SI: John Elway is Looking for Himself

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7 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

So I'd say he did a good job when he first took the role on and he won a Lombardi - that is the test. I don't think he has been particularly good the last 3 years. I think he chose very well with Manning and Kubiak and disastrously with Lynch and Joseph.  Being a good GM at a point in time doesn't make you a good GM forever. John Schneider in Seattle is another example of a guy who was brilliant his early years in Seattle built a monster but has seen it kind of fall into disrepair.

 

Agreed, a good GM doesn't get to keep the job purely based on historical achievements. He did turn the organization around when he took over. I think they were 4-12 the year before. I think they give him a little time to repeat that performance. Teams tend to go up and down as rosters age.

 

I want to point out that I'm not even a fan of the man. Personally I think he's a total c-word.  Much happier with us having Beane ?

[TheElectricCompany]

He's a great GM. Those free agency additions over the years were far more impact than any draft pick of his, outside of Von. 

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

I blame technology.  Rip the headphones outta the helmets, unplug, bring the cognitive ability back...

 

That's my story and I am sticking to it!

Edited September 6, 2018 by ExiledInIllinois

[Solomon Grundy]

On September 5, 2018 at 10:55 PM, 26CornerBlitz said:

John Elway Is Looking for Himself

He’s one of the best ever to play the game—but as general manager of the Broncos, he has yet to identify a young passer with the arm, the brain and the fortitude to take over the franchise the way he did when he arrived in Denver as a rookie in 1983. Are John Elway’s standards too high? Is his vision clouded by his own past mastery? Will he ever find his quarterback?

 

ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — He’s 58. He tore an ACL in high school and never got it repaired, so his left leg bows slightly. He had a knee replaced in 2007. He stands in the shadow of the Broncos practice facility and looks out at the first-rounder, Paxton Lynch, whose biggest contribution to Broncos lore at the moment is the dark brown leather scuff on a white-painted wall in the indoor practice facility, from the time he winged a football at the wall rather than throw into coverage in a goal line scenario  ... on fourth down. Soon the first-rounder will be demoted, then released. Next to Lynch is the undrafted veteran of six teams, here on a two-year prove-it deal. Case Keenum will do for now.

 

The hardest part—the torture of it all—is that he knows exactly what he’s looking for. He just doesn’t know how or where to find it. He sees it when he looks in the mirror and reaches back in time, to the stubborn young man who wouldn’t take no for an answer. He won Super Bowls in the NFL as a player and then again as a general manager. But pro football has little patience, and no one can understand why one of the greatest quarterbacks above ground, given ample resources to identify and draft a franchise quarterback, hasn’t been able to do so.

 

“With the QB position there’s as much that you have to have on the inside as the outside,” John Elway says. “You can see the physical traits, but you don’t know how [players are] going to handle it mentally when they get to this level. The world’s going to cave in on you, no matter who you are. How are you going to battle back when that time comes? And that’s the hardest thing to read.”

 

Josh Allen??

[26CornerBlitz]

4 hours ago, the skycap said:

Josh Allen??

 

Could have drafted Allen at 5, but instead went with Bradley Chubb so I guess that means no. 

[BuffaloRush]

On 9/5/2018 at 10:55 PM, 26CornerBlitz said:

John Elway Is Looking for Himself

He’s one of the best ever to play the game—but as general manager of the Broncos, he has yet to identify a young passer with the arm, the brain and the fortitude to take over the franchise the way he did when he arrived in Denver as a rookie in 1983. Are John Elway’s standards too high? Is his vision clouded by his own past mastery? Will he ever find his quarterback?

 

ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — He’s 58. He tore an ACL in high school and never got it repaired, so his left leg bows slightly. He had a knee replaced in 2007. He stands in the shadow of the Broncos practice facility and looks out at the first-rounder, Paxton Lynch, whose biggest contribution to Broncos lore at the moment is the dark brown leather scuff on a white-painted wall in the indoor practice facility, from the time he winged a football at the wall rather than throw into coverage in a goal line scenario  ... on fourth down. Soon the first-rounder will be demoted, then released. Next to Lynch is the undrafted veteran of six teams, here on a two-year prove-it deal. Case Keenum will do for now.

 

The hardest part—the torture of it all—is that he knows exactly what he’s looking for. He just doesn’t know how or where to find it. He sees it when he looks in the mirror and reaches back in time, to the stubborn young man who wouldn’t take no for an answer. He won Super Bowls in the NFL as a player and then again as a general manager. But pro football has little patience, and no one can understand why one of the greatest quarterbacks above ground, given ample resources to identify and draft a franchise quarterback, hasn’t been able to do so.

 

“With the QB position there’s as much that you have to have on the inside as the outside,” John Elway says. “You can see the physical traits, but you don’t know how [players are] going to handle it mentally when they get to this level. The world’s going to cave in on you, no matter who you are. How are you going to battle back when that time comes? And that’s the hardest thing to read.”

 

 

I wrote a post about Elway earlier.  He should be on the hot seat