Broncos Mailbag: Was the Teddy Bridgewater trade a steal for Denver?

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If it appears close defender Graham Glasgow needs an extended leave, bash you deliberation Denver should look for further violative enactment help? The moving crippled ne'er seemed to deed a bushed against Jacksonville and Teddy Bridgewater was nether vigor much than I deliberation a batch of radical would person expected against the Jacksonville defense.

— Steve, Forks, Wash.

Glasgow missed the Jacksonville crippled (illness/irregular heartbeat) and manager Vic Fangio said afterward the squad is “pretty confident” he’ll beryllium disposable Sunday against the New York Jets. Second-year subordinate Netane Muti filled successful for Glasgow and I booked him for 1 sack, 1 backmost knockdown and 1 “bad” tally block.

As for scouring the league for replacement options, teams stack their signifier squads with other linemen due to the fact that they are truthful hard to find if the extent is depleted. What the Broncos person present is what they volition proceed to enactment with.

Regarding the Chiefs and Teddy Bridgewater, don’t you deliberation the cardinal would beryllium Teddy’s quality to support the Broncos connected the tract arsenic agelong arsenic possible? During the archetypal crippled against the Giants the Broncos were connected the tract for 35 minutes. Do that against the Chiefs and, yes, you person a chance.

— Larry Woldenberg, Sydney, Australia

Hey Larry, acknowledgment for speechmaking from Down Under. The Broncos pb the NFL successful clip of possession (37 minutes), much than 2 minutes much than immoderate different team.

In theory, playing support distant from Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes and Co., is simply a bully people to beating Kansas City, but the Broncos’ discourtesy needs to get much businesslike aboriginal successful games and connected archetypal down due to the fact that being successful third-and-long situations plays into immoderate defense.

What’s been the biggest quality betwixt Teddy Bridgewater’s nonaccomplishment past play successful Carolina and his aboriginal occurrence this play with Denver?

— Daniel, Westminster

Bridgewater didn’t person moving backmost Christian McCaffrey for astir each of past twelvemonth and the Panthers’ discourtesy was meant to spell done him.

A fewer others things: Bridgewater has a bully rapport with the Broncos’ coaches, has 2 bully moving backs down him and a bully skill-position radical of players.

How did we extremity up with Teddy Bridgewater for conscionable a sixth-round pick? Given the instrumentality and media absorption aft the trade, it seemed similar we were getting an over-the-hill backup quarterback. That leads maine to this question: Where does that permission Drew Lock? He’ll inactive beryllium a inexpensive enactment arsenic a backup adjacent year, but I don’t ideate he’ll beryllium re-signed aft that. Do you agree?

— Marshall, Parker

Carolina was looking to commercialized Bridgewater to get thing for him earlier it outright released him. The Panthers were truthful desperate, they agreed to wage $7 cardinal of his 2021 wage truthful the Broncos person a starting backmost that costs lone $3 cardinal connected the cap.

The time the Broncos acquired Bridgewater, I thought helium would beryllium the Week 1 starter adjacent if they drafted Justin Fields ninth wide that aforesaid week.

Where Bridgewater’s play truthful acold leaves Lock is arsenic a backup who is hopefully absorbing everything astir Bridgewater’s process of doing things. Yes, Lock would beryllium an inexpensive backup successful 2022, but looking up to his aboriginal successful ’23 is premature due to the fact that Bridgewater has played lone 2 games.

At this rate, bash you spot Bradley Chubb backmost with the Broncos adjacent year?

— Bondy, Thornton

Yes, I bash due to the fact that the Broncos picked up his first-year enactment (2022) earlier this year. Where things get much absorbing by the week is what is wide manager George Paton’s imaginativeness of Chubb for the future?

Paton has maintained that helium wants to support Chubb long-term, speech that is understandable considering the Broncos drafted him 5th wide successful 2018.

But if Chubb can’t enactment connected the tract — and helium aggravated his ankle wounded Sunday aft lone 19 snaps — Paton’s telephone whitethorn beryllium tougher successful presumption of what to connection Chubb’s campy aft the season.

We person a batch of contracts moving retired astatine the extremity of the season, particularly astatine linebacker, and I can’t spot america giving caller deals to everyone. Von Miller, A.J. Johnson, Josey Jewell and Malik Reed are each acceptable to beryllium escaped agents. Who stays? Who goes?

— Carson, Denver

The bully quality for the Broncos is retired of those 4 players, nary are expected to bid a back-breaking magnitude of money. Even Miller won’t motion a six- oregon seven-year declaration due to the fact that helium is present into his 30s.

If I had to task aft 2 games, I would accidental Miller stays, Reed stays due to the fact that it’s easier to re-sign him than hunt for different borderline rusher and past neither Johnson oregon Jewell returns due to the fact that the Broncos person Justin Strnad and Baron Browning waiting to instrumentality over.

Courtland Sutton had a immense crippled Sunday. Do you deliberation he’ll beryllium conscionable arsenic large against the Jets’ young secondary? I tin spot Teddy Bridgewater going disconnected for 400 yards against them if helium wants to.

— Mike Kim, Littleton

If Bridgewater throws for 400 yards, the Broncos person a occupation due to the fact that it volition mean the Jets are competitive.

The extremity for the Broncos successful Week 3 should beryllium to propulsion to instrumentality the pb and tally the shot to bleed the clock.

As an 11-point favorite, this is simply a large crippled for the Broncos due to the fact that the Jets are 0-2 with rookie backmost Zach Wilson, it is the location opener and the docket gets hard successful Weeks 4-7 (Baltimore, astatine Pittsburgh, Las Vegas and astatine Cleveland).

The Broncos request to cleanable up their peculiar teams play and punishment problems and besides get much accumulation aboriginal successful drives.

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