Denver Broncos Get more GREAT NEWS after Beating the Panthers...

Oh my goodness, your 7-2 Denver Broncos just get phenomenal news after outlasting the Carolina Panthers and here they head into their bye week, a whole week of rest with the entire season in front of them knowing they're playing the Game of football until the month of February. This team has proven they are inevitable. They are unavoidable. They cannot beat Bo. You just can't beat Bo Nix. They have broken NFL records in this game. They did it with like one arm tied behind their back on defense. We've just got a ton to break down. If you're new to this channel, I'm a diehard Broncos fan named Ben. I was calling a little streak when the Broncos were at two and two. And here we are five games in and we are just getting started. Smash like and subscribe button if you want daily Denver Broncos content, because the The fact of the matter is, guys, being 7-2 right now with the The hardest start in NFL history of the schedule. Like we just were playing banger after banger after banger. And you're wondering like, man, is this offense ever going to get going? Well, today they dropped 26 points and the offense did get going. And it's an even way bigger win than that, because one of the crazy stats that came out of this was that the Denver Broncos end up breaking an NFL record. They have now won their 16th consecutive one score game. Last season, when the Broncos were at number five, I remember talking to my friend Michael Darcy, who covers the Kansas City Chiefs, and he's like, you just can't keep winning these one-score games. And it's like, okay, 11 games later, bro, yes, we can, because Sean Payton and Bo Nix will do whatever it takes to win a one-score game, and that's all they need to do is be one point better than who they're going to play and give us the Los Angeles Rams or the Kansas City Chiefs with their back up against the wall, or give us a garbage team like the Carolina Panthers, who really aren't even that big of a garbage team. They were at the top of their division. Playing at home, they beat the Detroit Lions. They dropped 37 points on the Chicago Bears and the Denver Broncos with all of their secondary out. You look here that Taulano Hufanga was out. Brandon Jones was out. Riley Moss went out with a concussion. We saw Devin Key get hurt as well. And we held this offense that puts up Star Wars numbers to 21 points. And we stepped up when it mattered the most. And so Zach By pointed it out here that this team, even though it was out gained on the ground, out gained in the air, Um, and it had less first downs than their opponent. They still find a way to win. And I'm just like over the moon, excited about the possibility and the potential for this team. So, uh, I think we got a ton of different things to break down. I think first off, uh, all of the talk about like, Hey, should we ship Riley Moss out before the trade deadline when he went out? Like that is when Bryce Young truly started to carve up this defense. We also know Chris Abrams-Drain was also out for this game, and maybe the drop-off would not have been as big as if Chris Abrams-Drain was able to go into this game, but I think this all shuts up that talk about, hey, maybe we just trade Riley Moss straight up for the tight end for Sam LaPorta from the Detroit Lions. I think Riley Moss is definitely needed in this defense, and we're hoping for a speedy recovery. I love that if that's going to happen, you're going to get a concussion for him and Jalen Waddle that it happens right before the bye week. Totally agree with what Liam said here that considering how depleted this defense was that you're down Riley, you're down Chris Abrams-Drain, you're down Brandon Jones and you're down Hufanga and you're playing up against a team who's dropped 37 points on another good defense in the Chicago Bears. This team plays really good at home and they are at the top of their division knowing that they need to get these home games won in order to make the playoffs. The Carolina Panthers gave the Rams a really good shot last year in the NFL playoffs at home. This is a really good team, especially at home, and the Broncos played phenomenal. Now, there were a couple of low points because I'm like such an optimistic person. We'll go with low points first and with the high points and then talk about like big season narratives as the Broncos head into their bye week. So I think one of the things that reared its ugly head here was that without Riley Moss, Bryce Young should not be able to pick us apart like he did. Darren Waller just completely owned us in this game, and so you saw just some really nice precision and some strikes from Bryce Young to Darren Waller, and it just made me think, what would Bo Nix look like if we could target tight ends in the same way? I have to think that Evan Ingram can at least produce like Darren Waller did, but that was definitely a low point. The other low point of this game was definitely the momentum shift that the Bo Nix interception took on us. I truly like the aggression from Bo. I don't like check down Bo or whatever the media was calling him. And I think a lot of that's a media creation. So I don't even want to dog on him for this interception because essentially he was baited into this interception thinking that essentially this corner was going to go with J.K. Dobbins. Well, the corner does not go with J.K. Dobbins and is able to undercut this throw to Courtland Sutton, which you see Courtland's walking wide open here. Uh, would have had that, um, Bo Nix can't put more on that or it becomes a hospital ball, but he kind of underthrew it because Cortland could go back for it, not have this guy catch it. And he was just expecting this, uh, corner to go with the other one. One of the crazy little wrinkles of this game that I think is why the Broncos didn't drop 50 points on this defense was that they fired their defensive coordinator, Ejiro Evero and switched to a completely different scheme. And we know when is Sean Payton the best it's when he has all the film and he knows the moves you're going to make before you make them. And so this was almost the worst case scenario for the Denver Broncos because we did not have tape on him. It was a brand new scheme and Sean Payton didn't have the answer key or the cheat code and you still see the Denver Broncos almost dropped 30 points in this game. And so you got to be excited with that of like, man, I feel like if we played the Carolina Panthers with the same defensive coordinator, like. At the end of the season, the Broncos dropped 50 points. The other low point of this game to me is just the fact that you're looking at the worst running defense in professional football. Probably they could not stop the run. Even like, I mean, if they had 12 dudes out there, I don't think they would be able to stop the run. They were allowing 140 rush yards per game. And you look here through the third quarter, the Broncos had 33 yards rushing. And I'm not sure how they counted that fumble at the end of the game for Jonah Coleman if that goes against his rushing yards. But man, the Broncos, if at all times they could have gotten the run game going, it would have been today and they couldn't. And so what does that tell you? Does that tell you that? The Broncos really might try to target a guy like Landon Dickerson from the Philadelphia Eagles and get powers out of there because it's an offensive line problem. Is that just more of a sign that the Broncos should go get Jonathan Taylor? Because this was even giving Jonah Coleman all the carries and we still couldn't get the run game going. So of all the things I'm discouraged about, it is that because like, man, I thought this would have been the week that we get the run game going. But thankfully. Um, we, we had Bo Nix's right arm and that like really willed us to this win. Uh, very impressed that even with, uh, you know, Jalen Waddle looked like he was having a heck of a game and even, um, you know, the, the concussion play that he went out on, he just cooked that, uh, cornerback. And I think the, again, the outcome of this game is really different if Jalen Waddle is in it the entire time. And so massive shout out to Troy Franklin and to Cortland Sutton for stepping up with Jalen Waddle down. Love this route here to start off with Cortland Sutton getting this. Beautiful touchdown to get the Broncos on the board. It really was a tale of two halves. You see the Broncos put 10 points up in the first quarter. And you're like, we're going to run away with this thing. And then my son and I are locking arms at the end, just praying that Benito gets a strip sack. And it was just way too close for comfort. But all of the talk of Courtland Sutton's demise were probably premature because you still see that he has it. Now all the naysayers out there are going to be like, well, he's up against some practice squad corners. I think Cortland Sutton still absolutely has it, and I love to see that none of the Broncos receivers, despite where they've been slotted in, whether they're getting all the first-team reps or they're on the bench, they're still giving it their all. And I think the biggest shout-out in that end goes to Troy Franklin, who just gives it his all all the time. After Bo Nix threw that interception that we talked about, It looks like the Carolina Panthers were about to change the entire trajectory of this game as they had a huge drive and Bryce Young was just cooking us and they were down to first and goal on the one yard line. And Justin Strnad has this pass defense to play this play right here. And it bounces up off of the hand of the intended receiver, that tight end there. And it bounces directly into the hand of Devon Key. Sean Payton, somebody up in the booths like, hey, we think that ball never hit the ground. They throw a challenge flag and it changes the entire trajectory of this game. Really, really nicely done by the Broncos booth to like, hey, watch that ahead of time. Because as the announcers pointed out, Devon Key didn't even know that he picked that ball off. Everyone assumed that ball hit the ground. Clearly it did not. Um, and after that, it was like, man, the wind was out of our sails after the Bonex interception. And then they have this huge, huge ADR drive. Well, then the Broncos have a 14 play 80 yard drive. They burn some clock. They let our defense kind of catch their breath. And it's all capped off by, uh, really the best run of the day here, which was to Jonah Coleman. And it's like, man, where was this? Jonah Coleman? Is it, um, you know, we know Sean Payton likes to try to scheme things up to the inside and it just felt like our interior, uh, offensive line. Got no push and there were no holes open, but it felt like, man, if you were running behind... You're running behind, obviously, McGlinchey on the outside, or you're running behind Garrett Bowles on the other side. It was like you had routes for days and holes for days, and so maybe the Broncos need to abandon running to the inside and just like, hey, we are going play action pass and outside zone. Might that be what they do, or is this clearly a wake-up call that, man, we are really a Jonathan Taylor away from making a real run here, but something needs to happen because as we saw in the playoffs, 80% of the snaps in that game, the Buffalo Bills against the Broncos were 80% of the snaps more than 80 went to Bo Nix and his body just couldn't handle it by the end. And so I would love to see a running game because I think it would make Bo an even better quarterback than he already is. Uh, then one of my favorite passes of the day and, uh, just a jolt, a shot of, of energy to the arm was our main man, PB 13, as they called him in the preseason was Paddy Ice. And so, yes, it was a massive bummer that Jalen Waddle went down, but we saw Pat Bryant pick up exactly where he left off. Did not look like he just came up off of that injury that he suffered against the San Francisco 49ers. Uh, when he had that injury against the 49ers, it was like, are we going to see him again all season? We thought it was a knee injury. And so it's amazing to not only like see him back out there, but also see him doing this, creating this separation. Obviously this was not his only catch. He did way more than that. And then Broncos were absolutely bend, but don't break when it mattered the most. We saw Jonathan Cooper's first sack since he was back. And then we saw Nick Benito just come in when it mattered the most, where it felt like all of the momentum was in the Carolina's favor. And you just see it, just him have this game sealing strip sack here and. Man, it feels incredible right now to be watching this in hindsight and love all of the memes out there showing like, man, this seems exactly like another strip sack of a Carolina Panthers quarterback. And so just absolutely phenomenal news for your Denver Broncos to go on the road and win that like winning on the road is never easy. I don't care if you're the worst team in football or the best team in football. It is always hard to go out and win a gutsy game on the road. And so you just look that of the Broncos first six opponents. You had the best defenses in all of professional football and a divisional game against the Chargers who wanted to prove something and the Broncos defied all expectations and here they are at 7-2. We know that we'll get great news over this time that it seems as if Talanoa Hufanga should have been back even today. He'll be coming back after this bye week. We're hoping concussion protocol. You now have two full weeks to get Riley back and two full weeks to get Jalen Waddle back. Opening up after our little bye here against the Los Angeles Raiders. Las Vegas Raiders, rather. So that's great. And we've got a huge week in news, obviously, with the NFL trade deadline coming up on Tuesday at 10 a.m. So make sure you are subbed up to this channel so you do not miss a second. Broncos Country 7-2. Everybody said we were going to miss the playoffs. Our over-under going into the season was nine and a half wins. Like, we're going to have that like two weeks after our bye week. We're already going to hit the over because we are basically the boverdogs and we have a ton to bow leave in. Let's go.