Just in from the AP, Brandon Marshall has reportedly lost trust with the Denver Broncos, apparently because of how the front office has handled his new acquittal from domestic abuse charges.

Someone in the public relations department told Marshall’s Broncos teammates not to gloat over the acquittal, but instead to say that they are “happy to have it all behind them so the team can move on”—something that has obviously upset the young disgruntled receiver.

Brandon “Baby TO” Marshall is saying in turn, that he believes this move to hush teammates has come from higher up in the organization, and has “fostered distrust between him and the team.”

Does this sound familiar?

Who does this Marshall think he is, Jay Cutler?

As day after day of this saga continues, it bears more and more resemblance to what Cutler did, as a way to leverage his way out of Denver.

Cutler demanded a trade, before Josh McDaniels was hired and Jeremy Bates was fired, then backed down. Then he demanded another trade, lost communication with the team, and continued a long, drawn out media circus that has national media members looking at the Broncos with black and silver tinted glasses.

And here we go again, or have gone again I suppose. As we pass a month of day-in, day-out coverage of everything Marshall, there is nothing to report, besides how he feels mentally from day-to-day.

Marshall now “distrusts” the team, just as Cutler said he did, but “Baby TO’s” distrust is unfounded, illogical, and yet another scheme he’s trying to use to vacate the mile high city.

First he demanded a trade, which was turned down by the Broncos, because “he doesn’t feel comfortable with the medical staff.” Then, after not showing for voluntary workouts, Marshall did show when it was mandatory, only to “injure” his hamstring. I say “injure” because I believe he was faking the injury as a way to legally sit out of practice without hurting his image more.

Now, when someone in the FO tells teammates not to gloat about his acquittal, Marshall loses trust with Denver? Why?

Think about it Brandon, you have been in trouble over a dozen times since 2006, and if you were found guilty you would have lost playing time this year. So, it’s a good move from the franchise’s standpoint to not have lots of their players joking around about a serious situation in domestic abuse.

But that’s the problem with “Baby TO,” he won’t, at this point I’d even venture can’t think about anyone else but himself. He is completely selfish, and it shows again here.

He doesn’t care about the women he’s beaten, doesn’t care what the Broncos want because he wants to be traded, and he doesn’t care if he’s a liability as a player and citizen with all these arrests, Marshall just wants to get paid.

Well, guess what Brandon? You don’t get to get paid. You don’t get to leave Denver, unless this deal the Jets are proposing is tempting enough. You don’t get to gloat after physically and verbally assaulting women.

Are these notions really that hard to understand?

All this makes me think of something I learned in Rhetoric and Civility, a college class I took; Brandon Marshall needs to read Civility, by Stephen L. Carter.

Carter says, “To be civil in our society is to imagine we are a passenger on a train, not in our own car.” When we’re on a train, we must stand for others, move, and squeeze in for them, and we must be let off at stops, which may not be exactly where we want to go.

So, my advice to Brandon Marshall is this: Either get on the train, or the Broncos will send you packing on a plane. By the way, did you see where Cutler is now? Denver did that on purpose, and they could find a team without a QB relatively easily.

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