Brock Osweiler is still the talk around town...in Denver?

(I created this blog, here at 11:49 A.M., on April 1, 2016 just to share this little ditty I wrote about #Oswillie and the Broncos media, fans etc.... Don't expect any fanciness. - Bill)

Brock Osweiler is still the talk around town...in Denver?

When the news finally broke on March 9 that Denver Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler would sign with the Houston Texans, I admit I was surprised. Sure, the rumors were flying that the Texans were knocking on the door, but I couldn't bring myself to believe it. I thought that maybe Osweiler's people were putting out reports to drive Denver's price a mile higher (rimshot? Sorry), and that the Texans simply didn't care enough to go out of their way and deny the reports. Wrong. WRONG.

The truth is that I'm an Osweiler skeptic. I don't believe, as I type this right now, that the Texans have solved their franchise quarterback issue, as there remains just too much left to see of Osweiler. The kid has started just seven games in the league, and for anyone to declare him their “Golden Boy” quarterback, and the savior of the franchise right now would be laughably premature. All of this said, I think the Texans made the necessary gamble. And with the reaction from the Broncos media and blogosphere, I'm getting a bit more excited about that gamble.

Let me explain: since Brock Osweiler left the Broncos for the Texans, there has been a barrage of columns, blogs and Twitterings posted out of Denver laughing at how stupid the Texans are for giving Osweiler such a big contract. Blogs about how the Broncos are a well-run franchise, unlike the Texans, because they “don't pay players like Brock Osweiler that much money.” Mass opining about how “If the Broncos let him go, and wouldn't pay him, then why would the Texans? Ha Ha. They're so desperate!” These all ignore the simplest of facts regarding the Broncos feelings for Brock Osweiler:

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FACT: The Broncos offered Brock Osweiler just $2M less per year than the Texans ($16M vs. $18M), and just $3M per less than they were scheduled to pay future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning in 2016.

FACT: The Broncos offered Brock Osweiler $30M guaranteed, just $7M less guaranteed than the Texans will pay the quarterback.

So why, with these facts out there in the open, do Denver media and bloggers continue to spread the lie that Denver did not want Brock Osweiler? The lie that Denver just “let Brock go”, and that they'd never pay such a player “as much money as the Texans did, Ha Ha”? Why, here three weeks after the fact, are they still pumping out content about the Texans and Brock Osweiler, crapping all over the deal and poking fun at dumb ole Houston? Why all of the concern about what some poorly-run franchise you play maybe once every 2-3 years is doing? Denial! That's the only answer I can come up with. They thought they had their future quarterback figured out, and that there would be a smooth transition from one franchise quarterback to an other. John Elway, Super Bowl Winning Quarterback and Executive (and my favorite QB of all time, btw), could never screw this up.....right? Well, it happened, and media and fans there are having a hell of a time accepting it.

So yes. The Denver reaction is encouraging to me, giving me a little more hope for Osweiler, because the ones familiar with him the most really did want him in Denver, and their reaction to his departure shows their fear of the uncertainty that now, all the sudden, lies directly in front of them at the quarterback position.

So maybe this wasn't a move out of desperation by the Texans, as they're saying in Denver. Maybe the only move out of desperation we've seen so far this offseason was actually out of Denver itself, who after losing Osweiler immediately turned around and traded for Mark Sanchez.

Ha Ha?