Hope Clicks Eternal – The Denver Broncos

Quarterbacks. The bane of a team’s success. That team can have one of the best defences in the NFL, but if they don’t have a quality pivot, they are pretty much consigned to failure.

We all know the story of the Browns and their 28 starting QBs since returning to the League in 1999. But there are other teams who, if you look closely enough, have had a shorter, more pungent curse lain upon them via their failure to recognize when talent was or went bad.

I posit that one of these teams is the Broncos. Look at their roster of starting QBs since Elway retired in 1998:

1. Brian Griese (38)
2. Gus Frerotte (7)
3. Jake Plummer (54)
4. Steve Beuerlein (5)
5. Danny Kanell (2)
6. Jarious Jackson (1)
7. Jay Cutler (37)
8. Chris Simms (1)
9. Kyle Orton (33)
10. Tim Tebow (14)
11. Peyton Manning (63)
12. Brock Osweiler (7)
13. Trevor Siemian (20)
14. Paxton Lynch (2)

God, that’s depressing. I don’t even need to look up how many 9-7 through 7-9 seasons those QBs encompass – I can feel the cromulence coming off the list. The outlier years of Peyton Manning mask the aroma of “good enough”. And with the announcement that the Broncos are going back to Brock Lobster for this Sunday,

I have chosen to examine the Broncos for this week’s dip into team social media.

First off, let’s start with the fear I had typing “broncos.com” into Google. Now, I consider myself a man of the world, and I’ve seen a lot of things in my day, including pornography – both print AND video! Memory serves that there was a fair amount of the homosexual type of pornography involving the name “Bronco” back in the day, and I worried typing that address into the search bar that I wasn’t going to end up on a Bronco Nagurski fan site.

^{which actually fucking exists!}

Well, what I discovered actually left me kinda sad.

It was nothing more than a fan site for someone…who loves manly horse-themed sports teams? I guess that’s why there’s no Mustangs or Cowboys.

Now, the Denver Broncos website – denverbroncos.com – is another example of how the simple things can make a team’s site visitor and user friendly.

It’s sleek, the links are easily clickable, and the things they want to highlight are RIGHT THERE and not buried amongst other clutter. Also, they don’t allow any comments on any stories, which really is a boon to analyzing their account. Really, if the team ran as well as it’s social media department, they’d be on the right track.

It does, however, leave me short when it comes to looking for HAWT TAEKS! So – fortunately or not – that’s what Twitter & Facebook are for.

Let’s start with the end of the game Monday night. The loss to the Chiefs appeared on the website like this

but Twitter got its own version

Final from KC.#DENvsKC » https://t.co/vUQPITtOZq pic.twitter.com/E2xQKmoeNk

— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) October 31, 2017

and the events were recounted by the fans thusly, equal parts interrogative

declarative,

and succinct.

It left Thomas from Broomfield

and Connor from Boulder

highly flummoxed. So, where to turn?

The Broncos weighed their options,

After our third straight loss, "everything is being explored" on offense.

Next-Day 📓 » http:// https://t.co/60bwL7dYU4 pic.twitter.com/ynTk8rdp8c

— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) November 1, 2017

and the fans declared theirs. I declare theirs “mostly delusional”,

with a dash of lunacy

and a hint of realism.

Finally, the team made their decision known.

Coach Joseph informed the team this morning that QB Brock Osweiler will start on Sunday in Philadelphia.

📰 » https://t.co/oUGXcqQF1U pic.twitter.com/bKyIiuDlS3

— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) November 1, 2017

Hoo boy –

But, eventually, the fan base got to “acceptance”. Because – really – where else where they going to turn?

What's @bosweiler17's No. 1 priority for #DENvsPHI?

Protect. The. Football.

📰 » https://t.co/BGckHVWLt9 pic.twitter.com/1u9VrNFAkP

— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) November 2, 2017

And dare I say, a little hope?

"I know these guys … I've played with @DemaryiusT in games. I've played with @ESanders_10 in games."#BroncosIn60https://t.co/d3ItatRPum

— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) November 2, 2017

Hyvät naiset ja herrat, your Denver Broncos social media. It’s only going to get worse after the Eagles game.