news and notes from around the league presented by sleeper all right we got some stuff to talk about teddy bridgewater has been named the starting quarterback for the broncos all righty in week one so let's talk about it let's talk about the implications of this when we went back and kind of set up our rankings early in the off season i think i projected drew lock to start like the first three games and i thought teddy would take over they're going with teddy from day one in denver which look i've i've watched and listened to a number of broncos fans talk about this it seems like most are excited about the opportunity for a change and something different to happen but how are you feeling what's that what was your reaction to this news my reaction was positive i think this is the right news for the broncos i think they're going to win more games with teddy by not losing games they've got a very good defense they've got a lot of weapons around them and while the upside the potential of a a supreme season some sort of breakout from drew luck a super bowl you know you you get a justin herbert like season and all of a sudden this team becomes a contender that's the disappoint you know the disappointing side for broncos fans but that wasn't going to happen anyways drew locke was not going to do that so this now makes it a good team uh that can compete and specifically i brought this up a few episodes ago i think in in reaction to the preseason jerry judy becomes more exciting to me you you look at how many uncatchable passes he had last year with drew locke how open he regularly was how he matches what teddy does get the ball out on a good timing route a guy that can create space get open and i i think jerry judy um he i did move him up in my rankings i think he's better with bridgewater than he would have been with locke yeah he's the player that you get the ball to like you said close to the line of scrimmage and he can make a play and i think i think it's good for noah fan too now following up noah fan didn't practice on wednesday he has missed a couple of practices unspecified leg injury not believed to be a long-term concern but uh he did deal with really lingering identical injuries all last year so i was i was curious that they didn't specify what the injury was i was curious if this is that same ankle that he dealt with all last year or if it's you know right now it's leg so right his leg hurts it bridgewater had a NUMBER_TOKEN completion percentage last year which is kind of wild that's pretty nice um dan campbell revealed that oh t.j hawkinson dealing with an ac joint issue in his shoulder well that makes sense you just talked about him as a breakout well this was known i mean i i knew this even when we were talking about the breakout he has uh been gone for the last uh couple of weeks and we knew
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