Holy Mackerel Mike! Great Caption!
Mike Kaplan is this weeks winner of our Cartoon Caption Contest. Way to go, Mike. We were inundated with caption entries. You guys set a new record here on the site for most entries ever at 140. THAT is way cool. Clearly many of you were disturbed by last weeks Broncos draft so hopefully this gave you the proper place to vent. There were so many good captions it was really hard to judge. I could have had a ton of runner-ups. But, since we set the ground rules last week, I’ll pick two:
Annje with “Great! Another season wandering in the desert”.
Trevor with “OK. This is out of hand. Now he thinks he IS Belichick.”

Mike, Trevor and Annje, please send me your contact information at sportoonz@gmail.com. I want to get your t-shirts, cartoons and sketches in the mail asap.

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That’s how the Cookie Crumbles
No doubt about it. Josh McDaniels has certainly had an impact as the new head coach of the Broncos. Not quite the one we all had in mind. To take one of the NFL’s most stellar franchises and turn it to ashes in the first few months takes an exceptional talent. Honestly, I’m dismayed at the reaction to all of this. Sure, Cutler can share the blame, but ultimately, the complete implosion of this lies in the hands of a kid named Josh. A kid who hasn’t the foggiest idea what it takes to be a head coach in the NFL, and who has absolutely no credibility to run a team. Yet I hear the banter on the various sports talk shows around town whose hosts are steadfastly supporting McDaniels through this whole mess. My guess is that certain members of the media in Denver don’t want to rankle the new kid in town for fear that McDaniels might hold a grudge and be less apt to give them a story somewhere down the line. Objectivity has been completely thrown to the wind. McDaniels is simply a Belichick wanna be and it’s beyond my comprehension what Bowlen saw in him to give the kid the job in the first place.

Think on this
Would you rather have a 25-year-old quarterback named Jay Cutler who just returned from the pro bowl, or Chris Simms? Really now? You can’t be serious. So here’s the elephant in the room and I believe is the basis for the Broncos wanting to trade Cutler in the first place. Could it be that the Broncos are concerned about Cutler’s diabetes diagnosis? The folks at Dove Valley will deny,deny and deny that Cutler’s health has anything to do with their decision making. But it does and I believe is a factor behind all of this. Worried top brass at the Broncos are concerned whether Cutler can remain healthy long term. So out he must go. For Chris Simms… Can you say 3-13? 2-14? 1-15. That’s your future with Chris Simms. And just trading Cutler for somebody else isn’t going to work now. The Broncos have lost any bargaining power. So don’t expect Detroit to give up that number 1 pick now.

Questions of the day?
Should the Broncos trade Jay Cutler?
And if you were Pat Bowlen, what would you do?
Comment away

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If you’re coming here because of the 9news story, thank you. Just know that cartoonists can change their minds. Given the weekend’s latest developments, I thought this cartoon was a bit more appropriate than the rough draft from the news.

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Shortly after the Broncos captured their first Super Bowl victory I was faced with a dilemma. The Elway Covers the Cup cartoon had been pretty popular but, of course, no longer relevant. Larry Strutton, the publisher of the News at the time paid me a visit one afternoon at my Cartoon Cubicle, just a few days after I returned from covering Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego. He suggested I should revisit the Elway-Sakic cartoon. I didn’t relish digging out an idea I’ve ready printed and retooning it for publication, but I had to admit Larry had a point. So, after a few hours of swaet I came up with this Elway Reeves cartoon with Dan Reeves coveting Elway’s Lombardi trophy. Imagine my horror when the very next year Elway faced off against Reeves in Super Bowl XXXIII. I didn’t want to have to revisit it again. Thank goodness Elway made sure I didn’t have to by totally crushing the Falcons for another Super Bowl victory. This one was drawn in pen and ink and colorized in Adobe PhotoShop.

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I usually work today for tomorrow, which does really strange things to your central nervous system. Deadlines are tight. The closer you get to it the faster and louder the heart pounds. The secret is quieting the sucker long enough to get an idea to seep through. This cartoon was drawn right after the Colorado Avalanche captured its first Stanley Cup and a year before John Elway would hoist his first Lombardi Trophy. I had the idea a few weeks before the Avalanche clinched the championship which absolutely NEVER happens. I could hardly wait to draw it for publication. One of the prints hangs on Joe Sakic’s wall. It’s drawn in pen and ink and then watercolored.

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