Mile High Report
Welcome to the 15th season of The No Bull Review. Welcome back, all of you returning! For those of you who may be new, I hope you enjoy reading my reviews.
I’m a very “call it as I see it” kind of writer. I like the eye test far more than the stat book (though I respect both). My schtick is trying to keep it real about our team. If a player sucks, I will call it out. If they are great, I will call it out.
My focus isn’t on hitting everything that happens every game, but the players who stood out to me and impacted the game for better or worse. I’m also one of the few writers in the media who will be happy to take my lumps when I get it wrong (because all of us do at times, even though most in the media act like they don’t). Let’s get down to talking some football.
The first win of the season is in the books for the Denver Broncos. It wasn’t pretty, but they got it done.
Big credit to the Tennessee Titans for playing the game with a chip on their shoulder and giving as well as they got. They look like they have a hell of a quarterback in Cam Ward.
For the Broncos, we can’t give Vance Joseph and the defense enough credit for this win. The defense looks tough as nails top to bottom and was bringing the heat all game long.
I hoped for better from this offense, but at the end of the day, Sean Payton is going to Sean Payton. He seems to get an offensive idea in his head that he has trouble getting away from multiple times each season. Usually, this comes in the way of screens of various types.
In this game, it was constant naked play actions being called without a run game to make them believable. The Titans were having none of it all game long.
I didn’t have a problem really with how the team was throwing early and often. I just think the naked boot plays needed to go in the trash can after the fourth time in a row they didn’t work and had a defender in Bo Nix’s face. Sadly, Payton was sure the eighth time was going to do the trick.
I do feel like a lot of good run production was left on the table, regardless of how stacked Nix thought the box was. Sometimes, if you block it perfectly, those stacked boxes don’t leave anyone on the back end, and you get a long touchdown.
One of the first things I noticed about Bo Nix early in this game is that he’s throwing passes with more zip on them than what we saw last season. I think that bodes very well for this offense as the season wears on and the execution level improves offensively.
On Nix’s first interception, I really liked...
