Marshall a no-show at mandatory camps

Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall is by all accounts a great guy. He’s had several run-ins with the law on domestic abuse charges, he’s been suspended by the NFL, he even sliced himself open by falling through the glass of his entertainment center while wrestling with his brother….and then lied about it by saying he slipped on a McDonald’s bag. Last year he criticized the Broncos’ medical staff for not properly diagnosing his injured hip soon enough. Awesome guy.

Now, according to Mike Klis of the Denver Post, he’s a no-show at mandatory minicamps because he isn’t happy with his contract. He has one year remaining on his rookie four-year deal that will pay him $2.198 million.

Marshall is still recovering from off-season hip surgery and couldn’t participate if he wanted to. But that doesn’t mean anything, he still has to be there.

“We understand what is mandatory and what is voluntary,” Marshall’s agent Kennard McGuire told the Post. “There is no dispute in interpreting the two.”

Um, yeah. We kind of understood that. Didn’t really need to be said.

But the bigger story here is the Denver Broncos. The shape they were in before head coach Josh McDaniels got there and the shape they are in now are two wildly different scenarios. Not to say that Marshall wouldn’t have still been a pain – he most likely would have because that’s what he is – but it just doesn’t look good for McDaniels.