Broncos game balls, notable Week 3 quotes following win over Jets and looking ahead to Week 4 versus Ravens

Game balls, quotable and a look up pursuing the Broncos’ Week 3 triumph implicit the Jets to amended to 3-0.

Game Balls

Broncos walk rush

Jets QB Zach Wilson was already retired of his element; propulsion successful a relentless Broncos walk unreserved that didn’t fto up successful the 2nd half, and the effect was a defence that had amusive each crippled long. Linebacker Alexander Johnson got the enactment going with a 14-yard sack of Wilson successful the archetypal quarter. Then Shelby Harris, Von Miller and Malik Reed each had sacks successful the 2nd quarter, and Johnson added different successful the fourth. New York mislaid 41 full yards connected 5 sacks, and adjacent erstwhile the rookie wasn’t going down, helium was nether changeless duress successful the pocket.

Tim Patrick

The Broncos signed him to the signifier squad successful 2017, and Patrick’s been bootstrapping his mode to NFL relevancy ever since. That continued Sunday with 5 catches for 98 yards arsenic Patrick abused Jets cornerbacks and asserted himself arsenic a vertical threat. The Broncos threw astatine Patrick connected their archetypal 2 violative plays, and helium hauled them in, and besides had a 31-yard drawback successful the 4th fourth that acceptable Denver up astatine the extremity line. With Jerry Jeudy connected IR and KJ Hamler perchance sidelined going forward, Patrick indispensable proceed to beryllium Mr. Reliable.

Broncos secondary

After picking disconnected Trevor Lawrence doubly successful past week’s triumph implicit the Jaguars, the Broncos replicated that ball-hawking with a brace of interceptions disconnected Wilson. No uncertainty aided by the walk rush, the secondary constricted Wilson to 19-of-35 done the aerial with a piddly 42.6 rating. With the Jets driving into Broncos territory successful the 4th quarter, Justin Simmons secured his archetypal INT of 2021 by undercutting Wilson’s propulsion and astir returning it for a touchdown. Later successful the quarter, rookie Caden Sterns iced the triumph with an interception disconnected a tipped walk that helium took backmost for a 43-yard return. Wilson ne'er looked comfy successful his reads.

Quotebook

Vic Fangio connected team’s accelerated commencement successful 2021: “We’ve been beauteous damn coagulated for 3 weeks, some offensively and defensively… The docket is (what it is). But that’s the mode it is successful the NFL — you yet volition play everybody (good), and you person to instrumentality attraction of concern erstwhile you don’t. Look astatine (Super Bowl champion) Tampa Bay’s (11-5) grounds past twelvemonth and spot what I’m talking about.”

Fangio connected Patrick’s large day: “He caught the 50-50 balls, caught the balls wrong the numbers and ran with them. Tim’s a damn bully NFL receiver.”

Fangio connected near-capacity crowd: “When determination was a lull successful the enactment and they posted that determination were (about) 3,900 no-shows and the radical booed — well, possibly we’ll get those 3,900 successful present adjacent Sunday. The fans present are great, the ambiance is great.”

Teddy Bridgewater connected the Broncos’ confidence: “Now that we’ve had a sensation of success, we privation to enactment there.”

Bridgewater connected Denver’s secondary: “When I’m connected the sideline and looking up astatine the scoreboard, each clip the backmost drops back, I’m yelling ‘Pick!’ Because this defence has that quality to alteration games, and you saw that today.”

Garett Bolles connected injuries to starting guards: “When those guys (Graham Glasgow and Dalton Risner) went down, I felt similar I had to measurement up. There’s each young guys successful the middle, truthful I looked astatine (right tackle) Bobby (Massie) and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got to clasp this down.'”

Up Next

Sunday vs. Ravens, 2:25 p.m.

Record: 2-1.

Week 2 result: Won 19-17 astatine Detroit.

Coach: John Harbaugh (14th year).

About the Ravens: After suffering a grinding overtime nonaccomplishment to the Raiders successful the play opener, the Ravens bounced backmost with an awesome and gutsy triumph implicit the Chiefs successful Week 2 and past a stunning triumph implicit the Lions connected Sunday. Baltimore trailed 17-16 connected its last possession but utilized a 4th-&-16 conversion past Justin Tucker’s NFL-record 66-yard tract extremity to triumph astatine the buzzer.