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We will continue our team preview series with a look at the Denver Broncos with through about 20 plus of these at this point. Make sure you go back. Listen to those. If you haven't already been trying to make them as ever green as possible. All off season. Then we'll get all 32 teams finished up before week one. So without further ado, the 2020 Denver Broncos, fancy football team preview. Starts at the top. Mr. Drew Lock. All right. One of the more deceiving form one record you'll see just in terms of like projecting him to them be a good fancy quarter.

I mean, if you look at it, when over the chargers, the guy through for 134 yards, half his best game against the Texans, 309 yards, three touchdowns, 22 for 27. I mean, we saw a lot of flashes of the arm talent in that one. But after that, we go at Chiefs 18 of 40 for 200 eight yards. Week 16 versus the Lions, 192 yards, week 17 versus the Raiders, 177 yards. Again, like if you go through the film, you see flashes of off script goodness. I mean, the guy is far from a stack.

Actually, we actually have PFF's highest time from snap to sack. I mean, the other guys up there were Lamar Jackson, Kyle Murray. So Drew Lock's not going to give you, you know, quite the same rushing floor or anything, but he's a very athletic guy. I know he's not the easiest dude to get down and you know that that right army's got it is a cannon. So there's a lot of potential there. And the one thing that really stuck out to me is that he graded really lowly in terms of a past attempts 20 yards, throw 20 plus yards down field. And that was surprising because that really wasn't.

The problem with locks game coming out of Missouri. I mean, he was second and fourth and QB rating in yards per attempt respectfully on pass the stone 20 plus yards down field among the 50 draft eligible QBs coming out. So, you know, it's a situation where we kind of look at who he was throwing to and it was a band up no font.

He had Coral and Sudden who was doing fine, but after that, you know, Tim Patrick, they shot Hamilton. There's a reason why the Broncos, you know, folks need to spend these high round picks on the receiver position. And you know, while I'm not exactly expecting a lock, which is completely take off in 2020. I do think, you know, based on what happened. I mean, how many quarterbacks have we seen just suck.

And the first, you know, mountain two of the season, that's pretty much what lock had to go through all things considered. I thought it was really strong start. I'm cautiously optimistic for locks futures real FQB.

Just don't really think the fancy ceiling or, you know, he's not going to have much fancy relevance in 2020.

Looking at the backfield should be some sort of a two back split with Melbourne, Gordon and Philip Lindsay. We've been here, you know, reports out of training camp. I don't feel the need to really call one starter because they both could be on the field so much.

And that's fair. I mean, Lindsay has been, you know, really good during his career, 4.9 yards per carry. I know it's not, you know, the best that to evaluate running backplay.

But you're out of general muscle four yards, more per carry, then Melvin, you know, back to back seasons over a thousand yards over a thousand total yards.

Looking good. I mean, nothing against Lindsey here. I just think MG three out of minimum. Okay, even if they go, you know, split back committee.

I think Gordon is the favorite for goal line touches. He's definitely the better receiver. And, you know, I do think, you know, we lean more 60 40. They paid the guy, you know, when he paid these running backs, 14 50 million plus and free agency. I mean, you don't bring in those guys to sit on the bench. So I do think it's Gordon's backfield, you know, Lindsey will be involved.

But yes, well, like every backfield is a committee of sorts these days. So if Gordon has this 60%, you know, role where he's getting the receiving targets and stuff, he could definitely return top 15 as production. And, you know, I realize how bad that October went for Gordon last year when he could barely even break off a run long and three or four yards.

But this is the same guy that led all backs and broken tackles from 2016 to 2018. I mean, as low as his years for carry has been, you know, those charger teams haven't exactly been putting you the best offensive line out there year after year. So I think, you know, better offensive line.

Potentially better offense and we could see, you know, a nice little bounce back season from Gordon, he was starting to look like that same, you know, tackle breaking beast towards the end of last season. I think, you know, how good Echler was just kind of overshadowed a Gordon slight come up in towards the end. Ultimately, I think if, if either one of these guys is really going to take over, it's going to be Gordon and looking at the UFC patch, sure, more.

He has had the history of utilizing, you know, a single pack we saw what happened with Sequon, Barclay, obviously in those giants season. So, Mogen Gordon is definitely the preferred option over Lindsey. I moved him down a little bit in the fancy ranks. I mean, I have him as my RB 16 generally.

I'm trying to get out of a, you know, the first two rounds with two of those top 15 back. So don't have a ton of Mogen Gordon exposure this year, but I think his chances that, you know, having a solid bounce back campaign or going a little bit underrated.

And so, I think that's why I'm a Lindsey is okay. Maybe he's able to provide some reasonable production as the RB to, but like if Gordon gets hurt, it's not like it's going to become a Phil Lindsey show. We're just going to see Royce Freeman. However long he stays on the team, it seems like a, you know, a candidate potentially be traded to Chicago or Philly or one of his other, what one is other squads.

And then, I mean, that's just going to be a split two back committee right now in the middle, even if Gordon goes down. So I'm not really prioritizing Lindsey to the same extent as some people, how much rather have, you know, the tier of handcuffs, true handcuffs, three down backs ahead of Lindsey. So moving on to the wide receivers, quote, and sudden alpha wide receiver one. I mean, the dude had a 25% target share and 40% area of market share with lock under center last season. I mean, it wasn't.

Exactly completely ball out with lock under center, but it's one of these situations. I think we're like, we saw a Terry McClaurne last year where McClaurne was so good with case, can't them.

And then the first few weeks which went haskins, I didn't go all that smooth and we wondered, oh my god, can McClaurne even produce with haskins. It's like, look what he did with case, can't under center. Of course, he's going to produce with other quarterbacks. And he did so with haskins.

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