BRONCOS TRAINING CAMP REPORT 2014
The report from Denver Broncos training camp is….that it as just as boring as the Bills training camp, or probably any other teams training camp.
Don’t get me wrong. It is fun to go, and be just a few yards away from players like Peyton Manning, Demaryious Thomas, Wes Welker, Von Miller and company, and watch them do their thing for a couple of hours. The thing is, if you’ve seen one training camp, you’ve probably seen them all.
It was hot. It was sticky. It was pretty uncomfortable, but it WAS the heavy favorite to win the Super Bowl, which was pretty cool.
According to running back Knowshon Moreno (who exclaimed “Woooo Hooooo” numerous times during practice, which prompted the entire crowd to hollar “woooo hooo” back to him every time he did it), the Broncos are the team to beat.
That is what scares me for Bronco fans. Here is a team that was 13-3 last year, got a first round bye and was 50 something seconds from moving on to the Super Bowl last January. Now, Peyton Manning is in his 2nd full season at the helm of this team, with a new running back in Montae Ball, new draft picks, Wes Welker, and a few upgrades at kother key positions. The Broncos look like world beaters. They look like a team that will be hard to beat by anyone in the regular season. It seems like everything looks…well…almost too good. That’s when the trouble starts.
Already, Von Miller might be facing a four game suspension for failed drug tests. Manning is getting up there in years and still has that shaky neck and nerve problem, and if they start believing their press clippings, could be saddled with a huge over-confidence problem. As a fairly new Bronco fan, I hope I am wrong though.
As for the vacation, I coninue to eat like a swine and we haven’t even made the annual visit to the trough, errr, the Golden Corral. They have a chain of pizza joints here called Blackjacks pizza, who are running a one topping, $4.99 large pizza deal. We got three for the family, but they screwed up the order and gave us two free ones, so we got five. My mind was ecstatic, but my gut didn’t really follow suit.
We are staying active though. That’s what they do here in Denver. It’s the most active, in shape major city in the country. Very health conscious. We went to Chatfield reservoir in my in laws boat on Sunday and are going again this afternoon. I got to swin with the geese, which was cool. The geese are so domesticated on this reservoir that they will swim right up to you and take bread right out of your fingers while you are swimming. Pretty wild! We should also be doing some tubing (being pulled fast by the boat while laying on a large inner tube), which we didn’t get a chance to do Sunday because it rained. I can’t wait. It bring back childhood memories of my doing that on Canandaigua Lake.
Meanwhile, our two Rochester wiener dogs are loving life, spending every day with their western pack they grew up with as lil’ pups. Nothing more fun that watching five wiener dogs and a beagle scamper outside thru the doggy door at the same time, barking all the way. It’s quite a scene.
Well, I gotta go get the ol’ swim trunks on (I’m over 40 now…they are “swim trunks”, not a “bathing suit” as I would have called it before age 40) and get ready to head to the boat. The folks should be here any minute…..
