Clough doesn’t buy notion of Broncos trading pass rusher Von Miller

With a potentially tumultuous offseason awaiting the Denver Broncos, one that could see a shakeup with management, the coaching staff, and the roster, one notion floated by some has been trading perennial Pro Bowl pass rusher Von Miller.

However, while not believing it’s necessarily a “preposterous notion,” 104.3 The Fan’s Sandy Clough said on Thursday he does not “buy” the idea of trading Miller.

“The Broncos problem is not that they can’t swing blockbuster deals involving Von Miller, which I think would be, at least in the short run, completely counter-productive,” Clough said. “You think they’re bad now? They wouldn’t have two wins without Von Miller this year. I’m telling you. They wouldn’t have two wins without him.”

Clough said that the problem with dealing a team’s “best player,” which he labeled Miller as for the Broncos, is that you won’t get “equal value back in return.”

Denver likely would have to trade Miller to a team looking for the final missing piece, not a bad team because “they don’t want to give you early-round draft picks.”

“You don’t get better by trading your best players. You just don’t,” Clough said.

The comments come just two weeks after “Stokley and Zach” co-host Brandon Stokley and “The Drive” co-host Alfred “Big Al” Williams argued that trading Miller would be a “jumpstart” for the Broncos.

“You have to do something drastic to change the outlook of this team. So, what’s drastic? Trading Von Miller is drastic,” Williams said.

Stokley said if he were in John Elway’s position as Broncos general manager, “everyone is tradeable.”

“You’re trying to take another step forward, a big step forward, sometimes you’ve got to look at your best players and say we’ve got to part with this guy to try to take it to the next level,” Stokley said.

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