Broncos pursuing McCarron?

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(08-09-2017, 03:59 PM)BleedNOrange Wrote: If Dalton goes down for any significant amount of time, the season is lost.  We are not good enough (and most teams aren't) to overcome losing our starting QB.  So basically you don't want to trade McCarron for a potential starter for the risk of having to play McCarron for 2-3 games at most out of 16, similar to the end of 2015.  In a perfect scenario, McCarron never sees the field so he is not adding any value.  They need to at least hear offers.

This is a big reason why QBs are protected so much nowadays. If a team's starting QB goes down, a lot of the more casual fans will just stop coming to games or watching them because they know the probability of winning has dropped a good amount.