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M. Bell Not The Starter....YET (1 Viewer)

hm...methinks this is motivation for mike bell. he hasn't said bell lost it. he hasn't named another guy. the competition is fierce. its always been. don't jump on anything JUST yet.

 
redman said:
Football Jones said:
I've never been more convinced Denver will go get a top RB in next year's draft as long as they can get decent value (unless one of their current RBs really steps it up this season).
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I think you're right. They haven't been this thin at RB IMHO since Derrick Loville was their starter during Shanny's first year back in 1994. :X
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Neither Shanny nor Loville was with Denver in 1994. They were both in San Fran, where Ricky Watters went to the Pro Bowl that year. None of this really adds to the thread, but I wanted to set the record straight.
 
This just in....

Shanahan was just seen eating a a Taco Bell.

I know they have 2 RB's named Bell, but taco begins with a "t".

If "The Mission Bell" was playing on the radio I would have gone after Mike, but I'm willing to trade LJ for Tatum right now!

 
Tatum is thus far the best pick. He may or may not win the starting job (Shanahan doesn't want him to have it but if all else is complete crap he may have no choice), but at WORST he should finish as he did last year-just outside the top twenty.

 
AnonymousBob said:
Bill Brasky said:
Watching you people torture yourselves over this situation is quite amusing
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It'll be all the more amusing when we snag a top 15 running back that you avoided like the plague because you were too timid to take a chance.
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Oh, I have Tatum...and I'm not worried one bit. My season doesn't hinge on him getting the job and I think he will bet the majority of the points in that backfield anyway. I'll let you get back to listening to Shanny press conferences and searching emphasis and overtones in his voice. Report back with what you find!
 
AnonymousBob said:
Tatum is thus far the best pick. He may or may not win the starting job (Shanahan doesn't want him to have it but if all else is complete crap he may have no choice), but at WORST he should finish as he did last year-just outside the top twenty.
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This is my thinking as well. Mike Bell has top-10 potential in the situation, but could also still be a bust and end up on the fantasy waiver wires in two months. Whereas Tatum's floor is, barring injury, 800 yards rushing/100 yards receiving/6 TDs, as an RB3 or RB4 on a fantasy roster, he's servicable. His upside potential could realistically be 1100/300/9. At worst he's in the top 30, at the best top 12.I'd rather draft Tatum ahead of those mid-round question mark guys like Rhodes, Green, Taylor, Maroney, Barlow, and Benson.
 
Despyzer said:
redman said:
Football Jones said:
I've never been more convinced Denver will go get a top RB in next year's draft as long as they can get decent value (unless one of their current RBs really steps it up this season).
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I think you're right. They haven't been this thin at RB IMHO since Derrick Loville was their starter during Shanny's first year back in 1994. :X
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Neither Shanny nor Loville was with Denver in 1994. They were both in San Fran, where Ricky Watters went to the Pro Bowl that year. None of this really adds to the thread, but I wanted to set the record straight.
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Damn! I missed by a mile on that one! That's what I get for going off of recollection. :bag: Anyway, I'm not impressed by the overall talent level.

 
mtffl2 said:
looks like Mike Bell just finished his 15 minutes of fame. kinda reminds me of how everyone was high on ron dayne for that one week.
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Anyone remember Quentin Griffin? I had him and he was great for about three weeks. Then he faded into the sunset.
 
Obviously you never know with Shanahan, but I'd be surprised if he's backing off Mike Bell after one less than inspiring performance. After all, he didn't put the ball on the ground, and by most accounts, has still had a strong camp.

 
3C said:
Just picked up Cobbs. :bag:
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I did too :football: You know. Early in the preseason/offseason i remember some quotes about how much Shanny likes Cobbs, and all that. It sounded sorta like coachspeak, but it was way early in the preseason. Before Tatum even reported. And I was like, well if Shanny's been liking this guy for that long. He's probably gonna at least give him the chance to win the job. I think if they all have equal games, Cobbs might get the benefit of the doubt.
 
I just picked up Cobbs for VMorency (I have Lundy).

Something tells me I just whiffed twice.

Isnt this supposed to be fun?

 
Well, you can rest assured that whoever wins the job will get the majority of the carries, and will keep the job all season. Right?

 
duaneok66 said:
twistd said:
mtffl2 said:
looks like Mike Bell just finished his 15 minutes of fame. kinda reminds me of how everyone was high on ron dayne for that one week.
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Anyone remember Quentin Griffin? I had him and he was great for about three weeks. Then he faded into the sunset.
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subtract two weeks from that total and you'd be correct . . .
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You may be right. I remember I had a team begging me to trade him and of course I wouldn't part with him. I was still insisting he would be fine as the water creeped up my neck on that sinking ship.
 
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i just picked up cobbs hoping that he gets the start in the last preseason game so i can trade him ....

i don't want any of them, but i like trading.

 
Wow people know how to read a news site and post that shanny has once again turned the fantasy world upside down. You guys are funny.. As soon as the wind turns you freak out and do a 180.. :)

 
Black&Gold said:
August 29, 2006, 17:19 Broncos :: RBRB M. Bell May Not Be The Starter?AP, ESPN.com - [Full Article]HC Mike Shanahan said Tuesday that the running back situation could still be up in the air. "We've got some fierce competition," Shanahan said. "I'm not going to go through the playing time or the depth chart. "We'll all find out when we open the season against the Rams who that starting running back will be."
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can we have a link to the full article? I'm not finding it on espn.com.
 
moleculo said:
Black&Gold said:
August 29, 2006, 17:19

Broncos :: RB

RB M. Bell May Not Be The Starter?

AP, ESPN.com - [Full Article]

HC Mike Shanahan said Tuesday that the running back situation could still be up in the air. "We've got some fierce competition," Shanahan said. "I'm not going to go through the playing time or the depth chart. "We'll all find out when we open the season against the Rams who that starting running back will be."
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can we have a link to the full article? I'm not finding it on espn.com.
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http://www.denverbroncos.com/
 
All these chicken littles on this post. Sober up you crack hos. You guys turn green and barf with every little tid-bit. Mike Bell is starting. The Denver RB starting job is secure in Mike's hands. This is the coach's ploy to throw off Ram coaches for game prep. Nothing more. If he says Mike Bell is the starter. but Tatum will be sprinkled in on such and such basis, that plays right into the hands of the opponent. Get a grip.

 
That's what I'm counting on. I took him as a sleeper. I guess I'm a Arkansas homer. I've got C-4 and Matt Jones in my dynasty league.

 
This is just Shanahan's way of keeping his running backs all focused and playing hard.

Mike Bell will start the season, unless he fumbles three times in this week's preseason game or rushes for 8 yds on 10 carries.

The thing to be mory wary of is Shanny's quick hook on his backs. If Mike Bell starts the first couple games poorly, then you'll see Tatum. If Tatum doesn't do too well, then you may see Cedric Cobbs.

If Mike Bell is as good as people believed he was when they drafted him highly, then it won't matter. His job is will be safe.

 
Guru said:
SSOG...what is going on here?
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Nothing. The RB situation is exactly the same as it was yesterday. However you felt about the Denver RBs, that's exactly how you should feel about them today.
broncofan13000 said:
If Tatum somehow becomes starter i will :X :cuttatuminakeeperleague:
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Why the hell did you cut Tatum? He finished 22nd in the league last year, and he's going to be playing in the exact same role this year, and he's going to be the featured back for another team in another couple of years?Unless starting requirements and rosters were such that only 20 RBs were rostered at any given time, cutting Tatum was mental. The guy's a top-24 RB, top-30 at the outside, no matter WHAT happens with the starting gig.

Dman30 said:
Guru said:
SSOG...what is going on here?
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Like he knows anything more than the average clown who watches Sportcenter. :rolleyes:
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Hey, I resent that. Not only am I an above-average clown, but I don't even watch Sportcenter!
Northern Voice said:
I would love to see Tatum get the job after months of Denver RB experts saying it will be everyone but him.
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As a Denver fan, I would love nothing more than for Tatum to demonstrate he's capable of being the featured back. If Tatum proved he could handle the featured role, we'd have ourselves another Clinton Portis on our hands.
Man of Constant Sorrow said:
duece2626 said:
Trey said:
If Cedric Cobbs wins this starting job I'll eat my hat...
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Best post in the whole thread!!! :lmao: :lmao:
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Yes...but alas, I once made a post very similar to that. The results were not very good for me...http://onethree7twelve.fws1.com/eathat.gif
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Hahaha, I wondered how long it'd be before you showed up with that. :)
 
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RabidRabbit said:
All these chicken littles on this post. Sober up you crack hos. You guys turn green and barf with every little tid-bit. Mike Bell is starting. The Denver RB starting job is secure in Mike's hands. This is the coach's ploy to throw off Ram coaches for game prep. Nothing more. If he says Mike Bell is the starter. but Tatum will be sprinkled in on such and such basis, that plays right into the hands of the opponent. Get a grip.
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:yes:
 
Welshie said:
This is just Shanahan's way of keeping his running backs all focused and playing hard.

Mike Bell will start the season, unless he fumbles three times in this week's preseason game or rushes for 8 yds on 10 carries.

The thing to be mory wary of is Shanny's quick hook on his backs. If Mike Bell starts the first couple games poorly, then you'll see Tatum. If Tatum doesn't do too well, then you may see Cedric Cobbs.

If Mike Bell is as good as people believed he was when they drafted him highly, then it won't matter. His job is will be safe.
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Shanahan does not have a quick hook. It took a quarter-season of constant screwups for Griffin to lose the job. Mike Anderson started last season pretty abysmally, too, and he never lost his job.Anyway, I think this thread is a little sensationalistic. I think everyone should stop hyperventilating and read the article in its entirety. Here we go, boys and girls...

http://www.denverbroncos.com/page.php?id=3...mp;storyID=5891

Notebook: The Game's Afoot

Competition for No. 1 RB Slot Still Wide Open

By Andrew Mason

DenverBroncos.com

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The final preseason game is typically one that sees the Broncos rest most of their starters.

The operative word there is "most."

"What we usually do in the last game is the established starters will sit out -- and that's really everybody on the offense and defense excluding the running backs," Head Coach Mike Shanahan revealed following Tuesday afternoon's practice session.

That means it could be a busy night for all the running backs -- including first-teamer Mike Bell, who has started every game so far in the preseason.

"I'm not going to go through the playing time or the depth chart," Shanahan said. "We'll all find out when we open the season against the Rams who that starting running back will be. But there is some competition there, and hopefully we'll get a chance to evaluate them against Arizona, and obviously we'll all see when we play against the Rams (on Sept. 10) who gets the starting nod."

So far in the preseason, four of the five Broncos runners have found the end zone; Mike Bell has two touchdowns while Cedric Cobbs, Tatum Bell and Damien Nash each have scored once. But it is Cobbs who currently leads the league in preseason rushing yardage, gaining 161 yards and averaging 5.8 yards per rush, which has him believing he's barely behind the battling Bells in the ground derby.

"I would say that I'm not too far away from (them) -- if (not) right ###-for-tat with them," Cobbs said. "But I've got to keep continuing to get better. This game is real important to me, so I'm definitely trying to raise it to another level."

Added Shanahan: "Any time a guy averages over 5.5 yards a carry, he's doing a great job.

Nash did not practice Monday, but Ron Dayne did; he missed the last two games while battling a turf-toe injury.

"For him to practice today was a good sign," Shanahan said.

And with 60 minutes of preseason football remaining, the competition to be the team's No. 1 running back at St. Louis remains wide open.

"There's nobody excluded there," Shanahan said.
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Understand that it's from the Broncos' official site, which is 100% fluff and probably one of the WORST places for breaking or accurate news about the Denver Broncos. The official website's biggest priority is giving everybody a warm fuzzy feeling about the team first, and providing solid news second (for example, the Detroit Lions official site still talks about what a genius Matt Millen is for selecting Joey Harrington, Charles Rogers, and Big Mike Williams). With that in mind, read the piece, and draw your own conclusions.
 
SSOG said:
Guru said:
SSOG...what is going on here?
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Nothing. The RB situation is exactly the same as it was yesterday. However you felt about the Denver RBs, that's exactly how you should feel about them today.
broncofan13000 said:
If Tatum somehow becomes starter i will :X :cuttatuminakeeperleague:
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Why the hell did you cut Tatum? He finished 22nd in the league last year, and he's going to be playing in the exact same role this year, and he's going to be the featured back for another team in another couple of years?Unless starting requirements and rosters were such that only 20 RBs were rostered at any given time, cutting Tatum was mental. The guy's a top-24 RB, top-30 at the outside, no matter WHAT happens with the starting gig.
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I cut Tatum to protect Warrick Dunn, whom i promptly traded for Anquan Boldin :)
 
broncofan13000 said:
SSOG said:
Guru said:
SSOG...what is going on here?
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Nothing. The RB situation is exactly the same as it was yesterday. However you felt about the Denver RBs, that's exactly how you should feel about them today.
broncofan13000 said:
If Tatum somehow becomes starter i will :X :cuttatuminakeeperleague:
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Why the hell did you cut Tatum? He finished 22nd in the league last year, and he's going to be playing in the exact same role this year, and he's going to be the featured back for another team in another couple of years?Unless starting requirements and rosters were such that only 20 RBs were rostered at any given time, cutting Tatum was mental. The guy's a top-24 RB, top-30 at the outside, no matter WHAT happens with the starting gig.
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I cut Tatum to protect Warrick Dunn, whom i promptly traded for Anquan Boldin :)
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Oh, is this before keepers were declared? That makes more sense, then.
 
SSOG said:
broncofan13000 said:
SSOG said:
Guru said:
SSOG...what is going on here?
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Nothing. The RB situation is exactly the same as it was yesterday. However you felt about the Denver RBs, that's exactly how you should feel about them today.
broncofan13000 said:
If Tatum somehow becomes starter i will :X :cuttatuminakeeperleague:
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Why the hell did you cut Tatum? He finished 22nd in the league last year, and he's going to be playing in the exact same role this year, and he's going to be the featured back for another team in another couple of years?Unless starting requirements and rosters were such that only 20 RBs were rostered at any given time, cutting Tatum was mental. The guy's a top-24 RB, top-30 at the outside, no matter WHAT happens with the starting gig.
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I cut Tatum to protect Warrick Dunn, whom i promptly traded for Anquan Boldin :)
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Oh, is this before keepers were declared? That makes more sense, then.
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hell yeah, sorry for the confusion...carry on :popcorn:
 
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