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Cecil Sapp isn't well known outside of Colorado, but this guy is a blue collar player. After being one of the most productive RB's in Colorado St. History, he learns to play FB.

you dont see too many athletes taking a pay cut. this guy is classy

We now know the going rate for 30 year old blocking backs . I never heard an agent yet say no one else wanted his guy..

How cash strapped can the Bronco's actually be? All this nonsense about having to release Press/Media guys, and or their Web guys, who have been with the club for years is stupid. Now they have good, reliable players taking pay cuts.

What next? Broncos stadium gonna start selling 11 inch, "foot long" hot dogs at a .10 cent price hike?

Perhaps start using ice in the urinals to prevent flushing?

Maybe they will start paying high school kids to take care of the fields turf, instead of having a grounds keeper?

Real bush league Denver....bush league

Denver must be payin payments still for gettin John Elway's teeth shrunk!!!

Wow - that's really petty of Denver. Sheesh, I am surprised they don't make him strip down to his underwear and get paddled 10 times for the right to play for the Broncos. I bet he gets cut a week before the season (to add injury to insult).

I think Shanahan ordered him to take a pay cut.

--He had offers from Houston and Kansas City. So if he wanted more money he could have taken it. Some of you guys make it sound like he HAD to accept Denver's deal...
--And it was brought up before, most of the staff that was cut were PR related, so perhaps them being fired was performance-based on how they had been handling Denver's moves, and then "financial reasons" were used as the excuse. Andrew Mason blogged about Sundquist's release and a few days later he himself gets canned, and the blog disapears. You guys really think this team doesn't have the money? They are top 10 every year in Forbes magazine for successful franchises.
--They have 9 draft picks so cap room may be at a premium in 3-5 months when rookies are offered contracts...it'd be crazy to think that maybe the Broncos are asking Sapp to take a pay cut for that instead of the Broncos money woes, wouldn't it???

Their coach is the one that should take a pay cut !

Loveland310 ..Unless you know for how much and how long and how much money was garunteed, then the Broncos may have been the best deal...I think you always take what a players agent says with a pound of salt..at least.
I am sure he is a yeoman like player, but you are talking about a blocking back who will turn 30 this year and gained all of 59 yards last season with a handful of catches. A role player on a good day, and when final cut day comes someone who will be looking to see if he has a job...

Mike Shanahan hearing of the signing said "that's great now we'll have two "Sapps" on the team" !!!

Where is Adam Schefter? I guess he's too busy still talking trash about Javon Walker to chastise the Broncos for not "honoring" their contracts.

If I am Shanahan, I make them destroy that pic and fire the guy who took it..And being Mike The Omnipotent, I can do it...

Packer fans may want to consider this: With Favre gone, defenses will play to stop the running game first. That was not case before. Rogers is going to have to prove he can beat you with the pass. Grant is worth more, but not a lot-not yet..

Sounds like the price of fake tanning is going up.

you dont see too many athletes taking a pay cut. this guy is classy

g13player

You don't see any athletes at the top of their game taking pay-cuts period.

Great team player to stay in a messy situation, if we are going to lose we can all do it together ... but I take less money. I guess you can call him Classy, I wouldn't I just think that this is a guy that wants to stay where he is known!

I will believe he took less when some team steps forward and tells their fans they offered more but he turned it down. It was his agent who said he had a better offer...Some of you people hold agents in a lot higher ethical regard than i do...

50 year fan it was a 1 year deal, so no Denver was NOT the best offer money wise. read the flippin thing your are commenting on.

Wow you can't even read the 3 line T&R and you expect anyone to even listen to you?