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A New -- and Necessary -- Beginning
Domonique Foxworth had quite a bit to say as he met the media on Monday. Watch in Real or Windows Media Player.
BRONCOS TV
By Andrew Mason
DenverBroncos.com
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- It was only a couple of hours past breakfast, but the workouts of Monday morning were enough to make some Broncos lose their collective lunch, reported Domonique Foxworth as he addressed the local press corps following the first offseason conditioning session.
"If you go out there (on the field), you can see a couple of people's breakfasts and lunches," Foxworth said. "None of mine, though, fortunately. I kept mine down."
But for Foxworth, April 2 is not so much a beginning of working out as it is a continuation. He offered himself a one-week pause after the season ended before resuming his regimen of "three or four" workouts per week.
Many of those, however, took place in solitude. His regimen for the next three and a half months will come with his teammates at his side -- and nary a moment too soon in what has been one of the grimmest offseasons in recent memory for any NFL team due to the deaths of cornerback Darrent Williams and running back Damien Nash.
"It's wonderful to be back, to be honest with you," Foxworth said. "It's a little bit of normalcy. It helps to be around players who you know cared about the individual just as much as you did. It's nice, and it wasn't a somber mood at all.
"I think we're all happy to be back and happy to be together, and I think the mourning process goes on for a while."
Another step in the grieving will come when the cornerbacks begin convening for group meetings at organized team activities beginning in mid-May.
"I think it'll be tougher when we go to do team things together and position stuff, and just places where you expect to see him, because in the offseason, you don't expect to see Darrent or Damien too much, but now, when you expect to see them, it's hard," Foxworth said.
"A voice that was always there is not there anymore, so it's painful."
Of lesser concern is forgetting about how last season ended on the field -- with an overtime loss to the San Francisco 49ers in which Joe Nedney ended the Broncos' season with a swing of his leg. That defeat was mostly forgotten hours later after Williams was shot and killed in downtown Denver, but there remains a sting that goes with sitting out the postseason for the first time in four years.
"We're happy to all be here to get the taste from last season out of our mouth as soon as possible," Foxworth said.
Of course, it might be subjugated now by the taste of vomit, but when that is the byproduct of a hard morning's work, it's a much more palatable option than defeat's bitter flavor.
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A New -- and Necessary -- Beginning
Domonique Foxworth had quite a bit to say as he met the media on Monday. Watch in Real or Windows Media Player.
BRONCOS TV
By Andrew Mason
DenverBroncos.com
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- It was only a couple of hours past breakfast, but the workouts of Monday morning were enough to make some Broncos lose their collective lunch, reported Domonique Foxworth as he addressed the local press corps following the first offseason conditioning session.
"If you go out there (on the field), you can see a couple of people's breakfasts and lunches," Foxworth said. "None of mine, though, fortunately. I kept mine down."
But for Foxworth, April 2 is not so much a beginning of working out as it is a continuation. He offered himself a one-week pause after the season ended before resuming his regimen of "three or four" workouts per week.
Many of those, however, took place in solitude. His regimen for the next three and a half months will come with his teammates at his side -- and nary a moment too soon in what has been one of the grimmest offseasons in recent memory for any NFL team due to the deaths of cornerback Darrent Williams and running back Damien Nash.
"It's wonderful to be back, to be honest with you," Foxworth said. "It's a little bit of normalcy. It helps to be around players who you know cared about the individual just as much as you did. It's nice, and it wasn't a somber mood at all.
"I think we're all happy to be back and happy to be together, and I think the mourning process goes on for a while."
Another step in the grieving will come when the cornerbacks begin convening for group meetings at organized team activities beginning in mid-May.
"I think it'll be tougher when we go to do team things together and position stuff, and just places where you expect to see him, because in the offseason, you don't expect to see Darrent or Damien too much, but now, when you expect to see them, it's hard," Foxworth said.
"A voice that was always there is not there anymore, so it's painful."
Of lesser concern is forgetting about how last season ended on the field -- with an overtime loss to the San Francisco 49ers in which Joe Nedney ended the Broncos' season with a swing of his leg. That defeat was mostly forgotten hours later after Williams was shot and killed in downtown Denver, but there remains a sting that goes with sitting out the postseason for the first time in four years.
"We're happy to all be here to get the taste from last season out of our mouth as soon as possible," Foxworth said.
Of course, it might be subjugated now by the taste of vomit, but when that is the byproduct of a hard morning's work, it's a much more palatable option than defeat's bitter flavor.
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