I wasn't buying into the whole Cedric Cobbs thing until....

[dynastybaby 0]

I read the front page on the Broncos website. First article is about Cobbs. Didn't know he is the NFL's leading rusher in the pre-season averaging 5.6 yards per carry. Not saying he is gonna start, but he fits the Mike Anderson role better than Mike Bell. 6" 227 I dropped Chris Brown for him. Brown was my #5 RB & I don't like the guy anyway. Rather take a chance on Cobbs. I would need to cut somebody before the season to get my roster under the right amount of players, Brown would have been a gone...

[dynastybaby 0]

Why do I think Cobbs is being added in several leagues right now.....

[KSB2424 3,148]

So what is the deal with this guy? Is he the starter now or is Shanny up to his old tricks again.

[patsfanjrb 0]

First thing is you should have kept Chris Brown. Running back depth is running back depth. Brown is going to play and more than likely start. The Titans are showcasing Henry for a trade. Come next week we will actually know who is starting the regular season and who is starting this meaningless preseason game. If your that high on Cobbs you should have dropped a kicker until next week and if Cobbs wasnt named the starter than you could just pick up another kicker. Thats what I did kickers are a dime a dozen and you dont need one on your team until next week.

[dynastybaby 0]

So what is the deal with this guy? Is he the starter now or is Shanny up to his old tricks again.

 

 

Im sure a little of both. I just respect the Broncos website more than the rumors of Shanny's comments. I haven't watched to many of the Broncos games in pre-season but I did watch Cobbs on Sunday & he looked good. Only time will tell....

 

First thing is you should have kept Chris Brown. Running back depth is running back depth. Brown is going to play and more than likely start. The Titans are showcasing Henry for a trade. Come next week we will actually know who is starting the regular season and who is starting this meaningless preseason game. If your that high on Cobbs you should have dropped a kicker until next week and if Cobbs wasnt named the starter than you could just pick up another kicker. Thats what I did kickers are a dime a dozen and you dont need one on your team until next week.

 

 

I would normally agree, but I just dont like Brown. I have Ronnie, Reggie, Lundy, Marroney & Norwood. I value Brown less than those guys. That's just me. We can only start two. Our league rules require that you carry one player of each position, so dropping a kicker was not an option...

[mtammen 0]

First thing is you should have kept Chris Brown. Running back depth is running back depth. Brown is going to play and more than likely start. The Titans are showcasing Henry for a trade

 

I don't think this is true. I think they want to move Brown.

[patsfanjrb 0]

Im sure a little of both. I just respect the Broncos website more than the rumors of Shanny's comments. I haven't watched to many of the Broncos games in pre-season but I did watch Cobbs on Sunday & he looked good. Only time will tell....

I would normally agree, but I just dont like Brown. I have Ronnie, Reggie, Lundy, Marroney & Norwood. I value Brown less than those guys. That's just me. We can only start two. Our league rules require that you carry one player of each position, so dropping a kicker was not an option...

 

Well my league requires starting a kicker too. But guess what the season doesnt start until next week. You dont need a kicker until then. All it will say is that your lineup is currently illegal. Then next week pickup a kicker and make your lineup legal.

[bobbyld332 0]

Speculating on the starting RB in Denver during the preseason is like........mental masturbation.

 

Take a mid-late round selection on gut feeling and pray!

[tt1010 0]

Speculating on the starting RB in Denver during the preseason is like........mental masturbation.

 

It's not even close to that pleasant...

 

I look at drafting Mike Bell as my biggest drafting mistake. The headache has started.

 

Of course, if it pans out, it was brilliant...

 

Stupid Denver.

[LunaTick 30]

So what is the deal with this guy? Is he the starter now or is Shanny up to his old tricks again.

 

 

Newbies and Addicts never learn.

 

Unless you have a waste in space player on your bench. Hold on until the first regular season game.

 

After all, it isn't who is listed starter, but who contributes more.

 

[dynastybaby 0]

Well my league requires starting a kicker too. But guess what the season doesnt start until next week. You dont need a kicker until then. All it will say is that your lineup is currently illegal. Then next week pickup a kicker and make your lineup legal.

 

 

No dude, I am the commissioner of the league, I think I know our rules better than you. Each team must draft & carry on player of each position at all times. This is the 9th year of our league, but if you know the rules better than me you are more than welcome to take over...

 

Here comes patsfans response.... "well, your league sucks! LOL!!!

[jjarch86 0]

Cedric Cobbs is a BA. Awesome runner...when he isn't INJURED, played for Arkansas.

 

Thinking about picking him up because I have known this kid has potential, and when NE traded him to Denver last year I knew it woudl only be a matter of time before we started hearing his name again. Not sure if he is worth a roster spot at this point though.

[NatronIsMean 0]

The ONLY nice thing about the Denver backfield is:

 

Grabbing Cobbs off of waivers and watching the collective Bell owners sweat! Not because I enjoy their pain, but because their pain is indicative of the value potential for Cobbs. We'll see what happens, but if Cobbs doesn't pan out I'll only have lost a waiver wire gamble. I like it.

[jgcrawfish 232]

I read the front page on the Broncos website. First article is about Cobbs. Didn't know he is the NFL's leading rusher in the pre-season averaging 5.6 yards per carry. Not saying he is gonna start, but he fits the Mike Anderson role better than Mike Bell. 6" 227 I dropped Chris Brown for him. Brown was my #5 RB & I don't like the guy anyway. Rather take a chance on Cobbs. I would need to cut somebody before the season to get my roster under the right amount of players, Brown would have been a gone...

 

Please note that Cobbs hasn't run with the first team and has seen more carries that most. But again, it's friggin Denver, so Terrell Davis might start again this season.

[clickclack 0]

for that excuse that says he hasn't run against first team Ds, well, he hasn't run with the first team O line either. Gotta take that into account.

[patsfanjrb 0]

No dude, I am the commissioner of the league, I think I know our rules better than you. Each team must draft & carry on player of each position at all times. This is the 9th year of our league, but if you know the rules better than me you are more than welcome to take over...

 

Here comes patsfans response.... "well, your league sucks! LOL!!!

 

 

Well obviously you are using an outdated site. Why not try and use CBS. I dont have a kicker on my team right now and I didnt lose the entire season cause the F---ing season hasnt started yet ######. But your the real dumbass dropping Brown so I dont even know why I respond to dumb posts like this. You are like deadmoney. You read something and over react and drop someone you should have kept and I scoop them up and put them on my bench. Keep up the good work ######.

[KSB2424 3,148]

Newbies and Addicts never learn.

 

Unless you have a waste in space player on your bench. Hold on until the first regular season game.

 

After all, it isn't who is listed starter, but who contributes more.

 

 

What the fock are you talking about?

 

Asking for info on a RB in the pre-season is bad fantasy football?

 

I don't plan on losing my week 1 game and having first pick in the waiver wire, and/or I would rather get a player on the cheap than having to spend a big price bidding for a free agent AFTER week 1.

 

FYI, nobody cares about who is on your team, what place you finished, or what round you picked focking Sam Gado. Its a tip to change your sig so you don't look like a newbie or an addict.

[patsfanjrb 0]

[richgator 0]

Ernest Graham has been the leading rusher for the Bucs the last two preseasons with Caddy, Pittman, and A-train there. Preseason is for not getting your starters hurt and playing your 3rd stringers.

[kutulu 1,676]

Admittedly, I'm a bit nervous as I felt forced to take M. Bell in one league as my #2 RB (picked 12th out of 12 went Manning/Lamont)....however, Denver's last preseason game is versus Arizona (10:00 p.m.).

 

I've been hearing Arz. Def is a underrated and a nice sleeper def. That being said...how much importance will Arz. have in the last preseason game, and what will Shanny be able to take out of it as far as his RBs go if they are just playing against scrubs?

[tony hardware 0]

For anyone who cares:

 

--Cobbs is the Broncos' leading rusher this exhibition season, carrying 28 times for 161 yards, a 5.8-yard average. His numbers have come against backups.

 

-- Mike Bell is next with 113 yards on 26 runs (4.3), two TDs and a team-best 34-yard run. Another solid game Sunday night would have cemented his hold on the starting job, but now it appears tenuous.

 

-- Tatum Bell has rushed for 86 yards on 22 carries (3.9) and a touchdown and could still end up as the featured back if he can convince his coaches he won't fade late and can be more consistent early.

 

-- Nash is averaging 5.1 yards a carry (14 for 72) and also scored a TD. Again, his numbers didn't come against the opponents' top line of defenders.

 

-- And Dayne gained just 12 yards on five carries before getting hurt. The Broncos will have to determine if the gimpy veteran is worth keeping around while so many others have taken turns making a splash.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-b...p&type=lgns

[jgcrawfish 232]

Let's settle this now...If Cobbs starts AND sees extensive playing time this weekend, like past 1st quarter or especially up to halftime, then rest assured, he won't be the starter in week 1. That means he's play for a roster spot. It also means you should look at the guys that didn't play as possible starters. However, if he gets 1 or 2 series, then sits and a bunch of scrubs come in for the rest of the game, well then, it might be time to take a gander at the WW to see if he's still sitting there. But no matter which happens, better go get some Pepto if you draft a Denver RB...better yet, cancel the Pepto and pick up some KY, cause Shanny is gonna bend you over at some point.

[RLLD 4,230]

Ratface = liar

 

Denver = RBBC

 

HTH

[BoltAddiction 0]

No dude, I am the commissioner of the league, I think I know our rules better than you. Each team must draft & carry on player of each position at all times. This is the 9th year of our league, but if you know the rules better than me you are more than welcome to take over...

 

Here comes patsfans response.... "well, your league sucks! LOL!!!

You're the league commissioner? Get your ice picks out because it appears hell hath frozen over

[football_scooter 0]

I avoided Broncos like the plague...except in one free (FFT geek) league where I now need to run out and grab Cobbs. Thanks, Shanny.

[jedeye 0]

The ironic thing is that Brown could be traded to Denver (just a rumor at this point).

[RamslovaMartzhata 3]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/nfl/...4955464,00.html

 

"Nobody excluded there," Shanahan said Tuesday. "We've got some fierce competition there and I'm not going to go through the playing time or the depth chart. We'll all find out when we open the season against the Rams who that starting running back will be."

 

I would like to state for the record that ever since Shanahan was fined for lying (about an injury I believe it was) I don't think he has been as bad as people make him out to be. Last year he said Mike Anderson was going to be the man, with Tatum giving him a blow... and that's what happened. I don't think he is not telling to be deceiptful... I think he really doesn't know himself.

 

With no clear cut favorite, he simply will go the committee approach and ride the hot hand. For whom which Bell tolls is a different story.

 

Tatum still is not a good receiver, hasn't looked good in blocking, and is soft. I can't see him being anything different than he was last year. Cobbs and Bell are both listed at 6-0, 220 and both are more versatile... so I believe it is down to them.

[norseman 0]

Ratface = liar

 

Denver = RBBC

 

HTH

I see this type of comment here all the time, and I'm not sure why everyone thinks that Ratface is a liar. I'm not a Denver fan or a Shanny defender/apologist by any means, but I simply don't remember him lying about who he was going to start at RB. Can someone enlighten me? I'm not saying he didn't lie, just that I don't remember him doing so.

 

My sense is that he simply hasn't started the RBs that FFers THOUGHT he would or should start. Last year, in preseason, he said that Anderson was his starter, and everyone thought he was lying, that Tatum Bell would obviously be the starter. Well, Anderson was, indeed, the starter. No lies there. So, when exactly DID he lie about this? Just curious.

[Big_Pete 0]

M.Bell will start tonight, T.Bell will switch out series with him. Cobbs will be the #3 and then they'll splash in Dayne and Nash for good measure.

Thats how thursday will go down. Shanahan said that the RB's will pretty much be the only starters playing.

I've said in past posts that M.Bell will be the starter, and if you wanted his handcuff, DO NOT draft T.Bell, but instead draft Cobbs.... nobody believed me a few weeks ago, well, they are starting to believe me now aren't they?

 

I see this type of comment here all the time, and I'm not sure why everyone thinks that Ratface is a liar. I'm not a Denver fan or a Shanny defender/apologist by any means, but I simply don't remember him lying about who he was going to start at RB. Can someone enlighten me? I'm not saying he didn't lie, just that I don't remember him doing so.

 

My sense is that he simply hasn't started the RBs that FFers THOUGHT he would or should start. Last year, in preseason, he said that Anderson was his starter, and everyone thought he was lying, that Tatum Bell would obviously be the starter. Well, Anderson was, indeed, the starter. No lies there. So, when exactly DID he lie about this? Just curious.

I think it's cause this will be year 3 that alot of people have had tatum bell on their roster, and shanahan has yet to pronounce him the starter. Even when injuries happen and he says things like "ruben droughns will be the starter" or "Ron Dayne will be the starter", all the bell owners yell "LIAR" because they dont want to believe it, even though shanahan starts precicely those people he says he will.

[KSB2424 3,148]

So where would Cobbs be ranked in this group?

 

Norwood

Toefield

Morencey

Cobbs