So a general manager that helped get NFL teams to seven Super Bowls is better than a franchise owner that expanded television exposure, and has earned more accolades than Jerry Jones? Thatap ridiculous and a joke. Pat Bowlen should have been a lock for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Ryan, Denver
Kiz: From Randy Gradishar to Steve Atwater, we’re reminded the Broncos are under-represented in the Hall of Fame. And Bowlen also belongs in Canton. But put down the orange pompons, and Bowlen is no more deserving than Bobby Beathard. As a personnel guru, Beathard won four championships, including rings with the 17-0 Dolphins and a Redskins team that crushed Denver in Super Bowl XXII. The whining in apountry that Charley Casserly, a broadcaster that formerly worked for Beathard, unduly influenced the nomination process is weak sauce squeezed from sour grapes.
How about we talk about the basic Colin Kaepernick facts, as opposed to your blatantly stupid, uninformed and misguided opinion, Kiz? No. 1: Kaepernick was a terrible quarterback the past couple seasons, and No. 2: Kaepernick was a locker-room crybaby that wasn’t easy or fun to coach, which is why coaches around the league don’t want him.
Monica, demands facts
Kiz: Your wish is my command. So here are facts for your perusal. No. 1: Kaepernick threw 16 touchdown passes and four interceptions for a 90.7 quarterback rating in 2016, as opposed to Trevor Siemian’s 18 TD passes, 10 interceptions and 84.6 rating. So if Kaepernick was terrible, Siemian was worse. No. 2: Former coach Chip Kelly insists Kaepernick was “zero distraction” in the San Francisco locker room last season, adding to MMQB reporter Michael Rosenberg that “Colin was focused on football. He was all about the team and trying to help us win.”
I have season tickets to the Broncos. I am there to watch a football game, not a political debate. Just like last year, if players want to disparage the national anthem, I’ve going to vote with my feet. The television ratings fell because most of us who attend or watch are there for football. Players have every right to express their beliefs. I have just as much a right to express mine.
Harry, sticking to sports
Kiz: I’ve got a proposition for you, Harry. If an anthem protest compels you to stay away from the game against the Patriots on Nov. 12, let me know. I’ll help find two takers for your tickets: an active member of the military and an underprivileged kid from Denver. I think they would be delighted to sit together, united in orange.
And today’s parting shot takes issue with a column that expressed the opinion that drafting Brock Osweiler and Paxton Lynch did little to burnish John Elway’s reputation as an evaluator of NFL quarterbacks.
Every time you get an opportunity to criticize Elway, you hop right on it, Kiz. Why is that? Your columns are good enough when you report the facts. Why is it that you have to insert your personal opinions? No one really cares how you feel about something.
L.M., devoted to No. 7
