Thread: Broncos' Paxton Lynch making push for starting QB

The quarterback competition is just starting to heat up in Denver.

Entering the Broncos' offseason program it seemed like Trevor Siemian might have the "upper hand" but Paxton Lynch is making a push for the starting quarterback job.

Mike Klis of KUSA-TV reports that something happened to the 2016 first-round draft pick in the final two weeks.

"His switch was flipped. He started to get it," Klis wrote for 9news.com. "He started to play as if he was doing just that - playing. Playing and not thinking about his protections and hot reads and coverages and delivering the ball on time."

Lynch agreed that he was finally starting to make some progress.

"Yeah, I mean the more reps I'm getting with these guys, the more I get to go against the defense and see the looks live compared to just on paper, it's helping me a lot," Lynch told Klis. "I think each practice I've progressively got better.

"I think it's made me and Trevor both better players going through it. Also, I think it's made the offense even better as well. Us competing, making us play better, making the guys around us play better."

Veterans report to training camp on July 26. If Lynch can continue to make great strides coach Vance Joseph will have to face a difficult task, hopefully before the start of the season. It's a decision Lynch isn't sure how it will go down.

"I guess it's up to the coaches to decide," Lynch said. "They get paid that kind of money to make those decisions. All I can do is go out there and play, get better every day and then whatever happens after that will happen."

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...or-starting-qb

Like this kind of push?

Srslee...this isn't the chatter you hear when a dude is legit. Too hedged and conditional.

But I hope to be wrong, because the situation is lame af. If he ain't legit or TS don't level up, it's a shitshow.

Chad Kelly. Man.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Like this kind of push?

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Originally Posted by Jaded

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Originally Posted by Jaded

You jaded mother truckers. This is a perfect opportunity to troll and you choose to troll someone that won't know you're trolling him.

At this point, can we just skip this period of the waiting game and get to camp? I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready to start hearing reports about these two QB's that actually mean something.

It's great that Paxton according to Klis is starting to have it click for him, I hope it has. hopefully it keeps clicking when the pads are on and the game speeds up. Until that happens, this is just filler discussion while waiting for the real competition to start.

"Sun rises in the east today! For more on the story, Lisa is standing by with the Weather Team. Take it away Lisa!"

Paxton was pretty much raw coming out of Memphis. Everybody with a brain understood this. He wasn't ready. Well, now it looks like he is ready to compete and maybe start.

This is like getting to the starting line of a marathon. That's nice. Now run.

The truth is neither of these guys is going to "win" the starting job in the pre-season. One of them is going to be named the "starter" - and he'll keep his starting job for a week and then we'll see what happens.

If the starter plays well and the team beats the Chargers Week 1, then he keeps his job until that changes. If he plays well but the team loses, he might get a couple of games, but then if things don't change he still loses his starting job. Just like Brock Osweiler in week 17 against the Chargers. He didn't play terribly, but his teammates sucked. The team needed a spark, so they put in Peyton in the second half. Brock got hurt feelings about it, and about Peyton being named the starter in the playoffs.

Well, too bad. Life ain't fair.

The same rules apply here. There is over a 50% probability that NEITHER of these QBs will be starting week 1 of 2018, or that even if one of them is, Elway has already drafted a QB in the first round of the 2018 draft and Trevor or Paxton is just a place holder until that QB can get ready.

You can bet that is exactly what will happen if this team doesn't make the playoffs.

Originally Posted by Cugel

"Sun rises in the east today! For more on the story, Lisa is standing by with the Weather Team. Take it away Lisa!"

Paxton was pretty much raw coming out of Memphis. Everybody with a brain understood this. He wasn't ready. Well, now it looks like he is ready to compete and maybe start.

This is like getting to the starting line of a marathon. That's nice. Now run.

The truth is neither of these guys is going to "win" the starting job in the pre-season. One of them is going to be named the "starter" - and he'll keep his starting job for a week and then we'll see what happens.

If the starter plays well and the team beats the Chargers Week 1, then he keeps his job until that changes. If he plays well but the team loses, he might get a couple of games, but then if things don't change he still loses his starting job. Just like Brock Osweiler in week 17 against the Chargers. He didn't play terribly, but his teammates sucked. The team needed a spark, so they put in Peyton in the second half. Brock got hurt feelings about it, and about Peyton being named the starter in the playoffs.

Well, too bad. Life ain't fair.

The same rules apply here. There is over a 50% probability that NEITHER of these QBs will be starting week 1 of 2018, or that even if one of them is, Elway has already drafted a QB in the first round of the 2018 draft and Trevor or Paxton is just a place holder until that QB can get ready.

You can bet that is exactly what will happen if this team doesn't make the playoffs.

I hope you are wrong there, because honestly, I'm not eager to start the QB carousel. One of the two needs to firmly establish themselves and then once named the starter run away with the job.

It doesn't matter which, but one of them better nut up and get it done so we don't spend the next decade searching for a QB that works.

Hopefully we can gel this offseason.

Originally Posted by BeefStew25

Hopefully we can gel this offseason.

Yup. If we get the o-line turned into a cohesive unit and get a running game going, it's really not going to matter which QB gets the nod. For the second year in a row, the entire season hinges on us finding an o-line out of a list of mostly turds.

Originally Posted by Freyaka

Yup. If we get the o-line turned into a cohesive unit and get a running game going, it's really not going to matter which QB gets the nod. For the second year in a row, the entire season hinges on us finding an o-line out of a list of mostly turds.

Agreed. The key is the gel.

Originally Posted by Freyaka

Yup. If we get the o-line turned into a cohesive unit and get a running game going, it's really not going to matter which QB gets the nod. For the second year in a row, the entire season hinges on us finding an o-line out of a list of mostly turds.

Ya don't say....

Originally Posted by Joel

Ya don't say....

I never said otherwise Joel, I just questioned your logic that it had to be first rounders