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Feb 29, 2008 | 11:18 AM
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Featured On: MyFoxColorado Denver Broncos free agent defensive end Ebenezer Ekuban is scheduled to meet with AFC West rival Oakland Raiders Friday afternoon.
Ekuban missed the entire 2007 season after tearing his right Achilles' tendon in a Broncos' preseason game against his former team, the Dallas Cowboys.
Other Broncos free agents include Jason Elam, Nick Ferguson and Cecil Sapp.
http://community.myfoxcolorado.com/blogs/Denvr_Sports_Insider
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So he didn't sign...
Flex Gunmetal
02-29-2008, 01:50 PM
Now, if signed, he will overachieve and make shanny look stupid, but not as stupid as Al ($50mill stupid).
Atwater His Ass
02-29-2008, 01:52 PM
Hell, he should be able to get what, $20-$30 mil from greasebag?
PRBronco
02-29-2008, 01:57 PM
Doubleyou tee eff?
rugbythug
02-29-2008, 02:00 PM
We should give him .2 TK's if he is healthy. He played well while here.
Punisher
02-29-2008, 02:05 PM
NFL network said we signed him to a One year contract ???
I'm thinking he bulked at the deal before he had to sign. Maybe he feels going to visit the Radiers will force Denver to raise the offer.
I could careless about him leaving, Moss and Crowder are the future/present. They need playing time and not an elderly vet coming off a major injury stealing snaps from them.
Beantown Bronco
02-29-2008, 02:11 PM
Now, if signed, he will overachieve and make shanny look stupid, but not as stupid as Al ($50mill stupid).
Shanny has history on his side. I can't even remember the last time someone actually overachieved after leaving the Broncos. Seriously.
Shanny has history on his side. I can't even remember the last time someone actually overachieved after leaving the Broncos. Seriously.
Shannan Sharpe was the last I can remember.
Prodigal19
02-29-2008, 02:18 PM
While they are at it they should sign courney brown and get michael myers. Then they can be the... brownders?
Flex Gunmetal
02-29-2008, 02:22 PM
Shanny has history on his side. I can't even remember the last time someone actually overachieved after leaving the Broncos. Seriously.
I guess I keep seeing that 4th quarter Gerrard Warren safety from oak@den last year replaying in my head.
Beantown Bronco
02-29-2008, 02:28 PM
Shannan Sharpe was the last I can remember.
There's no way I would say he "overachieved" after leaving Denver. In his two seasons with Baltimore, he averaged 70 receptions for 800 yards and 3 TDs. Though decent, those are significantly below his career averages with Denver.
rovolution
02-29-2008, 02:36 PM
Shannan Sharpe was the last I can remember.
2006 Trevor Pryce.
bowtown
02-29-2008, 02:36 PM
I guess I keep seeing that 4th quarter Gerrard Warren safety from oak@den last year replaying in my head.
And he was never heard from againnnnnnnn.
Jens1893
02-29-2008, 02:37 PM
Shanny has history on his side. I can't even remember the last time someone actually overachieved after leaving the Broncos. Seriously.
One might make a case for Bertrand Berry and/or Reggie Hayward
Beantown Bronco
02-29-2008, 02:41 PM
2006 Trevor Pryce.
I figured someone would mention this. But to technically "overachieve" he would have to achieve more than he did in Denver. He actually had two comparable, if not better, seasons (1999 and 2000) in Denver than in 2006 with Baltimore, while facing more double teams and surrounded by less talent than he was in Baltimore.
And he was useless to them in 2007. Injuries don't change that fact.
Beantown Bronco
02-29-2008, 02:47 PM
One might make a case for Bertrand Berry and/or Reggie Hayward
Berry had one great year for Arizona, but followed it up with three injury riddled years in which he was out for about half of each season and didn't help the team. He definitely has been paid more than he has produced since he left.
If you add up his three years with Jacksonville, Hayward has barely equaled the numbers he had in his last season in Denver....due mostly to injuries.
Atlas
02-29-2008, 02:48 PM
I figured someone would mention this. But to technically "overachieve" he would have to achieve more than he did in Denver. He actually had two comparable, if not better, seasons (1999 and 2000) in Denver than in 2006 with Baltimore, while facing more double teams and surrounded by less talent than he was in Baltimore.
And he was useless to them in 2007. Injuries don't change that fact.
he had 13 1/2 sacks in 2006. 2007 is irrelevant because he was injured.
broncofan7
02-29-2008, 02:48 PM
I would have sworn that NFLN had him resigning with Denver for 1 yr along with engelberger for 3 years
There's no way I would say he "overachieved" after leaving Denver. In his two seasons with Baltimore, he averaged 70 receptions for 800 yards and 3 TDs. Though decent, those are significantly below his career averages with Denver.
Ya but he also had that incredable catch to beat Denver in the playoff's and won a third Super Bowl ring. Then the next he broke the alltime catch record for tight ends in a Raven uniform.
So while he didn't overachieved, yet didn't fall off the NFL landscape either.
eddie mac
02-29-2008, 02:52 PM
I would have sworn that NFLN had him resigning with Denver for 1 yr along with engelberger for 3 years
They got both wrong.:giggle:
Beantown Bronco
02-29-2008, 02:53 PM
he had 13 1/2 sacks in 2006. 2007 is irrelevant because he was injured.
13 and 1/2 sacks is overachieving when you never cracked 8 sacks in your career. It is not overachieving when you've had two comparable totals before.
Why do injuries make a season irrelevant? He was still being paid to produce. He didn't....plain and simple.
It certainly wasn't irrelevant to the Broncos that Wilson, Walker, Nalen, Hamilton, Henry and Ekuban were injured.
Beantown Bronco
02-29-2008, 03:00 PM
So while he didn't overachieved, yet didn't fall off the NFL landscape either.
True. I would never debate that.
I am simply trying to find a real example of someone being unceremoniously dumped by Shanny and then going out and making him look stupid by lighting it up somewhere else.
If IHOP, Darius Watts, Kevin Kasper or Chris Cole all of a sudden became probowlers after they left....that is the kind of example I'm looking for.
I can easily recall a few cases of Bertrand Berry's or Deltha O'Neals that had a season or so of good play after they left, but then did little to nothing. But beyond a few similar cases, it seems more often than not, Shanny made the right call. Just ask the Lions (Bell and Foster) or San Fran (Lelie and Middlebrooks) to name two.
Kaylore
02-29-2008, 03:11 PM
Please don't go Eb!
Popps
02-29-2008, 03:15 PM
Can't we send Engleberger to Oakland?
rovolution
02-29-2008, 03:15 PM
True. I would never debate that.
I am simply trying to find a real example of someone being unceremoniously dumped by Shanny and then going out and making him look stupid by lighting it up somewhere else.
If IHOP, Darius Watts, Kevin Kasper or Chris Cole all of a sudden became probowlers after they left....that is the kind of example I'm looking for.
I can easily recall a few cases of Bertrand Berry's or Deltha O'Neals that had a season or so of good play after they left, but then did little to nothing. But beyond a few similar cases, it seems more often than not, Shanny made the right call. Just ask the Lions (Bell and Foster) or San Fran (Lelie and Middlebrooks) to name two.
Nick Harris the punter in Detriot.
Cut by Shanny in the preseason, Pro Bowler with the Lions
broncofan2438
02-29-2008, 03:16 PM
What the hell, I thought he was staying with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beantown Bronco
02-29-2008, 03:29 PM
Nick Harris the punter in Detriot.
Cut by Shanny in the preseason, Pro Bowler with the Lions
That's it.....good call there. I can't believe I forgot him considering how much I was pimping him the year he was drafted. There was also the other punter that Dallas signed....Matt McBriar. Same kind of situation.
Jens1893
03-01-2008, 07:29 PM
Berry had one great year for Arizona, but followed it up with three injury riddled years in which he was out for about half of each season and didn't help the team. He definitely has been paid more than he has produced since he left.
If you add up his three years with Jacksonville, Hayward has barely equaled the numbers he had in his last season in Denver....due mostly to injuries.
Depends how you define "overachieve" I guess. If you mean "did better than in Denver" then I probably agree, but "to overachieve" IMO means to play better than your talent level ... if that makes any sense.