Daily Links – It’s About Time

• The Broncos finally showed something positive from this wild offseason.  [Denver Post]
• Tom Brandstater stole the show.  [BroncoTalk]
• Brandstater definitely staked a claim on the “QB of the future” title for Denver, and, depending on who you ask, the present. [Colorado Springs Gazette]
• Tommy B gives some love to his OL and D/ST for making his job easier.  (Video).  [DenverBroncos.com]
• Post-game highlights. (Video).  [NFL.com]

• Pat Bowlen lands at 16 in this NFL Owner Power Rankings piece.  Interesting point about Mike Shanahan‘s contract – wonder if his history with Oakland had anything to do with that?  [Yahoo! Sports]
• Klis: McD could use a little advice from Rockies GM Jim Tracy, who “can execute a man hug and actually make it look cool.”  On a related note, is it just me, or is Klis circa 2009 about 10x better than Klis circa 2008?  [DPO]
• A ton of delicious post-game quotes.  No dipping sauce necessary.  [BT]

NFL/Other

• Chiefs 9, Rams 17.  Tyler Thigpen looked awful.  [NFL.com]
• Brodie Croyle did too.  [Kansas City Star]
• Raiders 21 – Seahawks 31.  Oakland’s mailing it in for the preseason – will that continue through the regular?  [NFL.com]
• Bengals 38 – Colts 7 in a batlle of the backups.  [NFL.com]
• While we were all watching our Broncos, this other Bronco got punched! One wonders if a pre-game good sportsmanship handshake wouldn’t have prevented all this. Oh, never mind.  [Deadspin]