Denver's in playoff contention if they hit on a QB. They need Lock to be healthy this year so they can see how he is. Maybe they wind up with a Brees/Rivers scenario if they wind up drafting top-3 in this draft and have to take a QB. That'd be all right. But they need the QB.
They also need to stop paying all their FA money to broken wristwatches and keep some of their hits in the draft/UDFA. Trevathan and Shaq killing it on other squads does not help things. They invested HEAVILY in weapons for their offense so it would be nice if those weapons panned out. A lot can be fixed by finding a LT so honestly being awful this year and getting Andrew Thomas would help a LOT. But that would require them to really believe in Lock, enough to pass on a QB or two if they're drafting top-3. Knowing the Broncos they'll screw it up and draft 7th.
Normally I would not want to play Lock behind an OL that might get him hurt, but they have to see him this year. Have to. So:
1) Lock is The Man and Denver rides with him, losing a lot this year but getting the picture of their guy.
2) Denver's offensive weapons work out. There are a lot of them.
3) Denver drafts the correct OT with a top-5 pick in 2020.
4) the Broncos actually get their fundamentals right on defense. Also, they need another corner so pray for that children.
5) Chubb comes back as a healthy monster and Denver deploys its pass rush correctly. They also need a pressure DT, but let's not get carried away yet.
6) The Broncos shoot their ILBs into the sun and get someone w speed and tackling ability to stop the gaping hole in the middle of the D that they can't fill w safeties either.
But Denver needs depth, better schemes, more improvement from awkward, angry rustbuckets like Bolles and for their young players to actually get better. They need their coaches to stop coaching like its youth league, and to get inventive. I don't care about their age - Wade Philips is no spring chicken, but he can keep up with modern football. The problem Fangio has with delegating his defense is the same one Wade had, and why Wade was a terrible head coach. You can't get someone better than you to do the job you WERE doing when you got promoted.
I don't know how you get Vic back coaching an A+ defense, but it would be nice to have a better offensive mind than Scangarello learning on the job for the other half of the equation.
The issue is that Elway doesn't want anyone else to get credit, IMO. And I can't really see that changing. So the change that really needs to happen for a rebuild to be completed successfully is for Elway to invest in people with whom he can share his success. Elway needs to be less Elway and more Bowlen.
So let's just start with Lock being amazing and go from there, yeah?
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