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Broncos Sign Von Miller For $70 Million Guaranteed
If you go by the total numbers, the contract Von Miller just signed with the Denver Broncos—six years for $114.5 million—is exactly the same as the one he turned down a month ago. But as we all know, the only number that matters in NFL contracts is the guaranteed dollars....
Wade Phillips Finally Gets His Actual Super Bowl Ring
When the Denver Broncos received their Super Bowl rings Sunday, defensive coordinator Wade Phillips’s jewelry had the wrong name. (It was engraved with the name “Peters.”) He showed a photo of the correct ring Thursday, along with the erroneous one....
Von Miller Says There's "No Chance" He Plays Under Franchise Tag This Season
Contract negotiations between Von Miller and the Denver Broncos aren’t going anywhere. Miller wants to be paid like one of the best defensive players in the league, and the Broncos don’t seem willing to admit that he’s worth more guaranteed money than Olivier Vernon. The team made things worse when ...
The Broncos Can't Lock Up Von Miller, And It's All The Giants' Fault
The Broncos slapped a $14.1 million franchise tag on star linebacker Von Miller this offseason, but were hoping to get him signed to a long-term deal before today’s team-imposed deadline. Talks between the two sides have broken off, though, and the Broncos are probably very, very mad at the New York...
Report: Aqib Talib Told Family He Accidentally Shot Himself
Aqib Talib was taken to a Dallas hospital with a gunshot wound early Sunday morning, and initial reports had him as one of three victims at a nightclub shooting. However, Talib has maintained that he was at a park when he got shot in the thigh and was too drunk to know who shot him, but Dallas PD ar...
Great Pics, Wade!
The Super Bowl-winning Denver Broncos made their visit to the White House today, and defensive coordinator Wade Phillips took pictures to document the trip. His photography skills are equivalent to those of your dad, so none of the shots are properly framed, and the captions are as brief as possible...
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Report: Aqib Talib Shot At Dallas Nightclub [UPDATE]
Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib has been released from a Dallas hospital after being shot during a nightclub altercation Saturday night, according to the Dallas Morning News....
Nearly Perfect: The Chicago Bulls Were Frauds
Children don’t pick their heroes, they gravitate to them. This youthful ignorance is blissful insofar as it frees one to feel that magnetic pull without questioning why it exists in the first place. The Jordan-era Chicago Bulls thus became the team of my childhood without any real reason beyond the...
Von Miller Won't Even Let Cam Newton Play Water Polo In Peace
A fun picture of Cam Newton playing water polo with the U.S. Olympic team was making the rounds yesterday. Von Miller saw the picture, as well as this ingenious Photoshop job by @LLtweets, and couldn’t resist the opportunity to rib the man he spent the entire Super Bowl torturing:...
Broncos' Derek Wolfe Involved In Nightclub Fight, Hit In Head With Bottle
Broncos defensive lineman Derek Wolfe took a swing, and a bottle to the head, at a nightclub in Denver Saturday night, according to footage on TMZ....
Report: NFL Team Wants Player To Pay To Play For Them
Here is a dumb thing!...
The Broncos Want To Find "The Next Brock Osweiler"
At the NFL meetings in Boca Raton today, Broncos coach Gary Kubiak addressed the team’s very fluid quarterback situation, which right now consists of Mark Sanchez, Trevor Siemian, and a big ol’ question mark. Kubiak said Denver’s hope is to find “the next Brock Osweiler,” which is a slightly weird t...
Russell Okung's Self-Negotiated Contract Has Zero Dollars Of Guaranteed Money
Russell Okung negotiated his way to the Broncos on a five-year, $53 million contract. Good for him! That’s a shitload of money for a player to get himself without the help of an agent. He’ll get to keep that extra three percent, which could amount to a cool $1.5 million. However, PFT obtained the de...
Ryan Fitzpatrick's Free Agency is Getting Messy
You, as an educated and perceptive sports fan, know leaked reports about ongoing contract negotiations should not serve as predictors of where a player will end up or what that contract will ultimately look like. But they are good barometers of who thinks it’s a good idea to play hardball by running...
Broncos Trade For Mark Sanchez, Who Is Hopefully A Backup Plan
After losing Peyton Manning to retirement and Brock Osweiler to the Texans, the Denver Broncos find themselves in a peculiar situation, being a championship team that doesn’t have a quarterback. Today, they addressed that issue by trading for ... Mark Sanchez?...
Sounds Like Some Bad Blood Between The Broncos And Brock Osweiler
Brock Osweiler feels he’s more likely to be successful with the Texans than he would have been with the Broncos. The Broncos believe they’re better off without Osweiler at QB for the price he was asking. I’m sure we all have strong feelings on who is correct (it could be both! It could be neither.),...
Report: Texans Sign Brock Osweiler
The Houston Texans have reportedly agreed to a deal with quarterback Brock Osweiler. Rand Getlin of NFL Network broke the news first....
Report: The Broncos Would Go After Colin Kaepernick If They Lose Brock Osweiler
There hasn’t been a defending Super Bowl champion with a quarterback question this glaring since, well, the last time the Broncos won and their QB retired. (Brian Griese did not turn out to be the answer.) But Denver enters free agency with Brock Osweiler unsigned and reportedly very interested in h...
Brock Osweiler Gets Into Physical Altercation While Holding Pizza
TMZ has gotten its hands on a video that they say was taken outside of a pizza joint in Scottsdale, Ariz., early Saturday morning. In the clip, you can see Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler push a woman and then receive a violent shove in the back from the woman’s acquaintance....
Peyton Manning Quotes <i>Forrest Gump</i> To Question About UT Allegations
Peyton Manning was all smiles and tears at his retirement press conference, at least until he was finally asked the question that everyone seemed to be waiting for. Toward the end of the presser, USA Today’s Lindsay Jones brought up the recently resurfaced allegations made by a former Tennessee athl...