Denver Broncos position preview: quarterbacks

On top of that, Manning is a great leader for the Denver Broncos and is mentoring backup quarterback and heir apparent Brock Osweiler. It has been talked about ever since “Kubes” stepped on the hallowed soil of Dove Valley to consider the Broncos’ head coaching job. Play-action passes. For guys like myself, I don’t get a lot of reps. He has been plagued by injuries and played safe at the end of last season.

“That’s the thing about Kubes, he will make it whatever it needs to be”, Plummer said. “I know when he left the Broncos [in 2006 to coach the Houston Texans], I wanted to cry”.

Elway needed a coach who would have the vision to manage his aging-but-still-phenomenal quarterback the right way – beginning in April with a plan rather than guessing in January. I think it will be very hard for the Broncos to replace Welker as well, his production has gone down in recent years but he was still a veteran and an important player to the Broncos.

Running with the first team all practice, the fourth-year Denver Broncos quarterback made the most of his opportunity. Gase was once asked what Manning wants most from a coach, and his response was “answers” – Manning has filled piles of spiral notebooks over the years with notes on topics that interest him – and Kubiak has come to enjoy that pathological inquisitiveness.

“I can remember some of the conversations that we’re having now and some of the same conversations we had as coaches going into John’s last year, too – how we’re going to approach his work and how we’re going to go about things”, Kubiak said. It’s great to work with those guys. “It’s a growing process for him, but I think he’s handling it really well”, Kubiak said. It’s so challenging. They’re so smart. We’re trying to fit everything together, and we’ll do that. He’s a developmental pick out of Northwestern, but the Broncos clearly see something in Siemian that they might be able to work with one day down the line. “It’s what he loves to do”.