Denver Broncos Just Got Away With Highway Robbery!

Oh, sweet mother of mercy, your Denver Broncos just make an absolutely brilliant move. They simultaneously strengthen their team while weakening a division opponent and going out and getting Josh Allen's kryptonite. I think this is a move the Broncos grew in a lab to beat Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs. I could not be more thrilled about it. Oh, yeah, we also get great news about the Chiefs striking out at the trade deadline. It is a great day to be a Broncos fan. And if you're new here, I'm Ben. Helps me and the algorithm out a ton. If you love the Denver Broncos, smash that like and subscribe button. And let's give a shout. Shout out to our newest Denver Broncos inside linebacker, Agent Zero, out of Washington, a former Buckus Award winner, a guy who's had the green dot on his helmet with the Chargers, who had one of the nastiest defenses when he was a captain there last season. You know how I felt about playing the Chargers, even this season, because of what an absolute dog he is, and this is Dayon Henley. So the Denver Broncos are able to somehow procure him from the Chargers for a fourth and a fifth round draft pick, but it gets even better than that. Because the fourth-round draft pick, essentially this season, we're going to get just as a compensatory draft pick for the fact that John Franklin Myers went and signed with the Tennessee Titans. So your Broncos somehow get a starting inside linebacker, a captain from your divisional rival for a fifth-round draft pick, and it is absolutely phenomenal. And then on top of that, he is on the last year of his contract. So if we try him out this season and we figure out Stranod and Singleton have it locked down and we don't like Henley, Well, he's going to sign a new deal somewhere else, and the Broncos will get back that fifth round comp pick for him. So it truly feels like highway robbery, and that's what all of their fans and all of their content creators are saying. I immediately get a text from NFL Mike saying, like, why did the Chargers just do this? He was one of my favorite players. This guy is one of the best coverage linebackers in the entire NFL, full stop. Seeing Chargers muse say, like, I was so mad. He was one of my favorite players. I thought he was going to be the best linebacker in the league. You even see my sports update here. One of the biggest accounts on X basically say he is one of the NFL's top young inside linebackers. And again, you just see the Chargers sitting on their hands with guys like Khalil Mack, who. Our on-contract years are going to walk away for nothing. And then instead you get a day three pick for a guy that has really been like one of the faces of this franchise and has had Harbaugh's back for all of these years. And it truly is comical to see the absolute unraveling of the Los Angeles Chargers. And it really couldn't be better. Like you'd be thrilled for him just as a player for him to come here. But then when you see how much this weakens the Los Angeles Chargers and knowing We have to play them one more time in week number 18. They're going to be without their green dot signal caller. That is how things like they're already winless right now. And how are they ever going to win a game if that is if they are now without their captain? So the crazy part about him, a very rangy athlete, a guy who's played quarterback. He has played safety. He's played. He was actually a wide receiver for in college, which is phenomenal. And you see that in his coverage out here. And then... The weird part here is that you're seeing a lot of Broncos sources saying that he is going to come in and play special teams, and then he's going to be backing up Singleton and Stronod. But people who really know his game say that that is probably lip service for the Broncos. When you're sitting at 7-2 and you have the defensive player of the month of October in Alex Singleton, you don't want to come out and be like, yeah, we got your replacement out there. And we do know, as we saw with Dre Greenlaw, it takes a while to learn this defense. And so really what I think that he is... Dre Greenlaw is stopping Josh Allen. And I've got the stats to kind of prove that as these highlights are playing. I'm going to tell you how I think he's really going to be used here for the Denver Broncos. And I think you clearly see his his defensive prowess and that he truly was a college wide receiver here in in just how like rangy and downrange he or and downhill he always is like watching him here step up in the run game. My friend NFL Mike basically texted me and said he is a fan. Fantastic cover corner. He is not that great at stopping the run, but that's why you have 49 is exactly what he texted me. So even as an outsider, he knows that that's what the Broncos are going to be using him for. And truly, if you look back over these past couple of weeks and how the Broncos have done stopping the tight end position, I think the tweet I saw was that the Broncos have given up 300 yards. Just in here's 300 yards to tight ends in and running backs over the past three weeks catching the ball and that day on Henley is truly grown in a lab to come in and knock that out. And you know, Alex Singleton can be the run stuffer. And then you have this guy who can truly shut down like we see him picking off CJ Stroud, the only highlight of the entire week last week for Chargers fans, and they just ship him out the door. Even though he's been like one of the voices of leadership there, Harbaugh has glowed up about him and like what a great leader he is. You've heard Herbert say like what a great leader he is. And the thing I noticed about him was like how. Relentless he is in his pursuit. I was watching the Bills game last night against the Minnesota Vikings, and that Vikings defense was just swarming and always going downhill. And I think that is what you get here. How many of these highlights are we seeing where he is chasing down quarterbacks and not just having a relentless pursuit of the ball? And that is who I think you get here in Deion Henley. So thrilled to death with it that you're basically getting him for a fifth round pick. Uh, you know, we, the Broncos going into this off season, we're like, what are we going to do at inside linebacker in it last off season? If you'd been like, yeah, you're going to end up with Deion Henley for the playoff push. I think we all would have lost our ever loving mind. So a phenomenal, phenomenal thing. Truly the only low light I could find of Dayon Henley was actually a play against the Denver Broncos where, uh, Bonics kind of clowns upon him. And, uh, I think that's all right. Cause we know Bonics is elite and you know, even an elite. Um, inside linebacker like Dayon Henley is not going to be able to keep up with Bo Chapman Nicks. Um, but that, that really was the only low light I saw watching Dayon Henley. So truly thrilled about this. Uh, just looking here, a lot of the ball knowers out there are just pointing out that, um, from a lot of advanced metrics, he truly wasn't just like one of the best young inside linebackers. He was one of the best inside linebackers period when it comes to his coverage ability. And just seeing that his EPA allowed when targeted was a negative 10.9. That is truly how you go out and you beat a team like the Buffalo Bills. And I think if you take a look at their head-to-head matchup this season. The Buffalo Bills turned the ball over five times against this Chargers team and that Josh Allen had his worst game of the entire season, even though it was their home opener and they were over the moon excited. They had all the momentum at their back. And you saw Josh Allen had his worst statistical game with two interceptions. And I think he also had a fumble. And after the game, I was reading his comments on it. And he said that. how the Chargers shut down the middle of the field and limited their ability to pass to the tight ends. And I think Deion Henley is a huge, huge part of that. So we know that the playoffs are going to go with us and the Buffalo Bills. That's going to be how this whole thing maps out. And if the Broncos win our game on Christmas against the Bills, it's going to be in Denver. And if we don't, it's going to be in Buffalo. And either way, I'm feeling way more pumped about that matchup, knowing that we have a Deion Henley. And truly knowing that... The Broncos didn't give up an arm and a leg to get him. It really could not be a better thing here that we got a captain, a guy who has the green dot on his helmet and is trusted as a captain for one of the best defenses in football last season. And really, it was them losing Jesse Minter. And we get him for essentially a fifth-round draft pick. Just feels like highway robbery there. And I also like the fact that like Sean Payton told us after the Panthers game, he said he likes this team and he showed you how much he liked this team by the moves that we did and the moves that we didn't do. And again, as we pointed out yesterday, Sean Payton has never been wrong about moves that he has made. And so this has to give you even more hype about this move here that we made because Sean Payton has the receipts to prove that he's the smartest mind in professional football. In addition to that, there actually were a lot of Bengals fans who wanted him. And so I love the fact that the Bengals are going to be another team the Broncos are going to have to play in the playoffs, depending on how all the seating falls out. And that's who they wanted. And they were just an absolute clown show as they had a trade in and agreed upon, and then did the math on it and figured out that it was going to cost them a compensatory pick. And so they canceled the trade. And so you just see them not take steps forward. That's phenomenal. And then I think the big one here is just seeing the fact that we know going into the trade deadline, there was a lot of talk that Brian Thomas Jr. from the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jaguars, who's a former first-round draft pick and a very good wide receiver. There were a lot of rumors he was going to go to the Kansas City Chiefs. That would have scared me. There's a lot of rumors that George Pickens, the wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, was going to go to the Kansas City Chiefs. That would have scared me. Instead, they end up with Josh Downs. And, and... He is better than anyone else they have on that team right now, but definitely he is not a top echelon wide receiver by any stretch of the imagination. You just got to love that the Broncos got better at the trade deadline. No one else in our division took a step forward as we broke down. The team that did the most at the deadline was the Jacksonville Jaguars, and they barely got back to the level at which the Broncos already beat them this season. The Buffalo Bills ended up getting a good safety, but truly I still think the Broncos have a leg up on the Bills, and obviously we'll see how that plays out on Christmas Day. There were talks out there that the Broncos were exploring the running back market here with both the Tennessee Titans and the New York Giants. Or sorry, the Tennessee Titans and the Indianapolis Colts for Jonathan Taylor and Tony Pollard. So it'll be interesting to see if any more like credible reporting comes out on that. But a phenomenal day. And then last piece of good news that we get is that we know four weeks from now. The Broncos have one of the easier games on their schedule, which is against the Miami Dolphins at home. I already felt phenomenal about that matchup. We have one of the easier strengths of schedule the rest of the way here, and we're already seven and two. And now it looks as if actually it is definitively that the Miami Dolphins will not have their starting quarterback. He has been placed on a four week IR, and so he will not be in that game that the Broncos play at Mile High in just four weeks from now. So phenomenal day. Anytime you like it. Make a strength even stronger by going out and getting a captain from a division rival. You can't be anything but hyped about that. I think it is proving what Sean Payton really believes about this running back room that J.K. Dobbins like him or hate him. He looked better in this last game, and I think he is going to progress and get back to the J.K. of old by the end of the season. I think he's intentionally on a pitch count so that he is healthiest when it matters the most. We already know Sean Payton has a tremendous amount of trust in R.J. Harvey. And in Jonah Coleman. And so giving up and selling the farm for Jonathan Taylor was just never a smart move. The smart move is committing highway robbery and stealing a captain from a division rival that you still have to play one time this year and you got to play him twice next season. So a phenomenal day to be a Denver Broncos fan. Let me know how hyped you are in the comments and Broncos country. We got a ton to believe in my flu game. Sick.