Ben Solak

And here we are two years later.

There is a difference between how good is the quarterback qualitatively?

How well is he playing within the offense?

And where do I rank this guy among the league quarterbacks?

So I think with Nick's, I have never had an issue with what Nick's

does for the Broncos offense in terms of execution.

A lot of the sack avoidance stuff is huge for how they want to play.

He throws really nicely on the move and he creates throws.

He's a quick distributor.

He's generally accurate in the short areas.

What they ask him to do, he's good at doing that.

He knows how to play within himself.

And he largely doesn't have spiraling fall apart games.

Even his bad games like that Raiders Thursday night game he played, he still did well enough to avoid turnovers, keep the field position battle fine, rely on the defense and win the ball game.

So there's that aspect.

And then when you widen the scope, because what inevitably ends up happening is this quarterback is successful and these young guys, Broncos fans start saying like, all right, why do you think that Caleb Williams is better than this guy?

Why do you guys rank Justin Herbert above this guy?

And that's where you lose me, just because we're starting to hear about different quarterbacks in different environments who are being asked different things.

So with Knicks, like this game is a referendum.

I think there's a lot of worlds where Stidham walks in and it looks 80% as operable.