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One of the more surprising manufactured outrages this week came from Broncos quarterback Joe Flacco‘s candid comments regarding his lack of interest in mentoring Broncos rookie quarterback Drew Lock. Flacco’s words irked many who fail or refuse to understand how pro football really works.Like all competitive sports Foster Moreau Jersey , the competition in pro football unfolds within the confines of a given team, with the best players earning playing time and the rest watching and waiting for a chance to play. Few players aspire to not play, and none should aspire to actively help a player who wants to leapfrog the person who is assisting him.Flacco told the truth, in a very non-hostile, matter-of-fact way, when asked about mentoring the rookie.“I got so many things to worry about Joey Bosa Jersey ,” Flacco said Monday. “I’m trying to go out there and play good football. . . . I’m not worried about developing guys or any of that. That is what it is. I hope he does develop. I don’t look at that as my job. My job is to go win football games for this football team.”Those who don’t have a problem with that attitude include Broncos G.M. John Elway. Via Mike Klis of 9news.com, Elway said that he liked Flacco’s comments regarding a focus on winning, pointing out that it’s more important for the backup to learn by watching the starter than for the starter to expressly teach the backup.In some situations, a quarterback specifically is signed to assist a younger player. The Jets, for example, paid Josh McCown $10 million in 2018 to embrace his role as short-term starter and full-season mentor to Sam Darnold. Plenty of veteran backup quarterbacks have similar roles.The Broncos didn’t trade for Flacco to hold a rookie’s hand. They traded for Flacco to win games.Eventually Tony Pollard Jersey , they’ll turn that responsibility over to Lock. But they don’t want — and shouldn’t want — Flacco to go quietly. Every team should be lucky enough to have 53 guys who have a burning desire to play. It’s the job of the coaching staff to develop those players who need development. It’s the job of the players who are developed to focus exclusively on the only mission of the team: Score more points than the opponent, each and every week. The 2016 NFL playoffs are going to be some of the best in a long time, with the return of Peyton Manning and a bunch of surprise teams in the Carolina Panthers, Minnesota Vikings, Cincinnati Bengals, among others.However Noah Fant Jersey , this past NFL season, we saw plenty of disappointments for large portions of the season. Many superstar players were injured, or played below expectations. Many teams, as usual, also failed to play as well as expected.There were so many ongoing sagas that were just annoying. The usual whining about Chip Kelly from former Philadelphia Eagles players, teammates throwing each other under the bus Dalton Risner Jersey , boring primetime games.The usual. This was definitely one of the most disappointing seasons in recent memory for a lot of us NFL fans.What happened to that elite Green Bay Packers offense that we were used to seeing, or the Dallas Cowboys finally going all the way?Indeed, there were far too many things that didn't bode well for the NFL and its fans, and I can't think of a season where fans could have been more disappointed, unless the whole world hated last year's New England Patriots or the previous year's Seattle Seahawks (that's not the case, by the way).Anywho Drew Lock Jersey , it's playoff time and we have the field set. But we were disappointed by a lot of teams and players that didn't make it all the way there. And we do remain disappointed with a lot of teams that still made it there.Here are the 15 biggest disappointments from the 2015 NFL's regular season.

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