Thread: Wilson Benched

Originally Posted by Northman

Yea, im pretty sure that Denver is officially eliminated from playoff contention but i dont know if it was the Steeler win or Bengals loss. Maybe both.

It was both. Steelers took us out of wild card, chiefs out of division race.

So we play to punish raiders next week, and see how we do with a cheap backup, because our cap gonna be hell for a couple of years

Not to excuse Stidham, but back to back false starts inside the ten, and some untimely holding calls didn’t help.

Originally Posted by LawDog

Not to excuse Stidham, but back to back false starts inside the ten, and some untimely holding calls didn’t help.

Having Zero 3-and-outs was a nice change.

Originally Posted by King87

When you have inflated stats, a bad record, cause sacks, miss wide open players, etc. and you get benched it's not really much of a rebuttal that the backup QB isn't great. Bro, YOU were a huge issue and that was addressed.

Inflated stats.

El oh ****’N El

I am floored by how many Bronco fans are pissed at Payton for benching Rus. Who watches this offense and sees Rus continually hold on to the ball too long, completely ignore wide open WRs continually and thinks this is in anyway a sustainable way of running an offense? I spend half of the time watching the Broncos offense yelling "throw the damn ball!" at my TV.

I'm not saying Payton is without blame but holy shit Rus has not been a good QB and benching him was absolutely the correct move for the long term health of the organization both from a financial standpoint and a football one. The proof is in the fact that his replacement played virtually an identical game to what Rus did against the same opponent for roughly $35M less per year.

What a gigantic mistake that contract was. I'm still fine with the trade because at the time everyone thought we were getting a FQB, but resigning him to a mega deal with time left on his old contract before he ever took a snap in a Broncos uniform was very stupid.

Originally Posted by chazoe60

I am floored by how many Bronco fans are pissed at Payton for benching Rus. Who watches this offense and sees Rus continually hold on to the ball too long, completely ignore wide open WRs continually and thinks this is in anyway a sustainable way of running an offense? I spend half of the time watching the Broncos offense yelling "throw the damn ball!" at my TV.

I'm not saying Payton is without blame but holy shit Rus has not been a good QB and benching him was absolutely the correct move for the long term health of the organization both from a financial standpoint and a football one. The proof is in the fact that his replacement played virtually an identical game to what Rus did against the same opponent for roughly $35M less per year.

What a gigantic mistake that contract was. I'm still fine with the trade because at the time everyone thought we were getting a FQB, but resigning him to a mega deal with time left on his old contract before he ever took a snap in a Broncos uniform was very stupid.

Agree with every word… although was a lot better on the stats page, Sidham passed the eyeball test in that he ran the offence, didn’t scramble every play, got rid of the ball on time, and threw to the middle of the field.

Makes me believe with a little better Qb than Sidham this system will work, and score enough points to put us on the right track and compliment the D, not rely on it.

Originally Posted by Al Wilson 4 Mayor

I don’t think anyone has suggested he didn’t know. He wasn’t the one pushing the contract issue.

Not so sure about that....it's coming out that that was a request of Wilson's prior to the trade... would make it make any sense of why the Broncos would be dumb enough to offer a contract with 2 years left on his previous contract. Why wouldn't the Broncos just wait, unless there was some agreement for the trade that a new contract be drawn up.

https://x.com/KPalmer_/status/1743669088059056613?s=20

This^

Originally Posted by chazoe60

I am floored by how many Bronco fans are pissed at Payton for benching Rus. Who watches this offense and sees Rus continually hold on to the ball too long, completely ignore wide open WRs continually and thinks this is in anyway a sustainable way of running an offense? I spend half of the time watching the Broncos offense yelling "throw the damn ball!" at my TV.

I'm not saying Payton is without blame but holy shit Rus has not been a good QB and benching him was absolutely the correct move for the long term health of the organization both from a financial standpoint and a football one. The proof is in the fact that his replacement played virtually an identical game to what Rus did against the same opponent for roughly $35M less per year.

What a gigantic mistake that contract was. I'm still fine with the trade because at the time everyone thought we were getting a FQB, but resigning him to a mega deal with time left on his old contract before he ever took a snap in a Broncos uniform was very stupid.

But were Stidham’s identical stats “inflated”?

Originally Posted by Simple Jaded

But were Stidham’s identical stats “inflated”?

Yes.

Originally Posted by King87

Yes.

You!

Originally Posted by Simple Jaded

You!

I don’t know how, or why this is the case, but this is McDaniel’s fault.

Originally Posted by King87

I don’t know how, or why this is the case, but this is McDaniel’s fault.

He Should’ve never traded Brett Kern.

Originally Posted by Simple Jaded

He Should’ve never traded Brett Kern.

I’m brett kern

There can only be one kicker on this team bitches.