Last season, the Denver Broncos found a potential new floor for John Elway to sleep on. After winning the Super Bowl in 2015, the Broncos slipped to 9-7 in the first year without Peyton Manning, then 5-11 in the first year following the surprise retirement of head coach Gary Kubiak. That’s a seven-win drop from their Super Bowl season just two years earlier, and given that Denver was still ranked 10th on defense in 2017 (by DVOA), perhaps a lower floor is still to come.
Elway is hoping that Case Keenum is the plug to stop the link.