Davis Webb’s name got dragged into the Broncos’ offensive mess, but the picture in Denver keeps pointing somewhere else.
The Broncos can’t consistently move the ball or put points on the board, and the attention has shifted hard toward Bo Nix. Nix no longer looks like the same player he was before he broke his ankle, and Sean Payton is trying to clean up the situation by drilling down on the details around his quarterback.
That leaves Webb in an awkward spot. He took the hit publicly when Payton pulled play-calling duties away a couple of games ago, but the offense has looked just as bad with Payton handling the calls, which makes it hard to argue Webb was the real issue.
There’s no way Webb can feel good about how this played out. He was pushed aside in full view for a problem that wasn’t his fault, and Payton added to it by saying Webb was “fantastic” about the demotion when he first addressed the change.
What makes this even more interesting is that the move away from Webb was viewed by some around the league as something that had been coming anyway. In fact, there were people surprised it took so long. Some expected it to happen as early as halftime of Webb’s first rough game, and others have even wondered whether he truly got to call his own plays at all.
Across the division, things aren’t exactly steady either. The Los Angeles Chargers are described as being in chaos, with the main conversation centered on the possible firing of new offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel. And beyond that, there’s a growing sense that Jim Harbaugh may already be running up against the limits of his effectiveness as a head coach.
The contract angle complicates things, too. Payton had originally said it would be a “pain in the [expletive]” if he had to face Webb within the division.
The real question now is whether that would be as a head coach instead of a coordinator. It’s a speculative idea for now, but one that’s at least been put on the table.
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