It’s a bad day to be a bubble boy
“It was all fun and games until now. Mini camps and OTAs, training camp and preseason tilts, all those chances to show the coaches you mean business …but now it’s cuttin’ time at Dove Valley. Your Denver Broncos will slice twenty-two souls from their summer roster. It’s not a good day to be a bubble boy. “
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It was all fun and games until now. Mini camps and OTAs, training camp and preseason tilts, all those chances to show the coaches you mean business …but now it’s cuttin’ time at Dove Valley. Your Denver Broncos will slice twenty-two souls from their summer roster. It’s not a good day to be a bubble boy.
Zach Dysert will probably get chopped – he of the ninety-plus QB rating in last nights Cardinals game. Some folks say he rocks more than Brock, but we all know where Elway stands on the matter. Gerell Robinson is a fan favorite this morning. He made some monster catches yesterday. But he could be forgotten by tomorrow. Others loved will be lost as well. CJ Anderson was everybody’s darlin’ two weeks ago. But he got hurt, which means he’ll get cut. Parting will probably be sweet sorrow for Lerentee McCray, too, since his body betrayed him.
Say “goodbye” to John Youboty and Paris Lenon, Damien Holmes and probably Aaron Hester, too.
You don’t go from seventy-five men to fifty-three without there being blood.
John Fox and his crew of coaches have their work cut out for them. But for the men they remove from their roster the work begins again of trying to latch on with a team. Some will. Some won’t. For some this camp will have been their last. They’ll find out that, even though they were superstars back home, there’s no room for them at the highest of all levels. Maybe they never got a chance to shine. Maybe they did get that chance and blew it. Regardless, their sadness will be shared by the players who got to know them and the media members who covered their quest through camp.
The young prospective NFL-ers who will be told of their fate on cut day will all have one thing in common: they’re all human. Bubble boys have feelings, too. They are young men whose only dreams are to play professional football. Few have training in any other field. It’s football or it’s starting over. Being sent home from Dove Valley won’t mean that their dream has ended – but it’s not a good sign. Rare is the bubble boy who makes it past the practice squad.
Our memories of the bubble boys will be fleeting but they’ll never forget how hard they worked to get to cut day.
