Posted on 08/15/2005 7:17:13 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
DENVER (Aug. 15, 2005) -- Jerry Rice moved up the Denver depth chart, running as the No. 3 receiver at Broncos practice, ahead of Darius Watts.
Rice was already considered a near shoo-in to make the roster and continue his record-setting career into a 21st season. The move only serves to confirm that fact.
After practice, the veteran receiver continued with a theme he set when he signed with the Broncos: that he is simply trying to prove himself and make the team.
"I pretty much approach every season never thinking about what I accomplished the year before," Rice said.
Rice was limited in practice much of last week with a sore foot. He played briefly in the preseason game against the Texans and caught one pass for six yards. He is expected to play more when the Broncos face Rice's first team, the San Francisco 49ers.
Was he happy to move up the depth chart?
"I'm just happy to be on the football field," the 42-year-old receiver said.
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First of all, Jerry is playing for the love of the game. TO could learn a thing or two...
secondly, seeing Jerry Rice in a Broncos Uni is going to look weird.....
good job mike : )
hehe
thanks :)
I wanted to test it all out
yeah that was kinda odd too....
But I thought it was odd seeing him as the Jets coach.....
If he's cut before the third game, they won't have to pay him.
Yeah...
or seeing Ozzie Newsome in the Baltimore Ravens front office....
weird stuff...
kinda like seeing Willie Mays in a Mets Uni. Is it a San Fran thing or what?
yeah but if they have him this high already on the depth chart, I can't possibly see them cutting him unless they start out 0-5 or 0-6...which they won't....
Seeing Bernie Kosar as a Cowboy was pretty darn weird to me.
no you wouldn't....
I think the only weirder (if that's a word) thing would have been if Parcells would have went to the 'skins....
yeah...
or Testaverde as a Brown......
Now that I live in Northern Virginia.
I would of liked that.
Watts can't catch a cold.
LOL...
he would be in jail. He would have strangled Snyder.....
nope.
but if you look at the top 3 WRs on the Broncos, they look pretty decent..
if only Jake Plummer could remember which color his jersey is....
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