Broncos receiver Cody Latimer stepped in the NFL's version of a confessional booth, and refused to make lame excuses. With chin held high and eyes unafraid to examine the hard truth of his shortcomings, Latimer sought absolution for his football sins as a rookie.
"Excuse my words, but I should have known what the (expletive) I was doing. And I didn't know what I was doing," Lati- mer told me, explaining the root cause of why he caught only two passes for 23 yards a year ago. For him, the Denver playbook was as inscrutable as an algebra word problem written in Chinese.