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Denver Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton missed a third consecutive practice Friday with a sprained left ankle.
Coach Josh McDaniels said Orton’s availability for Sunday’s pivotal contest with San Diego will come down to a game-time decision.
Backup Chris Simms again took first-team practice repetitions, as he has all week in the absence of Orton, who was injured during last week’s 27-17 loss at Washington.
Simms is in line to make his first start since September 2006, when he suffered a life-threatening spleen injury while with Tampa Bay.
The Denver Broncos are a nice football team with good defense, but in the eyes of many they are no Pittsburgh Steelers. But the Broncos are trying to become the Steelers Ń a consistently elite NFL team that competes and wins Super Bowls and rarely is beaten up physically.
“It is an opportunity for us is what it is,” said Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels. “To me, it all starts with the Steelers. We are excited to get back at work, getting ready to play the defending Super Bowl champion on Monday Night Football and getting ready to play a game against a team that has very, very few, if any, weaknesses.”
After Denver’s physical beat-down in every phase of the game last week vs. the Baltimore Ravens, McDaniels and staff have done their best this week to prepare their players for the equally physical Steelers.
“We learned a lot of things about ourselves through this process the last couple days. Pittsburgh is a very physical team in every phase. If you are going to get out-physicaled offensively, defensively and in the kicking game, you are going to have a hard time winning,” McDaniels said.
Through the first few months of his rookie season, Tom Brandstater has learned plenty from Kyle Orton about the art of playing quarterback in the National Football League.
Brandstater is not, however, likely to seek automobile advice from the Denver Broncos’ starting quarterback. A well-known environmentalist, Orton has ditched the high-priced vehicles and drives a Honda Insight hybrid.
“It always gives me a laugh every time I see him get out of a meeting and hop in his little fake car, as I call it,” said Brandstater, the Broncos’ third-string quarterback.
That “fake” car may not be the typical vehicle for an NFL quarterback, but it’s typical for Orton.
The first couple of weeks of the NFL season people were wondering what happened to Eddie Royal, and his premium production from 2008?
Six weeks later and after several huge games, the Denver Broncos receiver will be named AFC Special Teams Player of the Month for October, the NFL informed the Broncos yesterday.
It marks the first time in club history that the Broncos have had multiple AFC Special Teams Player of the Month winners in the same year with kicker Matt Prater also earning that award in September.
“Eddie is very smart and is one of the smartest receivers I have been around,” said Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels. “He is an extremely hard worker and can do many different things well.”
Royal is expected to have a press conference tomorrow at Dove Valley.
It’s the last thing we would have expected coming out of the preseason: Kyle Orton, who was error-prone and injured while the Broncos were losing all four of their exhibition games, is playing like a Pro Bowl quarterback for a Denver team that is 6-0 after Monday’s convincing 34-23 victory at San Diego.
Meanwhile, in Minnesota, 40-year-old Brett Favre has found the fountain of youth in leading the Vikings to a 6-0 start. Despite first declining to come of retirement and then, after changing his mind once again, barely breaking a sweat in the preseason, Favre is flashing his gun-slinging style, rallying Minnesota to yet another come-from-behind victory Sunday over Baltimore.
Orton and the Broncos. Favre and the Vikings. Who has been the NFL’s biggest surprise so far this season? Here’s my top-5 list:
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