Mile High Report
That was a phenomenal performance from this Denver Broncos team in the biggest game of the year, matched with the red-hot Green Bay Packers. Doubters everywhere picked the Packers with the Broncos coming into this game as underdogs.
It is now time, NFL. People keep wanting to downplay the Broncos, Bo Nix, and this defense. The 2025 Denver Broncos are inevitable and undeniable.
This team showed resiliency, tenacity, and fearlessness on the way to their 12th victory of the season. They now have a one-game lead over the New England Patriots for the #1 seed in the AFC. They control their own destiny in every way and just keep building on their winning ways week after week.
It is really hard to look back at a game like this versus a great opponent like the Packers and have too much to say negatively about the offense. They posted 34 points on the day, passed all over the Packer defense, and ran the ball efficiently all game long.
The only play call/execution piece I didn’t enjoy was on an early 3rd and 5, they threw a weak screen to the outside. Courtland Sutton looked to be singled u,p and I think that play had a much better chance of converting if you fake the screen, then try to hit him in stride.
I really thought Payton made a heck of a gutsy call to go for it on 4th and 3. It was an even gutsier decision to dial up a deep throw down the sideline to Sutton, but it worked to perfection as designed. Nix threw a dime to Sutton, who ran a great route to buy the separation needed in order to move the chains.
This offense, in its 2nd year with Bo Nix at the helm, has been a work in progress every week of the season. It appears to me that they are hitting their stride and are really confident in their playcalling and execution. That’s going to be the big thing that makes this team dangerous. You have a young quarterback who has been building the callouses needed to make big plays. The whole team sees it, believes it, and is buying in. The sky is the limit for this offense, and don’t get me started on how scary they are going to be next season.
Let’s get the bad out of the way: there were two throws that I think Bo Nix needs to throw differently. Both were almost picked off, and both had too much air underneath them. The solution in both cases is to either put more heat on them and lower the angle a bit, or throw further away from the defender to give a better run angle for your receiver. The best example of this was the deep throw to Mims. It looked to me that Nix didn’t throw off a great platform for it either, which hindered the throw.
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