The Broncos need a plan and some patience. Denver must dig in, pick a lane and stay in it -- at quarterback, in the draft and in free agency.
Jeff Legwold is a senior writer who covers the Denver Broncos and the NFL at ESPN. Jeff has covered the Broncos for more than 20 years, joining ESPN in 2013. He also assists with NFL draft coverage, including his annual top 100 prospects. Jeff has been a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Board of Selectors since 1999. He has attended every scouting combine since 1987.
But the Broncos aren't that team anymore. Instead, they have an eight-year streak of playoff misses -- the team's longest since it was a struggling AFL franchise.In short, the notion that the Broncos are going to fix everything when they find a quarterback who is equal to or better than some, or all, of those passers seems like a dicey proposition at best and a path to folly at worst.
But the Broncos need a plan, a fit and some patience. Mahomes isn't even to his prime playing years if he stays healthy, and the Broncos have changed coaches, playcallers, quarterbacks and directions as if it is dry cleaning.The Broncos need to dig in, pick a lane and stay in it -- at quarterback, in the draft and in free agency. And that's not on Sean Payton, George Paton or even the next quarterback who opens a season behind center. It's on owner/CEO Greg Penner.
And change almost always follows failure in the NFL, an annual rite of passage when the public demands heads roll following the inability to even sniff the postseason. But change hasn't worked for the Broncos -- at all.
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