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Speaker 1: Here e A and I breaking down the Denver Broncos
Speaker 1: or the Jets take on in week four on Thursday
Speaker 1: Night Football, and we're joined by Eric Delala, the lead
Speaker 1: writer of Denver Broncos dot com. So will hear from
Speaker 1: him and e A. I feel like this Broncos team
Speaker 1: is interesting, to say the least, because you know, they
Speaker 1: have a young quarterback with Drew Lock. They get new
Speaker 1: weapons with Jerry Judy and kJ Hamdler to go along
Speaker 1: with Courtland Sutton, and of course they have Von Miller
Speaker 1: and Bradley Chubb. But I almost feel like I don't
Speaker 1: know what to make of the Denver Broncos. They just
Speaker 1: feel like a kind of a question mark right now.
Speaker 1: To me, I do feel like they're kind of a
Speaker 1: question mark as well. But could would either one of
Speaker 1: us be surprised if Denver is sitting there in December
Speaker 1: and they're within striking distance of play of birth. I
Speaker 1: certainly would not be Kansas City the overwhelming favorite in
Speaker 1: that a f C West, But the Broncos have a
Speaker 1: lot of good players on both sides of the football.
Speaker 1: I think about the defensive front. First, Von Miller is
Speaker 1: a terror. Bradley Chubb only played four games last season
Speaker 1: and now he's gonna come back healthy. You add Daral
Speaker 1: Casey to the mix, and that line can give you
Speaker 1: a lot of problems if you're not on your p's
Speaker 1: and queues up front and you're making sure you're taking
Speaker 1: care of business. And for the Jets, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to have a balance attack when they play the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1: Although there are similarities between the Jets and the Broncos,
Speaker 1: I think the Jets are for there along where they're
Speaker 1: at them where the Broncos are right. I think the
Speaker 1: Broncos on paper have a lot of talent. And then
Speaker 1: of course, you know, I feel like we have to
Speaker 1: talk about Drew Lock because rookie last year, he got
Speaker 1: placed on I R. He comes off and he really
Speaker 1: finished the season well. And I feel like I read
Speaker 1: a lot of articles that we're encouraging in terms of
Speaker 1: Drew Lock and his progression. But I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: what he does this year with new offensive weapons, in
Speaker 1: a weird offseason, with a new offensive coordinator. It just
Speaker 1: feels like the Broncos right now are a lot better
Speaker 1: on paper, and we'll see what happens when the Jets
Speaker 1: and Broncos finally meet on Week four in prime time
Speaker 1: teams certainly transition. You mentioned Lock. It's interesting the connections
Speaker 1: between these ball clubs because Joe Flacco was opening day
Speaker 1: starter for the Denver Broncos last year. Then he went
Speaker 1: out and the Broncos gave the ball to the young rookie.
Speaker 1: He's an athletic player and we saw that at Missouri.
Speaker 1: He can keep plays alive with his legs, but he
Speaker 1: keeps his eyes down the field and he can make
Speaker 1: every throw. But how are they gonna block him up front?
Speaker 1: I have this question marks about the Broncos offensive line,
Speaker 1: and the Jets actually took one of their pieces in
Speaker 1: the off season Condor recovered coming here as Joe Douglas
Speaker 1: revamped that Jets offensive line, and you know, while the
Speaker 1: skilled players are talented around him, how are all those
Speaker 1: pieces gonna fit immediately? Because it's nice to say, hey,
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy was a great route runner at Alabama and
Speaker 1: he's an explosive guy, but it's his first year under
Speaker 1: Pat Shermer, and those guys have not been on the
Speaker 1: practice field at all. The same can be said for
Speaker 1: kJ Hamdler, another speedster guy. I can make plays happen
Speaker 1: with the ball in his hands, but he's never went
Speaker 1: through an NFL offseason before. Then, in the offensive backfield,
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay, who has been productive throughout his National Football
Speaker 1: League career here in the early stages, but the Broncos
Speaker 1: went out Melvin Gordon as well, So how is that
Speaker 1: going to work? Are those guys gonna share time in
Speaker 1: the backfield a fifty fifty split? Do you go with
Speaker 1: the hot hands? So while they do have talent, it's like,
Speaker 1: how is it all going to work in a short
Speaker 1: amount of time? And you mentioned Shermer coming upboard, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I totally agree with that, and I think that it'll
Speaker 1: be very interesting to see how all these pieces come together,
Speaker 1: especially considering the offseason right now is all virtual. And
Speaker 1: let's hear from lead Broncos dot com writer Eric Lalla
Speaker 1: and what he thinks of this Broncos team. Eric, I
Speaker 1: want to start off with the draft here because I
Speaker 1: feel like John Elway, similar to Joe Douglass wrapping his
Speaker 1: arms around Sam Donald, feels like John Elway is wrapping
Speaker 1: his arms around Drew Lock, especially with the additions of
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy and kJ Hamler to go along with Courtland Sutton. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of similarities I think between these two teams
Speaker 1: in terms of how they're embracing those young quarterbacks. And
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, Jerry Judy and Ceedee Lamb were both
Speaker 1: on the board there at fifteen. Uh, probably the Broncos
Speaker 1: heaven in that situation. John Elways said later they did
Speaker 1: a bunch of mock drafts and Judy never made it there. Uh,
Speaker 1: they always had to trade up for him. But obviously
Speaker 1: the way things fell, they had their pick and selected Judy,
Speaker 1: and you know that was somewhat of a surprise maybe
Speaker 1: that they were there, But the real surprise came in
Speaker 1: round two when they picked kJ Hamler, the speedster from
Speaker 1: Penn State. He's a guy that in the slot can
Speaker 1: stretch defenses. And yeah, I think they did everything they
Speaker 1: possibly could to give Drew Lock the chance to succeed.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be no excuses now for Drew if he
Speaker 1: doesn't go out there and perform at the level that
Speaker 1: they're hoping, which is good enough to bring the Broncos
Speaker 1: back to the playoffs, a lot of connections in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. The Jets just picked up picked up
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco, who started the season last year in Denver
Speaker 1: before Drew Lock took over. But what did you make
Speaker 1: of what you saw out of Luck in his first
Speaker 1: plane experience, extended plane experience. Yeah, I mean with Drew
Speaker 1: listen to talent is there, and that's why he got
Speaker 1: drafted in the second round. That's why he was being
Speaker 1: talked about as a top ten pick when we went
Speaker 1: into the draft a year ago. Some of the concerns
Speaker 1: about him, you know, his accuracy, turn off, his back foot,
Speaker 1: being consistent, those things were prevalent to some degree in
Speaker 1: the preseason, much less so by the time he came
Speaker 1: back at the end of the season after being on
Speaker 1: i R for eight weeks. In part, everybody said that
Speaker 1: that time really helped Drew. It let him sit back
Speaker 1: and let him process things. And obviously in Denver kind
Speaker 1: of the natural quarterback comparison as Paxson Lynch because he
Speaker 1: was drafted in sixteen. He's that last QB that they
Speaker 1: drafted high. And you know Paxxton, they were kind of
Speaker 1: chatter about him playing a lot of video games. He
Speaker 1: never really took advantage of the chance he had. Drew
Speaker 1: has been completely the opposite. There were stories of him
Speaker 1: during t a s staying up until one in the morning,
Speaker 1: reading play, calls to himself in the mirror, recording himself,
Speaker 1: and listening to him back on the bus on the
Speaker 1: way to practice. And so I think that work ethic
Speaker 1: both helps him when he was finally able to get
Speaker 1: in there and also proved to his teammates that he
Speaker 1: can be the guy. And you know that more than anything,
Speaker 1: I think it's important because your teammates have to believe
Speaker 1: in you at the quarterback position for this whole thing
Speaker 1: to work, and they definitely believe in Drew from that perspective.
Speaker 1: And then his talent when he gets on the field
Speaker 1: is evident. He had a throw to Courtland Sutton in
Speaker 1: his first game against the Chargers that was absolutely perfect,
Speaker 1: you know, about a thirty yards strike to the right
Speaker 1: corner of the end zone he had to throw off
Speaker 1: his back foot in Houston when he threw for over
Speaker 1: three yards and three touchdowns. He's got the talent, and
Speaker 1: now it's just can he be consistent enough, can you
Speaker 1: take that step forward? He'll have help like you mentioned
Speaker 1: with Jerry Judy, kJ Hamler, Courtland's Sutton Melvin Gordon, and
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay obviously both Pro Bowl running backs. I personally
Speaker 1: think know a fan might be his favorite target because
Speaker 1: just from a mismatched perspective, the young tight end I
Speaker 1: think can take a step forward here in year two.
Speaker 1: But now it's just you know, can you do it?
Speaker 1: Because everybody talked about Baker Mayfield out in Cleveland kind
Speaker 1: of the same way going into year two, and he
Speaker 1: didn't really do that, and so now Drew's got to
Speaker 1: make sure that he does his part. So you mentioned
Speaker 1: some of the flaws and Drew locks game, especially his
Speaker 1: rookie season in the preseason more so that you mentioned,
Speaker 1: But what are some maybe not so much with the
Speaker 1: talent around here, but what are some technical things that
Speaker 1: you think Drew Lock needs to improve on entering his
Speaker 1: second year. Yeah, I mean it's still knowing when to
Speaker 1: make some the right decisions. He forced some throws that
Speaker 1: he would tell you he shouldn't have made and that
Speaker 1: led to a couple of interceptions went against the Chargers,
Speaker 1: went against the Texans. Uh. He still throws off his
Speaker 1: back foot at times. I think he needs to get
Speaker 1: set a little bit more. His accuracy somewhat of an
Speaker 1: issue at times, especially early in games when he was
Speaker 1: trying to settle down. But I think the biggest thing
Speaker 1: for Drew is not necessarily technical, it's you know, being smart.
Speaker 1: This This is a guy that ran around a lot
Speaker 1: at Missouri and made plays and that's fine, that's great,
Speaker 1: that's part of his game. But he took some shots
Speaker 1: there at the end of the season. I think it
Speaker 1: was Week sixteen against Detroit. He was scrambling and just
Speaker 1: got blasted out of bounds and it drew a you know,
Speaker 1: a late hit penalty, but still that fifteen yards. It's
Speaker 1: not worth it if Drew lock is out for eight
Speaker 1: games because this team is set up Withdrew, I think,
Speaker 1: to make a push for a playoff spot. But without
Speaker 1: Drew and this is no offense to Jeff Driscoll, the
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. But without Drew, this is not a playoff team.
Speaker 1: And so he's got to just he's got to learn,
Speaker 1: you know, how to take care of himself in the NFL,
Speaker 1: how to get out of some of these bad plays.
Speaker 1: Just throw it away. And that's kind of the case
Speaker 1: with any young quarterback, right that's just a learning process
Speaker 1: that some of these things you can do in college
Speaker 1: you can and do at the next level. All Right,
Speaker 1: we all love talking offense, and both these teams have
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks, of course, and I actually have an additional
Speaker 1: offensive questions that we'll get to later. But let's flip
Speaker 1: to the defensive side of ball. This Broncos defense, to me, guys,
Speaker 1: on paper, it's relatively stacked. You just added a pair
Speaker 1: of veterans there in Denver in cornerback A J. Boullier
Speaker 1: and also impressive interior defense alignment Derel Casey. I guess
Speaker 1: let's start up front. What is Casey gonna do to
Speaker 1: help Von Miller and Bradley Chubb on the outside. And
Speaker 1: I think people are also overlooked overlooking the fact when
Speaker 1: Jets fans might be looking at the Broncos that Chubb
Speaker 1: only played four games last year or so, if he's healthy,
Speaker 1: you got him and bon Miller on the edges, and
Speaker 1: now you're adding this menace in Casey. Yeah. Well, let's
Speaker 1: start with what Chubb and von were before he got there,
Speaker 1: and in their one season together when Chubb was healthy,
Speaker 1: Chubb had twelve sacks and Vaughan had fourteen and a
Speaker 1: half and they were really impressive. I mean against the
Speaker 1: Rams who went on to the Super Bowl that year,
Speaker 1: Chubb had three sacks as a rookie. Uh they tormented
Speaker 1: opposing quarterbacks. And then last year that didn't really happen.
Speaker 1: The Broncos didn't have a sack through their first three
Speaker 1: games and din't force a turnover until Week five, and
Speaker 1: everyone was kind of like, well, where's this Vic Fangio
Speaker 1: defense We've heard about? But things started to get going
Speaker 1: a little bit. Chubb tears his a c L week
Speaker 1: four against the Jaguars, and Vaughan, you know, he dealt
Speaker 1: with some knee issues. The rest of the year. He
Speaker 1: had a career low, I believe, you know, for a
Speaker 1: full season he had a less in but only had
Speaker 1: eight sacks, and so the past rush wasn't quite what
Speaker 1: it has been. And now you bring in Darrell Casey,
Speaker 1: a guy who has had at least five sacks you know,
Speaker 1: every season, I think for the last seven years, made
Speaker 1: five straight Pro Bowls. He's a guy I think one
Speaker 1: the positional versatility of him if you put him at
Speaker 1: defensive end on the same side that either Chubb or
Speaker 1: Vaughan is lining up on what's a what's the tackle
Speaker 1: supposed to do? I mean, then you've got to put
Speaker 1: a running back out there to supposedly blocked Chubb or Vaughan.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to go very well. But
Speaker 1: to be able to have that interior push from Casey
Speaker 1: if he's playing at the nose, I mean, that's going
Speaker 1: to help one of them out because you can't double
Speaker 1: team all those guys, and so I think the pressure
Speaker 1: upfront should help the back end because that's kind of
Speaker 1: where I still have questions. You mentioned a J Boy,
Speaker 1: but I'm not so certain how that cornerback groups gonna
Speaker 1: play out. Can you just elaborate that a little bit.
Speaker 1: Obviously Chris Harris goes to the division rival Chargers, and
Speaker 1: then I just kind of curious to what do you
Speaker 1: think the state of the second area is with the
Speaker 1: guy like a J Boy, and of course Justin Simmons
Speaker 1: Ins and the back end there. Yeah, Justin Simmons a
Speaker 1: second team All Pro last year. He's kind of a
Speaker 1: rising star on the Coast defense. I think you could
Speaker 1: argue he's their best player franchise tag currently. I know
Speaker 1: they're working toward a long term deal. We'll see if
Speaker 1: that gets done or if he plays the year on
Speaker 1: the tag. You've got Cream Jackson next to him at
Speaker 1: safety of Pro Bowl Alternate last year they could they're
Speaker 1: arguably the best safety duo in the league. And I
Speaker 1: know you guys have a good one out there in
Speaker 1: New York. The cornerback is where I have questions because
Speaker 1: you've got Boyer who in was really good, but he
Speaker 1: was playing alongside Jalen Ramsey and now he's the unquestioned
Speaker 1: number one. In Denver, you've got Bryce Callahan, who he
Speaker 1: came over from Chicago last year in free agency, and
Speaker 1: he was a nickel purely in Chicago and was expected
Speaker 1: to kind of take on that outside cornerback world in Denver.
Speaker 1: Suffered or kind of reaggravated a foot injury that he
Speaker 1: had never saw the field at all last year, didn't
Speaker 1: play a single snap, and so we still really don't
Speaker 1: know what he's going to give the Broncos. You know,
Speaker 1: can he play out he's a smaller guy. Is he
Speaker 1: going to fit in the slot? Which means the Broncos
Speaker 1: obviously needs somebody else outside and at that position, that's
Speaker 1: where there's a bunch of young guys. They drafted a
Speaker 1: cornerback at Iowa in the third round of Michael Ogimudia.
Speaker 1: They've got DeVante Bosby who played some snaps. They've got
Speaker 1: Davante Harris who played some snaps. But there's nobody that's
Speaker 1: really proven there. And so that's why wouldn't shock me
Speaker 1: as the season gets closer if the Broncos maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: poke around a little bit at some of these veteran
Speaker 1: cornerbacks that are still on the market, because outside of
Speaker 1: that guys, I mean, you look at the front seven
Speaker 1: we mentioned how good they are. You've got Alexander Johnson
Speaker 1: at middle linebacker, who was a first round type guy
Speaker 1: before he dealt with some legal issues after being at Tennessee.
Speaker 1: He's now kind of the center of that linebacking corps.
Speaker 1: We've got a really good safety group. The edge rushers
Speaker 1: are great. So you don't want, I don't think you
Speaker 1: want that piece at cornerback to be the one thing
Speaker 1: that makes this group fall apart. So that's why I
Speaker 1: kind of look at a veteran guy to to maybe
Speaker 1: solidify the group. What are the Jets getting informer Broncos
Speaker 1: center Connor McGovern and second part of that. Why is
Speaker 1: he not back in Denver? Why did the Broncos up
Speaker 1: to let him go to free agency? Because he's a
Speaker 1: young guy. Um and obviously he cashed in, But what
Speaker 1: was the situation there that made him expendable. Yeah, Connor
Speaker 1: great locker room guy, dependable, played really really well. I thought, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's uh. I thought he struggled at times. Uh,
Speaker 1: maybe in the in the run game, but it was
Speaker 1: a good pass blocker. I thought, uh, you know, he's
Speaker 1: just he's the center of your offensive line that you
Speaker 1: can depend upon. And he worked really well with Drew
Speaker 1: lock dealt with three different quarterbacks last year and handled
Speaker 1: it fine. I think the reason he's not back in
Speaker 1: Denver is purely cost. It's nothing more than that they
Speaker 1: wanted him back. I think they talked to him a
Speaker 1: little bit, but obviously he took the contract out in
Speaker 1: New York. So I don't think there's any concerns there.
Speaker 1: You know, they let Matt Parrotus leave a year earlier
Speaker 1: to Carolina, and they did have some concerns there about
Speaker 1: his ankle and how that was going to heal up.
Speaker 1: But with Connor for nothing but good things, I don't
Speaker 1: think it was anything other than, uh, you know, being
Speaker 1: priced out a little bit. And the Broncos have not
Speaker 1: the last couple of years had a lot of desirable
Speaker 1: free agents that have hit the market, and this year,
Speaker 1: for the first time, they had some guys that they
Speaker 1: kind of knew they weren't going to be able to
Speaker 1: resign with Chris Harris Jr. Connor McGovern somehow had Shelby Harris,
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman, fall back to them. But yeah, only
Speaker 1: good things for me on Connor Erica. My last question
Speaker 1: here is one is going to be focused on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, and with Connor McGovern's departure, then incomes Graham
Speaker 1: Glasgow and comes Lloyd Cushionberry. What's your evaluation of the
Speaker 1: Broncos offensive line and do you think that that's pot
Speaker 1: actually a matchup that the Jets could exploit when these
Speaker 1: two teams meet in Week four. Sure, I think that's
Speaker 1: definitely possible, just because you don't know what this group
Speaker 1: is gonna look like. I mean, you've got Dalton risen
Speaker 1: Or at left guard and he was an All Rookie
Speaker 1: player last year. I think he's got Pro Bowl potential.
Speaker 1: But other than that, you know, it's possible that the
Speaker 1: rest of the group could look entirely different. Just going
Speaker 1: left to right, you've got garat Bowls at left tackle,
Speaker 1: who has been consistently available since he was drafted in
Speaker 1: uh let's say, I guess seventeen from Utah, but he's
Speaker 1: had all these holding penalties, leads the league by a
Speaker 1: wide margin in those, and so they're gonna have an
Speaker 1: open competition with him there with Elijah Wilkinson, who he's
Speaker 1: played some right guard, some right tackle, but you know
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the penalty issues, but he allowed a
Speaker 1: lot of sacks last season, so that left tackle position
Speaker 1: is kind of a concern. At center, you might have
Speaker 1: a rookie starting there and Lloyd Cushionberry from l s U.
Speaker 1: At right guard, you've got Graham Glasgow, who you know,
Speaker 1: he's dependable, he's played a lot of snaps, a good blocker,
Speaker 1: but we just don't know yet how he fits in
Speaker 1: on this offensive line. And then at right tackle, you
Speaker 1: paid a bunch of money in excuse me twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: to go sign Joan James from the Dolphins, and he
Speaker 1: played three games last year for you and played very
Speaker 1: minimal snaps, and so he's got to come back, and
Speaker 1: so it's just a lot of question marks along that line.
Speaker 1: I think the interior has potential to be really good,
Speaker 1: but at those tackle positions, that's where the Broncos kind
Speaker 1: of have to see things work out. I'd actually be
Speaker 1: more nervous about the right tackle position just because you know,
Speaker 1: Garrett Balls might have a holding penalty a game, but
Speaker 1: he's available, he's there, He's pretty good outside of those penalties.
Speaker 1: Juwan James, we need to see him stay healthy. Eric,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to ask you to predicts the wins
Speaker 1: and losses for the Broncos throughout their first quartet of games,
Speaker 1: but on paper verse Tennessee at Pittsburgh, verse Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and then a short week
Speaker 1: coming to New York for Thursday night game against the Jets.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that first on set of
Speaker 1: games for this team? Yeah, I mean, no uh, margin
Speaker 1: for error there, huh. And you know, after we play
Speaker 1: in New York, we've got a road game in New
Speaker 1: England the next week. Who we don't We have no
Speaker 1: idea what they're gonna look like. I mean, you could
Speaker 1: be looking at oh and three right there if you slip,
Speaker 1: and then the Jets are a team that, you know,
Speaker 1: Broncos fans might have said, hey, that's a game we
Speaker 1: should win before the schedule comes out. But then it's
Speaker 1: potentially the hardest, you know, the way it could have
Speaker 1: set up being on a short week across the country,
Speaker 1: so that one's gonna not be easy at all either.
Speaker 1: And so the Broncos are going to be tested here early.
Speaker 1: They've just got to kind of survive this first stretch
Speaker 1: of games. What do you think about when the Jets
Speaker 1: and the Broncos meet up in terms of where it
Speaker 1: is in the schedule, being the short week of the
Speaker 1: Jets the season coming in week four, and we touched
Speaker 1: upon it with Eric, is that you think about these
Speaker 1: teams schedules. Both teams are not gonna have it easy
Speaker 1: here in the first quartet of ballgames. Jets open up
Speaker 1: against the Bills, then they got the forty Niners at home,
Speaker 1: then they're in Indianapolis, and then you have the Broncos. Well,
Speaker 1: the Broncos they host Tennessee, then they're at Pittsburgh by
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger back in the saddle for the Steelers, and then
Speaker 1: finally Tom Brady going out west but they got to
Speaker 1: come to the Jets on a on a short week,
Speaker 1: so they play each other in week four, but it's
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game, so advantage to the Jets in
Speaker 1: an advantage always playing at home on a short week,
Speaker 1: and then you think about they're coming across two time zones.
Speaker 1: I think we'll be looking at this game in December
Speaker 1: and we will say that was a game either one
Speaker 1: of these teams had to have if want to get
Speaker 1: to the spot they aspired to meeting the Jets. I
Speaker 1: think they gotta win a game like this short week,
Speaker 1: Thursday night, Denver Broncos. Yes they have talent, Yes they
Speaker 1: can cause problems, but I think I think this is
Speaker 1: a game on the schedule that you say you gotta
Speaker 1: take care of business, otherwise you could get behind the
Speaker 1: eight ball. Would shoot? Would you be surprised, Greens if
Speaker 1: the Broncos came to town all in three, I wouldn't be.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would be either. And I think
Speaker 1: for the Jets when you look at the matchups, and
Speaker 1: we talked about it with Eric a little bit, but
Speaker 1: it comes down to a couple of things. For me. One,
Speaker 1: if i'm Greg Williams, I'm making Drew Lock throw the
Speaker 1: ball because they Jets have a very good run defense,
Speaker 1: number two in the league last year. And if you
Speaker 1: stop Melvin Gordon and Philip Lindsay and you put the
Speaker 1: ball in Drew Lock's hands, well, okay, let's see what
Speaker 1: Drew Lock can do on a national stage with his
Speaker 1: new receivers early in the season. And I think that's
Speaker 1: key because we talked out maybe the pieces wouldn't have
Speaker 1: found their synergy yet by the time the Jets and
Speaker 1: the Broncos play, So I think that's key. And of
Speaker 1: course we'll see on the flip side, talk about chemistry.
Speaker 1: We'll see how this new Jets offensive line, led by
Speaker 1: Conra Governing at the pivot, how they handle one of
Speaker 1: their tougher tests with Bradley Chubb on one side and
Speaker 1: Von Miller on the other side, with Darrell Casey in
Speaker 1: the middle. I think that the offensive line of each
Speaker 1: team will determine the winner of this game. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: offensive line and cornerbacks, right, because for the Broncos to
Speaker 1: get anything gone, I think it's gonna be hard for
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay and Melvin Gordon behind that offensive line coming
Speaker 1: to Mentalife Stadium and trying to push the Jets around
Speaker 1: on the ground. Now you'll try to keep them honest,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But can Lock get the ball
Speaker 1: out of his hands quickly and in space to the
Speaker 1: like subdue Uty and Sutton and Hammler. Whereas on the
Speaker 1: other side of the football, the Jets can they have
Speaker 1: the balance with Levian Bell and also provide the protection
Speaker 1: that Sam Donald needs because I think Denzel Mims, Brashad Perryman,
Speaker 1: Jameson Crowder, you add balance in the mix in the
Speaker 1: passing game, of course, the tight ends. I think the
Speaker 1: Jets can do some things through the air against the Broncos.
Speaker 1: And where I would ask you to when we analyze
Speaker 1: this matchup is bottom line. I think the most significant
Speaker 1: difference between these two teams is Sam Donald's a better
Speaker 1: player that Drew Lock at this point in his career.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what Lock is gonna be and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fascinating and see him roll up to
Speaker 1: MetLife against Greg Williams and company, because the Jets defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator is gonna throw everything at him. But Donald Lantern
Speaker 1: in year three, Lock entering year two, it's a totally
Speaker 1: different situation and Donald is also in the second year
Speaker 1: in the same offense. I don't know the way you
Speaker 1: see it, that's where I'm boiling his game down to
Speaker 1: quarterback advantage, and to me, it's a significant advantage right now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I don't know a lot about
Speaker 1: Drew Lock, of course, because one he plays in Denver
Speaker 1: until he only played a little bit of last season.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was very interesting to hear Eric
Speaker 1: talk about his work ethic, just because that was something
Speaker 1: that I didn't know. The only thing I knew about
Speaker 1: Drew Lock is that he is kind of a baby face.
Speaker 1: And that's all I knew about Drew Lock. And I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see what he can bring to the table,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to see what he looks like in
Speaker 1: Week four against the Jets. And you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. But I agree with you. I think it
Speaker 1: boils down when push comes to shove to Sam Donald
Speaker 1: and Drew Lock. And right now, as we recorded this podcast,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald is a better player than Drew Lock in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So we'll see what happens. But that was
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