Mile High Report
News and notes from Day 7 of Broncos Camp
Day 7 of Broncos Camp has wrapped up, and man, the defense dominated again. This unit was hyped up all offseason, and so far, they have lived up to, and possibly even exceeded, expectations in training camp. They forced turnovers, pressured the quarterback all practice, and just look like an elite unit.
In today’s report, we have the Broncos defense once again dominating the offense, Sean Payton hyping up Troy Franklin again, details on tomorrow’s scrimmage, plenty of promising injury updates, news and notes, tweets from camp, quotes, and more.
It has been the theme throughout camp. The Broncos' defense dominated the Broncos' offense, and this time, forced multiple turnovers and mistakes from them. Quarterback Bo Nix threw his first interceptions of camp, there were multiple pre-snap penalties, Payton benched the entire 2nd team offense at one point, and the defense won both move the ball drills to end practice.
Nix’s first interception happened after safety Talanoa Hufanaga made a “sick play,” according to Head Coach Sean Payton. He showed off his ability to read and react, and quickly closed in on a Bo Nix pass and made an incredible play on the ball.
“The play, the interception was an RPO. If you really looked at his [S Talanoa Hufanga] distance from the throw, I’ll bet it was like eight yards. So to be able to go up and catch that with a crowded look in front of him, I’m anxious to see it on film. I saw it from behind the line of scrimmage. The one thing over the years, if I asked you to give us the best safeties that are in the [Pro Football] Hall of Fame, the traits are always instincts and football smarts. Some are faster than others, but it’s hard to be real effective at that position if you don’t have those high football instincts. And certainly, he brings that. We made a comment in the offseason, there are certain players, the ball finds him, and he’s one of those guys. So that play was sick.”
Hufanga looks to be all the way back to his All-Pro form. If so, that would be a HUGE addition to the Broncos' defense.
Besides Hufanga, Pat Surtain II had an interception of Bo Nix, Nik Bonitto, and the rest of the Broncos' pass rushers were creating havoc, and the defense dominated the day once again.
With the defense dominating, that means the offense struggled. Nix threw his first interceptions of camp, the second team offense was completely pulled at one point, and they could no score in the final move the ball period. There were also a number of pre-snap penalties and Payton said after practice that this is something they need to clean up.
*“[There was] a lot of pre-snap… I like that the officials are here and they’re going to try to call it, and there are some points of...
