If the NFL Is a QB-Driven League, the Broncos Are in Trouble in the AFC West

May 8, 2016   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

The NFL is a quarterback-driven league. It's a mantra that is repeated ad nauseum on television, the radio, online and in print.
Yes, print. Newspapers are still a thing. I rather like them.
It's also a mantra that many NFL teams apparently subscribe to. If they didn't, we wouldn't have seen first the Los Angeles Rams and then the Philadelphia Eagles mortgage their futures just for a chance to acquire the mythical "franchise quarterback."
If this mantra is true—if teams in the National Football League will go only as far as their quarterbacks carry them, then the reigning AFC West (and Super Bowl) champion Denver Broncos are in trouble.
Because where that franchise signal-caller is concerned, the Broncos are the odd man out in their division.
With the unexpected departure of Brock Osweiler in free agency (to Houston at a robust $18 million per season) and the not-so-unexpected retirement of Peyton Manning (who apparently hasn't retired from commercia...

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