Drew Lock explains how he tuned out offseason rumors about Broncos probably upgrading at quarterback

The Denver Broncos have spent loads of time within the offseason rumor mill, particularly in terms of quarterbacks. Even now the membership is on the heart of any type of commerce hypothesis relating to reigning NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers, who has reportedly advised these across the Inexperienced Bay Packers group that he doesn’t wish to play for the crew anymore. If there was a quarterback probably accessible, as a rule the Broncos had been among the many groups talked about as a attainable touchdown spot. Even because the NFL Draft rolled by on the league calendar, there was considered Denver probably addressing that want with a younger prospect as they owned the No. 9 general choose. 

Whereas the membership has but to make that large splash, it did exit and purchase veteran signal-caller Teddy Bridgewater, who’ll now compete with Drew Lock for the beginning spot this coming season. As for Denver’s 2020 starter in Lock, he advised reporters on Monday that was unbothered by the offseason hypothesis of the membership bettering at his place and successfully outing him because the clear-cut starter just because he did not pay any consideration to it. 

“I wish to assume the rationale nobody has stated something to me is as a result of they’re most likely the actually shut individuals to me in my life they usually perceive that it is no price their time both,” Lock stated, by way of the official crew web site. “No matter occurs, occurs. They know I am working onerous, and that is all they’re involved about. Not what’s being stated right here, what’s being stated there, what’s being stated right here. If anybody did say one thing to me, I feel it was a zero textual content again or no name again as a result of they most likely weren’t in my actually tight circle and there was no want for me to reply.”

A part of the rationale Lock was capable of tune out a lot of the offseason chatter was as a result of the third-year quarterback immersed himself in on-field work in hopes of with the ability to fend off a newcomer or — within the occasion he departed the group — combat for a brand new job elsewhere within the league. 

“I made a decision that I used to be going to develop a plan this offseason,” he stated. “It was going to be actually lengthy days, however it was going to be price each single second of it as a result of no matter what occurred, if I stayed right here, I left or they introduced somebody in, my mindset was not going to vary wherever I went. If I went someplace or if I stayed right here, I used to be going to be the man. I put each single ounce [into] that this offseason. With the ability to try this gave me zero time to hearken to all of these things. Perhaps I am going to return at some point, learn and giggle about issues that had been being stated by individuals who ended up being fully fallacious.”

Whereas the jury remains to be out on what might or might not occur to the quarterback presently residing in Inexperienced Bay, the present goal for Lock is to indicate coach Vic Fangio and the remainder of the Broncos decision-makers that he is the most suitable choice of what they’ve for the time being. Meaning, beating out Bridgewater over these subsequent few months.