I live in the Denver area as well, so I listen to a lot of the talking head sports dudes on radio. The issue with Lynch was his work ethic. Last-in / first-out kind of guy. They gave him every chance to succeed in Denver (burning a 1 on a QB will grant you that patience), but he never took the opportunity seriously, and was woefully underprepared on game day.
Anything more than PS fodder now that Hodges is on the 53 is a waste, IMO. This guy just never got it.
Ah, ok. Well, then I guess why not give him a shot if there's really nobody out there. If it's just "a body" we're looking for. (Hopefully we won't need him anyway.)
From the look of people's reactions, it sounded like he might have had some Tommy Maddox moment where he just fell apart and couldn't throw the ball anymore, or something like that.
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Paxton Lynch is a taller, mobile, stronger arm, better accuracy version of Landry Jones. He can run what he knows of the playbook very well. He just doesn’t know much of the playbook. Fichtner might be the perfect QB coach for a guy like him.
Lynch didn’t work in Denver because nobody has worked in Denver. If the bar is going to be left at Elway level it may be a long time before somebody does work in Denver. Just sayin’.
I could not have been higher on Lynch as a "Sleeper" QB the year he came out. I actually hoped he slipped far enough that the Steelers considered it.
I have not heard or seen good things since. But he does have all the necessary physical tools. Maybe getting his ego collapsed and a new start....yada yada.
He probably just stinks. But it is a PS QB. I'll take a guy that many had a 1st round/franchise grade on not that long ago for the PS any day.
I live in Denver also, Lynch is average at best, but his supporting cast was terrible. No OL, 1 WR and an average running game when he was here. The other problem was his predecessor was Manning, so he was never going to fill those shoes. He could be a decent backup if it comes to that.
I always thought Elway was kind of overrated, yeah he had a cannon arm and exciting highlight reel, also threw a ton of interceptions. He won 2 superbowls, but mostly off the legs of Terrell Davis. Maybe I didn't catch many of his games early in his career (started watching as a kid in 1990), but I seen him play terrible until they got TD
What I remember of the Elway era Broncos is that they had a great passing game, a perennially crappy running game, and no defense whatsoever. Same idea as the Dan Marino Dolphins. I don't think it's Elway's fault for losing the Super Bowl; it was amazing that they kept getting there with such a one-dimensional team.
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"Duck" is scrappy and a solid leader. From what I saw in the preseason, he's got good vision and football IQ. Problem is he doesn't seem to have the arm strength. He floats his passes, even the short ones. That'll get you picked in the NFL.
That's just my impression and I hope I'm wrong.
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
In those 3 Super Bowls, Elway was a one-man show going up against legendary teams. In '86 he went up against a dominant Bill Parcels led Giants team, the year Lawrence Taylor got NFL MVP as a defensive player. '87 was Joe Gibbs' Redskins teams which were great teams. '89 was what many argue is the greatest team of the 49ers dynasty, with Joe Montana being named NFL MVP. No NFL QB is going to be competitive against those kind of teams with teams like that. I always find it funny how everyone gives Dan Marino a pass for making 1 Super Bow and only making 2 more AFC championship games in his career because of his supporting cast, yet Elway makes 3 Super Bowls in 4 years without a supporting cast but he's overrated
Elway arguably had better teams than Marino did. His defense was underrated...which had a few pro bowl/all pro type players. The offense had a pro bowl back in Sammy Winder who wasn’t terrible, he had a decent O-Line and the three amigos in the 80s. It wasn’t Elway and then 21 other scrubs...he was a very good QB, but he’s not Montana, Marino, Brady, Manning, Graham, Unitas, etc, type levels. He’s second tier when it comes to the All-Time Greats...
I dunno. If you have to pick a QB in their prime to win one game; Elway has to be in that conversation. Maybe not the top of the list but he’s gotta be on it in my opinion.
Montana, Brady, Marino, Favre, Manning, Elway. Are the top tier of guys I’ve seen play for that list. Then I’ll consider Rodgers, Brees, Roethlisberger, Moon, Kelly, and I guess Aikman?
Don’t know just a thought.
And Elway was the ONLY reason they made it to the first 3 of those.
One-man team, just like the Dolphins with Marino.
Well, with all due respect to Elway, Marino WAS the better QB. Marino is still the best pure passer I've ever seen and would put up RIDICULOUS numbers in the Arena League/flag football game they're playing today - 6K+ yards and 60+ TDs per season, easy. Hell, the guy smoked the '85 Bears, for God's sake.