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NFL insider Ian Rapoport gives his thoughts on the Broncos outlook this season." Denver Broncos PodcastsIan Rapoport: If Flacco stays healthy and plays well Phillip Lindsay Jersey White , Denver is an above .500 teamNew,193commentsNFL insider Ian Rapoport gives his thoughts on the Broncos outlook this season.MDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:Ian Rapoport: If Flacco stays healthy and plays well, Denver is an above .500 teamTwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailIan Rapoport joined Ryan Edwards and Benjamin Allbright on Broncos Country Tonight on KOA radio to give his thoughts on Denver’s outlook for the upcoming season (starting around the 6:30 mark).Not surprisingly, his prediction for the team centered heavily around the quarterback play. “If you were going to tell me that Joe Flacco was going to be healthy for sixteen games, and play like he did for the first four games last year, I would say the Broncos are an above .500 team.” Rapoport went on to say 9-7 is around where he thinks Denver could land if Flacco plays well and stays healthy, given Denver’s defense and running game providing support.This isn’t too far off from what I think we are all feeling here in Broncos Country Womens Phillip Lindsay Jersey , even if the exact record prediction may vary. It all hinges on which Joe Flacco is going to be playing for Denver in 2019. To Rapoport’s point, in his first four gamesin 2018 Flacco had two games over 100 QB rating, three games above 250 yards passing, and an 8/2 TD to INT ratio.However, as we have been talking about since he was brought in, will you be getting 2014/early 2018 Flacco, or the underwhelming career numbers Joe Flacco who hasn’t been to the playoffs in the last four years?That question is the key to determining how far Denver will go John Elway Jersey White , according to the NFL insider Rapoport. What are your thoughts, Broncos Country? Is 9-7 Denver’s ceiling if Flacco is healthy and plays well? The guys also caught up with Rich Scangarello after practice today, and he talked about how difficult Fangio’s defense is to play against in practice. Check that out below. Raiders quarterback Derek Carr has said recently that he never felt the Raiders were going to take a quarterback early in this year’s draft, but the team did spend time with Kyler Murray and Dwayne Haskins ahead of April’s draft.Those meetings and comments from General Manager Mike Mayock about always looking to see if you can upgrade a position spurred speculation that the Raiders might be in the market for a player to groom as a successor to Carr at an undetermined point in the future. The Raiders didn’t use any of their three first-round picks to pick or position themselves to pick a quarterback, however.In an interview with Peter King for , Gruden was asked about those meetings and the team’s interest in this year’s crop of rookie quarterbacks.“We all loved Murray. That doesn’t mean we were gonna take him,” Gruden said. “How do you not love his performance Womens Royce Freeman Jersey , his playing style, what he accomplished? I had a blast with him [when the Raiders worked him out pre-draft in Dallas]. We didn’t think about going up to number one. We did look at [Nick] Bosa, [Quinnen] Williams, but not going to one. We did our homework on the quarterbacks. You gotta know who’s coming into the league at that position.take a quarterback. I kept watching a guy on NFL Network saying we’re going up to get Murray. Then he says we’re going up to get Haskins. Then he says we’re going up to get [Drew] Lock. We’re trading Carr. I don’t understand it.”Gruden has been putting his own stamp on the Raiders since returning to the organization last year and that process has included dispatching prominent members of the team. Speculation that he might do the same at quarterback isn’t much of a curveball, although it may begin to seem like one if Carr shows he still has his fastball.