The Broncos got buried in the Meadowlands on Sunday by the Jets 34-16. It was about as an embarrassing of a performance I have seen from them since......last year! They got gashed on the ground and they gave up big play after big play. It was another terrible road performance for this team, and it leaves them at 2-3 with the Rams coming to town on Sunday. It was a bad loss that makes me think we are headed for a repeat of 2017. Here are my thoughts and observations on the game....
1) The Jets ran the ball all over the Broncos defense. They had over 500 yards in total offense, and ran for 323 yards! That is just crazy. Isaiah Crowell had 219 yards rushing and Bilal Powell had 99 yards. It was an ass-kicking up front that I haven't seen on the Broncos run defense in a long time.
2) The game turned on this sequence. After Denver recovered a Jets fumble and Case Keenum found Courtland Sutton for a touchdown and a 7-0 lead, Crowell broke a 77 yard run for a TD to tie it at 7. Then, the next series Sam Darnold hit Robbie Anderson for a 76 yard TD to take a 14-7 lead. You can't give up or even recover from giving up TD plays over 70 yards.
3) The Jets pretty much put the game away when Darnold hit Anderson with a 35 yard TD with only 1:13 left in the half. That gave the Jets a 21-10 and that was pretty much it for the Broncos.
4) The only glimpse of hope after that was when Sutton took a short pass from Keenum and raced down the sideline deep into Jets territory down 24-10 in the 3rd quarter, but the play was called back due to a ticky-tack pass interference call on Sutton.
5) This game was an embarrassment and it leaves the doubt that the Broncos are just not a good team. They are now 1-9 under Vance Joseph on the road. They have lost their road games by an average of 16 points, and they have the most double-digit losses of any NFL team in the year and a half since VJ took over. The Broncos are in a bad way right now and they are looking at a second straight awful season.
6) There is no confidence in Vance Joseph, the defensive staff, and Case Keenum right now. The Broncos defense gets outcoached every week, VJ is lost as a HC, Joe Woods is not a good fit as DC, the defensive players are openly questioning the coaching staff, and the team is a mess. Case Keenum is a backup and playing like it. He is just not the answer, and we are headed for another brutal year offensively. I know that a season can turn on a dime, but do you have any confidence in the Broncos this week-even at home-with the 5-0 Rams coming to town? Although the Rams are banged up, I can't see Sean McVay being outcoached by VJ and Joe Woods. The Broncos are in trouble once again by mid-October-just like last year.
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