John Elway believes NFL applied different standard with Broncos COVID-19 situation last season

John Elway believes NFL applied different standard with Broncos COVID-19 situation last season

No team had a COVID-19 situation quite like the in 2020, one which the franchise was uncompetitive in an NFL regular season game that ended up becoming an embarra sment for the league. The Broncos had a practice squad wide receiver playing quarterback for the entire game as all the signal callers were out due to the league's COVID-19 protocols Daniel Winnik Jersey .John Elway, the Broncos' President of Football Operations who had his own bout with COVID-19 last year, believes the league didn't follow the same standards with his franchise as other teams. Denver was the first team to play a game significantly shorthanded at a position as the league was determined to play a full schedule -- even though other games were pushed back for teams with COVID-19 outbreaks.That didn't sit well with Elway, the -- the team Denver was playing in that Week 12 game -- opted to play later in the week. The NFL said no. Greg Pateryn Women Jersey "I got a little mad about that," Elway recalled. "Well, I hung up on the league office. I said, 'I'm sorry: I've had enough of this, and I'm hanging up.' At least I did it respectfully." was the quarterback that Joel Eriksson Ek Kids Jersey tested positive for COVID-19, while and were deemed "high-risk close contacts" due to all the signal callers being in the same quarterback room. Practice squad quarterback was led to believe he was going to get the call up to start, but he would end up being a "high-risk close contact" too, leaving Denver to use the Wildcat with running back and play -- a practice squad wide receiver -- at quarterback.Hinton finished 1 of 9 for 13 yards with two interceptions and a pa ser rating of zero as Denver became the first team to complete just one pa s in a game since the 2005 with Cody Pickett. The Broncos were the first team since the 1998 San Diego to have more interceptions than completions in a game -- a J.T. Brown Men Jersey game which they lost 31-3 to New Orleans."I was disappointed on several levels that our quarterbacks put us in that position, Jordan Greenway Jersey that our quarterbacks put the league in that position," Broncos' coach Vic Fangio said after the lo s in November. "We count on them to be the leaders of our team, the leaders of our offense, and those guys made a mistake." The Broncos had to experience first-hand what it was like to take the field without a quarterback, and it's something Elway felt could have been avoided. The Pro Football Hall of Famer felt the league didn't do enough to protect the Broncos.
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