Over three years ago, I wrote an article titled The Broncos Can’t Afford to Play it Safe at Quarterback Anymore in which I laid out my main critique of the post-Manning John Elway-era decision making. The TLDR of that piece is that John Elway and the Denver Broncos needed to start swinging for the fences to fix their quarterback situation.
Now, with Elway hanging up his managerial cleats and George Paton stepping up to the plate, the challenge still remained. Denver had missed out on Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford, and passed on Justin Fields last year, and were on the verge of heading into another season with yet another cobbled together QB room of Drew Lock, a veteran bridge/maybe a drafted QB that would have made Dr.