It's hard to forget when the Denver Broncos had all their active quarterbacks end up on the Covid-19 list last November for over a week. It ended up leaving practice squad wide receiver Kendall Hinton to start a game against the New Orleans Saints. It went as expected; not great.

More details have arrived almost a year later, via the Los Angeles Times, and the Broncos took insane measures to try and cheat the Covid-19 protocols that the NFL had put in place.

John Elway, Denver’s president of football operations, made several frustrated pleas to Goodell to postpone the Sunday game until Tuesday, when the quarterbacks would be available. The league denied those requests because surveillance video from Denver’s facility showed the quarterbacks had tried to fool the system. They had removed their contact-tracing devices and put them in the four corners of the meeting room, then they sat together to watch film. That close contact automatically made them ineligible to play.

Removing the contact tracing bracelets is quite the bold move that the Broncos tried pulling off but ultimately it didn't work. It's likely the reason why the league refused to cave in and move the game back, because what Denver had done was self-inflicted.

Fast forward a season later and none of those quarterbacks in that room will be starting Week 1 for the Broncos. Teddy Bridgewater came over from Carolina in the offseason and beat out Drew Lock for the starting gig.

Let's hope no Broncos try to go down this avenue again.