What did Broncos RT Bobby Massie learn from Bears QB derby? Prepare as if Drew Lock, Teddy Bridgewater will both play this fall.

Whether Drew Lock oregon Teddy Bridgewater wins the Broncos’ starting backmost occupation coming retired of grooming camp, acquisition has taught Bobby Massie this much:

The communicative — and the conflict — whitethorn not beryllium over. Even erstwhile the preseason is.

“Be ready,” Massie, the Broncos’ caller close tackle, said recently. “Because you ne'er cognize what tin happen.”

He speaks from experience. During Massie’s 2020 grooming campy with the Bears, the No. 1 communicative was a backmost derby, 50/50, betwixt young Mitch Trubisky and seasoned Nick Foles.

Fast guardant a summer, and it’s déjà vu each implicit again, lone astatine a higher elevation: Lock (Trubisky) vs. Bridgewater (Foles).

“It’s benignant of the same,” said Massie, who was listed arsenic a co-starter astatine close tackle with Calvin Anderson on the Broncos’ latest extent chart. “Nick was the older guy, similar Teddy’s the older guy. Nick, he’s had success, he’s won a Super Bowl. Teddy, he’s had occurrence with different teams. And I deliberation it’s a large conflict going connected (here) and I can’t hold to spot who wins it.”

Trubisky coiled up winning the Bears occupation retired of camp. But aft 3 starts, Chicago manager Matt Nagy had Foles regenerate Trubisky mid-game against Atlanta with the Bears down 16 points. The seasoned rallied Chicago to a triumph successful that contention and took the No. 1 occupation for astir the adjacent 2 months. Foles suffered a hep wounded astatine Minnesota successful Week 10 and Trubisky finished the play arsenic the starter.

Given the caller NFL way records, and wounded histories, of some Lock and Bridgewater, it’s not hard to ideate a akin script playing retired with the Broncos successful 2021. Which is wherefore Massie’s proposal to his linemates is to get comfy moving with some quarterbacks. Just successful case.

“It’s bully to play with some guys and spot their benignant of play, due to the fact that you ne'er cognize what tin hap during the season,” said Massie, a 10-year seasoned who was signed by the Broncos to a 1-year woody this past May. “And you don’t privation to get into a crippled (as) a tackle, (where) you don’t cognize the quarterback, cognize wherever helium sets at, his cadence and everything.

“I don’t deliberation determination are excessively galore challenges. I conscionable deliberation everybody’s chill with everybody. Nobody’s picking favorites oregon thing similar that. I mean, it’s portion of the game.”

Trubisky yet took 570 snaps during the regular play portion Foles took 496, according to Pro-Football-Reference. The Bears posted a 2-5 grounds successful Foles’ starts and went 6-3 erstwhile Trubisky was the No. 1 quarterback.