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Originally Posted by Jethopper

http://community.kdvr.com/_Sources-F...idgetId=216686

Nobody wants to play for you guys.........poor knows.

You really should read those things before you post them.

Why did the Broncos hold-out their best cornerback on their team, their defensive tackle who recorded the most tackles last season among all Bronco defensive lineman, as well as their offseason acquisition at safety?

“They failed it. They failed their conditioning test,” alleged one source with knowledge of this situation.

I also asked another team source, why were these players absent from practice Friday, and this source replied, “(they) all failed.”

The question is what exactly did these three players fail? Did they fail the entire conditioning test, or did they fail a certain portion of the test?

“They ran 300 yard sprints. On the field they are 50 back, 50 back, 50 back sprints until you hit 300. Then you have like a resting period in between the next one. Like you literally get at the goal line and run 50 yards forward, and run 50 yards back.
Now, you have to run three of these (300 sets) back to back to back, but you got to do them in a certain amount of time," answered the source with knowledge of the situation.

When the other team source was asked for clarity, did all three players fail this portion of the test, the team source replied back, “yeah.”

You might even learn something about the Chiefs - since that's the same conditioning test half your linemen failed. You could even learn something about the miraculous "cure" those Chiefs had:

Now here is the other side of this.

When I asked one of these three players directly, after an agreement not to disclose their identity, if they in fact failed the conditioning test, and if that was the reason for their absence Friday, they replied, “It was nothing more than precaution.”

When I said to this same player “so you didn’t fail the 300 sprint portion of the test,” they replied, “They just didn’t wanna throw us out there until we were physically ready.”

Then, early Saturday morning, I learned that all three players suddenly were expected to participate in the team’s only practice at 2:30pmMST (as posted in the Denvr_Sports_Insider blog).

When I contacted this same player again, thereafter to ask what changed overnight, and to ask if he and the rest of the guys finally passed their test, the player said, “It didn’t change overnight. It was a process. We just did certain things to make sure we were ready before we were out there.”

This damn "New England Way" - I'll be happy when McDaniels outgrows it. Maybe right after the Dorsey/McBride-for-Peppers trade turns reality upside down.