The spender and the saver sat next to each other during the NFL Draft in April, smiling at their recent additions and perhaps feeling slightly differently about their capital moving forward.
When the spender, Broncos head coach Sean Payton, asked the saver, general manager George Paton, how much they had left in their draft wallets, Paton noted diligently the checkbook balance: “A pair of sixths.”
Hey, Payton said, you can find, “probably a couple of dishwashers” with that.
Maybe they did in safety JL Skinner and center Alex Forsyth.
But over the past couple of years, big expenditures have taken bites out of Denver’s ability to keep the pantry full.