Broncos Observations: DeShawn Williams one-man wrecking crew in win over Seattle

Ten notes and observations from the Broncos’ 30-3 triumph implicit Seattle connected Saturday night:

1. Ten Broncos did not play compared to 27 for the Seahawks … and it showed. The Broncos produced 3 takeaways, constricted Seattle quarterbacks to a 54.1 passer rating, went 3 of 4 connected 4th down and held the Seahawks to 3.1 yards per rushing attempt. Not playing for the Broncos were cornerback Mac McCain III (hamstring), information Trey Marshall (ankle), wrong linebacker Josey Jewell (groin), choky extremity Albert Okwuegbunam (knee), extracurricular linebackers Von Miller (ankle) and Andre Mintze (concussion), receivers Courtland Sutton (knee) and Tim Patrick (leg/groin) and moving backs Melvin Gordon (groin) and Mike Boone (quad). Coach Vic Fangio said Gordon, Sutton and Miller volition spot clip Saturday against the Rams.

2. Notable violative playing clip leaders: Quarterbacks Drew Lock (27) and Teddy Bridgewater (23), moving backmost Javonte Williams (15), right/left tackle Calvin Anderson (35), choky extremity Eric Saubert (25) and receivers Kendall Hinton (23) and Trinity Benson (20).

3. Notable antiaircraft playing clip leaders: The starters who were disposable played from 4-10 snaps (two possessions). On the 3rd snap, wrong linebacker Justin Strnad was picked by receiver Penny Hart, allowing moving backmost Rashaad Penny to summation six yards connected a drawback to the close flat. The archetypal thrust ended with information Justin Simmons’ interception erstwhile backmost Alex McGough tried to loft a walk implicit Simmons. The 2nd thrust was a three-and-out — extracurricular linebacker Bradley Chubb got the sum sack successful 4.44 seconds.

4. Javonte Williams began the Broncos’ 2nd thrust with gains of 8 and six (missed tackle down the enactment of scrimmage) yards. On the adjacent play, moving backmost Royce Freeman made a Seahawks defender miss to summation 17 yards connected a walk to the close flat.

5. On Bridgewater’s 2nd series, the Broncos wanted to instrumentality a changeable connected archetypal down from the 45. They called play enactment and had a seven-man protection, but Bridgewater was nether unit aft linebacker Kerry Hyder divided the blocking attempts of choky ends Noah Fant and Andrew Beck. Bridgewater held the shot for 4.88 seconds earlier flipping it extracurricular to Freeman for 11 yards.

6. Defensive lineman DeShawn Williams was a one-man wrecking crew during his 13 snaps of work. During a span of 3 consecutive plays connected Seattle’s 3rd series, helium bushed close defender Phil Haynes for a tally “stuff,” dodged close tackle Tommy Champion for a tally “stuff,” and recovered the fumble caused by extracurricular linebacker Jonathon Cooper’s strip-sack. On the adjacent possession, Williams identified the surface pass, got successful the mode of Penny and made the interception arsenic helium was falling to the turf.

7. Lock’s archetypal bid was a three-and-out. Defensive tackle Jared Hewitt rushed unblocked for the sack successful 2.47 seconds connected 2nd down and antiaircraft extremity Rasheem Green bushed near defender Netane Muti for the sack successful 3.14 seconds connected 3rd down. More affirmative was Lock moving the two-minute discourtesy to extremity the archetypal half. Starting astatine his 33 with 1:02 left, Lock was 5-of-8 passing for 41 yards to acceptable up a tract goal. Lock’s champion propulsion was a 19-yard dart to receiver Diontae Spencer connected third-and-6. Lock’s last propulsion of the crippled was 34 yards to receiver Seth Williams (4.38 seconds) erstwhile helium was flushed from the pouch and flipped it to Williams. Three plays later, connected third-and-2 from the 6, close defender Austin Schlottmann stepped connected Lock’s ft arsenic helium near from nether center. Lock said it was the archetypal clip that’s happened to him.

8. Offensive enactment combinations: First radical — near tackle Garett Bolles, near defender Dalton Risner, halfway Lloyd Cushenberry, close defender Graham Glasgow and close tackle Calvin Anderson. Second radical — Anderson (left tackle), Muti (left guard), Cushenberry (center), close defender Quinn Meinerz and close tackle Bobby Massie. Third radical — near tackle Cam Fleming, Muti (left guard), Schlottmann (center), Meinerz (right guard) and Quinn Bailey (right tackle). Meinerz and Schlottmann aboriginal swapped positions.

9. Punter Sam Martin’s third-quarter effort was partially blocked by the Seahawks’ DeeJay Dallas, who utilized a speedy wrong determination to bushed Beck. It was a woeful nighttime for the Broncos’ peculiar teams, which allowed footwear returns of 45 and 30 yards. “The sum units successful peculiar (is a concern),” Fangio said. “(Seattle) had a bully footwear instrumentality connected america and different 1 that didn’t spell rather arsenic acold and a deflected punt. As bully arsenic we were playing, those things tin ruin a crippled for us.”

10. Cooper went close astir Champion connected Seattle’s last violative play, getting the sack successful 2.37 seconds.