May 9, 2008
Brown Named Starter on Day One
by Keith Weiland
Keith@IntheBullseye.com

First day on the job, and rookie Duane Brown already has the corner office and flex Fridays.

Head coach Gary Kubiak demoted last year's starter at left tackle, Ephram Salaam, before the team opened its first practice of a three-day minicamp. Brown worked with the starters, something he should be expected to do at some point anyway, but yet it's not something he has earned.

Is it fair? Maybe not, but this is football, not life. Wait, I just googled it, and it turns out life isn't fair either, so I guess we should quit worrying about whether Brown deserves this chance so soon and start worrying about whether he can keep the job.

The upshot here is that Brown will be baptized early and often by Mario Williams, who by all accounts is still his badass self from the latter half of last season. If Brown can make it here, he ought to be able to make it anywhere.

So orientation is officially over, Duane. Time to get to work.

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