Broncos "lay down" to keep themselves out of playoffs?

[Buster]

http://www.kffl.com/hotw/nfl

Broncos | Marshall will not play during Week 17
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ESPN.com (http://www.kffl.com/link/269) reports the Denver Broncos (http://www.kffl.com/team/15/nfl) are going to bench WR Brandon Marshall (http://www.kffl.com/player/13696/nfl) (hamstring) for their Week 17 game. Head coach Josh McDaniels (http://www.kffl.com/player/13673/nfl) wouldn't directly address the reasons for his decision, but he mentioned accountability and said several other players will play during Week 17 with worse injuries than Marshall. Marshall said he does not want to get into a war of words. "Coach never played in the NFL (http://www.kffl.com/team/77/nfl). I'm going to handle this professionally," said Marshall, who has not practiced the past two days.

Scheffler benched too...


http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14106841


Broncos star receiver Brandon Marshall will not play Sunday in a playoff-or-bust game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
"It will be a coaching decision," said Broncos coach Josh McDaniels this morning. "There's a number of factors that go into that."
Marshall has a slight hamstring injury, sustained early in Wednesday's practice, and has doubted since then his ability to play Sunday. McDaniels erased all doubt by announcing he is benching Marshall.
"There's a lot of players that play with things that are more difficult to play with than what he has," said McDaniels.
Tight end Tony Scheffler also has been told he will not dress Sunday against the Chiefs, in his case because of his attitude.
Marshall seemed surprised Friday to learn McDaniels said he was not playing for reasons other than the injured hamstring.
"I don't think coach ever played in the NFL, so for my hamstring to be feeling the way it felt, it's tough for me to go out there and expect to play at a high level," Marshall said. "So, I have battled through a lot of injuries before. I played last year with a tear in my hip, so I don't think my toughness is in question here.
"I just have got to do my best to get back to 100 percent, and hopefully things fall into place where it should be and hopefully we'll get into the playoffs and I'll be there with my teammates."
Considering Marshall and Scheffler are restricted free agents after this season, they may already have played their last games for the Broncos.
Besides the benching of Marshall and Scheffler, the Broncos may not have receiver Eddie Royal available because of a neck injury. Royal will likely be a game-time decision.
All this comes as the Broncos face a situation where they most likely need to beat the Chiefs, and hope for Houston to beat New England and either Baltimore or the New York Jets to lose in order to make the playoffs.
"I don't know about Eddie's status yet," McDaniels said. "What's important is we're fielding the team we think gives us the best opportunity to win. And the guys that are going to play hard and do what we asked them to do and fight through adversity and be committed to one another, that's the group."



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[BermudaSteel]

Nice playoff picture - I just started a thread "hoping to get Marshall".

Well, hopefully, one down - 4 more to go....

[Buster]

Maybe Kubiak will bench Schaub & A. Johnson.

[AJR]

Amazing what a little losing does to team chemistry!

[SteelerScott]

Broncos "lay down" to keep themselves out of playoffs?

I don't think the Broncs org is "laying down"; but it certainly sounds like Marshall is one pissy baby.

If anything, you'd think players would play for a playoff bonus paycheck!

[SteelerFan448]

I don't know what Josh McDaniels is trying to prove with this move or how the players that will be there next year will react to this.

[SteelerSask]

As far as I can tell you have a player with a minor injury trying protect himself for a big payday and a coach that wants to win and has a strained relationship with the player. Who would pay this guy big money when this is the level of heart that he displays. I know the money and the security are big, but c'mon, you can't tell me that is the only reason you play. They have a chance at the playoffs to, albeit slim. I'm on Mcdaniels side. Howeer, he won't last long in this business having these type of confrontations with players.

[SteelerFan448]

There will be teams lined up to pay Marshall because of his production on the field.

[SteelerSask]

Sometimes I think the average fan can see things more clearly than some of these jokers in the front office. I have never been involved in elite sports, but I've been a player of team sports from football to hockey and a coach of basketball and football virtually my entire life. If I was running an organization I would never take someone with big talent small heart. Show me where one of these guys has ever won anything. I'm not talking about guys who get into trouble off the field, but are good teamates on the field. I'm speaking of the me first I gotta be in the spotlight, I'm bigger than the team types like Chad Johnson and Terrell Owens. These types fail and fail and fail. When Marshall was kicking the ball around in camp he should have been cut right then and there. The fact that he was elected to the Pro Bowl shows everything that is wrong with this league and society in general. I'll take an undertalented guy who leaves his guts on the field over five pieces of crap like this any day. But you are right someone will pay him big money and then if he isn't a total turd there will be a big piece on NFLN about how he turned it around. Becasue the truth is that the media and society loves big mouthed pricks who talk a big game and do nothing in the clutch and largely ignores a guy like Heath Miller who just quietly goes about his business in a professional manor.

[SteelerScott]

Becasue the truth is that the media and society loves big mouthed pricks who talk a big game and do nothing in the clutch and largely ignores a guy like Heath Miller who just quietly goes about his business in a professional manor.[/B]

Heath would get alotta love if he had Shockey or Winslow's mouth.

That said, whether it's a power-trip or not, I can applaud McDaniels for the balls to bench Marshall.

[SteelerSask]

Heath would get alotta love if he had Shockey or Winslow's mouth.

That said, whether it's a power-trip or not, I can applaud McDaniels for the balls to bench Marshall.
I applaud him as well, however I do think he is a little immature for this job. He will either grow up and not allow things to get to this level or he will fail and be gone.
As long as I live I will never understand our societies obsession with people who are of low character and their ignorance of people who just try to do there best and live a good decent honest life and keep a good name. Like I've said on here before, one of my proudest moments as a parent was after the SB last year when I got my boys any Steelers Jersey of their choice on line. The little guy (4 at the time) chose Willie Parker (even though I told him this would be Willie's last season. He chose him because he is "fast" and my son thinks he is fast too. My older boy chose Heath Miller. I asked him why. He said, "They never talk about him or too him, but when you watch him play he catches everything and he never backs down". That made me very proud that he could recognize that

[baltimoron]

youre raising some good boys... uncle evan will buy them any Ravens jersey they want if we make the booper sowl this year

[SteelerSask]

Sounds good, My wife bought an $12 bag of toilet paper last night from Walmart. We could save some of it if I had a Ray Lewis jersey around. LOL