This is the time of year -- post-Super Bowl -- when the people who play, coach, cover and watch the NFL fall into the copy-cat trap. In other words, they create a narrative that goes something like this:
Team X won the Super Bowl by doing Y, so that's the blueprint my team needs to follow.
Specific to this year, the Denver Broncos showed it doesn't take elite play from the quarterback to win a championship. They won it all with a once-great, broken-down Peyton Manning managing the game and basically staying out of the way, unwittingly providing hope for the 20 or so teams that don't have a franchise quarterback -- a category that includes the New York Jets.