Are The Broncos Not Thinking Through Their Roster Decisions Properly?
During their Bleav Denver Broncos podcast Let's Ride, hosts Chris Harris Jr. and Patrick Chiotti unpacked Denver's strange decision making process, and break down how short term-oriented moves could become detrimental to the club's long-term outlook.
"The safety position now is kind of being looked at around the league as the running back position is very fluid there," Chiotti opined. "They're not going to pay top money now for the safety position. So we're kind of seeing this wave of of older safeties gone because of money or whatever. Do you think that the Broncos maybe should have tried a little bit harder to trade Justin Simmons it at least get some draft capital back instead of just outright releasing him? Because you also mentioned before the show he's not really a comp pick candidate in this sense."
"The Broncos, it seems like they don't have a plan," Harris added. "Because everything seems so spontaneous and just doesn't just the not make it like the the smartest decisions. Right. And preach it when we see when you had Justin Simmons who was very you can say he was hot at that time to the trade deadline and started playing better... They could have definitely [gotten] a fourth [round pick]. They could have got something. But now, you know, at this point, you've got to take anything... And now you just let them go for nothing and you lose a key piece like that for you. You don't get a [compensatory] pick when you straight out release a player."
"The NFL's not going to reward you with another top pick," Harris continued. "When that happens, you get that comp pick when they're a free agent and they're playing after their rookie deal. That's mainly the time where teams get the comp right when he goes, gets paid by another team. So it's not going to be like that with Justin, even though I think he's going to find he's going to have a lot of suitors."
