Broncos Just Get a SNEAKY Edge on Jacksonville Jaguars...

Duval is in the building and I'm getting flashbacks, man. I talked mad smack the last time this small market team came into Denver and you handed it to us. Biggest loss of the year. How are you feeling so far about the Jaguars after that trouncing of the Cleveland Browns? Yeah, it was funny the first time, man. I mean, you made like a video and everybody was tagging me in it. They're like, hey, look at your boy, man. He's talking all this smack about the Jags like, you know, who is this guy? And I was just like, don't take us too seriously. Did the Jacksonville Jaguars win the Super Bowl? You're serious? No. Will they ever win the Super Bowl? Jason, I can't predict the future, but no. Yeah. And I mean, when I was talking all that smack, dude, we were on an 11 game win streak and feeling amazing, you know, and we felt unbeatable. And you came in and laid Bo Nix's only second time in his whole Broncos career where he lost by more than one possession. So absolute shock here. But you're kind of speaking of that game, you know, Jaguars fans were mad at me, but the Jaguars coaching staff was mad at Sean Payton because of a comment he made about the Jaguars being a small market team. And Liam Coleman really like hyped that up to the team. And then the Jags kind of laid it back and like their celebration in the Broncos locker room afterwards and like FML Liam Collins and like, how about this small market team trounce in the Broncos? How do you think? Is there going to be bad blood spilled on to the field this week here? Yeah, they mentioned the Jaguars media kind of mentioned Liam Cohen like, oh, is there, you know, bad blood like what's going on here? And it's like, no, we saw each other at the owners meetings. And, you know, we said, oh, we're going to come get you. So like, you know, they asked the same thing with Robert. So it's like, oh, no, me and Robert saw a text all the time. So he kind of downplays this stuff. But it was an interesting thing to take offense to because I guess I mean, we literally are a small market. I guess he kind of took that as more of a shot instead of I don't know. I thought it was kind of weird, but they use it as bulletin board material. And if that's what catapulted them to win the way they did go call his tiny market next time. Like go smaller than small. Okay, call it a miniature calls, whatever like because that game was because the Jaguars were on a winning streak, right? They won the last eight regular season games, but you know, they're being the Titans. They were beating the Jets. No one was really taking the Jaguar seriously. Then they went to Denver and did what they did to you guys and said, okay, like these guys are actually legit. Yeah. Well, let's let's talk about that a little bit because a lot is being made Adam Schefter put out a tweet today kind of talking about how you guys are plus 177 and on a nine game regular season win streak, but kind of like you mentioned when you actually look at that you beat Justin Herbert, but he left that game with a concussion. You actually he didn't they just benched him in the second half because he was so bad. Okay, so it was a fake concussion. Well, yeah, he was but I'll give you that then then also Arizona Cardinals when Kyler was already on IR rookie cam Ward twice. Daniel Jones tours Achilles in that game. And so like a backup quarterback who didn't have any reps then you beat him a second time with Philip reverse then you beat Deshaun Watson and you beat Bo Nicks, but like how much are you reading into that win streak? I mean the win streak, of course, the the point differential is big and they have been up on some bad teams, but they've it's also the Jaguars just scoring wise or scoring at will right now like they are just I don't like Trevor Lawrence right now. I think the last like seven games 23 touchdowns to just one interception and they're doing it week in week out like against the Browns are scoring at will and you know, the Browns said that their best past defense last year. I mean, they have some players on our defense. So yeah, I mean some of these wins maybe haven't come against like the greatest of teams, but you can only really be who you line up against. And I mean when you look at the Jaguars and when you look at them on Sunday, okay. Yeah, the Browns are bad, but the Jaguars look damn good and Trevor's Trevor's throwing dimes and needling things in there. And I'm I'm happy with the way the Jaguars season is starting because you know, they have the Broncos. They have the Patriots, you know, then they have the Bengals Eagles Texans. So they have a tough start. So, you know, give us, you know, let's see how these first six games go and you can really like figure out what kind of team the Jaguars are. Well, I'd love it if you beat the Patriots and Texans for us, but like a little give it to us this week because we absolutely need it. Yeah to your point about Trevor throwing dimes one of the best NFL throws I've ever seen in my life was just going in my fantasy football thread in a text thread and people have made it like a meme now like he's throwing it between like four layers of defense all with their hands up and he throws it way before I think it was Brian Thomas maybe but his back of the end zone. Yeah, Josh Cameron a rookie. Yeah, dude. I I was just like either that is wild luck or if that was on purpose or like he truly knew that like it the only thing that could have made it cooler or better throw would be if he did a Steph Curry like turned around and walked off when he let it fly because it was it was nasty man. Absolutely nasty. How much so he's playing like an MVP like do you expect this to continue and have the vibes around him turned around because he came into the league generational talent. Everyone said it underperformed and people are saying like he's a bust and now he looks like MVP level. Yeah. I mean he was a MVP finalist last year. So he was legit like in the conversation. I think he finished fourth and fourth or fifth and voting and you know, I think it's just it kind of goes to show that coach coaching is important, right? I mean that he was almost in a situation like Sam doll in the Jets where they ship them off and then you saw him win a Super Bowl somewhere else. I mean, I would hate to see something like that happen. But you know, he comes in with Urban Meyer and then they bring in Doug Peterson who Doug Peterson had a famous history with not getting along with Carson Wentz and then he brought in a real coach with Liam Cohen who has a complicated offense the first six or seven weeks of the season last year. I mean it took some time to get going like, you know, lots of miscommunications between you know, Trevor Lawrence and the wide receivers the office of Lyman not blocking the right people. It was it wasn't smooth operation at first, but now like you saw halfway through the season like after the bi-week you really saw the offense start clicking and then you know with with Liam Cohen you're looking at and I think he's going to establish himself this year as you know, one of the best offensive minded head coaches in the league. This guy's a mastermind and you know, you pair that with a with a really good quarterback. I mean, like I think the Jaguar should be hanging around and being a legitimate franchise and you know a team that you're going to have to put in your playoff pitcher before you the season every year when you do your playoff picture picture stuff because there's a lot of good stuff going on in Jacks all right now. Yeah. I bet if Liam Cohen was having an affair with Diana Rossini then Trevor Lawrence gets that MVP vote. So might he I don't know K Adams like who would you think like in sports media? He could have an affair with to earn that MVP vote. Yeah, I mean K Adams would be the obvious here. Yes tier choice, but you know, there's some other ones. I mean Aaron Andrews might be a good Cougar pool like that would be that would be something or you know, there's some other there's some other good ones out there too. So yeah, it's always so awkward with me and cake is like we dated in high school and it it didn't end well and she's never forgiven me and I don't know. I I upgraded but what is man? Yeah, I mean I had someone like her but she went to another school. So yeah, yeah, yeah, I was a homecoming King, but I was homeschooled so really similar. I wasn't actually went to Thornton high school. All right, Todd. Let's let's go into because I need to hype myself up after that just shellacking we had. So let's let's do a victory lap for the Broncos. We beat the bills at home. You lost to the bills at home. I'm curious what went wrong in that game and what might the Broncos try to mimic from the bills beating you guys like what what went wrong in that game because I think most of Broncos country thought it was going to be Jacksonville coming to Denver and not Buffalo. Yeah, I mean there was a lot of little things that went wrong like maybe bad decision here bad decision there. I mean the field goal kicker missed a field goal at the end of the first half, you know, Liam Cohen with a questionable decision to go for it on fourth down in the first half that you know, when you should have taken a point to that point run it with Trevor something weird like that to I forget what the play was Lawrence had is like I thought he had the first and they said his knee was down and yeah, it was something like that. Yeah, I think that that was a play. Yeah, you know these these playoff losses. You don't really relive it very much. But yeah, it was a it was one of those questionable calls thing. So there was that and I mean the over the overarching thing is that Trevor Lawrence had the ball three times in the fourth quarter and was down. I mean one time led led the team to a touchdown got the lead Josh Allen Josh Allen got the ball back scored a touchdown that Josh Allen Josh Allen and then you know, the final final drive just want to throw in a ball off the jacobi Myers hands and interception, but I think if there's anything that was really bad that game is that the Jaguars secondary was pretty decimated you lost Travis Hunter early in the year who is you know, he's the Jaguars number one cornerback the slot cornerback Jordan Lewis who was having a good year. He was out. So we had Greg Newsome just getting torched by like Brandon cooks like you guys like that Gabe Davis had some catches, you know, you had these guys, you know cooking us at the shouldn't have been cooked. So I think ultimately the secondary just not locking their guys down and and the defensive pass rush not being really there either Josh Allen had too much time to because Trayvon Walker was dealing with some injuries the whole entire year. So just defensively couldn't stop Josh Allen. I guess if there's any one thing that you can look at there. Yeah. So then, you know, how these teams are different from last year after obviously you beat us and kind of laid it on us here is like ETN was and now I guess he changed how his name is pronounced right? He's a chin now or something. Yeah, he's he's a chin. So you pronounce your last name a chin now. Can anyone just like change how you pronounce it? Yeah, I want to be called. My last name is Nighthawk. Ah, yeah. Yes. Don't Nighthawk. Yeah, exactly. Well, I'm Ben a chin. So that very similar right time to break down this week's matchup DraftKings style. We are going to get into who is a running back running now that Travis ETN is out in this game. So you lost him and your backup plan for him was actually JK Dobbins who instead chose to come to Denver. Who did you fill in there with instead? And how are you feeling about the running game without ETN? They also wanted the draft R.J. Harvey. So you guys are right too. So like yeah, there's a mutual admiration Society there Sean and his press conference today said how many guys they have that Sean loved like and obviously Hunter was one of them Broncos never had a shot at that. But yeah, Sean made a point to say like we like a lot of the same players because we have a lot of the same vision. But yeah, so what is the running back room look like now? Yeah, I mean I can relate to Sean Payton. I'm a fantasy football owner. So I know all about players getting sniped and so yeah, I mean right now it's basial tootin as the RB one and he did some good things last year and even even this last game. I think with him like he has a the fastest 40 time in the 2025 NFL draft. So he is quick. He's quicker than guys like Jameer Gibbs and a couple other pretty notable players and his main thing is this yards after contact most of his yards actually came after contact this last game guys were kind of having trouble tackling him, which I don't know if you want to listen to that. We say that that's that makes me sick to my stomach because the Broncos are the only team well, I guess the Browns only had less missed tackles in the Broncos. So yeah, if it's like man, if that's tootin's game that that's not a good look. So how are they missing him? So is he a power back and he's fast as heck? Yeah, I mean he's I don't I wouldn't necessarily call him a power back. That's why they have Chris Rodriguez a free agent from I mean, but he definitely has some power but I think he's more of like, you know, he can actually the reason why they got rid of a Chan Nighthawk is because he wasn't a run between the tackles kind of guy and like the running the running game really tailed off at the end of the year. I mean, he only had two 100-yard rushing games and it came in the first four weeks of the season after that like the yards for Kerry was down. They had to really pass to win a lot of games even when they were way up. So he just wasn't a running back for the Jaguars and with basal tootin. I mean they want to have a power run game. They invested a lot and blocking tight ends. They also dropped the pregnant in the third round. I think they just want to be a nasty football team that can run downhill. So ultimately that's what basal tunes going to be run between the holes coming there with fast speed and then, you know, break some tackles in there because you know, he has a low center of gravity. He's not the tallest running back out there. So the Denver Broncos are going to bottle up this Jacksonville running game and that is our matchup breakdown powered by draft Kings. That's what you're looking for a basal tootin, but he's also a relative unknown to us. I think he had like 300 rushing yards last year didn't start a game because Travis itino is healthy the whole year and then just got his first start last week and a game where you win like whatever. You're up 31 and nothing after halftime where you know, you're not really testing the guy very much. He's getting a lot of carries but it comes in what looks like the third preseason game where all these backups are in the game at that point and I hope the broken tackle thing does not continue one of the most frustrating things for us last week is the Denver Broncos actually were the second best defense in the NFL and week one when it comes to yards before contact, but then we're the worst team when it comes to broken tackles. And so scheme wise they were in the right spot. They just didn't bring guys down. And so we're all hyping ourselves up just saying that can't continue. But if it does we are in for a long long day. Let's go to the other side of the ball because Devin Lloyd was a dude that I think a lot of Broncos country wanted here. He leaves looks like you lost Greg Newsome and Wingard. How are you feeling about your defense because your defense I think held the Broncos last year to 20 points. Yeah, I mean with Dewey and Wingard and and and Greg Newsome Sia like especially Greg Newsome. He was a huge liability with Devin Lloyd. He had a good year last year a lot a lot of turnovers, but ultimately they like the Jaguars other linebacker there and and and the guy wound up Ventra Miller one of having the highest PFF grade last year led the team and tackles week one also had a forced fumble had a sack. So he was pretty active back there and the main thing about the Jaguars defense is it's it's really good at two things one. They were the number one rushed events in the NFL teams just don't run the Balkan on the Jaguars. They never do like the the leading the team's leading running back. I don't think of I could be mistaken. I don't think any running back had over a hundred rushing yards and you know, we play the Colts too and they want to run Jonathan Taylor all over the place that they can't do that. So really good run defense and they're also really good at turnovers. The Jaguars second in the NFL and takeaways in 2025 and the Jaguars got to last week and and force another fumble that they wound up recovering. So the Jaguars are able to really do really good job about doing takeaways and also rush defense. Then now like with a healthy defensive line, we're probably going to be able to get to the passer pretty well to it with Josh Hines out and Trayvon Walker. So hoping those guys stay healthy because if either of those guys get hurt the pass rush really goes down and that hurt us, especially in the bills game in the playoffs, but those are some things about the defense that were that was the most corny Anthony Campanile. He'll be a head coach next year. We'll probably get one more year of them this year. Yeah. Yeah, if they keep up how they look is yeah, but it was like Judkins was a dude. A lot of people are high on and Cleveland ran the ball pretty successful a couple times last year several times last year and what he had 33 yards last week and yeah, that was absolutely wild man was so were there any good things that Cleveland did last week that the Broncos could try like what what do you think would be the Broncos path of success because we're all saying we need to run the rock because it was the lowest number of rushing attempts ever in a first half under Sean Payton. So you have this new play caller. What do you what's the path to scoring on your defense? Don't try to run the ball. I would I would come out firing. I would come out trying to pass the ball find a week of slink on the Jabbers defense find something on film that maybe you can exploit because every team last year or most teams came in trying to run a ball. Nobody was successful at it. So I wouldn't waste time writing the ball because I mean the Browns want to do it and next thing you know, you look at the scoreboard you're down. It's 17 nothing at the three drives and then you're that completely out of game 24 nothing. Well, they scored on every drive in the first half. So it was 7 nothing 14 nothing 17 nothing, you know, it it got ugly pretty quick. So I think they I think you want to come out aggressive and I would even come out, you know, maybe try to roll Bo Nix out a little bit. Maybe get him involved out of the pocket. Just try to be try to be three-dimensional try to hit the Jabbers with some stuff that you haven't, you know, really shown a lot of so that's the way I would attack the Jaguars least offensively and one thing that Jaguars really bad at last week was special teams coverage. The Browns ran a kick back to the 20-yard line ran a couple more back pretty well, too. So I mean with special teams, it's all gap assignment. So, you know, pretty much one player not doing their job can lead to a pretty big gain. But you know when you win the way that you've won last week, there wasn't a whole lot the Jaguars did bad. But those are a couple ways that attack the Jags. All right. Well, I think early in the season mile high advantage is legit players training camp is not the same and playing at 5,280 feet. I know they did it last year and we're victorious, but I think this year it's going to be different my score prediction. I think I think the Broncos are humiliated after last week and are going to come out as fired up as ever. I'm still wildly hyped about this team not looking past the Jaguars, but I think Broncos win by seven. What's your score prediction for this game? Yeah, what's interesting to me is how the line didn't change at all like last week. I think it was like two and a half and then you would think with the way that Jaguars won and with the way the Broncos lost like that would maybe shift at least a point but it's it's stuck right there. But yeah, I mean with the with the way the Jaguars did it last year. I mean, I'm very curious what the what the Broncos plan is defensively because last year it was like Sertan you're going to lock down Brian Thomas jr. And then it just let Parker Washington to go and create a dude Parker Washington weird voice, right? Like I would expect you to have your voice and he sounds like a small child instead. Yeah, he does smell like a small child. It's not a very good. Yeah, he's very good has a little bit of a list but it's a at least you don't have Patrick Mahomes's voice. I wouldn't want that voice. I'm here. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we don't want the Kermit voice. But yeah, I mean with this one, I'm going to take the Jaguars to win. I just until until the team stops this offense, like I just I can't pick them to lose at this point. So I'll say the Jaguars win also 31 to 24. So seven point victory just a tiny market guy. Okay, come on Nighthawk or shade or whatever. You just don't any market. All right, don't motivate me. Okay, you don't want bulletin board material. Oh, I just got all of it. Don't try any market me. Okay, I won't I want you are the absolute best Dalton. Where's your channel? I'm going to plug it down here. Everybody go sub up and talk all the smack that all his subs came and talk to me when we lost last year. You got to do when he loses this year, but where are you streaming and all that stuff at man? Yeah, man. I just I'm on every platform at UCF underscore Jaguar like YouTube x the Instagram's the tender Hawks. I'm in new 10. Yeah, I'm more of a bumble got you a bumble, you know OF so hit me up on there. Like I'm on I'm on everything man. I'm very very monetized right now. You're the best man. Thank you so much. Shelton later, man.