Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!
I have some bad news to start off with today: Tonight marks the final Thursday night game of the NFL season, which means no more Thursday football until SEPTEMBER.
That’s bad news for me because I’m not sure what I’m going to do with my Thursdays from here on out. I do have 12 Hallmark Christmas movies on my DVR that I promised my wife that we would watch, so I guess I’ll be doing that for awhile. On the other hand, I could start using that extra free time to try and come with up some landing spots for Russell Wilson now that he’s been benched. We’ll take a look at what’s next for him in today’s newsletter, plus we’ll be previewing tonight’s game between the Browns and Jets.
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1. Today’s show: Two former NFL players break down the latest NFL news
For today’s episode of the “Pick Six NFL” podcast, we brought on two former NFL players to break down all of the latest NFL news: Brady Quinn and Leger Douzable.
Host Will Brinson joined them during Thursday’s show, and the three of them had an interesting conversation about the Broncos‘ decision to bench Russell Wilson. Although they’re very aware that this was a financially motivated decision, they were still surprised to see it happen.
For Quinn, he was surprised because he thought the Broncos should have let Wilson play until they were eliminated from postseason contention.
“I would have thought they would have made this move AFTER they were eliminated from the playoffs,” Quinn said. “I know they have like a 1% chance, but still, it hits a little different when they still have a chance of getting in.”
As for Douzable, he doesn’t think it’s fair for Wilson to take all the blame for the offensive struggles when the Broncos offense has actually been much better than it was last year.
“If you look at their offense from where they were last year, they’re better and they’ve been middle of the pack [in 2023]. It’s not like you’re getting bottom-third football on the offensive side of the ball,” Douzable said. “They haven’t been explosive … and maybe that’s why Sean Payton feels this way, that they’re just too generic and he can’t take that next stop with the current roster they have…
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