I want to make a comparison between the 2015 Denver Broncos and this year’s Green Bay Packers.
The Broncos had just concluded the 2014 season by going one-and-out in the playoffs, losing to the Colts. This was the same exit the team took in 2011 and 2012. Their high point was in 2013, when they made it to the Super Bowl, but got embarrassed by the Seahawks, 43-8.
The Broncos had an all-time great quarterback in Peyton Manning (sound familiar?), acquired in a blockbuster trade with the Colts in 2012. The 2015 season would be his fourth – and it turned out final – season in the Mile High City and the NFL.