ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- When the Denver Broncos elected to trade wide receiver Demaryius Thomas on Oct. 30, it was an enormous change in how the passing game thought about getting from Point A to Point B. And as the Broncos try to claw themselves back to the .500 mark and into the playoff conversation, it is decidedly still a work in progress.
When Broncos president of football operations/general manager John Elway made the trade, he knew it would be an adjustment.
"We thought that with the young guys behind him that we could make up for the space that he would leave.