started.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Let them go. Sometimes you have to blow a team up. Especially one that can’t win that division or even make the playoffs with the talent they’ve compiled.
Exactly. Fans around here are acting like McDaniels is tearing apart the ‘89 Niners.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Went to shit once they turned it into Six Flags
June 16th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Denver’s dive into the shitter seems to coincide with the drafting of Maurice Clarett.
Coincidense?
June 16th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Ding ding ding. Over on PFT, Florio was saying that if Marshall misses any of training camp, he forfeits $90k for the first day, and that increases by $17k every day he doesn’t report. Also, if he fails to report at least 30 days prior to the start of the regular season, he forfeits a year of service, so he wouldn’t be a free agent at the end of the year. So, the Broncos can wait and see if anyone wants to give up anything stupid for him, which no team will. It just doesn’t make sense.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:31 am
@NickP
With Marshall, Lavernues Coles, and Ocho…all they would need is some semblance of a running game to make the playoffs. Kind of high on the Bengals this year
/and a defense, a QB who doesn’t get injured, and a head coach
//yeah, n/m.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:31 am
more like thanks for completely, and utterly, de-classing a once classy, and historic organization.
the fact you’re proud of your team sickens me.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Denver’s dive into the shitter seems to coincide with the drafting of Maurice Clarett.
Totally, seeing as they went to the AFC Championship game that season. More appropriately, the downward spiral started around the time that Shanahan started crushing on Jay-Jay’s laser rocket arm and figured he didn’t need a defense any more.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Am I the only one that thinks this would be a great time for Orton to have a sit-down with Marshall? He’d not only establish a leadership role, but would also settle down one of the top talents in the league who can make Orton look great.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Lots of reasons for Denver’s implosion
*Jake Plummer going Unibomber
*Shanahan truly believing he could turn anyone into a 1000-yard rusher
*Trying to win with the Cleveland Browns defensive line
*Alex Gibbs leaving
There are others. Those just come to mind off the top of my head.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Sucked when Gibbs left, but the team still racked up rushing yards. Rick Dennison has done a hell of a job with the line, and Bobby Turner is a great backs coach.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Remember that they actually did win with the Cleveland castoffs. For one year, anyway. Then Warren decided to stop playing and Courtney Brown went back to being eternally hurt.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Damn you, badger.
I think the D will surprise this year. Coach still blows dudes, though.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:49 am
/Jared Allen’d
June 16th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Rick Dennison has done a hell of a job with the line, and Bobby Turner is a great backs coach.
That’s the truth. Always amazes me that no one stole Turner for an OC job…I think he was up for one in Miami (I think) but didn’t get it. Fine with me. Even with a baggage-stealing cellphone salesman carrying it at the end of the year, they still ended up rushing for almost 5 yards a carry overall. Running game is the least of our worries.
June 16th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
heres a theory (not mine but someone at fannation). Bowlen got tired of the inmates running the assylum so he canned shanahan. Now mcdaniels isnt taking shit from anyone so everyone is crying like bitches
June 16th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
and this is a good thing?
June 16th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
courtney brown was a damn fine player…he just couldn’t stay healthy for shit. when he was tho, he was a force.
gerrard warren can dive on a knife for all i care.
June 16th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
You can cross SF off the list… in addition to Crabtree they have both Josh Morgan and Jason Hill, who are young receivers that showed a bunch of potential last year, and Bruce is still around to mentor them. It’d be funny if Marshall ended up in Chicago. Whatever happens, somewhere right now Jay Cutler is smiling.
June 16th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
“Now mcdaniels isnt taking shit from anyone so everyone is crying like bitches”
Yeah, because unlike Shanahan, McDaniels has proven himself as a head coach and isn’t going to put up with any crap. Oh wait, that’s not true at all.
June 16th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
That’s because he started on the whiskey early.