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Speaker 1: Jets three sixty production. What's Up Everybody? Ethan Greenberg and
Speaker 1: Rik Allen back here in the studios of the Official
Speaker 1: Jets Podcast. This week, e A and I talked to
Speaker 1: Eric Delalla of Denver Broncos dot Com. Talked about a
Speaker 1: number of things offense of the Broncos, defense of the
Speaker 1: Broncos last Monday against the Chiefs. Of course, the Broncos
Speaker 1: and chief squared off by today night, so the Broncos
Speaker 1: are on a short week, coming to MetLife and just
Speaker 1: kicking things off here. Finally the Jets getting an opponent
Speaker 1: on the Yeah, exactly. But I was gonna say, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I mean, I know we're talking about Jets
Speaker 1: Broncos here, but let's talk a minute here about Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes because I was crazy just watching him on Monday
Speaker 1: night going about his business, and that was the first
Speaker 1: real test of adversity he had, and unfortunately for the
Speaker 1: Broncos that came out with an unbelievable talent. And I
Speaker 1: think we knew that when he came out of Texas Tech. Uh,
Speaker 1: we also got to pump the brakes a little bit.
Speaker 1: Even though he is so exciting to watch, is that
Speaker 1: he's five starts into his NFL career. But uh, he
Speaker 1: can do some things that very few people, probably ever
Speaker 1: in the history of this league can do in terms
Speaker 1: of he has crazy arm strength and he can throw
Speaker 1: from all sorts of different angles, and his mobility against
Speaker 1: the Broncos and their elite pass rush obviously led by
Speaker 1: uh Von Miller, it was something else. It was a
Speaker 1: game changer. He was there a lot of times. I
Speaker 1: thought Mahomes was dead to rights and then he gets
Speaker 1: of the edge and not only is he looking to
Speaker 1: tuck the ball under, he's looking to load the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. And that was his impressed. I don't
Speaker 1: know how many touchdown passes he had early in the season.
Speaker 1: I think it was some kind of crazy and he
Speaker 1: had one against the Broncos. But as far as the
Speaker 1: coming out party Monday night football, that's pretty good. Okay,
Speaker 1: real quick, here is what do you think about his
Speaker 1: nickname showtime that I thought, I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was a Monday Night football nickname. But does it seem
Speaker 1: forced to you know, I don't think it's like I
Speaker 1: didn't say that. I said it doesn't seem forced. I
Speaker 1: thought Booker mccarland said it on Monday Night Football. I
Speaker 1: didn't know anybody else. Twitter took it and ran, oh yeah, no, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not caught up in the nicknames. I would just
Speaker 1: call him a stud right now because he's playing like
Speaker 1: an NFL MVP. But there's a lot of season to
Speaker 1: go and he didn't play last year. It. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a wild talent. How can you not watch the guy?
Speaker 1: But like, wow, yeah it was. It was definitely very
Speaker 1: exciting to watch. And I want to pluck out with
Speaker 1: what you said about von Miller and the Broncos pass rush. Obviously,
Speaker 1: von Miller is one of the elite pass rushers in
Speaker 1: the league, and we actually talked to Eric Alala of
Speaker 1: course about von Miller and what makes him unique. But
Speaker 1: you mentioned mahomes mobility. How helpful is it gonna be
Speaker 1: Sunday for Sam Donald the book on him coming out
Speaker 1: of college that he makes plays off script and I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's gonna throw with his left hand like
Speaker 1: Mahomes did. But how beneficial will it be and has
Speaker 1: it been through the first three weeks four weeks now?
Speaker 1: Excuse me for Donald to be able to extend the
Speaker 1: play with his life, it's always beneficial. But not a
Speaker 1: lot of guys in the NFL are gonna be out
Speaker 1: run von Miller. I think the Jets have to have balance.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's not sexy because winning the
Speaker 1: National Football League is all about throwing the ball. I
Speaker 1: get it, But the Jets have to be balanced. You
Speaker 1: can't fall behind double digits like they have in two
Speaker 1: of the past three games and then get the balance
Speaker 1: you want. And against the Broncos, if you're down double digits,
Speaker 1: that means they're sending the NFL's top pass rusher against
Speaker 1: your rookie quarterback every play. So it's not just gonna
Speaker 1: take It's not just on the tackles Calvin Beacham and
Speaker 1: Brandon shall on every play to take care of von
Speaker 1: Miller and Bradley chob and Shane Ray and company. You're
Speaker 1: gonna need help from the tightens. That means personnel packages.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to be multiple in your personal Jeremy
Speaker 1: Bates will continue to do that. You're gonna use two
Speaker 1: and three tight iss at times. You're gonna need your
Speaker 1: backs helping out with chipping and Blahpa is one of
Speaker 1: the greatest backs in the national football he in terms
Speaker 1: of blocking, Isaac Rowhill is going to have to do
Speaker 1: that as well. It's gonna take a village, uh to
Speaker 1: contain these guys. Um. But I do expect the Jets
Speaker 1: to have a much better performance execution wise against Denver.
Speaker 1: Whether that leads to a win or loss, we don't know,
Speaker 1: but they are going to play better than they did
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. I totally agree with that. And you mentioned
Speaker 1: multiple Titan sets. Well, that's something we've seen throughout the
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks from Jeremy bas In the offense.
Speaker 1: Maybe Neil Sterling will come back from his concussion injury.
Speaker 1: We will see. But as it was too bad last
Speaker 1: week against Jacksonville, and if we think about that, every
Speaker 1: we's talking about Donald and lack of throws down the field.
Speaker 1: What the Jets did attacked on the field. You didn't
Speaker 1: get the completions on the third and one to Paul
Speaker 1: and then fourth and one to the noon wall or
Speaker 1: the Robby Anderson throw in the fourth quarter. But the
Speaker 1: one we forget about two a little bit, and I
Speaker 1: think you reminded me of here early this week was
Speaker 1: Donald hit Chris Herndon down the field where the Jets
Speaker 1: would have been first intent in from inside to fifteen.
Speaker 1: But that came back catch first of all, the casual
Speaker 1: it was. It was bobbled about or in the air
Speaker 1: about three times before Herndon brought it down. But I
Speaker 1: thought you were gonna say it would have been nice
Speaker 1: if Neil Sterling were active for last game, because Sterling
Speaker 1: was drafted by the Jags, and it would have been
Speaker 1: a nice, nice version of I thought you were gonna
Speaker 1: say something else, But regardless is now the Jets moved
Speaker 1: forward now to the Denver Broncos, the first game of
Speaker 1: a three game homestand and to learn a little bit
Speaker 1: more about the Broncos as we sat down with Eric
Speaker 1: Delalla of Devon Broncos dot com and here's the interview. Alright,
Speaker 1: time to bring in Eric Delalla of Denver Broncos dot com. Eric,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us again a friend of
Speaker 1: the pod, coming back into eighteen. Nice to be back
Speaker 1: and back to back years. Well luckily for us, the
Speaker 1: Jets of Broncos play back to back years. Last time
Speaker 1: it was an ugly game for the Jets in Denver.
Speaker 1: But this time you're coming east to Mattlive Stadium this Sunday,
Speaker 1: and this is a very different Jets team, a very
Speaker 1: different Broncos team than last December call for when these
Speaker 1: two teams met up. So, just off the bat, here
Speaker 1: is from your perspective, what would you say the biggest
Speaker 1: differences about this Broncos team compared to when these two
Speaker 1: teams met up. Yeah, that that game last year is
Speaker 1: one of the few bright spots for the Broncos in
Speaker 1: a five and eleven season. And I think if you
Speaker 1: look at what's changed, the Broncos just have some more talent. Uh.
Speaker 1: Keith Keenam came over from Minnesota to be the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Hasn't yet had this season he'd like, but I think
Speaker 1: he's definitely an upgrade there. And then this draft is
Speaker 1: teen draft class. You've got Bradley Chokes fifth overall. You've
Speaker 1: got Courtland Sutton, a wide receiver at s m U.
Speaker 1: In the second round, You've got Royce Freeman, who has
Speaker 1: tied for the rookie league in rushing touchdowns. You've got
Speaker 1: Josie Rule, who's playing some a lot of snaps at linebacker.
Speaker 1: He's got Philip Lindsay, the undrafted guy from Colorado who's
Speaker 1: scored a couple of touchdowns, and it's kind of taken
Speaker 1: over this Denver community. So I think if there's one
Speaker 1: big change, it's that this team has more talent to
Speaker 1: work with now, and they kind of were infused with
Speaker 1: young talent after the draft, and those guys played a
Speaker 1: big role on Monday Night against the Chiefs and keeping
Speaker 1: the Broncos in that game. Was that by design the
Speaker 1: overhaul and then offensive backfield that the Broncos are featuring
Speaker 1: those two rookies and Philip Lindsay and Royce Freeman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the bronc has moved on from C. J.
Speaker 1: Anderson after last year. He had a thousand yard rushing year,
Speaker 1: but the Broncos decided to part ways with him. He
Speaker 1: brought Royce Freeman in from Oregon, who had a ton
Speaker 1: of carries in college but was really productive. You had
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay, who I think they see as a Darren's
Speaker 1: Browles type change of pace guy that can really break
Speaker 1: open a game. He's had some long runs. I think
Speaker 1: overall the strategy though, is in the past few years,
Speaker 1: it seems like they were drafting on potential on talent.
Speaker 1: This year, they really took guys who were proven in
Speaker 1: college team captains. They wanted guys that could come in
Speaker 1: and be mature and contribute right away. So I think
Speaker 1: you see that kind of playing out in the backfield
Speaker 1: where Freeman and Lindsay have been really good through these
Speaker 1: first four weeks. Um DeVante Booker obviously kind of coming
Speaker 1: in as a third down back to catch balls out
Speaker 1: in the backfield. But I think that that strategy applies
Speaker 1: throughout the entire draft classes. Hey, John always said they
Speaker 1: need guys that can contribute now in order to take
Speaker 1: this team from five and eleven into a team that
Speaker 1: can compete for a playoff spot. When you look at
Speaker 1: the stats, someone that, honestly, I was surprised when I
Speaker 1: was looking at Bronco stats. Is Damarius Thomas only has
Speaker 1: like a hundred some yards through four weeks. So is
Speaker 1: he just how would you describe his role in the offense.
Speaker 1: Do you think that he's getting a little more coverage
Speaker 1: because Damarus Thomas is one of the better receivers in
Speaker 1: this league and has you just not popped off yet?
Speaker 1: Eight point four yards of reception right now? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think he. He struggled in Week two against Oakland, had
Speaker 1: a couple of drops in key situations, but then came
Speaker 1: back really strong, UH in Week three in Baltimore and
Speaker 1: then played pretty well last night. You know, two plays
Speaker 1: kind of stand out to me in terms of those
Speaker 1: those yards not being where you'd expect. One week three
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, Keenum found DT for forty yards down the
Speaker 1: middle of the field that would have moved the Broncos
Speaker 1: to the Ravens eleven yard line. That probably changes the
Speaker 1: whole complexion of that game. That was called back because
Speaker 1: of one of many holding penalties that week. UM the
Speaker 1: second one last night as the Broncos are trying to
Speaker 1: drive for a game winning touchdown, is Da Marius is
Speaker 1: wide open down the right sideline and Keenum isn't able
Speaker 1: to hit him. If he catches either one of those
Speaker 1: passes or both of those pastes, the way we view
Speaker 1: him the season probably changes drastically. I think Keenum uses
Speaker 1: him right now is more of a security blanket. He
Speaker 1: went to Da Marius on a key fourth down UH
Speaker 1: last night in Chiefs territory right before halftime, kind of
Speaker 1: spun around found Da Marius who extended across the line.
Speaker 1: It was really heads up play. Um. So I view
Speaker 1: him as kind of like that the security blanket right now.
Speaker 1: While Emmanuel Sanders to me, is more of the big
Speaker 1: play threat. You know, he's coming across the field from
Speaker 1: the slot or or outside and kind of making those
Speaker 1: catch and run plays. Um a little bit of a
Speaker 1: faster guy. So, and then you've got Courtland Sutton, the rookie,
Speaker 1: who is kind of the deep ball threat, jump ball
Speaker 1: in the end zone. But I think the Marius still
Speaker 1: fills that role of if there's a key third down,
Speaker 1: if you need to pick it up, or if you
Speaker 1: just need some key yards. I think he's He's Keenum
Speaker 1: is looking too, Marius Thomas. Um. It just might not
Speaker 1: be for the chunk yardage place that we've seen in
Speaker 1: the past. Eric. How's that offensive line holding up? They
Speaker 1: rushed the well pretty well against in Kansas City chiefs Um.
Speaker 1: Keenum hasn't been down too many times. But if I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this matchup from a Jets perspective, I think
Speaker 1: they got to make hay with the defensive line here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the offensive line. So far, I think he's been improved
Speaker 1: from last year, and that's not tough to do because
Speaker 1: they gave up a ton of sacks. I think fifty
Speaker 1: two if I'm remembering correctly. Hasn't been that sort of
Speaker 1: an issue this year. Keenum has been pressured. Part of
Speaker 1: it is that he knows when to get rid of
Speaker 1: the ball, which has helped them. And I think also
Speaker 1: you've had Jared Veldier come over from Arizona. He's been
Speaker 1: an upgrade at right tackle. Unfortunately, he went out on
Speaker 1: Monday night with a knee injury. Uh, didn't break anything.
Speaker 1: We'll see based on Mr I soon what what's going
Speaker 1: on with him. But Billy Turner came in played pretty
Speaker 1: well in relief there. And then on the other side
Speaker 1: of line at left tackle, you've got Garbold, who was
Speaker 1: the first round pick in overall. UH. He's he's had
Speaker 1: an up and down season. There was a drive on
Speaker 1: Monday night where Bowls I think he let up a
Speaker 1: sack and on the very next day had a very
Speaker 1: next play had a holding penalty and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden the Broncos had to punt it back to the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Um he did kind of rebound from there didn't give
Speaker 1: up any more sacks, which was nice to see. The
Speaker 1: Broncos made a switch where offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave went
Speaker 1: up of the box and their offensive line tackles. Coach
Speaker 1: Chris Strausser went down to the field to kind of
Speaker 1: work with bulls. They made that ahead of a Monday
Speaker 1: night game. It'll be interesting to see if they kind
Speaker 1: of keep that the rest of the season and if
Speaker 1: that if they thought that worked well. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: agree with you. The offensive line is where things start.
Speaker 1: The running game has been really strong. You've been, i think,
Speaker 1: very good at creating a push. You've got Connor McGovern,
Speaker 1: Matt Parrots, ron Leary. McGovern's a really strong guy there
Speaker 1: at right Guarden. It's kind of been clearing the way
Speaker 1: that they can keep doing that. I think the run
Speaker 1: game will be successful, but it's all about can they
Speaker 1: stand up. Did that pass rush give Keenum a little
Speaker 1: bit more time keep him comfortable, because that's really been
Speaker 1: the difference between those interceptions, those touchdown throws, kind of
Speaker 1: the on point passes versus the ones that get away
Speaker 1: from before we dive into von Miller and the edge
Speaker 1: rushers and the challenges those guys present. Just watching the game,
Speaker 1: and I haven't broken down any film, but just watching
Speaker 1: the game to get ahead and the studies here with
Speaker 1: the Broncos, I was repressed with the speed and that
Speaker 1: lotticism and the temple that Broncos defense played with. Yes,
Speaker 1: they gave up a ten point lead in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: but I point to largely the magician who is Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and Dreens and I will talk about this later. Listen,
Speaker 1: that guy could be a star in this league. With
Speaker 1: that being said, this defense still looks solid to meet, Eric,
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, I mean you talk about
Speaker 1: my homes areas, he's throwing in left handed, he's converting
Speaker 1: second and thirties. It was just, you know, even as
Speaker 1: someone who works for the Broncos, you just kind of
Speaker 1: kind of shake your head and say, man, that guy
Speaker 1: he beat us um. But in terms of the defense,
Speaker 1: I think you're right that they're still solid. And this
Speaker 1: might seem weird in the wake of a loss, but
Speaker 1: I think that was their best defensive performance we've had
Speaker 1: so far in that they covered Travis Kelsey really well
Speaker 1: in the first half and he did end up with
Speaker 1: seven receptions for almost eighty yards. In the second half,
Speaker 1: but one of those was a big chunk play and
Speaker 1: it didn't hurt the Broncos as much as it could have.
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs were held to a field goal there. Um.
Speaker 1: But to me, that was one example of the Broncos
Speaker 1: have just been decimated by tight ends over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, but they really haven't been able to
Speaker 1: cover cover that position. And in the first half, as
Speaker 1: the Broncos built a halftime lead, Travis Kelsey didn't have
Speaker 1: a catch um. So that was impressive to me. Obviously
Speaker 1: a group effort there among the safety's Justin Simmons, Darian Stewart,
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall, Davis, Josie Jewel, all those guys kind of
Speaker 1: getting involved. Um. And then the other thing that was
Speaker 1: impressive to me is after a Week three loss at Baltimore,
Speaker 1: Chris Harris Jr. Who's the broncos number one cornerback, came
Speaker 1: out and said, we had to disguise our coverage is
Speaker 1: more offenses are coming out there and then you know
Speaker 1: exactly what we're doing and they're just they're driving it
Speaker 1: down our throats and so he said that we need
Speaker 1: to change something up. Head coach fans Joseph agreed with that,
Speaker 1: and what really impressed me was that wasn't just talk.
Speaker 1: You could tell this week against Kansas City that they
Speaker 1: were disguising more than they had in previous weeks. There
Speaker 1: are times where it looked like receiver was uncovered almost
Speaker 1: and then at the last second of safety would drop down,
Speaker 1: or a corner would switch it up and corner would
Speaker 1: prepared to blitz and a safety would rotate back. And
Speaker 1: they were really not giving Patrick Mahomes a look at
Speaker 1: what they were gonna do until two or three seconds
Speaker 1: left on the play clock. And I think you saw it.
Speaker 1: Mahomes only throw one touchdown and he had those really
Speaker 1: great drives in the fourth quarter, but prior to that,
Speaker 1: he really struggled. You know, he only had that one
Speaker 1: touchdown past the Chiefs only put together thirteen points through
Speaker 1: uh what fifty three minutes of the game. Um, And
Speaker 1: I think that comes down to Joe Wood, the defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: advanced Joseph finding a way to mess with that defensive
Speaker 1: game plan and get their best players in a position
Speaker 1: where they could succeed. I know e A wants to
Speaker 1: dive into von Miller, but just one more thing on
Speaker 1: the secondary here is you talked about Chris Harris Jr.
Speaker 1: And the guys behind him like Bradley Roby and the
Speaker 1: ageless Adam Pacman Jones. Is how different is the secondary
Speaker 1: without a key to Leave? And how do you think
Speaker 1: that they've been performing minus to Leave, who's now a
Speaker 1: part of the l A Rams. Yeah, I think you're
Speaker 1: always gonna miss a player like to Leave just because
Speaker 1: he could do uh so much for you. Obviously, you
Speaker 1: know he's in the top five all time for pick
Speaker 1: six is and he kind of brought a swagger to
Speaker 1: the to the back end of the defense. But I
Speaker 1: think last night could have been a turning point um
Speaker 1: in terms of how this secondary is operating. Uh, they
Speaker 1: didn't look great the first three weeks. Lots of communication breakdowns,
Speaker 1: They were playing too soft off the wide receivers, and
Speaker 1: you know, Vance Joseph said, Hey, we're a press man team.
Speaker 1: We're gonna rush the passer and we're gonna press those
Speaker 1: receivers at the line of scrimmage and not let them
Speaker 1: get off the ball because if we can give on
Speaker 1: a couple of seconds, it's going to be too late
Speaker 1: for that opposing quarterback. It seemed like they got back
Speaker 1: to that last night. They didn't give up any big
Speaker 1: place uh to Tyreek Hill on Monday Night Football. They
Speaker 1: held Travis Kelsey and check. And I think those guys
Speaker 1: beneath Chris Harris Jr. That you mentioned, Bradley Roby, Adam Jones, Uh,
Speaker 1: they're really the ones that need to kind of take
Speaker 1: that step, you know. I think Bradley Robi has played
Speaker 1: pretty well in his first year as a starting cornerback. Really, um,
Speaker 1: Joe Woods that many times Roby just needs to be consistent.
Speaker 1: He sometimes looks too much to make that big play
Speaker 1: Um that he could afford to try to gamble and
Speaker 1: make when he was just a nickel corner um. And
Speaker 1: then Adam Jones back on the field this week after
Speaker 1: missing a Week three game against Baltimore, and I think
Speaker 1: they really missed him in a thirty five years old
Speaker 1: you mentioned. But he's still playing decent football and he's
Speaker 1: a guy that they need to rely on because behind him,
Speaker 1: he's got Tremaine Brock who they signed in the off season,
Speaker 1: but he's been hurt, hasn't contributed as much as you
Speaker 1: might have thought if you're a Broncos fan. And then
Speaker 1: Isaac Adam a third ground pick from Boston College. Looks
Speaker 1: like he's got the talent to eventually do this, but
Speaker 1: as a rookie, he's just he's struggled a bit and
Speaker 1: it's going to take some more time for him, I think,
Speaker 1: to to get ready for that. So one thing that
Speaker 1: Chris Harris Jr. Mentioned Was he's just got to figure
Speaker 1: out who the third corner is because it's changed almost
Speaker 1: every week, and so that's hard for him from a
Speaker 1: communication standpoint to make sure that the secondary is doing
Speaker 1: what it needs to do. But I really think that
Speaker 1: that Monday night football matchup with the Chiefs, the flashes
Speaker 1: that they showed in terms of shutting down some of
Speaker 1: those plays, making quick tackles at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: and then disguising the defense showed that this defense might
Speaker 1: have turned a corner. Eric von Miller, is he buttered
Speaker 1: and ivery's got four sacks. I know you didn't have
Speaker 1: any sacks recently against the Chiefs, but he was all
Speaker 1: over the place. And how is his new partner in crime,
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb from NC State, the Broncos first round pick.
Speaker 1: How's he fitting in? Yeah, I think Vaughan is the
Speaker 1: same Vaughn as ever, and what always impresses me most
Speaker 1: about him is, you know, he comes off after a
Speaker 1: game like Monday Nights and he didn't have any sacks,
Speaker 1: but he was he was all over the place, pressured
Speaker 1: Mahomes on that that left handed throw that I mentioned before.
Speaker 1: You know, he he had my Homes by the by
Speaker 1: the shoelaces and that's almost a huge sack that probably
Speaker 1: wins Denver the game. UM, but that's not good enough
Speaker 1: for him. He wants to make those strip sacks. He
Speaker 1: wants to uh to force my Homes to throw a
Speaker 1: big interception. UM, and he hasn't been able to make
Speaker 1: those plays the last couple of weeks. He had three
Speaker 1: sacks in Week one against Seattle and that was and
Speaker 1: to force fumbles. That was as good as I've seen
Speaker 1: him since Super Bowl fifty. Just truly a performance where
Speaker 1: he took over the game. UM had another one against Oakland,
Speaker 1: but he's he's been held without a sack the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and so it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: if against Sam Donald he can kind of get back
Speaker 1: to impacting what the quarterback does. But he's just I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just so dangerous and you've got to reckon with
Speaker 1: him on every play and something that's helped him and
Speaker 1: certainly showed through his sack numbers. The first couple of
Speaker 1: weeks was like you mentioned Bradley Chubb Um who picked
Speaker 1: up his first full sack against Baltimore, and week three
Speaker 1: he's been really good in the red zone, especially helping
Speaker 1: to stop the run, helping to contain thing Um. He's
Speaker 1: shown flashes. He's a different guy than Von. You know,
Speaker 1: Vaughan is that speed guy that can bend at what
Speaker 1: seems like impossible angles and get by tackles, whereas Chubb
Speaker 1: seems like more of a power guy. He's more like
Speaker 1: a Khalil Mack esque type player. Um. You know, if
Speaker 1: if there's one play that you can just say, hey,
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb's got a lot of potential when played really well,
Speaker 1: but can always get better, it's if you look at
Speaker 1: that Mahomes play where you threw with his left hand.
Speaker 1: If Bradley Chubb is able to kind of set that
Speaker 1: edge there, Mahomes isn't able to get away to the
Speaker 1: sideline and then Von probably brings it down. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure the coaches are looking at that this morning. Um
Speaker 1: definitely room for improvement, but Bradley Chubb has really helped
Speaker 1: Von get back to the player that the Broncos need
Speaker 1: him to be. And then they've also got Shane Ray
Speaker 1: and Shaquille Barrett. You know, Shane Ray, a farmer first
Speaker 1: round pick, hasn't lived up to expectations recently because of
Speaker 1: a hurt wrist, but he's still got big play potential.
Speaker 1: Shaquille Barrett, an undrafted free agent, has played well for
Speaker 1: the Broncos. So I mean that's probably still the strength
Speaker 1: of this defense, is that edge rushing unit. Final question
Speaker 1: for me here, Eric, is that in regards to Von Miller,
Speaker 1: and you might have talked about it a little bit
Speaker 1: within your answer there, but when you look at him
Speaker 1: and I'm watching the Broncos game and over the course
Speaker 1: of his career, it's very striking to me that he's
Speaker 1: not like the Khalil mac type. He's not he's not
Speaker 1: a huge monster. But what if you could boil it
Speaker 1: down to one thing and kind of like in a
Speaker 1: in a nutshell, what makes von Miller so unique and
Speaker 1: so special and how is he able to get after
Speaker 1: the quarterback weekend and week out? Yeah, you just you
Speaker 1: can't touch him. Uh. And I think that's what's so
Speaker 1: hard for offensive tackles. It's just when it seems like
Speaker 1: Von is getting close and you, uh, you have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get your hands on him, he bends at
Speaker 1: someone possible angle and his by you and then next
Speaker 1: thing you know, he's taken the ball away from your quarterback.
Speaker 1: And you know, Von has been talking a lot about
Speaker 1: this new roughing the pastor emphasis by the referees, and
Speaker 1: he said, you know, I try not to lay on
Speaker 1: the quarterback because I'm trying to take the ball away
Speaker 1: from him. That's how he avoids that. UM. I had
Speaker 1: the chance to go down with him to Branson, Missouri
Speaker 1: this summer to his pass rush summit that he hosts
Speaker 1: UH and you know, Bruce Smith was there, UM and
Speaker 1: Warren Sapp was there, and they all shared these secrets
Speaker 1: and it was kind of interesting to watch. You know,
Speaker 1: Bond's already got all these these tools in his game
Speaker 1: and seeing him pick up more moves from these legends,
Speaker 1: it was fun to see because he knew it was
Speaker 1: just gonna make him more dangerous because I think when
Speaker 1: he gets in the zone, like he wasn't Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty or like he was in Week one, and he's
Speaker 1: coming off the edge and moving at those impossible angles.
Speaker 1: You just gotta kind of throw up your hands if
Speaker 1: you're an offensive coordinator, because it's really almost impossible to
Speaker 1: stop him. That is Eric Dlala of Denver Broncos dot Com. Eric,
Speaker 1: thank you so much again for joining us. Have a
Speaker 1: safe flight over and we'll see a Sundays Eric, of course,
Speaker 1: yet hoping for a good one. Great having Eric back
Speaker 1: on the pod two years in a row. I think
Speaker 1: that he's a fig surely a friend of them. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you should have said that to Jets
Speaker 1: fans because last year the Jets went out to Day
Speaker 1: But you're saying he's a bad luck charm. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think he's a good man, and I think he's
Speaker 1: very informative and we can call him a friend, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if we want to tell people many
Speaker 1: times and he was last year. But but to be fair,
Speaker 1: last year the Jets went out to Denver, Josh McCown
Speaker 1: broke his head in that game, So another bad bad
Speaker 1: mojo here, and I want bringing it up in my
Speaker 1: head they were shut out. Yeah, yeah, man, maybe I
Speaker 1: should just keep my mouth shutting. Well, that'd be tough
Speaker 1: to do on the pod. But now the Broncos come east,
Speaker 1: and like we didn't mention it with him, here's the
Speaker 1: here's the point, and this will factor in. I think
Speaker 1: the Jets gotta jump on the steam early. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying they gotta get a fourteen seventeen point uh first
Speaker 1: quarter lead, but they gotta get something positive happening to
Speaker 1: get the crowd involved because right now, Jets fans are anxious,
Speaker 1: they're they're nervous, they're upset. Their team is on a
Speaker 1: three game losing streak. But you have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: get back in the mix because you got a three
Speaker 1: game homestand and Denver just played an emotional battle where
Speaker 1: they had a ten point fourth quarter lead, couldn't hold
Speaker 1: onto it against a freakish performance from Mahomes and company.
Speaker 1: And now they have a short week and they're coming
Speaker 1: here and they're gonna play the early game and sometimes
Speaker 1: game for specific mountain times. They're mountain times am game.
Speaker 1: So this is not an easy one to prepare for
Speaker 1: for the Broncos. And you factor in that typically when
Speaker 1: you're going from the West coast to the East Coast,
Speaker 1: you travel a day before you typically travel because if
Speaker 1: it's a Sunday game, like for example, Jets Jags, the
Speaker 1: Jets and the team fly down on Saturday for a
Speaker 1: Sunday game. But correct me if I'm wrong. Last year
Speaker 1: when you went to Denver, you traveled on a Friday
Speaker 1: to get acclimated to the time, and it's a longer
Speaker 1: trip and the air we obviously New York doesn't have
Speaker 1: the altitude factor. But if the Broncos then fly on Friday,
Speaker 1: that really only lives Tuesday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday for preparing
Speaker 1: for the Jets. And I don't know how much practice
Speaker 1: time they'll really get in because it is a short weekend.
Speaker 1: They just played Monday, don't don't get their typical Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 1: I think it impacts the coaches a lot, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have your the rest and Tuesday they'll get to
Speaker 1: work and things like that. But what to me from
Speaker 1: that interview from Eric is that running with some rookie
Speaker 1: running backs there in Denver and they feel that case
Speaker 1: Keenum Despite the numbers, the numbers aren't gaudie. Three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: six interceptions so far this season, he's a veteran and
Speaker 1: kind of stabilizes things back there. They're in better shape
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position than the last time we saw this,
Speaker 1: no doubt. And last thing here on the Broncos for
Speaker 1: you want to get to anything else, is that their
Speaker 1: last eleven road games, they are one and ten, the
Speaker 1: one win coming against the Indianapolis Colts, who did not
Speaker 1: have Andrew luck at the time. Take it for what
Speaker 1: it's worth. Every year is a new year, Every game
Speaker 1: is a new game. Just putting out some numbers there
Speaker 1: for you, But it it's gonna be. I think that
Speaker 1: you're right when you said that this Jet seems is
Speaker 1: gonna come out laser focused and that jumping on the
Speaker 1: Broncos early, who have a short week, who had a
Speaker 1: tough loss Monday, and I think that will be imperative
Speaker 1: for the Jets. But they gotta They've got an opportunity here,
Speaker 1: three games at home opportunity, but you gotta handle and
Speaker 1: done for first. And you know, on paper, I would
Speaker 1: call this an even matchup. You're playing at home. You
Speaker 1: gotta tune two. Broncos team them and in uh day
Speaker 1: definitely have some quality players, but the jetice and quality
Speaker 1: players too, and they just did not play up to
Speaker 1: their standards, especially defensively. I think you're gonna have bumps
Speaker 1: on bumps in the road offensively throughout the year. That's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. You got a rookie quarterback. I was encouraged
Speaker 1: by Donald saying after the game that I'm seeing the
Speaker 1: field better, I'm seeing defense is better. And he did
Speaker 1: take some of those shots and they're bound to hit
Speaker 1: at some point. But I really think green is the
Speaker 1: Jets are gonna have to have success moving to football
Speaker 1: on the ground and watch two nine. I think bilaal
Speaker 1: Paul could have a big game. All right. There. There's
Speaker 1: a little sneak preview of e as Fearless predictions on
Speaker 1: Pregame Central, which will be eleven am with Anthony Becked
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and uh any any closing remarks here? You
Speaker 1: want to throw out a little college football something or
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if you're watching a TV
Speaker 1: show or whatever whatever you to do. I have not
Speaker 1: seen that that was the first Monday night game. Obviously
Speaker 1: we had a good pleasure, good fortunate working Monday night
Speaker 1: Jets lines. But I typically don't watch Monday night games.
Speaker 1: I will say, Monday Football. That was an entertaining ball game.
Speaker 1: It kept me up all night and part of the
Speaker 1: reason was obviously the Bronchos or the Jets upcoming opponent.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, so as far as TV is concerned,
Speaker 1: I'll watch that a little bit. I'm not Benja ninety shows. Uh.
Speaker 1: Some days I wake up I don't even know what
Speaker 1: day it is. Uh college football this weekend? Uh, you
Speaker 1: gotta look at Texas and Oklahoma the Red what do
Speaker 1: they call it the Red River Shootout or something like that,
Speaker 1: and look for Texas to bring it upset. How about that?
Speaker 1: And Oklahoma? Okay, I thought you said Texas, No, No, no,
Speaker 1: Texas Oklahoma. So I would ask you, since we're speaking
Speaker 1: about college football, are you right after your your Syracuse
Speaker 1: orange winds out to Clemson had an opportunity to win
Speaker 1: a double digit lead in the second half, but unfortunately
Speaker 1: the Clemson tires escaped. Yeah, I'm okay, you better hold
Speaker 1: it was. It was a It would have been a
Speaker 1: game that really I think Syracuse should have won, especially
Speaker 1: given that Trevor Lawrence got knocked out. Obviously I hope
Speaker 1: he's okay, But when seemingly the third string quarterback a
Speaker 1: week removed from kickoff. Yeah, is playing the game and
Speaker 1: leads the Tigers to have come back. Yeah, it should
Speaker 1: have been a game that's Jyracuse won. Syracuse is gonna
Speaker 1: win a lot of games this year because they're better
Speaker 1: defensively than they have been in the past. They have
Speaker 1: a very good college quarterback and Eric done. And oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, here's some advice for you and all.
Speaker 1: I think I know what you're gonna you better keep
Speaker 1: Denal baby. Yeah, I know, I really hope. Still everything
Speaker 1: you can to keep this guy. He's a winner. I'm
Speaker 1: totally on board with you. But but that's all we
Speaker 1: have here on the Official Jets Podcast Again Jets Broncos
Speaker 1: one pm from MetLife Stadium and stay tuned for next week.
Speaker 1: You never know what's gonna happen.