Broncos fans are spoiled. Yes, all of you orange-and-blue-wearing Broncos junkies. All of you are spoiled little Bronco babies, with your three rings and two Hall of Fame quarterbacks, coddled all the way to a Super Bowl Parade, with apple slices handed to you as you watched the team on red fire trucks through orange-colored glasses. You now expect the Broncos to win, and do so with a shiny new QB.
So grab your binkies and a new juice box, cause you are about to get a life lesson.
Football is a team sport, and the NFL is a salary cap league. To put it in little kid terms you can understand: You can only have some toys with animatronics and digital whatever and then you have to make due with filling the toy chest with lesser-valued objects of entertainment such as blocks, little green army men and plastic dinosaurs. Just like a family budget, the salary cap comes with some sacrifice and some priorities. Hard decisions kids; you cannot have it all, no matter how big a fit you throw in the back aisle of the toy store, hoping someone will bend toward your will. It isn’t happening, so get over it.
Right now, the Broncos don’t have a budget for a new shiny QB toy. The Broncos have two options, take their No. 31, stand in line, and buy a new toy no one has taken yet in the NFL Draft, or go to the second-hand store, and get a QB that others have already played with and they have grown tired of.
Josh McCown, for example, has been played with by many an NFL team, and is now available on the clearance rack, however he looks nothing like he did fresh out of the box and has zero accessories.
The same is true with the already purchased Mark Sanchez, who now comes with Barbie’s hair accessories and a butt-fumble backpack. The cheap side of the toy aisle is looking bare Broncos fans, and no one is looking to restock it anytime soon. Let’s head to the garage sale or the swap meet, maybe we can trade some of our old toys for a used Kaepernick with an action arm and headphones.
The Broncos blew the family budget on other things, and now they have to make due with a lesser QB. That is how life works little ones. Sometimes you don’t have money to buy ice cream to put in the freezer, because you had to replace the freezer.
But don’t you fret, the defensive side of the toy chest still looks shiny and new. The Broncos D has all of the bells and whistles you could ever ask for, and if it breaks, I hear Grandpa Wade can fix anything.
