ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — John Elway leaned back in his chair, stretched out his bothersome knee and went straight to the bottom line about quarterbacks.
It was several years ago now, while Elway was still general manager for the Denver Broncos. He went into what it takes to be a quarterback who wins trophies and why finding a great quarterback is so hard.
“You have to be willing to put it all on the line,” Elway said. “To compete every day, to push every day, to do it yourself every day because you can’t ask other people to do it if you’re not. And to never waver from that and to understand some people aren’t going to like it. That’s what I mean when somebody raises all boats. It’s not easy and sometimes the boats are heavy.”
With Elway seated in the back of a crowded auditorium at the Broncos’ complex Wednesday for quarterback Russell Wilson‘s introductory news conference, Wilson said the…
