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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Months after he raised plenty of eyebrows in the Rocky Mountain region for how he left the Denver Broncos, Houston Texans quarterback Brock Osweiler addressed his exit in free agency to Denver media Thursday.A second-round pick in the 2012 draft, Osweiler spent four years in Denver before signing a four-year, $72 million deal with the Texans in March. The Broncos and Texans face each other Monday night in Denver, Osweilers first trip in as a visiting quarterback.His departure from Denver wasnt smooth, and many within the Broncos organization said Osweiler had little or no contact with teammates or others with the team in the weeks leading up to free agency.Osweiler did not attend the Broncos trip to the White House in June when the team was honored by President Barack Obama. He also skipped the Broncos ring ceremony in June as well as Peyton Mannings retirement news conference in March.Thursday, Osweiler repeatedly said he had nothing but respect as well as love and appreciation and gratitude for Broncos coach Gary Kubiak, executive vice president of football operations/general manager John Elway, his former teammates with the Broncos and Broncos fans.On the White House trip, Osweiler said the Texans were in the middle of their OTAs.The White House was pretty simple -- we had an OTA that Monday, you know, as weve talked in the past, Osweiler said. Learning a new offense, a new system, you know, like we went through in 2015 in Denver. It takes a lot of time, a lot of repetitions. You can even multiply that when youre trying to learn a new system and new teammates and build chemistry.Bottom line, I wasnt at the White House because we had an OTA that Monday when the Broncos visited the president and the White House, and I felt like it was important for me to be here with my new teammates.Osweiler offered the same explanation for the ring ceremony, which other players who had signed elsewhere in free agency did attend, including linebacker Danny Trevathan, safety David Bruton Jr. and defensive end Malik Jackson.Ring ceremony, same deal -- ring ceremony was Sunday night, we had a practice Monday morning, and if I went to the ring ceremony, I wouldnt have been able to catch a flight back for OTAs, Osweiler said. Every single day is important.For Mannings retirement news conference, Osweiler said he was on vacation with his family, including his wife, parents and brother, and didnt want to leave the group. He said he reached out at the time to Manning and had exchanged several text messages with Manning.Im not sure why that would come across as a bad look, Osweiler said. I wasnt going to leave the one vacation that I get with my parents and my brother and my wife to race back last minute. Bottom line, I have nothing but respect for Peyton Manning. ... He was always a great teammate to me; hes still a great friend to this day. ... For me not being at the press conference, thats not a story.Osweiler said he also saw Elway in Idaho this summer and had a great conversation with him.After the Texans had announced Osweiler had signed with the team, Elway issued a statement that said, in part, Weve stayed true to our philosophy of building a team with players who want to be Denver Broncos and want to be here.Earlier this week, Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall said he has no animosity toward Osweiler but joked that the team wants to kill him in Monday nights game.Asked about the remark, Osweiler laughed and said, Seems like they miss me.Von Miller also said he respected Osweilers decision to sign with Houston, but said theres added motivation Monday night because Osweiler is a former teammate.Besides what [Marshall] said, everything else, we love Brock, Miller said. Like I said before, I love Brock. We went through the same process together. We talked during that period. I get where hes coming from. I 100 percent get why he made the decision that he made. It was the best decision for him. And I have nothing but 100 percent respect for that. It just a little added sauce on it when its someone youve played with before. Thats all it really is. Its just a little sauce on the top.ESPNs Sarah Barshop contributed to this report.Luis Garcia Angels Jersey . Nathan MacKinnon, Jamie McGinn and Jan Hejda also scored for the Avalanche, who won despite being outshot 38-23. MacKinnons goal, also on the power play, came with just over a minute remaining. Taylor Ward Angels Jersey .500 on the season. The Jets are now 0-5-1 in the second game of back-to-backs. The game started the same way the Vancouver game started the night before, with the Jets taking the first two penalties of the game and killing off the first, but the Oilers getting on the board first, scoring on the second man-advantage. https://www.cheapangels.com/1963j-joe-garagiola-jersey-angels.html . 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Going into an offline final on North American soil, you have to consider the home-team advantage for the North American seeds, especially No. 1 seed Kings of Urban.Kings captain Jayson Fireburner Nunez says his teams play will benefit from having a live audience. When you have a North American LAN, the crowd will be there to hype us up and get us going.Teammate Jacob Jacob McDowell echoes the sentiment. We feed on the hype. Were an emotional team and the hype will build us up.Heading into the finals, Fireburner exudes confidence, saying the team has prepared more than ever for this moment. We are a team that works together very well. We will have the playmaker in Jacob flying high, while I will set him and [teammate Kais SadJunior Zehri] up.The story of Kings had been one of almost for a very long time. From its inception in late August of 2015, the Kings lurked in the shadow of a team named Cosmic Aftershock, which was seen as the team to beat. That is, until relatively recently.Reaching for the starsWhen Kings of Urban first formed, Fireburner sought to find the three best players in North America who were not on Cosmic, which was then a dominant force in the scene. The original roster included Fireburner, Cody Gambit Dover and Kyle Kyle Masc Mascitelli. This new team competed in small weekly ESL tournaments and started pressuring Cosmic, nearly taking a game here and there.Kings sought to improve its roster and decided to swap Masc for Jacob, a high-flying playmaker. The new Kings of Urban showed its very real potential at Major League Gaming Pro League Season 1 in the quarterfinals against Cosmic, where the unthinkable happened: Kings of Urban eliminated Cosmic and moved on to the semifinals.After MLG, Kings moved swiftly to pick up a new third as a replacement for departing ace Gambit. The squad decided on Caleb Moses Nichols, a very solid up-and-coming player who looked to be a potential superstar (see ESPN Esports feature on Moses). Within a month of picking up Moses, Kings of Urban began its North American reign, finally eclipsing the now-sponsored iBUYPOWER Cosmic to hold the top spot in North America for more than a month. During that time Kings looked like a dominant performer in weekly and monthly events, but the stage where it really shined was the Rocket League Central Pro League (RLCPL).ddddddddddddThe RLCPL was the first large-scale international tournament featuring all of the best teams from North America and Europe competing against each other. This roster from Kings of Urban continued to impress, finishing the regular season with a massive 22-8 record at the top of North America. Kings moved into the playoff bracket as the top seed from North America; unfortunately, losses in the semifinals eliminated it from the Pro League and set its ranking back into the No. 2 spot.Breaking throughWhen the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) Season 1 Qualifier 1 came around, Kings brought in SadJunior as a replacement for Moses in a surprise move that clearly stated its intent to zero in on first place. However, Kings of Urban finished in a consistent second place behind iBUYPOWER, both in regular league play and in the playoff bracket at the end. This was in no way a poor showing, as Kings set itself up to be a top contender for a spot at the LAN finals.In Qualifier 2 for RLCS Season 1, Kings of Urban finished a surprisingly low fourth seed in regular league play, but then showed why it made that roster change. In its first match, it took down the upstart Lucky Bounce, who had emerged from the group stage in first place. Moving into the finals, it faced off against former teammate Moses new team, Exodus. In an incredibly close, acrobatic series, the Kings of Urban took down Exodus 4-3 to secure the top seed in North America in what all three members called their proudest moment. Now the team is on its way to the Live Finals, where it will have the chance to prove it is the best in the world.Fireburner says the team had had faith in itself from the beginning of RLCS: We always believed we could finish first if we put the time in scrims and fixed our small issues that we had at the start of Qualifier 2. We still believe we havent reached our full potential and were excited for the future.In Rocket Leagues short history, Kings of Urban are one of the longest-standing teams in North America and have consistently had one of the best rosters in the world. Through many roster changes, it has hovered between being the best and second-best team in North America, and now it comes into Rocket Leagues biggest tournament yet as the top seed from the region. Who knows what the future will hold, but the Kings reign looks likely to continue. ' ' '