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Upon Further Review
1. As soon arsenic manager Vic Fangio rushed ILB Alexander Johnson, CB Bryce Callahan and S Justin Simmons connected consecutive drop-backs during Jacksonville’s archetypal series, you knew helium had immoderate wrinkles to contiguous to rookie QB Trevor Lawrence. OLBs Bradley Chubb and Von Miller occasionally dropped into sum and the full defence took distant the mediate of the tract from Lawrence. He was 5-of-7 passing for 73 yards connected the opening thrust … and 9 of 26 for 45 yards after. The Broncos rushed 5 players connected 10 of Lawrence’s drop-backs; helium was 1 of 9 for 4 yards and 2 interceptions against other rushers.
2. RB Javonte Williams rushed 13 times for 64 yards and showed eye-popping ability. His archetypal transportation went for 9 yards, including 7 aft interaction erstwhile LB Myles Jack missed the tackle. His 16-yard transportation was a circuit de force. S Rayshawn Jenkins missed astatine the 25-yard line, S Andrew Wingard astatine the 29, DL Roy Robertson-Harris astatine the 27, and Jack astatine the 31. Williams’ 14-yard transportation successful the 4th fourth converted a third-and-8. QB Teddy Bridgewater said helium checked into the tally play to the near and Williams benefited from a artifact by pulling RG Netane Muti.
3. The Jaguars’ violative enactment held up good against the Broncos’ walk rush. We charted the defence with 1 sack and 2 knockdowns and pressures apiece. Miller’s sack was schemed up good – – helium primitively took a wide way earlier darting wrong for the sack successful 2.84 seconds erstwhile RT Jawaan Taylor and RG Ben Bartsch couldn’t retrieve to artifact him. Miller besides had 1 1/2 pressures.
4. Jacksonville rushed 5 much players connected 10 of Bridgewater’s 40 drop-backs and totaled 9 “disruptions.” The 3 sacks were successful 5.03, 5.50 (coverage) and 2.77 seconds. Josh Allen’s sack was a near-freebie erstwhile LT Garett Bolles blocked down and didn’t footwear retired rapidly enough. Muti, filling successful for RG Graham Glasgow, allowed the last sack to Adam Gotsis.
5. Aside from Williams’ 3 carries of seven, 16 and 14, the Broncos’ tally crippled was dilatory to fire. RB Melvin Gordon gained lone 31 yards connected 13 attempts (long of eight). We booked the discourtesy for 8 “bad” tally plays.
6. Jamal Agnew’s 102-yard kickoff instrumentality touchdown by the Jaguars was a messiness for the Broncos’ sum unit. K Brandon McManus’ footwear had good bent clip (4.02 seconds) and Agnew got a moving commencement to permission the extremity zone. LB Jonas Griffith took a atrocious angle, TE Eric Saubert appeared to beryllium blocked from behind, ILB Baron Browning dove for a missed tackle and CB Mike Ford over-ran Agnew conscionable earlier the extremity zone. It was tied for the fifth-longest footwear instrumentality touchdown allowed successful Broncos history.
Four Key Numbers
38:52
The Broncos’ clip of possession, their astir since 39:22 against New Orleans connected Nov. 13, 2016.
30
Snaps by the Broncos’ discourtesy that included astatine slightest 2 choky ends — 18 of two-TE and 12 of three-TE personnel.
53
Quarterbacks that Broncos OLB Von Miller has posted astatine slightest half-sack against successful his vocation aft his sack of Trevor Lawrence.
Red portion snaps for the Jaguars, the archetypal clip for a Broncos hostile since Oakland connected Oct. 1, 2017.
Talking Points
Playing clip review. The skill-position leaders offensively were WR Courtland Sutton and TE Noah Fant (53 retired of 69), WR Tim Patrick (51), WR KJ Hamler (49), RB Melvin Gordon (41), TE Albert Okwuegbunam (37) and RB Javonte Williams (28). On defense, CB Pat Surtain II played each 53 snaps successful his archetypal commencement and 17 players had astatine slightest 13 snaps of work. OLB Bradley Chubb played 19 first-half snaps earlier aggravating his ankle injury. S Caden Sterns played 14 snaps successful dime unit and ILB Justin Strnad played 23 snaps aft Josey Jewell was injured.
Third down issues. The Broncos crashed backmost down to world connected 3rd down aft converting 7 of 15 against the Giants. They went 2 of 11 against the Jaguars and faced an mean region of 8.3 yards to go. That is asking for occupation oregon a punt. The 2 conversions were a third-and-6 drawback by Sutton (16 yards) and a third-and-8 tally by Williams (14 yards).
Busy time for Fuller, Surtain. The Jaguars weren’t shy astir challenging Surtain and CB Kyle Fuller. In antheral coverage, Trevor Lawrence was 3-of-5 passing for 30 yards and an interception positive a 36-yard walk interference telephone against Surtain. Surtain’s different walk break-up came erstwhile helium peeled disconnected his sum assignment. Lawrence was 2 of 9 for 31 yards (25-yard touchdown) against Fuller, who had a third-down punishment (bad call).
Quick Kicks
A no-brainer mode to amended the peculiar teams is activating TE/FB Andrew Beck for the Jets game. Praised during grooming campy arsenic a halfway peculiar teams player, Beck has been inactive successful Weeks 1-2. Time to premix up the personnel. … The Broncos were booked for six missed tackles, 1 apiece by OLB Malik Reed, CB Kyle Fuller, S Kareem Jackson, DL Shamar Stephen and ILB Justin Strnad. … Drawing penalties by the Jaguars were Broncos NT Mike Purcell (holding connected LG Andrew Norwell) and WR Tim Patrick (five-yard holding connected Shaquill Griffin and 35-yard walk interference connected S Rayshawn Jenkins).
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