The Broncos will attend a team meeting this afternoon and work in their weight room but will not practice.
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After Mark Sanchez and Trevor Siemian blew chances to solidify themselves as starters for the Denver Broncos, head coach Gary Kubiak confirmed rookie Paxton Lynch is still in the mix.
The smile and occasional jokes with teammates belied the task ahead.
The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Denver Broncos in their second pre season game.
Eyebrows raised as the impossible of five months ago suddenly appeared possible. Gabbert hasn’t done much to win the job but he certainly hasn’t done much to lose it, either.
Saturday was Trevor Siemian’s turn to start for the Broncos and he played well, despite being picked by 49ers safety Eric Reid, who returned it 42 yards for a touchdown. Sanchez is the most known quantity the Broncos have at quarterback, but his penchant for turnovers is troubling.
“I squandered a great opportunity to separate myself and put the team in a bad situation”. “There’s no excuse for that”. Anthony Davis played well into the fourth quarter at right guard, a new position for him. Big plays in training camp have been mixed with interceptions and miscues.
Try to follow this: Sanchez had a great 75-yard drive and got the Broncos down inside the red zone. He threw a pick six.
But newly acquired 49ers quarterback Christian Ponder had a 22-yard run for a touchdown to give San Francisco a touchdown lead – 24-17.
If Bruce Ellington is unable to play due to the sprained ankle that kept him off the field this week, keep an eye on White.
This battle has been defined more by Gabbert’s steady if unspectacular performances and Kaepernick’s sore right shoulder.
Lynch later directed a 14-play touchdown drive in which he completed passes of 9 yards to Bralon Addison, 13 to Krieger-Coble, 12 yards to Durron Neal and finally a 4-yard touchdown flip to Neal. With Miller and Ware coming off the edge and a talented foursome in the secondary, the Broncos defence will remain one of the league’s best while the offence still boasts a handful of explosive playmakers despite uncertainty at quarterback. He allowed two receptions but was on the field throughout the first half. Mark gets in and is fine but the next thing you know he’s getting stripped-sacks. “I just have to keep building on those things, get better and let things take their course”. Brian Hoyer threw for 81 yards in the second period but was sacked three times. Lynch completed 15-of-26 passes for 113 yards a 77.9 rating. Might they need some help from the first one, too? As we dive deeper into the matchup, we are able to find three bright stars that shined under the lights of Mile High. Obviously (Lynch) is a young kid.
“He did some really good stuff tonight, ” Kubiak said of Lynch.
A former seventh-round pick from Northwestern, Siemian made fewer mistakes than Sanchez last week, but his one gaffe proved crippling. “We just have a backfield where everyone can play, so I guess that’s what you want to see and what you want to do. We are all just going to stay on him so he can keep improving”. “I think he’s gotten better”.
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Kubiak had said earlier in the week that he hoped to decide on his Week 1 starting quarterback following Saturday’s game. But he refused to set a firm timetable. I know that, so I am never going to be upset about that. “If I threw [one of the rookies] a touchdown pass, it was kind of a debacle on who was going to get the ball, but luckily I threw it to an older guy, and he gave [the ball] right to me”.
