John Elway and the Defending Champion Broncos Lose Big in Free Agency

March 11, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

If NFL free agency were a chess tournament, John Elway would win every year—or at least face off with Bill Belichick and a few others in the late rounds. He's one of the NFL's great chess masters. 
But NFL free agency is not chess. Garry Kasparov never had to cope with pawns that signed with Anatoly Karpov for more money. It's more like high-stakes poker, with a little highway chicken thrown in and a dash of Hungry Hungry Hippos. It's a complicated game.
Elway is usually great at that game, too. But he lost badly this week.
Elway and the defending champion Denver Broncos on Friday traded a conditional draft pick to the Philadelphia Eagles for Mark Sanchez, the kind of custodial backup quarterback who can usually be grabbed from the free-agent discount rack. Sanchez—29 years old, 0-2 as a starter last year, four years removed from his brief tenure as a semi-capable quarterback—replaces Peyton Manning and Brock Osweiler, a living legend and the ...

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