Broncos Mailbag: Should team consider quarterback Kenny Pickett with top-10 pick?

Denver Post Broncos writer Ryan O’Halloran posts his Broncos Mailbag periodically during the season. Submit questions to Ryan here.

The Broncos conscionable request a seasoned quarterback. Your thoughts?

— Jeff, Granger, Ind.

Yes, the Broncos request to upgrade astatine backmost and we each expect wide manager George Paton to spell connected a big-name pursuit. Make it six antithetic Week 1 starters successful arsenic galore years, but don’t effort and piecemeal it.

But the Broncos aren’t conscionable a franchise backmost away, a information that has crystallized during the existent agelong of 4 losses successful 5 games that dropped them retired of playoff contention.

Just connected offense, the enactment needs to beryllium thoroughly examined. Center? Right guard? Right tackle? Left guard? The Broncos indispensable beryllium amended adjacent year.

On defense, what is the Broncos’ program astatine wrong linebacker, extracurricular linebacker and the information who volition commencement other Justin Simmons?

With each this speech of Denver perchance looking for a replacement for Vic Fangio, wherefore hasn’t Eric Bieniemy’s sanction been mentioned?

— Larry Gombos, Littleton

If I’m putting unneurotic a blistery committee for a imaginable Broncos opening, my 2 main priorities are erstwhile head-coaching acquisition and/or erstwhile play-calling experience. That has undoubtedly hindered Bieniemy’s pursuit of a head-coaching job. He is the Kansas City Chiefs’ violative coordinator, but manager Andy Reid calls the plays.

Do you deliberation anyone from this coaching unit stays different season? I wouldn’t caput having violative enactment manager Mike Munchak backmost adjacent year. I couldn’t attraction little astir the remainder of them.

— Ron, Parker

Ron brings up an absorbing subplot for aboriginal this period if Fangio is fired. What does wide manager George Paton deliberation of the presumption coaches?

Munchak has coached the violative enactment for 3 years and if helium is simply a acceptable for the caller manager and coordinator, my conjecture is helium volition beryllium invited to remain.

Paton has publically praised receivers manager Zach Azzanni passim the play and antiaircraft backs manager Christian Parker is well-respected among his peers and players. Keeping them should beryllium a precedence arsenic good arsenic moving backs manager Curtis Modkins.

Why does cipher look to speech astir Kenny Pickett? Both the Giants and Jets person 2 top-10 picks. Could they beryllium imaginable commercialized partners truthful the Broncos could determination up to get him? One mock draught I travel has him going to Carolina astatine No. 7. I’d owe the workplace to get Pickett!

— Chris Goodwin, Boulder

I’ve astir apt mentioned Pickett successful this abstraction earlier and erstwhile the play ends, I’ll displacement into draught mode to sermon him.

Pickett went 33-16 arsenic the Pittsburgh starter and threw 81 touchdowns and 32 interceptions.

The Broncos person 5 picks successful rounds 1-3, truthful if Paton starts the draught with each those chips, helium does person the quality to determination up 2 oregon 3 spots for Pickett oregon different player.

The aged saying is if a receiver has his hands connected the ball, it is catchable. Against Las Vegas, Jerry Jeudy looked to spike the shot and Albert Okwuegbunam’s precocious driblet was pugnacious but perchance catchable. Vic Fangio said helium deserves to travel backmost adjacent year. If helium is retained, past Pat Shurmur indispensable beryllium fired! If George Paton tin alteration the coaching unit earlier the imaginable merchantability of the team, helium needs to bash it.

— Victor, Alameda, Calif.

Victor filed this question aft the Raiders loss, erstwhile Drew Lock’s archetypal commencement was plagued by a season-high 4 dropped passes. I was amazed Fangio didn’t get captious of the receivers connected those plays.

If Fangio is retained, I bash expect coaching unit changes.

The ownership concern volition not interaction the Broncos’ offseason business.

Has a team’s defence ever sued the discourtesy for deficiency of support? Should the Broncos’ defence acceptable that precedent? Also, what’s the latest timetable connected the ownership situation?

— Dan Rish, Albuquerque, N.M.

Dan gets an aboriginal 2022 grant for making maine laugh. If we were successful The Open Locker Room Era of covering the NFL, it would beryllium amusive to instrumentality the somesthesia of the antiaircraft players astir what they deliberation of the offense.

There is nary timetable connected the Broncos’ ownership situation. Everything is successful a holding signifier until a Denver justice rules connected the right-of-first-refusal assertion by the property of erstwhile proprietor Edgar Kaiser.

Why hasn’t George Paton fired Vic Fangio, who is blaming others alternatively of taking the hit? I’m breached wrong and it inactive hurts to consciousness similar this. If Paton has immoderate emotion for the squad helium has to occurrence this coach. Please! Get it done.

— Isaac, Orange County, Calif.

I’ll propulsion backmost a spot connected Fangio blaming everybody but himself. I don’t deliberation he’s been out-of-line captious astir the players, either.

Firing Fangio astatine this constituent wouldn’t make overmuch of a Broncos competitory vantage due to the fact that each wide managers are allowed to bash truthful acold is person two-hour video conferences with candidates if determination is an opening. Jacksonville has started its process, but Las Vegas hasn’t due to the fact that the Raiders are successful playoff contention.

Let’s accidental Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson are wholly disconnected the committee for america this offseason (frankly, due to the fact that I deliberation they are). What’s the best-case script for our backmost situation? My fearfulness is we’re going to spell into grooming campy with Drew Lock battling a seasoned journeyman (again) similar Nick Foles oregon Ryan Fitzpatrick. Do we really propulsion the trigger for a first-round quarterback?

— Robbie P., Fort Collins

For Paton, I would similar to inquire 2 questions if I knew I could get a 100% transparent response: 1. How assured is helium astir trading for Wilson oregon Rodgers? 2. What is your Quarterback Plan B?

The 2nd question is much absorbing astatine this constituent since I judge the Broncos should beryllium assured successful acquiring Wilson oregon Rodgers.

Is Plan B signing a journeyman and pairing him with a second- oregon third-round quarterback? What is Lock’s aboriginal with the team? If Pickett is determination precocious successful the apical 10, would the Broncos consciousness comfy drafting him and playing him quickly?

The Broncos are successful the concern of winning games and presenting an amusement product. It’s clip to perpetrate large resources to the backmost position.

Denver Post Broncos writer Ryan O’Halloran posts his Broncos Mailbag periodically during the season. Submit questions to Ryan here.