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and quarterback Peyton Manning limped off into the sunset Courtland Sutton Jersey , Denver has had a tough time finding a good quarterback. G.M. John Elway acknowledged that on Wednesday.“It’s a hard position to fill,” Elway told reporters, via comments distributed by the team. “We tried to shake all these trees around here the last four years and quarterbacks didn’t fall out of it. It’s difficult, but we’ve taken a lot shots. We’ve tried a lot of different situations, and I’ve felt like that was the way to go until we got it solidified. Hopefully with Joe [Flacco] this year, we’ve got it solidified with Drew [Lock] learning underneath him. It’s been a battle, but this league is a battle. It’s a tough situation, especially at that position. We’re excited or at least I’m excited about where we are at that position now.”Elway also reiterated something he first said earlier this year about the current state of Flacco’s career.“We just felt that with Joe coming in, getting him in a trade, and where he is in his career Royce Freeman Jersey , we feel like he’s in his prime,” Elway said. “At least we hope he is. To have a young guy like Drew learn under him and be able to kind of solidify that position for a while — obviously we’ve been looking for one since Peyton [Manning] retired. That’s always a difficult position to fill, but we finally feel pretty good about that position and where we are.”It’s clear, if it wasn’t already, that Flacco is the guy.“I think that what Joe proved and showed everybody on our football team was that he can be that guy,” Elway said. “Our team has really responded to him well, and I think Joe’s ready to take that spot over. He’s going to make our defense better, and what’s going to make our defense better is that we’re going to play better on the offensive side, which is the goal, because we’ve struggled there the last couple years. If we play as well as we think we can on the offensive side Brandon McManus Jersey , it’ll make us that much better on defense.”Elway also thinks that Flacco’s return to a familiar system coupled with the fact that the Ravens gave up on him will provide motivation.“Joe’s best years were in that system,” Elway said. “Combining all that with Joe — anytime you get traded midway in your career or two-thirds of the way through your career, you’ve got something to prove.”Flacco has something to prove. And the Broncos have plenty to prove, in a division where it won’t be easy to prove much of anything. For the first time since the early ’70s, the Broncos have had back to back losing seasons. Elway is counting on Flacco to keep that streak from running to three. Broncos head coach Vic Fangio hinted that the team would pick up wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders‘ option at a Wednesday press conference from the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis and General Manager John Elway made it all but official later in the day.Elway said that the team plans to pick up Sanders’ option and he’ll be set to make $10.15 million in the final year of his current contract. Fangio said he expected Sanders to be back at full speed after tearing his Achilles last year, but Elway sounded less certain that things would play out that way.“I love the way Emmanuel Sanders plays the game,” Elway said, via Ryan O’Halloran of the . “I love his heart. I love his competitiveness. He would be a great asset for us. But the question is how he is going to come off that Achilles at 31 years old? We’ll be in the process in figuring that out.”Elway said the team also plans to pick up their option on defensive lineman Derek Wolfe‘s contract. Wolfe had 43 tackles, 1.5 sacks and an interception while starting all 16 games last season. He’s set to make $8 million in 2019.