The Broncos play their first game since winning Super Bowl 50 with a preseason match-up in Chicago Thursday night.
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Coach Gary Kubiak held off on choosing a starter, though.
Denver Broncos quarterback Mark Sanchez (#6) takes a break from drills in practice during training camp August 9, 2016 at Dove Valley.
Sanchez will get the entire first quarter to play against the Bears, according to Andrew Mason of DenverBroncos.com, and will be relieved in the second quarter by Trevor Siemian. Both teams will enter with playoff aspirations, with the Broncos looking to defend a Super Bowl championship with a new quarterback. The Broncos drafted Paxton Lynch and traded for Mark Sanchez from the Eagles last offseason, but they appear to be ready to trust the player whose main role last season was end-of-game kneel-down specialist. Quarterback Peyton Manning opted to retire on top after earning his second ring and first with the Broncos, while backup Brock Osweiler bolted the organization to sign with the Texans out of free agency on a four-year, $72 million contract. An interesting wild card is Trevor Siemian, a 2015 seventh-rounder who spent most of the spring ahead of Lynch on the depth chart.
“If you score in three phases of football that’s a good thing”, Kubiak said. They are going to be needing as many playmaking wide receivers as possible to help out whoever wins the starting quarterback job. The Bears’ first four drives went for 16, minus-6, 3 and 5 yards. “I mean, at times I felt a little sluggish, but overall, I felt good”.
“It gives me an opportunity to make plays from different areas on the field”, Floyd said. “I think our team was disappointed”. You have to be able to handle those situations as they present themselves, just move your team down the field, learn from the mistakes you made in practice and transfer those over to the games. Tonight, Sanchez will have the first chance to impress coaches, as he will begin the game and play the first quarter. “They’ve been pretty solid, so we just have to keep moving forward”. I don’t know what’s happening on the outside.
Saints running back Mark Ingram had an early fumble, but also had two 1-yard touchdown runs in an extended night that saw him play most of the first half. “Not just a field goal, but get six points”, Sanchez said, noting the hard hit by former Bronco linebacker Danny Trevathan.
Sanchez’s play in this preseason game must be the kind of performance that the Broncos’ general manager envisioned when he acquired the veteran passer from the Philadelphia Eagles.
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“We’re exhausted of each other”, he said.
