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| Vanderbilt wide receiver Earl Bennett headed to NFL |
Division I College Football |
01/10/2008 |
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| to have three 75-catch seasons. Bennett has 20 career touchdown catches and ranks ninth in league history with 2,852 yards receiving. In his freshman year, Bennett set an SEC record with 79 catches for 876 yards and nine touchdowns with current Denver Broncos starter Jay Cutler at quarterback for Vanderbilt. ``I had a great three years at Vanderbilt,'' Bennett said. ``There's nowhere I would have rather been.''Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in |
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| Broncos' Bates steps down after one season |
NFL Football |
01/08/2008 |
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| Englewood, CO (MySportsbook) - Denver Broncos assistant coach and defensive coordinator Jim Bates stepped down on Tuesday. Bates signed with Denver last January after serving as the defensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers for one season. He left the Packers for the Broncos after being passed over for their head coaching job in favor of current Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy. The 61-year-old Bates replaced Larry Coyer as defensive coordinator in Denver, but in his only season the defense allowed 409 p |
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| Bates resigns as Denver defensive coordinator |
NFL Football |
01/08/2008 |
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DENVER (AP) -Denver Broncos defensive boss Jim Bates resigned on Tuesday after the team limped to a 7-9 record in his first year on the job. Bates' departure was expected. The Broncos finished 19th in overall defense and 30th against the run. ``I had the opportunity to stay,'' Bates said in a written statement. ``(Coach Mike Shanahan) has been very fair with me, and the final decision, for the Broncos and for me, was to step aside.'' Bates, whose title was assistant coach-defense, had success with hi |
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| Phillips' easy hand a big reason for Cowboys' success |
NFL Football |
01/03/2008 |
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| '' That was the clincher. If players weren't believers yet, they were now. Dallas won its next seven games. --- Phillips' first inkling about this season came in mid-August, when the Cowboys went from several days of joint practices with the Denver Broncos to playing them in a preseason game. Dallas' first-teamers dominated Denver's. It was so lopsided the Broncos accused the Cowboys of having ``game-planned'' them. ``We didn't,'' Phillips said recently, smirking. ``That's when I knew we had somet |
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| Bills must tighten up offense for 2008 |
NFL Football |
01/02/2008 |
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| nothing made more headlines than the severe spinal cord injury suffered by backup tight end Kevin Everett. Everett was lost for the season, and likely his career, when he went down while making a special teams tackle in a season- opening loss to the Denver Broncos. Everett eventually regained movement in all of his extremities and was able to walk on his own. He returned to the site of his injury when he visited Ralph Wilson Stadium on December 23 for Buffalo's home finale versus the New York Giants. DEFENSE |
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| A Tale of Two Halves: Lions 2007 |
NFL Football |
01/02/2008 |
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| Kitna boldly predicted that it would be a "disappointment" if the Detroit Lions did not reach at least 10 wins this season, a prediction that many scoffed at. Now, move to Week 9 of the season, with Detroit coming off an impressive 44-7 romp of the Denver Broncos at Ford Field. The Lions held a 6-2 record, were in the midst of a three-game winning streak, and sat just one game behind the Green Bay Packers for first place in the NFC North. It seemed at that stage that many of the prognosticators and football |
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| Broncos Find Themselves In Transition |
NFL Football |
01/02/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - For just the second time in the 13-year Mike Shanahan era, the Denver Broncos finished with a record below .500. Their last losing season was a 6-10 output in 1999, aka A.E. 01 (After Elway 01). Denver's '07 losing record (7-9) was cemented on Christmas Eve with their 23-3 loss at San Diego. "I think nobody thought before the season we'd be where we are now," veteran left tackle Matt Lepsis said after that game. To the Broncos' credit, they were able to save face - or some of their face, a |
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| Tuna time in Miami |
NFL Football |
01/02/2008 |
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| owl in 1996. His biggest turnaround came with the New York Jets, who were in a similar situation as the Dolphins. The Jets were coming off a 1-15 mark in 1996. Enter Parcells: 1997, 9-7; 1998, 12-4, AFC East champs and within one half of beating the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship Game. The Cowboys had three straight 5-11 seasons before Parcells took over and he had America's Team in the playoffs his first year. Of course, all that came as a coach. He has been adamant about not coaching this team. Don' |
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| Broncos left tackle Lepsis retiring after 11 seasons |
NFL Football |
01/01/2008 |
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) -The Denver Broncos have more work to do in rebuilding their once-touted offensive line after left tackle Matt Lepsis told coach Mike Shanahan he's retiring. Lepsis, who turns 34 this month, acknowledged his play slipped in his 11th season after returning from ACL surgery on his right knee. The operation ended his 2006 season shortly after he signed a four-year, $25 million contract extension. ``Mike would call me out for not playing very well, and I had to agree with him,'' Lepsi |
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| Broncos, family still waiting for closure in cornerback's slaying |
NFL Football |
01/01/2008 |
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DENVER (AP) - The first anniversary of Darrent Williams' killing arrived Tuesday with his friends and family still awaiting justice in the slaying of the 24-year-old Denver Broncos cornerback. Williams was killed when his limousine was sprayed with bullets minutes after leaving a New Year's party at a club in downtown Denver. No arrests have been made and no charges have been filed. A man police have called a person of interest in Williams' slaying was arrested in what prosecutors called the state's la |
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