08-08-25 Hour 2 of Broncos Country Tonight with Zach Segars

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Broncos Country, and welcome back to another edition of
Broncos Country Tonight. So more late night post Colorado Rockies
Broncos Country Tonight. At that once again filling in for
Benjamin Albright and Nick Ferguson, it is Zach Seegers getting

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very excited for Denver Broncos football, which we are less
than twenty four hours away from. Right now, they'll be
kicking off against the San Francisco forty nine Ers at
six thirty Mountain time. Make sure you are listening to
our KOA broadcast for that. I will also be on
the air a little beforehand from three to four thirty

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doing a little Broncos preview pregame action alongside the very
own of Benjamin Albright, so make sure you're checking that
out tomorrow as well as you go about your Saturday
preseason action is already underway, though, have some takeaways about
that will break down do a little early preview even

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for tomorrow's Broncos forty nine Ers game and tell you
everything you need to watch. First, though, we do have
some Broncos news coming out today that I do think
is worth getting into first. A little bit of sadder
news on the injury front defensive lineman Matt Henninson, who's
been with the team since he was drafted in twenty

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twenty two, part of George Payton's second draft class. He
will be well. I guess we shouldn't say prematurely. He's
currently being evaluated for an achilles injury, but that is
never a good sign. I feel like it's very rare.
You see those Achilles injuries pan out positively. It's one

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where you know it can be diagnosed fairly quickly. I
forget the I think it was Kirk Cousins telling the
story about it in the Quarterback Series where you know
the moment the doctors touched his leg, they were like, oh, yep,
that's an achilles. So definitely seems concerning there. If that
is an Achilles, he'll be out the rest of the season.

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So with it trending that way right now, let's say,
what does this mean for the Broncos. Where do they
go from here? Now? I don't think there should be
too terribly damaging. Matt Henderson had a fairly large role
in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, but did
not get on the field in twenty twenty four, with
you know the additions of John Franklin Myers among others,

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as well as Malcolm Roach Lasrique coming back from his
gambling suspension. All of that led to Henningson spending the
almost the entire season, all the way through December, or
up until mid December, I should say, on the practice squad.
He was then activated or elevated to the active roster,

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but he wasn't activated on game day, never saw the field. Meanwhile,
the guys he was competing with at camp for that
sixth defensive tackle spot or so right now in that room,
the Broncos have obviously Zach Allen, DJ Jones. I guess

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I should just say a interior defensive line. But you
have Zach Allen, d J Jones, John Franklin Myers, Saveon Jones,
Malcolm Roach, and then that sixth spot was a battle
between jujas Rique Henningson and Jordan Jackson. Henningson did seem
like the third man in that race. This injury will
only cement that they also have Jordan Miller and Christian

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Williams around. Christian Williams is a new UDFA who's had
some nice moments in practice. Jordan Miller a UDFA from
last year who the Broncos kept around on the practice
squad two. So although you always hate to see a
player get injured, it seems like this is when the
Broncos should be able to absorb well, especially considering last
year Jasaique, Henningson Jackson. They were all jostling for the

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fifth spot in that rotation ended up going to Jackson.
Juasrigue was sixth, and then Henningson was seventh. Now, the
Broncos didn't lose anyone in the offseason, as they were
able to retain DJ Jones and they added to that
mix Saveon Jones. So now everyone you know behind Savion
probably is now that fifth guy. So now those three

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guys are going to have much that they're competing for
a much smaller role even and so this is probably
not too damaging a loss for the Broncos. They probably
don't have to sign someone. I do wonder if this
allows Henninson to stick around in Denver for another year,
if they look to put them on the ir or
the pup list or something like that. We'll have to

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wait and see on that, but it does seem like
his season might be over before it ever really began.
In other Broncos News. In the lead up to the
Broncos forty nine Ers game, John Lynch spoke with the
local media. In a conversation with Mike cliff. He said
Mike Cliss asked him about Sean Payton's comments about the
Broncos being in the Super Bowl mix this year at

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least one of the teams that are capable of winning it,
and John Lynch said they're certainly. In that conversation, Mike
Shanahan used to say, Oh, well, all you want in
this league is a chance, and I don't know what
it is. Some people say it's really only five teams
every year. I think it's a little more than that,
and there's certainly one of those that fit in that. Now,

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you know, is this just trying to e it's preseason?
But is he just trying to avoid bulletin board material?
Is this Bronco's legend speaking up the team as you
know we can see quite often, or is there some
truth to this? And I think there's some truth to it.
You know, the AFC's absolutely loaded in terms of real contenders.
I think the Chiefs, Bills, Ravens all seem like they're

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in a class of their own. And Vegas' odds would
agree with that. And then in the NFC, it's kind
of the Eagles and everyone pulling up behind them and
there's a big mess of teams. Kind Of in the
NFC it's a little more open because you only have
the Eagles blocking the way, and you know, they could
always regress. I mean, we saw it the last time

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they lost their offensive coordinator and Jaylen Hurts really came
back to the pack in twenty twenty three. They had
that kind of disastrous campaign. And if the Broncos were
in the NFC, I think they'd be even more of contenders.
You know, you hear about the Bucks and the Rams,
who I think are good teams but have some big flaws.
You know, the Bucks having a third offensive coordinator in

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as many seasons and now they're left tackles dealing with
a serious injury. The Rams left tackles dealing with a
serious injury blood clots, and their quarterback is missing practice
with a back issue, and that you know typically doesn't
get better over time or you know, with contact. So
when those are the runners up in the NFC, I
don't think the Broncos would be like head and shoulders

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better than them, but I think they'd be right there
in that mix. Unfortunately, they do have a harder path
in the AFC, but I still think they belonged there.
You know, you have that clear top three and then
the Eagles. I think those are kind of like the
Big four contenders. But right after the Chiefs, Bills, and Ravens,
why can't the Broncos be in the mix with the Chargers,

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especially after their offensive line debacles, the Bengals with their
really poorest defense, you know, the Texans with a new
offensive coordinator and their incredibly suspect offensive line. I think
the Broncos could easily be that fifth team. And I
think when you can make a case that they're, you know,

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the fifth best team in the league, they've a least
got a shot at that. I think they're certainly in
the super Bowl mix. So I think there's some substance there,
also substantive and also looking at some offensive line troubles
the Raiders last night, Man was it was tough to
watch for those of you that weren't watching. Ashton gent

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in his NFL debut or preseason debut, had three carries
for negative one yard. First carry went for three yard
yards he had a carry of zero yards and then
he had to carry for negative four, And there's been
some you know, I think the Twitter memes about this
have been pretty funny, comparing him to Eddie Lacey and whatnot.

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But I don't think that's that real, you know. I
don't think this is it's time to sound the alarm
on Ashton Genty or tank him in your fantasy drafts
or anything like that. I think he's still a very
exciting prospect and still could be in line for a
quality year or at least a quality career. With that said,
I do wonder about Ashton Gent behind this Las Vegas

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Raiders offensive line. The Raiders opted to play their starters
in their first preseason game. Maybe some animosity there with
Pete Carroll returning home to Seattle along with Geno Smith,
whatever reason. They just also peek Carroll's just that's kind
of his style. They decided to play their starters. The
Seahawks did the slightly more true thing of not playing

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their starters. They ran out with their backups, so I
guess more modern new age thing, and yet still they
dominated that Raiders offensive line. If you look at the
negative carry for Gent, where he lost those four yards.
There's four Seahawks in the backfield on the play, it's
five guys at the line scrimmage, four get into the backfield.

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There's only one guy who gets held up by a
Raiders offensive lineman. And I just can't You can't win
that way. I mean, put Walter Payton in that situation,
and you know, you might not have negative four yards,
but it's not going to look that pretty. And so
I just I don't know, man, I I any NFL

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running back, if you put them in that position, is
going to really really struggle. The big analytic discovery about
how offensive line has so much more to do with
rushing production than the running back, which kind of led
to the running backs don't matter concept, and I think
we can all see now that that was too extreme
and that was wrong. And you know, the elite running
backs absolutely do matter, but I think the offensive line

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matters more is maybe the way it should have been phrased.
And that Raiders offensive line, you know, it's young, it's
one preseason game. The best guys were only out there
for four snaps. Colton Miller that is, and spacing on
the other veteran right now, but two of their guys
were only out there for four snaps each. I believe
Dylan Parham was the other one, and the younger guys

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DJ Glaize, Jackson, Harris Johnson, Jordan Meredith were out there
for longer. But it did not look pretty. And I
think if I was a Raiders fan, I would be
having a little bit of anxiety right now, wondering, dang,
there was an elite tackle prospect staring us in the
face at pick number six, ended up going seventh to

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the Jets, and instead of that direction, we went with
the running back. And now maybe we don't have a
line that's good enough to even use him. So that's
something I'm aye in the AFC West. Some other NFL
news from this first week of preseason games, a couple
Colorado college guys going off. Not the CC Tigers, but

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University of Colorado. Buffalo's star Lejonta Wester had a great
debut for the Baltimore Ravens. Scored a eighty seven yard
punt return touchdown. I think he could be in line
for a bit of a decent role with the Ravens.
That receiver room is sneaky wide open after the top three,

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maybe even the top two. They've got Za Flowers and
Rashad Bateman starting, and they haven't paid Zay yet, I
don't believe, but just extended Rashad Bateman to an expensive
deal excuse me this offseason. And then you've got DeAndre
Hopkins as that third guy. But like Hopkins was not
great for the Chiefs last year, I don't think he
was all that great for the Texans or sorry, the

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Titans goodness before that. And then the rest of the
room is tes Walker, Tylan Wallace, and Lejontey Wester. I
loved Lejontey Wester at CU last year. I thought he
was the best receiver not named Travis Hunter in a
room where I think Jimmy Horn got a lot more
attention than him. I think Bill Sheppard got a lot
more attention than him. But Jontey Wester was that dude.

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And even before he got to see you, when he
was in Conference USA or whatever against lesser competition, granted,
but he was balling out with some really bad quarterback play.
And I think I believe that FAU I would absolutely
bet on Lejontay Wester to not only have a big

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special teams role but kind of open up a bit
of a role for him on offense too. I think
he could absolutely make some gains there, and again, if
DeAndre Hopkins continues his decline from last season, I don't
think him Now it's difficult because I think there's some
redundancies there with Za Flowers, but I don't think it's
out of the question that he ends up becoming, you know,

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the the third most utilized receiver in that room, or
the third most targeted or something. Speaking of number three
receivers out of Colorado College, is the other guy that
stood out, Tory Horden junior playing with Drew Lock, who
did not have a great preseason showing. Tory Horton did, though,
had three catches for thirty one yards and a score,

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and I think he's going to end up winning that
wide receiver three battle in Seattle. Jackson Smith and Jigbas
Obviously the number one Cooper Cup little past his prime,
but he'll slot in nicely as the number two. But
there's been a battle for that number three spot all
training camp between Marquez Voudis, Scanting and Tory Horten, and

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I think, you know, money heading into camp would have
been on Marquez Voudis scanting. But all reports on Tory
Horden out of Seahawks camp is that he's been one
of the stars of the show, and he only cemented
that in the preseason game last night. And Valdez Scantling,
you know, is a more I guess nflps are more
established NFL piece, but he's a pretty limited one. You know,

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he's great at running deep in a straight line, but
it has real drops problems. You know, A more prominent
version of a Troy Franklin and Tory Horton can just
offer a lot more than that. Even though he's a rookie,
He's just a really dynamic route runner. He's got some
good speed to him. Yeah, he's got I think better

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hands than Markus Voudis scanting. I won't be surprised at
all if even if it's not week one, week two,
if you know ultimately at seasons end he's there's number
three receiver. Honestly, I would bet on that. I think
that should be the expectation. I would not be I mean,
I don't know how much you want to be invested
in the Seahawks depthy receiver anyways in fantasy, but I
definitely would not be investing in Vaudez Scanty. I would

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go Horton there, and then the last little kind of
fun preseason tidbit I'll hit on here. The Cincinnati Bengals
defense lived up to billion and that is not a
good thing. In their preseason debut against the Philadelphia Eagles,
like we were talking about in that Seahawks situation, Bengals
played their starters, the Eagles did not, and yet Tanner

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McKee and Will Shipley that those Eagles backfield partners with
Tanner mcke at quarterback and Shipley at running back, diced
up the Bengals defense, scoring on five of their first
six drives. Granted, Bengal starters weren't in for all six
of those should be noted, but still it was a
bit of an ugly look. I don't think Bengals fans

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should be too concerned about this. You know, you don't
see real defensive play calling in the preseason. It's very
base standard. You're not going to really see pressures still though.
Also they're installing a new system. But man, you don't
want to see your starters just get torched by a
group of backups, even a group of backups as talented
as what Philly has to offer, and even a preseason setting,

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you just do not want to see it. I think
I actually like what the Bengals did this offseason, investing
on in their offense and kind of just trying to
solidify a really high offensive floor and kind of just
gambling that they can have a slightly below average defense
instead of an atrocious one and get by on that.

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I think it's it's a solid idea. Honestly, it works
in the modern NFL in my opinion. The problem with
that is their defense looks downright horrendous. Right now, talking
more preseason, specifically that Broncos preseason game and what you
should be watching for after this coming up on More
Broncos Country tonight on KOA, Hello Broncos Country, and welcome

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to some more late night Broncos Country Tonight action. Filling
in for Benjamin Albright and Nick Ferguson. Yet again, it
is Zach Seegers ready to talk to you about this
upcoming Broncos preseas. I cannot wait for it. Football is
finally back. This first preseason game is always so great.

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After that, it's kind of like, all right, give me
the real stuff. I've had my phil But that first game.
Getting back to football always feels so good. Beyond at
six thirty tomorrow night on KOA, make sure you're listening there,
and just before then, from three to four thirty, I
will be on with Benjamin Albright for a little bit

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of pregame preview action, so check that out as well,
and then rest of the great cast, Nick Ferguson, Jojo,
Dave Logan, Ryan Edwards, Rick Lewis, everyone else will Susie
Wrigon of course, will take you from there, so make
sure you're listening to that. In the last segment, we
talked about the Broncos News with Matt henningson John Lynch's

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comments today some preseason takeaways from last night. You know,
he had the Raiders playing, had the Bengals embarrassing themselves.
That's always fun. Sorry, Grant. Now it's time to talk
about the Denver Broncos in that preseason game right around
the corner. And of course it is preseason. It's only

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so important, but there's always potential to get some good
takeaways from the preseason, and I think that's particularly true
at running back. Running back's one of the more simplistic
NFL positions. They're all of course complex in one way
or another, but compared to a lot of the others,

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running back is a little more simplistic and I think
therefore translates better to the regular season. I think running
back is the position you can get the best feel
for in the preseason, and that's a huge change from
what you're experiencing in training camp, where you can't get
a feel for it at all. I think the other

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positions probably translate better training camp to regular season, and again,
those projections are always shoddy, so it's not that it
translates one to one, but I think those translate better
than running back does. And I think running back translates
better during preseason than those other positions too, And with
running back being such a position of mystery for the

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Denver Broncos this season, I think that is absolutely the
top thing to watch during this preseason debut. What does RJ.
Harvey look like in particular? I think again Ashton gent
had a rough debut, a Mario and Hampton had a
fairly rough debut. So it's not everything, but you can

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get a pretty good feel for how these guys move,
how their vision is, you know, how good is their
contact balance? All in the preseason, especially if you know
their offensive line is cooperating unlike Bashton Genties, and I
think the Broncos offensive line should be able to push
this Niners front around some And so I'm curious, what

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does R. J. Harvey look like? Does he look like
maybe not a star, but a quality back to the
point where you know you feel good with that backfield
combination of JK. Dobbins and RJ. Harvey. Dobbins was fine
last year for the Chargers, but he really kind of
petered out down the stretch, and I think that only

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makes sense given his injury history, given you know some
of the wear and tear he has. He's a fine
floor raising option for the room. But if you want
the Broncos running game to be a good running game
this year, and you know, not just a step in
the right direction from last year, I think you need
to see RJ. Harvey look like a dynamic back from
the jump. And that doesn't necessarily mean this first preseason game,

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but you want to start seeing those early returns in
the preseason and then certainly early in the regular season
that you know, even if he's still getting the offense
down and that role is smaller at the front, that
there's a real runway there to a larger role in
two kind of carrying the run, not caring, but really
booing that rushing attack and giving it the ceiling that

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I think Sean Payton and Bronco's country is looking for.
But even behind those top two, I think I think
maybe that's where it gets even more interesting. Frankly, what
does the four way competition between Julia McLoughlin, Audric Estimate,
Tyler Bidet, and Blake Watson look like? I think that

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should be about as wide open as any competition on
the roster. Watson's listed last right now, and I get why,
but I thought he had the best training camp of
the bunch. Tyler Bidet has also sounded like he did
really well and joined practices. He's had a solid training camp.
Estimate has had an up and down training camp. But also,
you know, in theory is the most promising prospect of

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the bunch. Julia McLoughlin is the most established, but last
year was pretty disappointing. You know, the Broncos were desperate
for any running back to help them out in at
McLoughlin couldn't really do it. So who of that group
can kind of emerge during you know, their second, third,
fourth quarter of this preseason game is something I'm incredibly

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excited to watch and I think also will be pretty
important for the Broncos season. You know, there's not a role.
All the running backs, you know, whether it's three or four,
are going to see some work in this offense. I
don't think there's another spot, you know, as up for
grabs is running back three that will have as much

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of an instant impact on the Broncos offense or defense.
So I think that's one to truly watch. Staying on
the offense, and you know, maybe a competition just as
good that that depth receiver battle who will end up
being you know the three, the four, even two, even
you know, five and six. It's really wide open after
Courtland Sutton. But in particular, I want to watch Troy Franklin.

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Everyone's heard it. Troy Franklin has been the star of
training camp so far. He looks so improved in terms
of his ability to handle contact, both as a route
runner or you know, as a pass catcher at the
catch point. It just he looks like such a better
player mentally, is more advanced. He was constantly getting yelled

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at and was constantly in the doghouse last training camp,
this training camp, it's been nothing but coaches speaking complementary
of him. So I'm curious, you know, can it finally
translate under the bright lights, because training camp is kind
of built for smaller, speedier players in my opinion, and

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Troy Franklin is a smaller, speedier player even with the
tact on muscle, and if it translates to the preseason,
you know it's not regular season, but that would be
checking a huge box for me that, Hey, this isn't
just a practice darling. You know, it can fly in
game situations too. I think another thing, he's only had
one drug all training camp, and drops are such a

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mental thing, right, It's about pressure, It's about kind of
overthinking the moment and whatnot. It's great he hasn't done
that in training camp. You know, I bet every receiver
has a drop. It's great. He's been dialed in all
training camp long. When brighter lights it's still preseason. But
when brighter lights are on him, can he keep that up?

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Can he remain a consistent target because even with the
contact stuff, which I think is what will maybe a
lot unlock him as a starting receiver if he can
catch the ball consistently. He's so good at getting open
even last year as a smaller player, where if he
could just catch the ball consistently, he can be a

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dynamic weapon for this offense. So I really hope we
see him get some targets, and I really hope we
see him cash in on them, because if he could,
like he could be the number two receiver in this
Broncos offense. I wouldn't bet on it, but I don't
think he's as distant or as far behind Mimes or
Vlay for that role as it might seem at face value.

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And I think he can make me look really smart
with a strong preseason, last little offensive one before I
talk about some other elements here. What does bo Nix
look like out there? Understandably, I think everyone's very curious
for that, you know, because training camp's one thing. This

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live game setting will get a bit more of a
real field. Now we saw what the preseason. The preseason
didn't translate at all into the start of last year's
regular season for bow Nick. So you don't want to
count chickens, but really curious to just see, you know,
what does the processing look like. Because you're trying to
get a read on that in training camp and you
can pick up on it some, but field level, no replays,

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no film or anything. It's really difficult too live broadcast
even is to give us a better idea of that.
But then after the fact, we're going to be able
to go into the game film see what bo Nicks
was seeing, see how he was processing the information, and
I think really get a good feel for you know,
how much more confident is he in this offense, in

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his understanding of the offense in year two? How much
are those Drew Brees lessons maybe paying off? I think
that's going to be big. You know, this is this
first time with a sustained offensive coordinator, offensive play caller
since I believe his junior year of high school. You know,
what does that look like for Bo Nicks, This guy

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who has always been defined by constant improvement all throughout college,
all throughout his rookie year in the NFL. What does
that do for him when he's able to not have
to learn a new offense and only focus on improvement
and building upon the foundation he laid last year. On

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top of that, I think the big question Bo has
to answer is his pressure management. He was unbelievably good
at avoiding sacks last year, unbelievably good at avoiding turnovers
even win under pressure. If you filtered by only pressure dropbacks,
he's top ten in terms of sack avoidance, in terms

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of turnover worthy play avoidance, Yet he was still one
of you look at EPA per play overall production. You know,
positive plays, negative plays, all boiled down to one number.
He's still one of the worst, least productive quarterbacks in
those pressure moments. Well, when we know the big negative

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plays are going to be those sacks, those turnovers, and
bo Nix wasn't doing that. How come he's still finding
himself in a neighborhood with guys who were constantly doing that.
Because most people have high highs and low lows against
the Blitz, and Bonix didn't really have the low lows,
which is great, that's awesome. He also didn't have the

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high highs. He wasn't able to punish pressure, and some
of that's the game's moving a lot faster for you
as a rookie. You also aren't fully familiar with all
the answers in this complex offense. Takes you a second
longer to get to him, you know, and it's a
little harder as a result to punish those aggressive defensive looks. Well,

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that's the book on bo Nix right now. He struggles
against pressure. Now, if you narrow the scope and look
at what he did down the stretch last year, he
was actually pretty solid against pressure. But still, that's the
book on him national media. I'm sure some defenses view
it that way as well. Can he dispel that and

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it's not going to get disproven in a preseason game
or even over the course of this entire preseason, But
does it look like, hey, this guy is a lot
more confident in the offense. He has his answers against
pressure now, and you're going to have to work harder
to fluster him than simply send pressure his way. That's

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not going to do it anymore. This is an evolved
quarterback and that's going to be the next step in
Nix's evolution. So all the more reason to be keeden
on that. And then of course it's also just exciting
to watch him because man, if he takes any step
forward from what he was last year, he will be
undebatably and I think you could even say it was

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true last year. I just think there was a debate
last year, but undebatably, if he takes any sort of
step forward, he'll be the best quarterback in the post
Peyton Manning era for the Denver Broncos head and shoulders,
and so I don't know. Just potentially having good offense,
good quarterback play back in Denver is so exciting, and

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so I think that element is also something I really
want to see. The defensive one I'm keying in on here.
There's really only one big defensive thing. Well, I guess too,
the battle at defensive back, of course. But what does
this linebacker group look like without Dre Greenlaw? You know,

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Alex Singleton, I believe he's gonna play with his club.
I doubt he plays that much either way. If it's
Singleton hobbled with his club or no Singleton at all,
what does this linebacker crew look like? Because it's a
good chance the Broncos are gonna have to lean on them,
and maybe lean on them hard this year. Singleton obviously
has had some injury bugs over the past few years.

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Drake Greenlaw has those injury questions, and hopefully the Broncos
get great health from both those players, they don't miss
any time and everything's fine. But the Broncos seem like
to they're at more risk than most teams of having
to play their backup linebackers this year. So what do
those guys look like? Well, we're gonna get a pretty

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solid days to that against the forty nine ers. And
I think that's especially true of the quality of the
test and whatnot when you consider a foundational premise or
idea concept of the Shanahan offense is let's pick on

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the opponent's worst linebacker and just go at it over
and over and over again. Running back choice routes, tight
end choice, Let's just bully the hell out of whichever
linebacker we think you know. And in the run game too,
we think is least prepared for that. And so this
is going to be an incredible stress test for Lavell Bailey,

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who's looks great all preseason. Wrong long, are you truly
ready for this bigger spot? Same thing for Justin stor not.
You know, are you still the better answer than Lavell
Bailey right now? Or have you been surpassed and now
you're the number four option in that room. I think
this is a great matchup to get a read on
those elements and then alluded to it a little before.

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But the defensive back battle I think should be so exciting.
You know, where is Jade Baron lining up? That's going
to tell us a lot, right there is he? I imagine
he'll come in after Jaquon, But does he outperform Jaquon?
Does he outperform Riley Moss on the boundary? You know,

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I think that's obviously going to be super interesting. You
know Chris Abrams drain, where's he going to slot in
those aspects? I think will also be interesting? And then
the last one here kind of building on that Jade
Baron point. This first preseason game, I think the most
exciting thing about it every year is how do the

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rookies look. You're going to get that with Jah Day
talked about r J. Harvey sum already, but you know
who stands out among Savion Jones and ke Robinson on
that defensive front. You know, h Robinson got so much
hype early in this offseason, kind has been slowed down
by that injury. Can he get back on the hype
train with a great performance against the forty nine ers.

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I'm excited to see that Caleb Loner and you know,
just the crazy athletic mismatch he could be. Do we
get a good glimpse of that in the preseason? You know,
Savion Jones, Does he look like a guy who could
replace John Franklin Myers in the near future. I'm curious
to get a read on that. Jeremy Crosshaw the Broncs.
I know Riley Dixon had some bad games last year. Overall,

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he was a top ten to fifteen punter by you
know net punning metrics. Does Crosshaw look up to the
task of replacing him? Pat Bryant another guy, of course
in that very crowded receiver room. How ready does he look?
I just think up and down the entire draft class,
there's a lot of exciting narratives to watch unfold. So

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that's another element I'm watching for. The Broncos, aren't, of course,
the only team to have some preseason action going on.
This week, going to look at last night's preseason action
and some relevant takeaways from them, as well as the
biggest Bronco headlines of the day after the break. Coming
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