This will SAVE the Broncos...

This will save the Broncos' season, and we haven't talked about the defense much, which is obviously a my bad type of situation, but at the same time, something is missing from this Broncos' defense that finally came around when we needed them to, and we're hoping this is going to continue going forward. Everyone's wondering, why was Nick Bonitto not really producing? Why are we not getting the same level of defensive pass rush, like the guys who want to break the sack record, all those different things? it's because we have new players and there are you know key pieces missing on this team we didn't think it would matter as much as it is right now but that that is the reason and so we'll be talking a bit about Nick Bonitto about the defensive uh you know their effort and their ability to make tackles their ability to make stops uh how different it is from last year all that different stuff right here and why they will still be a huge factor for why the Broncos are going to win games this season. Make sure to subscribe, join the channel, all that good stuff. And without further ado, let's just kind of jump into this. So first things first, yes, we are talking about not just Benito, but like, you know, the team in general. They performed much better than I expected, if I'm being completely honest, without Pat Surtain II and Riley Moss, our starting corners. We were not allowing much scoring. The tackling obviously could have been better, but overall, you know against a backup offensive line we recorded 12 tackles for loss in a single game that's what you want that's you i mean it's you know they they could have adjusted and they didn't uh the chargers being and we just played our brand of football Jai Baron, Brandon Jones obviously big games with brandon getting his pick um but like you know a lot of criticism was going Baron's way and he stepped up big time didn't have the hardest competition by any means and you know but it's Still, you know, you can't underestimate Herbert and his talent despite how poorly he's playing this year and the system that he's working with. That being said, I really do want to talk about, you know, what is going on with just, like, defensively. Three sacks for Nick Bonitto. Two of them basically coming against the Chargers. Before that, he only had, like, a sack on the season or a sack and a half. It wasn't looking great through the first month of the year. everyone was like okay i like did we overpay for Bedito i still think that's ridiculous um you know he's not he's not averaging a ton of tackles but as a pass rusher that's not really your thing um and but overall like he's still doing a good job i just it's it's really um relieving to see him start to like ramp up like just get that confidence back that he can you know finish a sack on a guy like uh on uh justin herbert even if it's against backup players offensively um it's just you know getting that feeling of bringing him down is going to help um we thought we'd get more help on the other side with q robinson and jonah ellis not really what we were hoping for if i'm being completely honest um so Sayer Benninger from predominantly orange said that part of the reason why the broncos haven't been able to withstand the losses of both john franklin myers and jonathan cooper is the disappointing play so far this season of jonah Ellis. Ellis has been on the field for 174 snaps in the first four weeks of the season, 62% of the defensive snaps, and has had just two pressures, one quarterback hit, and no sacks. Ellis hasn't been able to be a consistent edge. He hasn't been able to rush the passer, and he might be on the bigger liabilities of this defense. That's a huge disappointment considering there was hopes that he could be a breakout year for this this would be a breakout year for him um q robinson obviously was showing up a little bit against the chargers but ellis once again we're still waiting for much of anything from him and uh i was always more of a q robinson guy i see bigger uh bigger flashes from him so um regarding though the the the pieces that were missing is uh you know Benninger went on to say that the Broncos are tied for 15th in the NFL uh with the Bucks and Bengals at a 51% pass rush win rate they ranked fourth in the league last season the team's struggles can be traced back to the losses of defensive line lineman John Franklin Myers and outside linebacker Jonathan Cooper who uh accounted for a combined 15 and a half sacks and 31 quarterback hits last season both of them um maybe even more importantly those guys helped take the pressure off of some of the Broncos uh stars like or in the pass rushing department like Nick Bonitto specifically we're seeing Bonitto struggle with the extra attention he's been receiving in the absence of Cooper um which you know this is when you get more attention like he has gotten that is a you know that's just something that Bonitto is going to have to it's it's a sign of respect all things considered uh and Bonitto's just gonna have to deal with that going forward um you know Bonitto was like you know talking about when facing the uh 0 and 4 Chargers he was you know very humble he said uh Herbert is uh still there they have a lot of weapons on you know the offense side of the ball so in no way shape or form this is a game that was considered to be a cupcake game and that's what people are like we're suggesting the game was um so he it's it's crazy because the two sacks he did get is now put Bonitto as the seventh player in Broncos history with 40 sacks and he's done it at a really young age he's going to be around with us for a while this is a franchise pass rusher which does not come uh very easily i do want to emphasize that uh people who are like ah maybe we should trade him for somebody else no absolutely not he's not Max Crosby that doesn't matter he's still getting it done uh Benito has 13 quarterback pressures this season through four games uh per Next Gen Stats last year he had 27 quarterback pressures uh through four games so it's it was not obviously he had a better game against the Chargers this was you know posted before the Chargers game uh however you know it's still not the start to the season he wants and obviously the Chargers game was an improvement but we're going to need more consistency out of that against much better offensive lines um you know it was posted by um uh Ian Hartwitz uh that the top NFL defenses through four weeks uh in terms of havoc percentage the Broncos were all the way down at 20th on the list so this is not something that uh the Broncos they were much better at last season and are not doing what they need to be doing now um you know with Benito essentially by himself and i i underestimate i thought like that a Q Robinson um was going to provide basically what you know Jonathan Cooper was providing for this team i was very wrong um i guess Cooper was providing more than i expected uh and also i mean Franklin Myers i mean he he has been he was a staple part of that interior defensive line now Zach Allen is still amazing don't get me wrong that that that has been one of the best free agent pickups that we've ever done but um man like Franklin Myers leaving for the Titans i mean he got his bag but like he might be regretting that like wouldn't you rather be on a team that's like competing in all these big games like the Broncos are than the team that's still winless through five weeks uh and looks just absolutely abysmal i hope he's enjoying that money uh because i think that he is regretting leaving Denver significantly right now um and then we've we've had to replace him we got Unyedem you know in the third round from the draft uh one of the few rookies that we kept on this team from that draft class honestly uh and really in the end the the defensive side of the ball the only true lacking area that's really not doing enough is the linebacker room Stranord he's fine Singleton is getting targeted like no other he cannot cover uh he is a great leader i i will not discount that people want to discount that i won't um but he gets lost something about you know just you know being constantly criticized about his lack of pass protection has like turned into him just not wanting to improve on that or something and now we're all suffering for it the pass rush is not getting home so he is really he needs to be better in pass protection um or pass coverage i should say uh then he has been because you know it's taking a little bit longer for the pass rushers to get to the quarterback so that that you know and that's due to the losses of Franklin Myers and Jonathan Cooper and i i will say if there's anyone that i would want to you know join the Broncos like maybe if the Eagles season continues to go downhill Zach Bond is a name that I could absolutely see the Broncos targeting in free agent or uh by the trade deadline it would be negligent to just assume Singleton is good enough to be a starting linebacker on this team especially when we we don't even know if Cooper's going to come back this season I know he's like his trial stuff I think when his big trial got moved until after the season so people are waiting to see if like whether uh he's going to be put like taken off the exempt list allowed to play the rest of the year or not so that's that's all kind of in the works this week um but still like we're not going to get Franklin Myers back that's that's a known factor Cooper up in the air i would put it less than 50 percent we get him back so we got to work with what we have right now um and i i mean while i trust that Benito will have big games i'm not as worried about that as other people are um i was hoping for more out of the other side of things with Ellis and Robinson and i'm not giving up on them by any means but uh it's a little bit concerning how little we've gotten from them so I'm curious what you guys think about all this are you concerned like I am about the lack of production from the defense uh in terms of sacks pressures quarterback hits um are tackling issues at moments I mean again the defense is on the field a lot so I can't expect too much out of them they play with a lot of tenacity and ferocity i am not putting this on Vance Joseph i think he's been a fantastic defensive coordinator for us however is there areas that we can improve absolutely you know if if we are going to be playing this poorly offensively for our long stretches of the season the defense has to be amazing they cannot be average like the stats are showing right now they have to be in the top 10 so uh and that might show its ugly head against the Seahawks on Thursday night we will see I hope it doesn't but I just want people to be prepared for that so what do you guys think about all this shout out in the comments down below and until next video I will see you then