Denver Broncos 2024 Preview with Zac Stevens of DNVR
The Simple Handicap: Daily NFL Betting Podcast with Adam Chernoff
Adam Chernoff
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🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
I was joined this morning by Zac Stevens, beat reporter for DNVR.
Zac answers my questions at the following time stamps:
(03:23) Is Nix the starter?
(04:09) Difference in offense if it is Nix or Stidham?
(05:02) What do you expect for the pass/run ratio this season?
(07:03) Is this team win now, or find a QB and rebuild?
(08:51) Coup of Vance Joseph with the Jim Leonhard hire?
(10:19) Worried about the defense because of Payton/Leonhard?
(11:26) What is the strength of the defense?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | joined this morning by Zach Stevens, Broncos beat reporter for DNVR, Denver without the ease. |
| 0:09.3 | Zach, you're live from Broncos practice this morning. |
| 0:11.4 | How are things going so far? |
| 0:13.3 | Man, we're underway in the acclamation period right now, training camp right around the corner. |
| 0:19.0 | And that means the quarterback competition is underway officially. |
| 0:25.1 | And the Broncos, unfortunately, Adam, are too used to quarterback competitions. |
| 0:29.2 | There's been way too many of these since Peyton Manning retired. |
| 0:32.4 | And I'll tell you what, when you have a quarterback competition, it's not likely a good thing unless you have a rookie |
| 0:40.1 | quarterback that's competing with a veteran. And that is what's happening in Denver. So all eyes |
| 0:45.7 | are on Bonix. Broncos country wants Bo Nix to take this. But Jared Stittam's giving him a run for |
| 0:50.5 | his money. So is your prediction fair to say that it's going to be Bo Nix week one? |
| 0:55.5 | I do. So how the offseason unfolded in the practices that the media got to see, |
| 1:00.8 | Jared Stidham was the best quarterback on this team. But Bo Nix was just right behind him. |
| 1:07.7 | And if I think if training camp plays out that way where even if Jared Stimham is the better quarterback, but Bo Nix is right on his tail, then you got to give the job to Bo Nix. And look, coaches in the NFL are all about winning. They want to play the absolute best guy. So if Jarrett Stidham is leaps and bounds better than Bo Nix, then I do think that they'll go with Jared Sidham. But if Bo is close, it's going to be his job. And I haven't mentioned Zach Wilson yet. And that's for a reason. He's been very far behind in this competition, including early in camp. Okay. So tell me the difference between what kind of offense we're going to get identity-wise, if it's Bo NIC starting or if it's Jared Stidham starting. You know, it's going to be very similar. Those two are very similar. And Jared Stidham, credit to him, he's really picked up John Payton's offense well this year. Obviously last year when he came in and played the two games at the end of the season, once Russell Wilson was benched, The Broncos offense averaged 15 points per game. |
| 2:01.0 | Jared Sidham was pretty mediocre, and that might be a nice way of saying it. |
| 2:04.9 | But Jared Stidham's been very good. And what this offense is going to look like, regardless |
| 2:09.0 | of if it's Boe or Jared Stidham, is a lot of quick passes when it comes to the passing game. |
| 2:15.1 | Get the ball out extremely quick. That's what we saw Drew Brees do. And obviously, it's not expecting either of those guys to be Drew Brees, but it's going to be a doled-down version of what Drew Brees did, which is just tons of short passes. And then hopefully you have playmakers that can make plays happen. Tell me quick about the run game. Multiple running backs competing for spots. |
| 2:34.4 | How is this rotation going to shake out? |
| 2:36.3 | And in terms of like pass run rate, |
| 2:38.3 | do you have any early inclinations to kind of what kind of breakdown we're going to get throughout the season? |
| 2:44.2 | Yeah, this offense is going to be run, run, pass, run, |
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