Month: March 2022

This piece is something I decided to write in the few hours I had free yesterday. Non-Broncos related for the curious observer.

A couple of days before our game, I talked to my mentor, who worked with me last year before he was let go by our coaching staff. A former DE coach, he imparted some wisdom for me from his lessons learned as a coach. He was despised by most members of our coaching staff for leaving earlier than them on most nights. They saw him as selfish and lazy. One that was a cancer to the team. I saw something different in him and he had helped me greatly in achieving all that I wanted to achieve in the video world. My perspective was different, but I had also spent the most time with him, much more than the other guys in the office. He told me:

Your family will be there for you, but this game will not. If you leave your team, they will find a replacement the next day. You have to focus on you because you are the only one that will do it. Put yourself and your family first. Family always comes first.

Hey all!

Hope all is well on your side of the world. I heard about the big news and the first thing I did was check this site to see what your guys’ reactions were. What an exciting time to be a fan of the Broncos! I think Russell will be great for the team in the long run and I am glad to see all of you in high spirits.

For those of you that don’t know me, I used to write articles and comment here several years ago. Thanks to Nick, who registered my account through his website and to the community here, I was able to talk football with some great people as I was making my way through a coaching program.

I just wanted to stop by and say a quick ‘hello’ and let you know a couple of things now that I found my password:

1. I was really glad to see a lot of familiar faces when I came back here. I remember back when I was a fan of the Broncos who had a deep passion for the game and a hunger for learning the in-and-out of everything football related. I was quite obsessed with it to be honest. Finding It’s All Over Fat Man and coming over to this site created by Nick was one of the great opportunities I had to talk football with people who are educated, smart, good to each other, and wanted to listen to what my input was. This site provided a truly remarkable avenue for me to grow as a young man finding out what my passion was and diving into it head first. I would have still loved football and still gone onto my career track, don’t get me wrong. But, having people willing to read what I put out and support me in doing so while I was figuring out what I wanted to do in my life was truly formative. I just wanted to say thank you for letting me a part of your community and allowing me to talk football with you guys. I don’t think I ever got around to saying it, so I wanted to make sure I did while I was still here.

2. I am no longer in the football industry (Thanks COVID!). In hindsight, it was mainly my decision. I was a video coordinator for the program I interned for. They paid for my Masters degree and provided me with a good paycheck while I ran all of their film from the coaches film to highlight programs. But, I felt my interest for football decline as the 100+ hour work weeks kept going on during the season and watching my team experience losing season after losing season kind of killed my interest for the game for a little bit. I don’t think I have watched a game of football for three years now as a way to decompress from the sport. In an effort to keep a roof over my head and food on my plate, I decided to join the Navy and am now deployed in Boston working on the USS Constitution, a historical 224 year old frigate. I started from the enlisted side but now, since I came in with a degree, I have an opportunity to serve as an officer and be able to serve in the aviation side of things. I must put the work in, but we will see. Life is pretty good thus far, I don’t have to worry about a lot, except for a certain war in Ukraine. But other than that, I am chugging along.

I still kept most of my knowledge of the game, oddly enough. Whenever I watch snippets of the game on TV, I analyze the offensive formation, know generally the calls I’m hearing. I just have no interest in seeing what happens. That may change here with the sudden, revitalized Denver Broncos now in prime contention to make some noise in the league. I guess I’ll find out when training camp rolls around and see if the my interest piques up like it used to.

If you don’t mind, I would like to join you all for a great next season. Thanks again for all your support when I was writing and commenting my every thought here. I’m glad I was able to have an outlet that some people only dream of having.

Kyle Worden

“Dubs”