Parker joined The Denver Post in September 2022 after covering the Broncos for USA Today. Before that, he spent five years covering Nebraska football and athletics for the Lincoln Journal Star. He's a New Glarus, Wisconsin native and a University of Wisconsin graduate.
Troy Franklin of the Denver Broncos celebrates with Garett Bolles of the Denver Broncos after scoring a touchdown in the third quarter at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. The Denver Broncos took on the Atlanta Falcons. Denver Post Broncos writer Parker Gabriel posts his Broncos Mailbag weekly during the season and periodically during the offseason.
“Show me good pass protection metrics and I’m going to show you a quarterback that doesn’t take sacks,” Payton said then. “It’s a credit to the O-line, but there are some quarterbacks that are tough to protect for. I’ve just gone through it in my career. … I think those metrics are offensive line and quarterback-driven metrics.”
Drafting one sounds good, but boxing yourself into having to select one position early in the draft is bad business. A future shuffle including Mike McGlinchey, Alex Palczewski or others can’t be entirely ruled out, either. The bottom line is everything keeps coming up in the Broncos’ favor. Cincinnati easily could have won its past two games and put itself in the mix, but instead, two close losses have them at 4-7. The Bengals may well need to run the table to make it from here. Everybody below Cincinnati is done. The Jets are super out at 3-8 and fired GM Joe Douglas on Tuesday, New England’s interesting long-term with Drake Maye but done this year at 3-8 and the rest are a batch of two-win teams.
It used to be that a coach would often call for the field goal try on third down in the situation the Broncos were at the end of the Chiefs game, in case of a bad snap or hold. I was surprised Payton didn’t. Did anyone ask that question post-game, or was the option not really applicable?Hey Fred, interesting question and one that hasn’t been asked, I think probably for a few reasons.
The snap counts in those games tell a similar story: Estime 26, Williams 17 vs. KC and Williams 32, Estime 14 against the Falcons. One thing we don’t know for sure is how big a role defensive coordinator Vance Joseph has in mind for Sanders if/when he returns. Since the team traded Browning at the deadline, Dondrea Tillman has provided steady snaps in the outside linebacker rotation.
This might make me sound like a conspiracy theorist but in any way do you think Sean Payton might be “subtly, quietly” tanking this season because he knows our roster isn’t talented enough to compete yet and needs another year of a top 10 draft choice and solid draft to improve roster enough to compete?! It’s just peculiar to me to throw Bo Nix out there so early and watch him struggle mightily but yet not make a change.
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