Broncos to release Al Wilson

ESPN is reporting that Al has called a press conference for later today. The article's pretty sparse, but what sticks out for me is that Denver will only save $1.63 million dollars by releasing him. They can't find another way to save $1.63 million?

I call shenanigans. Wilson's play certainly has fallen off, and he has injury issues, but he was also the heart and soul of the defense, and he was still among the top 10 middle linebackers in the league. $1.63 million? And no one would trade for him? Something is amiss. I once again must call on the Inquisitorial Squad. Assemble!

Without doing any sort of research whatsoever regarding salaries- and I know fuck all about the salary cap- I give you this:

• Stephen Alexander
• John Lynch
• Nick Ferguson
• Ian Gold
• John Engelberger

Certainly there's $1.63 million dollars in salary cap to be found in there somewhere. Wouldn't you rather have Wilson and Sam Brandon over Louis Green and Nick Ferguson?
I'm not going to touch on overpaying Dan Graham after losing out on Patrick Kerney, or the $1 million dollar signing of Montrae Holland, or overpaying Travis Henry, or signing Alvin McKinley, or the big money for Dre Bly, or the fact that I'm almost positive Denver would've gotten more cap relief letting Plummer retire as a Bronco rather than trading him for a 7th rounder out of spite, because I think there's varying degrees of value in all of those moves.

I would like to draw your attention to the 2 year, 4.5 million dollar Patrick Ramsey contract, and the 1 year contract for Brandon Stokley, which has been described as "in excess of $1 million a year," and the fact that just yesterday Denver was signing DAVID FUCKING TERRELL.

Actually, I guess I'm going to draw your attention to that whole mess up there and say that I'm pretty positive that Denver could've found $1.63 million in cap room. Which brings me back to the shenanigans- Denver just released a Pro bowl middle linebacker/ team captain to save a relative pittance, after finding no takers on the trade market. I sense something is amiss in the injury issues, but that's pure speculation.

Either way, this moves gets the Denver Front office the first ever Whammy of The Week Award:

I blame this entirely on Ted Sundquist

Oh, and I really wanted to use a different picture I found after a GIS for "Al Wilson," but Al deserves that awesome picture of him jackin' some dude. But it turns out that I'm pretty immature, so here:

BAM- That's a Mustache, mofo!