Decrepit with an arm not useful in years, the Denver Broncos need to abandon any idea of letting Joe Flacco operate behind center, instead embracing potential franchise quarterback Drew Lock.
Cat out of the bag first: Drew Lock might not be a franchise-altering gunslinger. Starting out last season with injuries nagging the youngster, a limited sample-size of NFL experience is available for wannabe football scout gurus.
However, unless he gets more time under his belt under the bright lights, trotting about blades of grass with violence happening around him, there's no way for John Elway to sincerely find out if he's found his future at the quarterback position.
Plus, the gif below is essentially who Joe Flacco is in 2020.
This has more to do with Joe Flacco. A member of the human species once best known for the running “Joe Flacco is elite” jokes as he is the fella who hasn't had a sincerely good season in a signification amount of time.
Now, everyone with their indoor voice, say it with me now: “Joe Flacco kinda stinks.”
According to recent reports, the Denver Broncos are “confident” Flacco will be healthy and good to go for the 2020 season. Yay?
Flacco's best attribute as a player at this stage in his career is the ability to stand upright, so that's a good sign for him… I guess?
Flacco is set to make over $20 million with a cap hit of $23.65 million in 2020. For those bad at this newfangled fancy-math, that's a helluva lot of money wrapped in a single dude who threw for just 36 touchdowns to a disturbing 24 interceptions the last three seasons.
Football players don't exactly age like fine wine, either. Flacco's decline was evident for several years, resulting in his usurping in Baltimore, leading only Cool Joe die-hards — if there's such a fan out there — to believe he has a legitimate future in the NFL as a starting quarterback.
The cap-hit coupled with his inability to be an average quarterback aren't the sole reason to prevent Joe Flacco from even being near Drew Lock in the upcoming 2021 NFL season. We need to talk about player safety!
The dude is less mobile than cement covered with 55 pounds of more cement.
Denver is in a weird place, with an offensive line built better for running the ball that seeing if a cement-footed dude could chill in the pocket to pass it. Putting Flacco back there, with his only athletic trait being the remarkable ability to stand, would place the man in inherent danger.
We're talking first person we see in a horror movie type of danger. You know, the man or woman who is simply going to get it.
Basically, don't do it for the franchise, Elway. Boot Joe Flacco from the Broncos to protect the old man from himself. We don't want an Old Yeller situation here. That's a horror movie right?
Kidding aside — though, for real, Flacco would get murdered by any offensive line that isn't an all-timer moving forward — Flacco is no longer any good, costs too much money and Denver has a young whippersnapper who needs a chance to shine.
“But what about having a veteran backup in case of emergency,” asks a concerned Broncos fan…
That's a good question. Funny thing about most veteran quarterbacks, especially ones who haven't thrown for over 3,000 yards in three years, is that most of them don't cost 20 million American dollars. Cutting Flacco would result in cap savings of $10.05 million, meaning Denver would still need to eat some dead salary, but it's not like other NFL franchises are lining up to trade for the decomposing corpse of some ho-hum quarterback.
The Broncos fan find another bad veteran quarterback, if this is what their heart desires, for the veteran-minimum.
It's 2020, John Elway. Let Drew Lock shine. As for Joe Flacco, keep him away from the Denver Broncos at all cost — both for the team's overall success and his general health.
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