Broncos Get PERFECT NEWS Before Panthers...

Oh, your Denver Broncos just get perfect news before heading to Carolina to play a team that is absolutely demoralized, that is unraveling from a leadership standpoint, and is incredibly dinged up. And it couldn't come at a better time because your Broncos are a game away from being seven and two at the bye, which no one predicted. And they're a week away from having a whole seven days to rest their bodies before this home playoff stretch. We've got a ton of news to break down. If you're new to the channel, I'm Ben. I'm a diehard Broncos fan, and it helps me in the If you love the Denver Broncos, smash that like button. Like and subscribe button. Let us dive in something that almost never happens in the NFL is that the Carolina Panthers completely underperformed what everyone is expecting of them. And they made the very rare decision in season to fire their defensive coordinator. This almost never goes well. In fact, The Washington Post did a whole article basically like, what happens when you fire your coordinator mid-season? What ends up happening? And what they found here is that on average, none of the teams end up over-performing what they did before they fired the coordinator. Sometimes you get a little more effort out of the team after it, but this is a really bad look for the Carolina Panthers to not only fire Idril Evero. Remember, he was the defensive coordinator that a lot of folks kind of pegged here when he was at Denver. He was the defensive coordinator under Nathaniel Hackett, Pinged him someday to be a head coach in the NFL. Well, he completely fell out of love here with the Carolina staff. He was not brought in by Dave Canales, the new head coach for the Carolina Panthers. So they sent him packing, but they did something even more bizarre than firing him and then also firing another defensive staff member. They're actually also making a switch in season from being a 3-4 defense, having like three down linemen to a 4-3 defense. And that just never goes well. An entire offseason that takes in like bringing in brand new players. In my estimation, this is kind of the head coach's last grasp at saying, hey, we're going to rebuild this and like give me one more season to actually roll this entire thing out and to bring in the personnel that I want. But to switch at the leadership level and then also at the scheme level, that almost never works well. But it gets even better if you are a Denver Broncos fan, because on top of that. You see a team that was underperforming, and now they are dropping like flies. This is absolutely crazy here that you are seeing that they are now down their top four cornerbacks. We know how stressful it was to be down just Pat Surtain, and then, oh no, Pat Sertan and Tolanoa went down, and it's like, we know this team has actually built itself, and we're so deep, and we're able to withstand all that, but the Carolina Panthers are now down their starting four cornerbacks, and it's not like... They're losing, uh, you know, they're missing like a bunch of chumps out there. They're missing Pro Bowl, All-Pro caliber players. Uh, the, the big name here that they're going to be missing for sure this week, cause he's on injured reserve is J.C. Horn. Uh, and this dude is an absolute dog. And, um, I am thrilled to death that the fact that Cortland Sutton is not going to be going up against this guy. Cause it's like wide receivers would get open against him and then he would run the route better at times than even the wide receiver did. So playing the Carolina Panthers alone. Even if it was just J.C. Horn out, you'd be thrilled to death. But it's not just J.C. Horn. It's also the guy after him and the guy after him. You see, pick your Pro Bowl quarterback out there. And J.C. Horn basically has an interception against them. Seeing this nasty one-hander against Trevor Lawrence. This guy is an absolute beast. And I'm thrilled that he is not going to be playing the other. A nice part about missing him is the fact that, uh, we know he and Sean Payton actually had a, a altercation after the last game and he was upset at Sean Payton. And so, you know, they would have been playing this in, in the Panthers locker room. And as the schedule came out, I remembered him and Sean Payton getting into a little tiff, but you see pick after pick that like this guy erases your best wide receiver out there. And he is not going to be doing that this week for the Denver Broncos. And if you look at... How the Carolina Panthers did with even just their top two corners down. You see Jamo Williamson for the Detroit Lions, who has not had that fantastic of a season, had six catches for 100 yards. Devonta Smith and the Eagles, seven catches, 75 yards and a TD. You saw Christian Watson had eight catches and 113 yards. And that is with a mid-game trip to the hospital in the back of an ambulance. And we saw the rookie Matthew Golden go off for 80 yards and a touchdown. So I love the fact that it's not just we're missing J.C. Horn, but we're also missing Mike Jackson. And then on top of that, the top four corners there. Now, Dave Canales, the head coach for the Carolina Panthers, said that it gets even worse, that they also are going to most likely be without Jalen Phillips. And this was a guy we'll probably all remember from his time with the Miami Dolphins, an absolute game wrecker. And he, he didn't have like a ton of sacks necessarily, but he was similar to, um, how the, the Broncos cage rushing is where like, it felt like he was constantly blowing up the backfield. And you heard Dave Canales say, uh, that all of the guys who had DNP by their name, he did not really see a world in which any of them were going to be back in time for this game against the Broncos on Sunday. So just phenomenal news. Again, you are never rooting for other teams to be hurt, but it is a huge competitive advantage for the Broncos to have that. And you even see like the diehard Carolina Panthers creators out there. I never have a hard time finding a creator to come on the show. I emailed four of them and I was ghosted by all of them. And I think it's just kind of reflective of the fact that, man, they are absolutely cashed in on this season. And they're all basically saying at this point in time, we want to be sellers at the trade deadline. We don't want to be buyers. And that's just crazy. You just see a really disheartened. And then also unraveling. So all the players are down, the fans are down. You look at the get-in price, it's dropped about $100 to get in to go watch this game in Carolina from when the season schedule came out because I have a flag on all of that. Now, when you look at them on defense, It could not be a polar opposite of what the Broncos faced last week against the Kansas City Chiefs. Broncos played the best red zone defense in all of football last week and were three for three scoring on them. And then we scored two two-point conversions as well. So in my estimation, we went five for five in the red zone against Kansas City Chiefs. And now we get to play a defense that has the worst red zone defense in all of professional football. And they've lost guys since these stats even came out. And I think it's just perfectly lining up here. And then Bobby Okereke. You're hearing mixed reports on there. He's a very good inside linebacker, and he looks like he's going to be out as well on Sunday. So just a mash unit there for the Denver Broncos. And so many of them are saying like, hey, we need a new defensive coordinator. We need a new edge rusher. We need an entirely new offensive line. We need a new corner or safety and someone other than Chuba Hubbard. So it could not be a better situation for your Denver Broncos. I think Bo Nix is going to be putting up yards for days. This will be our best offensive performance of the season in my estimation. But now let's jump into the DraftKings matchup breakdown of the week. And I think that is going to be what do the Denver Broncos need to do to neutralize the skills that the Atlanta Falcons do have on offense? Because we saw the first week of the season, then put a huge shootout against the Chicago Bears in a game. The Bears end up scoring 50 points in that game, and the Panthers were in that till the very end. We know they can put up numbers and they can put up. And I think the big keys to stopping for the Broncos, number one, it's got to start and end with stopping Chuba Hubbard. And you just look here, a guy that is averaging well over four yards of carry. Now that's crazy that five yards of carry against the Bears, four and a half against the Falcons, four and a half against the Browns, six yards per carry against the Detroit Lions, four against the Eagles, 4.7 against the Bucs, and 3.7 against the Green Bay Packers. If you can stop Chuba Hubbard, you stop this entire offense. We know Chuba is also used in a lot of other ways that Bryce Young, a shorter quarterback who doesn't have time to see all the holes in a defense, really relies on Chuba Hubbard as that quick option out of the backfield. And so I'm really looking forward to seeing Alex Singleton stopping him as a pass catcher because I think that is going to be lethal. But you see a very patient runner who waits for that hole to open up and explode. And we know that outside of really that first game of the season where we are missing all those tackles against Kenneth Walker, we've been a very good defensive team when it comes to stopping the run. If we stop Chuba Hubbard, this game is over and it's probably going to get ugly very quickly for the Carolina Panthers because, again, of how dinged up they are. And I think this is going to be similar to that Chargers game where if we let these guys hang around. It's going to be way too close of a game at the end, and we don't like that. So I think if you can put your foots down immediately here for the Denver Broncos, you could have them second-guessing their desire to play and their will to win because, like I said, they are selling at the trade deadline. Now, the other huge advantage that they have on offense and the other big fixture of their offense is this really young receiver, Tet McMillan. He gives you shades of Keenan Allen at his prime, and this guy is... massive. And you see already this season, he's got 65 targets. So the bulk of Bryce Young's targets and he has 42 receptions in just the seven games that he's played. And this guy is, if you were to build a wide receiver in a lab, he would look like Tet McMillan. And I think this is a perfect opportunity for the Broncos to just put Pat Surtain on him, follow him around and be like, Pat Surtain, you are neutralizing Tet McMillan today. We saw the Green Bay Packers took away Tet McMillan and took away Chuba Hubbard, and they ran away with it. And the Green Bay Packers defense without Micah Parsons isn't even in the same sentence as the Denver Broncos defense. And obviously, the Packers had the Panthers at home. You are looking at the Carolina Panthers coming off of a 10-day rest period here. But if you can stop... Tet McMillan by just blanketing him with the best corner in football in, in Pat Surtain. And you can stop Chuba Hubbard. This is going to be an absolute blowout of a game. And then on top of that, I think you can really pressure Bryce Young into making bad choices and make it a very long day for him that we're looking here. He is the, one of the highest percentage of pressures in the entire NFL. And he does not do well when he is pressured. He's a small quarterback in stature. He's he's like my height and, and weight and all that, obviously way more athletic than I am. But I think, Having Jonathan Cooper in his grill a couple times and having Nick Benito on the other side, and he's going to be making business decisions very quickly here, and that's just a phenomenal matchup for the Denver Broncos. And that is your DraftKings Sports Matchup Breakdown. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use code DENVERBEN. New DraftKings Sportsbook customers can spend $5 and get $200 in bonuses plus three months of league pass on them. That's code DENVERBEN. In partnership with DraftKings, the crown is yours. Now, the one thing that does give me a little pause is the fact that Sean Payton has like a deep hatred of this team. And I think it goes two ways that we know it was after the Broncos mollywhopped them 28-14 last season that after the game, you see him getting a little shouting match with J.C. Horn and J.C. Horn says something like, hey, that's cheap that you did a fake field goal and Sean Payton just clapped back and said, play better. And then he kind of doubled down in his press conference after the game. And he said that wasn't a good offense. And Sean Payton picks his words so carefully. So my hope is that that is not bulletin board material for the Panthers this week. Obviously, all of that remains to be seen for sure. Now, other good news that the Broncos get here is like kind of our estimation of things and and how Sean Payton plays his cards and all of that, that Sean Payton completely changed how he did the preseason this year versus how he did it last year. Easy cupcake type preseason. We didn't play our starters in the last game. We didn't do a joint training camp practice. And Sean is just the pro of finding exactly what his teams need. And you see once again here, your Denver Broncos are one of the least injured teams in all professional football, that it's only the Minnesota Vikings, the Titans, and the Raiders who've had starters miss less time than the Denver Broncos. And that's just like, these are advantages that are going to compound because Yes, we've had 13 games missed so far, but it's like Pat Surtain is already back. Looks like Talanoa Hufanga is going to be back super quick here. Obviously, Pat Bryant coming back this week, and so Sean Payton could not be playing this thing any better. And then, yeah, if you break up how much salary cap you've lost to injuries, again, it's like we've had the least number of players who've missed a ton of time, and then when you break it down by how highly paid our players are, it's just Sertan missing those two games and then Hufanga missing those two games. is really what's hurting you. And I just look forward to what this chart looks like at the end of the season when the Broncos are playing in February and continue to be the least injured team in professional football. So Broncos are going to go into the bye week at seven and two. It is going to feel so good. And we've got a ton to believe in. I just got to put this down. Oh, don't lie.