Now that the Denver Broncos have concluded OTA’s and the strangely scrutinized field day, training camp will be coming soon. As the 2021 NFL season approaches, with an ultra-talented roster, the Denver Broncos still have for improvement, but where? How can this team still become Super Bowl favorites?
One position that needs improvement, and this is going to shock the world, is quarterback. Other additions that first-year general manager George Paton could make would be addressing depth issues on the defensive side of the ball.
The first and most important order of business is getting on the horn with Green Bay Packers GM Brian Gutekunst.
Denver Broncos #1 way to improve: Find a way to get the MVP
1. Trade for Aaron Rodgers.
Beginning with the obvious trade that everyone wants to see happen in Broncos Country, Aaron Rodgers becomes a Denver Bronco. This is the kind of move that would question whether George Paton should bypass all requirements and become an immediate member of the Denver Broncos Ring of Fame.
Exaggerating a bit, I do think this move would make George Paton a beloved man in the Mile High. What Aaron Rodgers could bring to this team cant be exemplified, he is the former MVP for crying out loud.
In the upcoming season, the Denver Broncos roster is flooding with talent. It’s running downhill, leaking into the basement. There is just a barrier holding back the pouring water from rushing through the bottom of the structure.
Once this barrier is broken, the water will rise to the ceiling of its structure.
What is the structure, or barrier, that is holding this structure from filling? It’s the quarterback play.
While this doesn’t mean I’m completely out on Drew Lock, I just think he needs more time. He could be the beneficiary of a Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers type of transition here. In a few years, with time to learn, I think Lock could be a good quarterback. That said, it’s Aaron Rodgers.
Addressing and improving this position with a player of Rodgers’ magnitude will make this unit an immediate Super Bowl contender. Even adding meddling performance could make an immediate change, but adding the 2020’s NFL MVP to it would make it drastic.
In an unreal season in 2020, Rodgers threw for 48 touchdowns to a mere 5 interceptions. Could you imagine the infatuation that Aaron Rodgers would behold in Denver?
Would you like to hear a bold take?
If Aaron Rodgers is a Denver Bronco in 2021, he shatters the all-time record of touchdown passes in a single season. Some may bring up there are seventeen games in 2021, a valid point.
That said, if Aaron Rodgers’ ratio of touchdown passes in 2020 was broken down on a per-game basis, he had a mean of three touchdown tosses a game.
Let’s multiply those three touchdowns a game by seventeen instead of 16, that alone is 51 touchdown passes. My next point, that unit he had in Green Bay, has nothing on the arsenal in the 303.
Davante Adams is a machine and Aaron Jones has been strong, outside of that, who do the Packers have that concerns you as a defensive coordinator?
If Rodgers could throw 51 touchdown passes in that offense, imagine what he could do with Courtland Sutton, Jerry Jeudy, Tim Patrick, KJ Hamler, Noah Fant, Albert Okwuegbunam, Melvin Gordon, and Javonte Williams.
Realistically to reach 60+ touchdown passes, the Denver Broncos arsenal would have to be nine games better a year than the Green Bay Packers. Broken down into a per-game basis, that is roughly half of a touchdown per game.
If I were a betting man, I would push all my chips on Aaron Rodgers being able to score three more points a game with this weaponry instead of what he had in Green Bay. This move would drive my confidence for the 2021 NFL Season through the roof.