ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — John Elway leaned back in his chair, stretched out his bothersome knee and went straight to the bottom line about quarterbacks.
It was several years ago now, while Elway was still general manager for the Denver Broncos. He went into what it takes to be a quarterback who wins trophies and why finding a great quarterback is so hard.
“You have to be willing to put it all on the line,” Elway said. “To compete every day, to push every day, to do it yourself every day because you can’t ask other people to do it if you’re not. And to never waver from that and to understand some people aren’t going to like it. That’s what I mean when somebody raises all boats. It’s not easy and sometimes the boats are heavy.”
With Elway seated in the back of a crowded auditorium at the Broncos’ complex Wednesday for quarterback Russell Wilson’s introductory news conference, Wilson said the types of things that were likely music to Elway’s ears. He said things that haven’t been heard, or seen, with the Broncos since Peyton Manning was doing the heavy lifting.
“How fast can you process what you see, what you know and what you studied,” Wilson said when asked about day-to-day expectations. “I think that ability to process everything is really critical. So, guys got to be really on their stuff every day in practice; it starts with the meetings. It starts with offseason; it starts with the weight room. Will you show up on time and be ready to do this, ready to do that? There’s little things like that, and that’s a really critical part to it. I think that wild obsession with doing the little things right, it allows you to have the big things and the big moments as well.”
Wilson’s approach is what’s been missing for the Broncos during six consecutive playoff misses. Yes, his…
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