As we continue our walk through the summer of the NFL, we decompose the three best players to wear each jersey number for the Denver broncos. The selection of each player in the first three is strongly influenced by Professional football referenceThe approximate value of approximate value, but it is not the only factor.
Today we arrive at number 8. Currently. This issue is shaken by the Jarrett Stidham rescue quarter. Is “Stiddy” one of the best to wear No. 8? No. Who is?
Let’s dive.
There are broncos n ° 8 with a higher AV score, but Kubiak is the first because of the way in which he influenced the Canon Broncos both as a quarter -rescue for nine years and as a coach.
As a player, Kubiak was drafted by broncos during the eighth Tour of Texas A&M the same year that John Elway arrived. The two are camparians and rapid friends.
This relationship would last throughout the Kubiak player career and in his mandate as a coach. As a player, he adapted 119 games and started five, going 3-2. He had a touched / interception ratio from 14 to 16 and spent 1,920 yards.
The best article On the Kubiak player career comes from the former Broncos Czar, Jim Saccomano, who was there for the first career departure of the young quarter-roam of Elway against the rival of the division of the Seattle Seahawks era. Give him a reading.
Kubiak was Elway’s help on three Super Bowl teams. Unfortunately, as a duo of players, Kubiak and Elway never arrived at the top of the mountain, but that would change in the late 90s.
After starting her career as a coache as an assistant to her Alma Mater, Kubiak would join the future Broncos head coach Mike Shanahan, with the 49ers of San Francisco. In 1995, Shanahan and Kubiak would return to the city of Mile High, with “Kube” as an offensive coordinator.
Finally, triumphs. Broncos would win consecutive super bowls before Elway withdrew and headed for sunset. Kubiak would remain under Shanahan, but in 2008, he accepted the coaching concert of the Texans of Houston even more dressed.
After his eight -year term in Houston, Kubiak had a year -long stay in Baltimore as an offensive coordinator of the Ravens. At that time, Elway had become the director general of the Broncos and separated from head coach John Fox after another release from division of the eliminatory series.
Elway hired Kubiak as head coach in January 2015. Under the flag of “Iron Sharpens”, Kubiak led broncos to triumph again in the Super Bowl 50. We can say that each Lombardi trophy that broncos have in Dove Valley have fingerprints from Elway. The same can be said of Kubiak.
As a player, Kubiak has been considered by many as one of the best backup quarters of the NFL. As a coach, he was Shanahan Acolyte and one of the supporters of the area of the area of the offense of the west coast, a philosophy that still dominates in the NFL.
The heritage of the Kubiak broncos is dressed in iron.
McManus has the highest AV note at PFR and for a reason. He was a specialized pillar in Denver for almost a decade and contributed to a world championship.
Leaving the University of Temple in 2013, the arrival of McManus in Denver was supposed to be a temporary punch for Matt Prate, which was serving a suspension of four games to open the 2014 season.
McManus’ big leg was fully exposed, and after treating the drama out of the Prater’s field, which had an impact on its availability on the ground, the broncos torn off the dressing, rolling with McManus. It was a relatively courageous decision because Prater was a decorated botter who had won many games in the clutch of a team with aspirations at the Super Bowl Bonafide.
These aspirations resulted in Triumph a year later, while McManus was able to launch in the Super Bowl 50 and won him a ring. He would remain for years, obtaining a considerable contract and serving as a team captain and the representative of the club’s NFLPA.
When Sean Payton arrived in 2023, it spelled the end of McManus to Denver, but he deserves to be on this list.
Orton arrived as part of the controversial commerce package that sent Jay Cutler to the Chicago Bears. It was not the fault of Orton that the broncos head coach Josh McDaniels made one of the largest blunders of the 2000s, and the young quarter-arre would always have trouble integrating with the base of fans.
I’m not sure that Orton has ever obtained the love of Country Broncos, because McDaniels drafted Tim Tebow in the first round of the following year. Try as he could, Orton could not lead a broncos team exhausted to the promised land, which led to the fans demanding to see Tebow on the ground.
John Fox arrived in 2011 as a chief coach, opposing Orton and Tebow in an open competition in the training camp. Orton won because Fox said he had given the Broncos “the best chance of winning”.
Alas, after a start of 1-4, the Broncos Brass could not ignore calls to Tebow, and Orton was a bench of week 7. He became the Wild Tebow Mania Show from there, and the Broncos gave up Orton in November.
Orton would have the last laugh, however, being claimed by the humble chiefs of Kansas City. In the final of the season, a home victory against the chiefs would guarantee a crown of the West AFC and a place in the playoffs, while a defeat would always maintain broncos alive, but would oblige other teams to lose to secure the playoffs.
Orton beat the Broncos at Mile High, 7-3, in what was a fairly pitiful performance of Tebow. Fortunately, the arithmetic died in favor of the broncos, and next week, they found themselves welcoming the defendant Steelers of the Pittsburgh AFC-Champion. We know what happened next.
As Bronco, Orton would start 33 games, spending 12-21. Unfortunately for him, his broncos mandate was sandwiched between two old first round choices for which fans claimed, and during one of the darkest periods in the history of the team.
However, Orton did not ask for anything. I give him a boost to him.
