Locked On Broncos - Daily Podcast On The Denver Broncos - Dre Greenlaw EXITS Practice With Injury At Denver Broncos Training Camp

Starting point is 00:00:00 Denver Broncos linebacker, Drake, Greenlaw, exited Thursday's practice with an injury. We'll tell you, even though Sean Payton believes he's fine, the Broncos, they have to pay very close attention to the linebacker position going forward. We'll share our thoughts on that. And much more on today's episode, Locked on Broncos. You are Locked on Broncos, your daily Denver Broncos podcast,

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Starting point is 00:01:04 this is a big story here for the Broncos. We'll go through why Denver needs to be very cautious with how they approach this position going forward. We'll also highlight why Bo Nix and the Broncos' offense shined during practice and a couple of key standouts there, including Pat Bryant. But then we're going to go through some news and notes here for the Broncos as well with Devon Velae returning to practice after missing Wednesday's practice initially. And Denver putting a young undrafted rookie free agent on injured reserve. We'll break all that down on Locked on Bronco. you know early on in practice obviously for the bronco is following a very physical day on wednesday Thursday's practice was a little bit lighter by design because you don't want to run guys into the ground

Starting point is 00:01:44 so the broncos got some competitive periods going on one-on-ones receivers and corners and safetys on one side of the field and then on the other side it was linebackers and running backs getting one-on-one work and very first rep was dray greenlaw versus jk daubbins and he was getting in coverage getting in phase working up the sideline there and then he kind of pulled up a little bit It wasn't anything noticeable, but pulled up with an apparent injury, walked it off a little bit, and then jogged off the field into the locker room. We didn't see him come back out. And this definitely, I think, Perks Broncos country's ears up a little bit.

Starting point is 00:02:16 There's probably some sign for concern just because another injury here. Well, and I know Sean Payton after practice kind of took issue with that, right? We know Sean is tapped into what people are saying, and he's tapped into what people are saying about the linebacker position, where he took issue with the fact that somebody called that injury prone, that position group in general or, you know, just struggling with injuries like that early on. And he kind of pointed out, yeah, Singleton's going to be back in like six days, you know, this, that, and the other. And to me, Cody, I'm thinking to myself, like, everybody saw this coming, sadly. Like, we don't, nobody wants anybody to get injured. Nobody's trying to, like,

Starting point is 00:02:52 manifest a player to get hurt so that they can be replaced on the roster and the Broncos will have to make changes. But all throughout the course of the off season, you and I talked about this. You signed a guy who's been injured the past couple of years. You bringing back a guy who's been injured the past couple years. And then Drew Sanders was injured just last year. And sure enough, we're barely one week into training camp. And all three of those guys are already dealing with stuff. And it's not related to the other stuff that they've dealt with.

Starting point is 00:03:19 So it's adding on top. It's very concerning to me. Like I don't understand why the Broncos aren't bringing other guys in. I know they brought in some sort of like, I hate to call him this, but like, you know, can't body types for tryouts. And I don't think anybody was signed. But look, it's one of those position groups to where you're really concerned about the regular season right now.

Starting point is 00:03:40 You hope for the breakout from Lavelle Bailey. You know Justin Sternaud can give you snaps. But at this point, you're three guys down at the position. And it's just crazy that we talked about this all offseason and no contingencies were brought in. Here we are. We're dealing with exactly what we feared. And to the guys. who's supposed to be the game changer for the middle of that defense.

Starting point is 00:04:03 Well, and those contingencies were Drew Sanders and, you know, Justin Sirna, Drew Sanders goes down. That impacts things. You know, Singleton, you know, more so I'd say in comparison to, you know, Dre Greenlaw or even Drew Sanders at this point, you know, Singleton was back at the team facility in a Jersey. He'll return to practice next week. He's not necessarily a guy you're worried about long term, right?

Starting point is 00:04:24 And I know that people are going to be eyeing him when he returns, you know, because he had the ACL last year, has the finger injury, He has surgery. And I think people are like, oh, Singleton's always hurt. Like, no, that's not the case. I don't think that narrative is true to apply to Singleton here. He suffered a freak injury last year, played through an entire game with it, by the way, which is crazy to think about.

Starting point is 00:04:42 But then just a finger injury, it's an anomaly at this point. But the fact that he's going to be back next week is good, right? But this is where I say the Bronco should absolutely have caution when it comes to this room is, all right. You know, are you teetering on the line of, should we press the button to say, okay, hey, we need to do something different just because we need to add another contingency plan or are we going to risk staying the course, right? Drake Greenlaw, according to Sean, is going to be fine.

Starting point is 00:05:06 We'll see where he's at. I mean, I imagine he probably won't practice on Thursday, but strange things happen. We'll see when obviously, you know, practice rolls around on Friday here for Denver. But my thing that I'm looking at here with this position room specifically is, okay, you're going to see an extent to look at Lavel Bailey, Justin, Sternard, that's great. But are guys like Corrine, Reed, J.B. Brown, Jordan Turner, are those guys you can carry on to the 53 man roster this year.

Starting point is 00:05:29 And if there are injuries, are those guys that you feel like can step in and do what you need to be, you know, what needs to be done at that lineback position. I think there's a massive drop off when it comes to like, we're talking about Drake Greenlaw, Alex Singleton. And I would even say here, that's it. Like there's a massive drop off in terms of perception for all the other guys in that room, which I think that's just where maybe we're angling this look is like, this is the question mark we've had all along at linebacker.

Starting point is 00:05:53 If there's an injury, if some guy gets taken out, like, yes, we want to see more. or Lavelle Bailey, but Lavelle is to continue to get more experience and more reps. It doesn't mean that in the regular season. He has to step up. It doesn't mean that you're going to get the same results. You better be confident in your player development process knowing that these guys are further along than maybe most people may think. But I think the linebacker outlook right now is definitely, you know, a reason I'd say on a scale

Starting point is 00:06:17 one to tens there, I'm not about maybe like a six, six point five on the panic scale, in a sense. Where are you at here? In Broncos country, where are you as you're listening or watching the show? I think I'll push it up to a seven or an eight. And I think that, look, it's, it's that position group was so detrimental down the stretch last season that I don't think it can really be overstated. Now, I do think you got some much needed experience from Justin Sernod,

Starting point is 00:06:40 and you have a potential breakthrough player in Lavelle Bailey. So you may have things now that you didn't have necessarily last year where Justin really didn't have that time on task. And Lavelle Bailey wasn't getting the reps in the defense. I think at this point, though, signing somebody would be reactive by the team and it would be perceived in a very negative way for two potential big reasons, right? One of the reasons why it would seem negative is because if you sign a veteran now,

Starting point is 00:07:09 you're indicating either you believe that this injury to Dre Greenlaw is a bit more serious than anticipated or you're admitting that you were wrong all along and you should have done something else about it in the past. Now, does that mean that you can't go out and sign somebody? Should the Broncos go sign a Joanne Bentley or a Kaiser White or somebody? I think they should. And I think that those guys might have a chance to play at this point. But I just don't like the perception of it now being that we've talked about it all offseason.

Starting point is 00:07:39 They weren't proactive. Now you're forcing yourself to be reactive in a situation or stand your ground, in which case we saw how that worked out last year when you signed Kwan Alexander and Zach Cunningham and Christian Wells and all these other guys because your linebacker position stunk and Todd Davis isn't going to go out there and play for you. He's a coach. He's not going to play. So you have to have the bodies out there at this point. And that's what's frustrating to me, Cody, is I get the idea you want the young guys to play. You went out and got Dre Greenlaw. You brought back Sternad. You put Drew Sanders back in the mix. But there needed to be at least

Starting point is 00:08:14 one or two more contingencies. You're not drafting guys. When's the last linebacker, the Broncos drafted? Drew Sanders was switched to the edge. They haven't drafted any true like dominant off-ball linebackers at the college level for a really long time. So they're not drafting there. They're relying on low-price, free agent signings. And now you're two years in a row reactive at the position. I just don't like it. I think it's one of those things that, to me, you should have done something a couple of months ago.

Starting point is 00:08:41 I think that they're going to stand their ground. And look, I think we're at the early part of the season right now where you're keeping an eye on it, but you're not overtly panicking, right? Like I'm at a six and a half, you're at seven. I think it's valid to be at those numbers in terms of maybe like, hey, my level of concern right now. But ultimately, I think the goal is to get these guys to the regular season, right? You know, you're going to have Singleton there. You're going to get Dre Greenland there.

Starting point is 00:09:03 Can you get them to week one? And can they stay healthy? I think after the preseason, when you start seeing other roster cuts around the NFL, I think that's where you may see some, you know, changes or some additions made specifically, you know, versus right now. I think I think you're on slim pickings outside of like Bentley, Kaiser. Why, as you mentioned? I don't think Juan Alexander is signed with the team still.

Starting point is 00:09:21 I have to double check on that. But you're in a position right now where I think you don't want to be reactive. I think you want to see things through. And then worst case scenario, if it's not ready by the regular season, then you be reactive and you go out and you do it. And you say, you know what? Like we had a plan and it didn't work out the way we wanted to. But we'll see where things are at here in Broncos country.

Starting point is 00:09:39 We don't know your thoughts on your level of concern here with Drake Greenlaw as he exited when the Thursday's practice with an apparent injury. Not know the official one, whether it's a hamstring, whether it's a quad, but it was a soft tissue thing and we'll see where he's at and went. He'll return here, according to Sean Payton, who believes he'll be fine. Make sure he lets know here. But we've got a lot to talk about here. Some of the highlights of Broncos camp on Thursday included Bo Nix and the Broncos offense, having their day after the defense had their day on Wednesday. We'll go through those key standouts and more on today's episode, Lockdown Broncos. Today's episode of the show is

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Starting point is 00:11:46 playmakers stepping up out there at Broncos training camp. But Broncos Country, thanks so much for tuning in, making us your first listen of the day every single day here at Lockdown Broncos. We appreciate you so much. If you haven't already done so, hit subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts as well as on YouTube. Cody, you were out there watching practice, obviously, and I think Broncos Country will be thrilled to know that Bo Nix had a big day out there. Of course, the second year quarterback has been just drawing rave reviews from everybody, all the national media that I see that's out there visiting practice. they're talking about how differently he carries himself. I know you talked about earlier this off season.

Starting point is 00:12:22 Like he's bigger, stronger, feels like he's carrying a different level of presence with him as this team's unquestioned starting quarterback. What did you see from him out there today as the offense maybe had its first big win of the day at training camp? Yeah, the emphasis for the day really was kind of third down. You go third and short, third and long, but also red zone. So kind of a combination of what they did on Wednesday when the defense was to kind of dominating the day a little bit and making their presence felt when the pads came on.

Starting point is 00:12:51 But you saw Bowling the offense come out there today and they were slinging it. And look, third and short period, both firing the ball down field. And he's connecting with guys. You know, I just think that this confidence that we've seen from him, you're not seeing thinking. And you're not seeing that hesitation where it's like you're trying to see something developed from a play standpoint, from your routes against certain coverages. And last year was a rookie, you could see him maybe anticipating and wondering when it was going to develop, right? well now he knows where things are going and he says okay he's being able to read the field to a point where if his first read is not there he can jump to a second read and he can maybe see where the safety is align and say okay if this window is going to be right here I know the receiver is going to be there he's firing it into windows with anticipation we're seeing him fired into windows tight windows in front of linebackers and right you know I mean right behind linebackers right in front of safeties he's not scared to test that out and to go down there but his placement is

Starting point is 00:13:45 as ball placement has been very, very accurate so far here at training camp. And I would say probably this was the best overall day for the offense on Thursday. And really it stems from him just trying to go out there and make plays. Let's talk about the emphasis that they had here. We talk about Red Zone. Well, in seven on seven, red zone period that they had earlier, you know, Bow in the offense, the first team guys, they only get four plays, right? And then Stidham and Ellinger, those guys get four plays exclusively themselves.

Starting point is 00:14:11 Bo had two touchdown passes in the Red Zone period. The first play of seven on seven, red zone, He found Marvin Minutes. There's a beautiful throw right over the top where really only Marvin could get it, right? You talk about the back corner of the end zone, the ball over Marvin's head where he has to track it and get both feet in. That's one thing that I've noticed with Bo is his outside high trajectory placement. It's fun. It's exciting to watch Joe Burrow carved out the Broncos with throws like that.

Starting point is 00:14:35 Bow's got that in his arsenal right now, which is exciting. And then he found Caleb Loder for a touchdown in the seven-on-seven period. And then he went on in the team period that Denver had obviously later on. to round things out on the day. Red zone period here once again, final team period. Cortland, first play was looking for, I mean, Bo was looking for Cortland in the first play.

Starting point is 00:14:54 Passertan, broke it up. But on the very next play, he goes right back to him and finds him for a touchdown, kind of in the middle of the field there in that red zone. And then he caps things off to touchdown pass to RJ Harvey Harvey. So just an efficient, commandful day by Bo Nix and the offense here. And a lot of young guys getting their hands on the ball,

Starting point is 00:15:12 including Pat Bryant. That's what really excited me, about all of your training camp updates throughout the day, Cody, as I was monitoring on Twitter and things like that, is just to see, okay, Bo Nix throwing to Caleb Loner, Bo Nicks throwing to Pat Bryant, Bo Nix throwing to RJ Harvey. Like, that's the rookie class right there. Evan Ingram, too.

Starting point is 00:15:30 Evan Ingram. Yeah, so the new guys in general, just getting a lot of run. And it, I mean, just the Marvin Mims update, tracking the ball over the shoulder in the red zone and not just saying, hey, Marvin burned these guys, you know, 40 yards downfield. Like we're used to him doing that, but we're not used to him tracking the ball as a red zone weapon unless, you know, he's getting the ball quickly on the outside in a wide receiver screen sort of situation. So I really love hearing that Boa is getting all these rookies involved. And we've talked about this.

Starting point is 00:16:00 Those young guys are going to rotate up with the top unit because at some point throughout the course of a year, go figure, Sean Payton, who loves to use all these different personnel groupings, he's going to get these guys all involved. So it's going to be a mix and match. It's not that while this guy is competing for this guy's starting job, I think especially when it comes to the offense, you can kind of throw that stuff out the window because these guys are all going to play. They're all going to have some sort of a role. They're going to have a package of plays. They're going to have, you know, intentional touches and targets. So that's really what's exciting to me is the success, obviously, in the red zone where Bo Nix was one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL last season, I think top three in terms of total efficiency in the red zone. but also spreading the ball around, getting it to different guys.

Starting point is 00:16:46 He knows how to do that. He's so good at it. He finds the open receiver and everybody gets to touch. That's what I love so much about those updates. I'd say the play of the day here for Bow and the Broncos offense. And really for all of practice, Bow found Pat Bryant. It was a beautiful play design deep across the middle of the field.

Starting point is 00:17:03 You had Lavelle Bailey underneath in coverage trying to track him, but he found Pat Brian. I mean, he put some arc on this throw. He found Pat Bryant for a 20 to 25 plus yard gainware. Pat is also tracking the ball over his shoulder and he's hauling it in and he's getting both feet in bounds. And it's like, okay, hey, the Bronco was that they've got options. And that's a good thing too because even I have to give some flowers to the undrafted guys, this is going to be hard for, I think, this year's crop of UDFAs to make the 53 unless there's some crazy injury or something like that.

Starting point is 00:17:32 But Joaquin Davis had himself a really impressive day. He's had a really strong camp so far. Kyrish Rowan had a bounce back day after having a drop yesterday. and then going to Courtney Jackson had a big play downfield from Sam Ellinger in the middle of, you know, attacking the heart of the defense. The safety is probably for a 20 to 25 plus yard gain as well. But Pat Bryant takes the cake for the best play of the day overall here for the Broncos. I don't even say, too, you know, going to bring Audrick Estimaze up,

Starting point is 00:17:59 name up here once again because Odrick, you know, all the pressure that has kind of been placed on him since OTAs and, you know, obviously looking at the draft. he is stacked in my opinion three very impressive days in a row here at running back so it makes things very interesting to see how this is going to go because even Sean Peyton was asked about Joliel McLaughlin and identified him specifically as a change of paceback that's starting to maybe make me feel like they're going to start carrying four guys on the 53 but things still have to play out though I still think four is very much on the table here yeah I do too the more he talks about these running backs the more he talks about not wanting to lose guys to other teams that That's where I'm headed as well. And you talk about the quarterback position and having two guys there on your 53 men roster at the very least. That gives you flexibility. I know it's only one spot, but it just changes the entire way that you want to build that roster and that you can go about doing that, especially offensively, where you can keep. Because last year, the Broncos had, I think, five backs at one point on their roster, Cody.

Starting point is 00:19:01 And that doesn't include fullback Michael Burton. So there's a lot of different ways that you can slice this thing before we, get to the start of the regular season. There's ways the Broncos can manipulate the roster rules by cutting guys, bringing some veterans back to the practice squad and shuffling them up. You can do that with a number of different guys nowadays. And so there's ways that you can keep your talented young players without subjecting them to waivers. I think ultimately when you talk about assembling your top 53, there's no way, in my opinion, that Audrick Estimate can't be part of that based on where he's at right now in training camp and kind of just what the team felt about him

Starting point is 00:19:37 when they drafted him. You've got to see that investment through. I kind of view it as Jalilil being that change of pace designation. He'll be a third back. But I really think if they're going to keep four, I think that competition really is between Adric Estimate, Tyler Biday and Blake Watson, who Blake has also had himself an impressive two days in a row here. And obviously, I think the preseason game is going to be very important for determining how the rest of the evaluation goes, who makes it, how that competition plays. I know I'm excited to continue to watch that. We're just nine days away from the Broncos being able to play a preseason game. It's almost here, Broncos country.

Starting point is 00:20:10 But we're not done yet here on today's episode show. We still have a lot to break down, including some camp notes with the return of Devon Valet. Did we see Q Robinson come back after missing practice? We'll highlight injury updates and more on today's episode, Locked on Broncos. Today's Lockdown Broncos podcast is brought to our friends over there at Monarch money. Ever wish managing your money felt easier? With Monarch money, it can. Whether you're growing your savings or planning a big purchase, Monarch puts you in the driver's seat. It's like having

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Starting point is 00:21:42 We'll dive deeper into what that looks like and also a newcomer to the roster after an injury sidelined and undrafted rookie player who had a lot of chances to make some noise and maybe factor himself into a potential rotation at the outside linebacker position. We'll break all that down here on today's episode of the show. Sarah, let's talk about injuries. Obviously, we've highlighted the Dre Greenlaw 1. We spent a lot of time on that. Obviously, on Wednesday, we did not see Devon Vele at practice, but he returned on Thursday there.

Starting point is 00:22:10 So part of me was wondering, was that more of a load management type of day for a guy like Veilay, considering that we didn't even see him? Because typically when a guy has a rest day or a load management day, we see them out there on the practice field. They just won't be dressed in a helmet. They'll have their jersey, but they'll be in shorts or something like that. We didn't see that on Wednesday, but Veilie was back in the helmet, shoulder pads, and shorts, which was the theme for everybody on the Broncos, obviously on Thursday. So very interesting to see maybe how that dynamics working, but we did not see Q Robinson

Starting point is 00:22:41 once again, who left practice the other day. He was limping. It was very noticeable for him two days in a row of no Q Robinson. And it's definitely making our ears perk up a little bit. Yeah, you start to get a little concerned about guys like that when they're disappearing for a couple of days and it's not mentioned, right? And I think that that's the thing about the way that Sean Payton and his staff kind of operate when it comes to injuries. They're very coy about those sorts of things. He doesn't want to

Starting point is 00:23:05 bring them up. He doesn't want to give day-to-day updates. Sometimes he'll offer information. And he is clear when he offers that information about what's going on. But certainly with Q Robinson, you felt like he could have a big role this year, whether on special teams only or on special teams and as a rotational rusher, because from mandatory mini camp to the beginning of training camp, it sounded like he was really impressive out there with his first step. up and spin move and things like that. So he was one of the guys we've been most excited about seeing in pads. And of course, you have another undrafted rookie at that position, right?

Starting point is 00:23:41 And it's another one of those things, Cody, where unfortunately, your top money guy off the edge, Johnny Walker going on injured reserve, the Broncos way, I thought they waived him initially or it was reported that they waived him initially, but may not, I guess they must not have to waive him in order to get him to IR at this point in time. so they keep him. But he was their highest priced undrafted player this year. So you lose him and you've got Q Robinson on the mend, hopefully coming back soon.

Starting point is 00:24:10 But you've got to have somebody out there who can replace them. And the guy that they brought in, Cody, this Garrett Nelson from Nebraska, he seems to be sort of that Q Robinson like, I mean, skill set where he played in the NFL, dominated on special teams, comes off the edge.

Starting point is 00:24:28 I feel like there's maybe an indicator here that there's something more going on with Q Robinson than meets the eye. Yeah, I'm very curious to see what the timeline is going to be. And look, I think there's certain languages you want to look at, especially here in training camp, right? You place a player on Inter- Reserve during training camp. Their season ends, there is no coming off of it at this juncture, right? So for Johnny Walker, Jr., you know, I think essentially now he'll have a chance to

Starting point is 00:24:51 be in the building all year long, kind of red shirt, essentially, get treatment at the team facility, be part of meetings and things like that, which I think are important. So you're going to have to wait a year to see Johnny, Walker Jr. for all my fellow Missou folks, I'm a Missou grad. But obviously, I think for a guy like Nelson to come into the mix here for the Broncos, yeah, you definitely want to keep an eye. And like, what does this mean? Like, is this something that could sideline queue for several weeks? Because unless it's a serious, serious injury, he would more than likely land on IR if that was the case, right? But the fact that he's not on IR and maybe they're just taking your time.

Starting point is 00:25:25 We don't know what the injury is. I'm just going to say this, watching him the other day come off the practice field on Tuesday, it was a noticeable limp. Like it was, you could tell like, hey, something was wrong. You know, as he's walking up, you're trying not to make eye contact because this is a guy who knows like, oh, hey, this is the media, you know, I got, but this is a guy who is clearly in discomfort and pain there. So you have to do that. But I like the idea of bringing in, obviously, Garrett Nelson, you know, after playing

Starting point is 00:25:51 in the UFL, you know, he's highly graded according to some places out there in terms of being a special teams player. Worst case scenario. I mean, that was the division here for Q was. to play special teams as a rookie, if something lingers with Q, you may have a guy on your hand that can do that. It was his first day out there.

Starting point is 00:26:08 He was wearing Johnny Walker Jr.'s number. So I'm very, very curious to see if this is something we should be concerned about. We're not going to have the information probably just yet. Yeah, and that's one of those things that they're going to keep it under wraps as long as they possibly can. And then finally,

Starting point is 00:26:23 somebody's going to probably give an update and we'll see what happens there. But of course, you wish them well and you want to see the new guide. do well, right? I mean, there's always an opportunity when you get players coming up from other professional leagues, as the Broncos did last year with Dondre Tillman. I know he was in the program for a bit longer than Garrett Nelson will have been, but still a very intriguing potential pickup here in terms of what they were able to do last year and how well Jamar Kane has worked with these guys off the edge. And that's important to note here is that the distinction between he's being listed

Starting point is 00:26:55 as a linebacker by some reports, you know, he's an outside linebacker in this defense. He's a an edge guy in the defense. That's what he played at at Nebraska, Cody. I remember watching him. I remember watching a number of Nebraska games, that's number 44 coming off the edge. He's got some decent agility to him, decent explosiveness to him,

Starting point is 00:27:12 and obviously he's kind of a gamer out there. So somebody that you feel like can upgrade your 90-man roster for the time being and maybe make some noise here as we get into joint practices and the preseason. And I know sometimes we forget about it, just because I think we're so focused on the top names at that position. The Broncos also still have Andrew Farmer on the roster.

Starting point is 00:27:32 He was on the practice squad last year for Denver came over from the LA Chargers. So we'll see where things are at as the Broncos continue to, you know, navigate the ups and downs of what is training camp life. And you're going to run into some injuries, some bumps and bruises. But hopefully this is not something that lingers or persist with some of these guys that we've talked about. And hopefully we see Dre Greenlaw back on the practice field tomorrow here for the Broncos. But Broncos country, we appreciate you so much for rocking with us. Make it's your first listen.

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