Locked On Broncos - Daily Podcast On The Denver Broncos - REGROUP: Denver Broncos Must FORCE Jaylen Waddle Targets vs. Jaguars

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Denver Broncos couldn't get Jalen Waddle involved enough on Monday night football. That has to be different on Sunday against the Jaguars. You are locked on Broncos. Your daily Denver Broncos podcast. Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. Happy Wednesday, Broncos country. Cody works, Sarah Benjert, two of the longest 10-year voices in Broncos country here for another episode of the show. Jaylon Waddle's involvement on Monday night football was disappointing in his first game.

Starting point is 00:00:34 the Broncos have to find a way to change that against the Jaguars. We'll tell you how they can do that. Plus, the Broncos couldn't figure out their run game against Kansas City. They can't make that same mistake for two weeks in a row, right? We'll go through that. Plus, personnel grouping still a little bit of an issue here for the Broncos. Why elevate a fullback when he's only going to play six snaps? We'll go through all that and what adjustments the Broncos have to make in order to

Starting point is 00:00:58 write the ship this week against Jacksonville. Today's show is brought to you by our friends over there at Fandu. get $350 in bonus bets guaranteed when you bet $5 every day for seven days, join all the action at Fandu.com. Sarah, let's start off here with Jay Laudele. Obviously, three targets for him this past week against the Kansas City Chiefs. You wanted to see more force feeding. You want to see more targets go his way.

Starting point is 00:01:19 Part of that is multifaceted, right? It's how the Chiefs try to play coverage. It's how you can use him in other ways where he can still have an impact, even not getting the ball. We saw that on Evan Ingram's touchdown, but I think we were all expecting more. he was the wildcard. He was the X factor in our pregame show last week. His involvement in week one was kind of disappointing.

Starting point is 00:01:38 And that's not necessarily on him. That's collective between him, the coaching staff, and just how the game unfolded. You don't want the missing piece to a championship roster to still be missing after week one. I mean, what we saw in the terms of the difference between the way the Kansas City Chiefs got Kenneth Walker immediately involved. I know it's a little easier to just hand him the ball out of the backfield,

Starting point is 00:02:01 but the commitment to making him the focal point of the offense and really seeing that flourish and building an entire game plan around, hey, this guy is the new center of gravity here for our offense. We need him to take pressure off Patrick Mahomes. We need him to give us a run game that we've desperately lacked. For the Broncos to not have that similar sort of commitment

Starting point is 00:02:22 to making Jalen Waddle the focal point of the offense was just extremely disappointing. And I think there's a couple of dirty hands involved here. Cody. I think obviously Davis Webb, the offensive coordinator, he's the one you point the finger at first because he's the one who's calling the plays, but also quarterback Bo Nix because you design some plays for Jalen Waddle and you got to make sure the ball gets to him. You got to make sure that you at least try, right? And so I think there was a little element of Bo being a bit gun shy in this game against Kansas City in combination with the idea that maybe Davis was trying to call a few too many longer developing plays for Jalen Waddle instead of those. quick hitting pass plays that we saw, you know, go to Pat Bryant, right? I mean, we saw Pat get a number of what I like to call manufactured touches. And I think Jalen Waddle is that guy that, man, we shouldn't be coming away from a game where he only gets three targets.

Starting point is 00:03:15 And he's tied with Adam Troutman. We should be coming away pretty much every week saying, hey, come hell or high water, the Broncos, they got Jalen Waddle eight targets, 10 targets. He has to be that type of a focal point for this team. And I think they made a big mistake in week one, not doing it. in that. Yeah, I agree with you on the quick passing game to the short elements because the Broncos, as you mentioned, there were several times. And this does hurt when you are facing second and long, third and long because of penalties or you get sacked like Bo was sacked on the very first play of the game because for three games in a row, Steve Spagnolo has started off a game, blitzing either a corner or a safety. And in this past game, obviously on the very first play, he blitzed the nickel and he blitzed the opposite side field outside corner after Bo Nix. Nate Adkins didn't necessarily pick it up Broncos country. I got a film breakdown on the everydayer club over at lockdownbroncos.

Starting point is 00:04:05 dot supercast.com. If you want to see the film breakdown, we go through all of that. You see it right there. But there's stuff like that is frustrating. And so when you have to let some of these longer developing plays kind of develop, right, if you're trying to get Jay Laudeau 15 to 25 yards downfield, it's going to take some time. The offensive line

Starting point is 00:04:20 did not help the Broncos offense either in this game. And I think the lack of trying to run the football, that was one of our biggest keys is, hey, come out here and run the football. Then you have to maybe force a defender out of the box. Like you have to, it changes everything. You have more things that open up for you if the run game is there. Look at Patrick Mahomes before he kind of just started dinking and dunking a little bit in that second half. He started off the game, what, two of 12 passing? What helped? What was the difference that helped them ultimately get that going?

Starting point is 00:04:48 The Broncos defense had to cheat up a little bit because they were running the ball so well that then all of a sudden, when you do try to send a third and five blitz look, Mahomes is dumping it off quick and Travis Kelsey is going for 59 yards. like they played complimentary football even if it wasn't designed like it wasn't perfect in the passion department for the chiefs the same thing the Broncos just seemed like they wanted to come out and just throw the ball this game okay well if you're going to throw the ball try to get number 17 involved a little bit more I will say this though too but Jalen did have that drop on that slant play right there you just simply you can't have that happen and I don't know Sarah I mean part of me goes back and forth and I wonder and I'm curious for your thoughts on this Jalen missed some time in training camp learning a brand new office offense, right? We saw him come in against Green Bay and make that one play. I think we're all kind of looking at it. I was like, okay, you know what? This is it. We're good. We don't need to see anymore. Maybe the time off task of this summer did hurt him specifically a little bit, as did other guys like J.K. Dobbins, which will get to here a little bit. But I wanted your thoughts on

Starting point is 00:05:45 that. Is that also another factor in your opinion of what could have happened? I think it absolutely could be. And I think that's all the more reason to get him more involved in the quick passing game, right? To continue to build his confidence while he does on the practice field. maybe get a little bit more acclimated to the deeper depths of the playbook, right? So it's what I always joke around, like when I'm ever playing backyard football or whatever, Cody, it's like, all right, here's the play. Get open on hut, right? And there's just kind of like an elementary aspect to it that's just like, hey, Jalen,

Starting point is 00:06:17 we're going to get you the ball on hut. Here's what we're going to do. Like we're going to swing it out to you or we're going to hand it to you or we're going to get you a quick slant like on that third down play. that was go figure a successful play up until the point that the ball reached his hands, which, yeah, he's got to come down with that. And I think that's part of the frustration of this game against Kansas City. Yes, it was a blowout, 31 to 10.

Starting point is 00:06:38 But it's interesting to me that you can almost boil it down to just a couple of decisions or plays that were missed, opportunities that were missed by the Broncos that could have shifted the tide in a completely different direction. Like the timing of that third down drop by Jalen Waddle was brutal. And, you know, you have a couple of other plays, a third and one, third and two, where you don't try to run the ball and you try to throw the ball and you go empty backfield. There's a couple of different plays that really stand out. But ultimately, I think a lot of it revolves around number 17, not because of him necessarily, but because of the plan for involvement.

Starting point is 00:07:15 It was too much, and I described it like this on the squad show, is like a basketball team said, hey, all of our plays to score points in this game, we're going to try to get the ball to our new weapon, but we're only going to draw up place to shoot three-pointers, and it's all going to be designed to shoot at the very end of the shot clock, right? So it was like you're really trying to hit a bull's eye from 100 yards out, and I'm not saying that some of these concepts shouldn't be easy for a professional football team because they should, but you've got to under-complicate things a little bit sometimes, right?

Starting point is 00:07:49 You don't have to be the smartest person in the room. Sometimes it is just effective to hand the ball off to somebody, to just get a guy the ball on a quick slant, a quick, you know, dig route or just go, go get open on Hutt, man. I mean, we're going to throw you a ball on a swing pass. We're going to get you set up for some screens. I mean, that's what this offense needed from Waddle in game one, especially if what you're saying is true that the mistime has caused him a little bit in terms of getting up to speed in the playbook. Let number 17 go get open on Hutt.

Starting point is 00:08:22 Well, here's the other thing, too. It's it, you can manufacture like to the same way that they're throwing bubble screens to Pat Bryant. Do that with Jaylen. Get him the ball right there. And I know the Broncos offense, they are, and Sean Payton mentioned this. They are running a lot of RPO concepts, right, where they're reading a specific guy. And based on what that guy does, you're either giving the ball to the running back or if that guy does something else, then you're going and you're throwing it, right? Either a slant, either the bubble that the Broncos offense has a ton of RPO stuff involved in that.

Starting point is 00:08:49 But also, I want to go back. There was one play, too. Remember, Rachi Rice is arguably what Cancad Perceives is their best wide receiver. What did they do? They manufactured a quick touch to him out in space where they created flow one way, fired the screenshot to the other side, to the boundaries, I mean to the field side of the field. He catches it. Riley has a bad angle.

Starting point is 00:09:09 Jonah Ellis tries to just hit stick him and then he runs for a touchdown. But get him the ball in space, especially if you get off coverage, which the chiefs at times, they played some off ball coverage with their corner. So find a way to just take a quick shot. and get the ball in the hands of your best players. Let Jalen Waddle do the stuff that he's really good at and get the slants, the stuff that he ate last season. Get him involved in some of those things and that should open some things up.

Starting point is 00:09:33 Now, we'll see how the Broncos are just here going into week two, but they got to get number 17 involved a lot more than they did in week one, and they can't let the defense dictate just that. But coming up next, Broncos country, we were puzzled at the Broncos running back usage. And what if I were to tell you that R.J. Harvey was the primary guy on Monday night football. where is J.K. Dobbins. Broncos Country, today's episode of the show was brought to you by our friends over there at ORA. Most people don't realize how much of their personal information is being bought and sold

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Starting point is 00:12:17 We didn't know what to expect going into this game, but ultimately, Cody, I think we can agree, regardless of the number of snaps played, the fact that J.K. Dobbins finished the game with eight carries and R.J. Harvey with just three. Jonah Coleman with just three snaps. Like, that was not it. That's not what we want to see.

Starting point is 00:12:37 We don't want to see what we saw in week one happen again this season, because if they're only getting that many touches and that many snaps, to me that indicates one thing very clearly. The running game is not working, right? So you've got to change some things to get it working. What were you most surprised by? Was it the fact that Harvey led the team in snaps? Was it the fact that they only were able to get their top two guys, 11 carries?

Starting point is 00:13:00 Was it Jonah Coleman's involvement? Where do you want to start with this discussion? Because I think the deployment of the running backs was questionable at best. Yeah, no, I agree with you. And I think one of the things that stood out to me, my biggest surprise was just the fact that they didn't try to come out and run the football, period. They didn't try to, right? If they did early on, it was one carry. Okay, maybe it got two yards.

Starting point is 00:13:20 All right, we're not going to go back to it. It very much felt like what we saw consistently last year. And it almost seems like the Broncos went away from the run game a lot more than what we had previously seen at times last year. I know it was a problem, you know, before JK went down. Like JK, we were talking about certain games of the Broncos just, you know, they ran the ball a little bit more in the second half. Once again, coming out in the third quarter, JK breaks off a big run to the outside left

Starting point is 00:13:42 edge and we're thinking, okay, where was this in the second quarter? When it's 7-7 deadlock, third and one, third and two, how come you're not running the ball? Don't even get me started on that third and one where they go to empty. They go 22 personnel. They have Adam Troutman lined up on one side, Evan Ingram on one side. But then they have Adam Prentice lined up on the outside like he's Prime Jamar Chase, RJ Harvey on the other opposite outside where it's like, if I'm a corner and I'm lining up against Adam Prentice, I'm sitting here like, I'm going to take this playoff.

Starting point is 00:14:14 this guy's not going to run a route against me, like unless you're going to throw the ball to Prentice. But Sarah, what I would like to see a lot more of here is just the commitment to the run game. What we saw specifically in the preseason, and this is why this is frustrating to me is talking about this running back usage again, is in the preseason, we saw a lot of eye formation under center, the offset eye, where all of a sudden, Jared Stiddam is handing the ball off to Adam Prentice on third and one,

Starting point is 00:14:40 fourth and goal. Like you're seeing the fullback get touches. That's great. how come the Broncos didn't do a single thing we saw in the preseason here in this game against Kansas City? And I understand at times, like Sean will say, you know, it depends on the front that comes out. You can't let a defense get into a specific front and dictate what you want to do if this is your identity. If this is who you want to be as an offensive team, that's what was frustrating to me about the running back usage. And the fact that RJ played more snaps than JK, I'm trying to understand that.

Starting point is 00:15:10 Like, is JK still trying to come back from something? Is JK not 100%? Because for a large portion of that first half, it was like, where's Waldo? Where's number 27? You brought him back for a reason. Go Kay said, this is why you brought him back. Get this guy touches. And of course, I think what was it?

Starting point is 00:15:27 His first or second carry of the game is that big run off the left side. Where is this early on in the first quarter? In the second quarter when it's tied 7, 7,7, shortyarded situations. I've got faith that JK can pick up a third in one. I've got faith that he can pick up a third and two, especially with the look that the Chiefs defense gave, when you go back and watch it on film, it's even more frustrating.

Starting point is 00:15:48 Cody, I think to put words to my frustration with what you're saying, like not what you're saying, but what you're pointing out, here's what it feels like. A lot of times, you know, teams you'll see offenses use the run to set up the pass or you'll see them use the pass to set up the run.

Starting point is 00:16:05 I don't feel like the Broncos are using the anything to set up anything. I feel like they're just kind of, like randomly inserting players. They're randomly inserting plays. I've got a great analogy. Well, let's hear it. I'll have it before I continue. You ever,

Starting point is 00:16:18 you ever been to the cheesecake factory? Absolutely. Yes. Do you ever get overwhelmedly? You go in there, you open the menu and there's like this, this, this. There's like 25 different pages.

Starting point is 00:16:28 That's what I feel like the Broncos offense is like. That is a great analogy for it. And it's like, you know, you go in there and you're so overwhelmed. It's just, well, we got this player and we've got this planmaker and we've got this personnel grouping and we've got this flavor of cheesecake and we've got, you know, pasta over here. We've got sandwiches over here and you got skinny delicious over here.

Starting point is 00:16:46 And it's like, what am I even in the mood for? And all of a sudden, the playcocks running down to zero again. And we're like, oh, my gosh, it's the same problems, which we're going to talk about coming up here. But to speak directly to the running back position, I feel like this is another one of those issues, like you said, like, why can't you just hand the ball off to J.K. Dobbins? Do you not trust him in a third and two situation to get two yards. You don't trust a single running. This is the problem that faced the Broncos in the AFC championship game on fourth and two when they were in scoring range.

Starting point is 00:17:19 And they had to decide, do we trust Jared Stidham to throw for this first down? Or do we trust a running back to get a first down? Two yards. Who do we trust? Well, they didn't trust anybody at the running back position because they put the ball in Jared Stidham's hands at that moment. Now you're talking about another situation where they don't, not only do they not have anybody back there as a threat, you go empty. backfields. There's not even a threat of anyone running it. What the Broncos are indicating to me, dating back to the AFC championship game and here

Starting point is 00:17:50 in week one, is that they don't trust their running game at all. They don't trust it at all. They don't. Because you would be willing to lean on it if you trusted it. That's why the chiefs brought back Eric B. Enemy. That's why they went out and signed Kenneth Walker because they said, we need to trust our running game again. Dang it. And we can't. And now they can. And it's funny how that works. You commit to something, you dive headfirst into something. And I just feel like there's maybe this sense that, well, we got to get court touches or targets. Oh, we got to get waddled targets.

Starting point is 00:18:23 And I know we just preach that for an entire segment of the show. Yes, they need targets. But why does it have to be so complicated? Why can't it just be part of the flow of a game? Because you can't get all those mouths involved if you don't have or fed, excuse me, can't get all those mouths fed. if you don't have balance in the offense. If you have no sustained drives,

Starting point is 00:18:44 court's not going to get his targets. Waddle's not going to get his targets. Pat Bryant's not going to be able to break out because you can't sustain a drive because you can't run the ball. So that's where it starts to me is run the stinking ball and commit to it. And be willing against the Jaguars.

Starting point is 00:19:01 I'll even go so far as to say this, Cody, be willing to lose this game because you ran the ball too much because you tried too hard. to rely on it because you try too hard to go smack the Jaguars defensive line in the mouth and say we are going to run the ball and we're going to run it until you prove that you can stop it. And even if you prove that you can stop it, we're going to find new ways to try to run it against you. Like be willing to do that because this needs to be the backbone of the offense.

Starting point is 00:19:29 It has to be or else it's not a sustainable season. If you can't run the football and if you're not going to try to defenses, it's going to play right into their hands. It's going to make Bone Knicks's job more difficult. It's going to make the offensive lines job more difficult. You invested all this money in your offensive line for them to pass pro. And that's got to be part of the job description. But part of it as well is imposing your will and running the football. You're telling me you can't pull Quinn Miners, Ben Powers, you can't pull Garrett Bulls.

Starting point is 00:19:54 You want to get Garrett Bulls out in space on certain plays? I mean, Kenneth Walker had a 12-yard run in this game where they pulled the tackle. They brought a tight end in motion to get to the outside corner and they pulled a tackle to get up to the safety. You're telling me you can't do that with the group of guys you're paying a lot of money to. The running back conversation isn't necessarily over because I also want to bring up Jonah Coleman. Broncos country, we're going to get to that here on today's episode of the show. David Harrison here at the Lockdown Commanders podcast. Talk about Butcher Box.

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Starting point is 00:21:37 every dayers out there, especially for making us the number one podcast network in the country. Sarah, I have a gripe here about personnel. And I understand, you know, we want to start looking ahead to Jacksonville here soon. We're going to do that. We promise you that. But you have to look at some of the superlatives coming out of this week one loss. And it wasn't just execution. It wasn't just mistackles.

Starting point is 00:21:57 It was also usage and utilization. Bronco was working runback, Jonah Coleman, Sarah. I was, I'll admit, I was surprised that they had him returning kicks. did you draft him? And I understand he's a later round draft pick. He's not a second round draft pick. He's not a first round draft pick. I get it. But you draft him to return kicks at this point when he can be someone who can help you on third and one, third and two. You can help out in the goal line in the red zone. Instead, it very much seemed like they wanted to they put a lot of trust in RJ Harvey who were excited about. But they invested more in RJ Harvey in this game collectively with the amount of snaps that he played in comparison to guys like J.K. Dobbins. RJ Harvey, led the Broncos running back room with 26 total snaps, even though the J.K. Dobbins and 22 snaps led the team with eight total carries himself. Jonah Coleman got in a little late offensively and only had three offensive snaps. Sarah, what frustrates me is that the Broncos go out there and we see Jonah Coleman do these things in short-yarded situations. We see him run well in training camp and he doesn't even get on the field.

Starting point is 00:22:59 I understand the flow of the game's different. Denver didn't commit to the run game when they should have. And when you find yourself trailing 24-10 at one point, then you can't run the the football. I also understand that. You could do this early on. Was it to the point like we saw enough of what we needed to see from this guy, but we still don't trust him. You can't have it both ways in today's NFL. And I understand very much this was on display on Monday night. How do you feed three backs? You could try. The Broncos, they didn't even try in this game specifically. And so for me, my frustration is, okay, what is the role now of a guy like Jonah Coleman and how that coincides with Adam Prentice?

Starting point is 00:23:35 because if you use the fullback with these guys, and I understand Nate Atkins played a little bit of that fullback role because he's on the active roster. But you also, in combination, wasted Adam Prentice's elevation because he only played six snaps there, six snaps for a guy who is very valuable to your run game operation, at least helped make it a little bit better than it was last season. You know, it's interesting to me, Cody,

Starting point is 00:23:56 when you see something work in the preseason, oftentimes it's written off as, well, it was the preseason. Well, it was this as, I mean, I wanted to see on third and one. I wanted them to hand it. off to Adam Prentice, right? I wanted them to get some yards after contact from somebody like Jonah Coleman. And look, when you're talking about Jonah specifically, why would you pull a guy from a preseason game? We never saw him again, really, in the preseason. Not that I can remember, he was pretty much treated like one of the more valuable starters. And then to not see him play

Starting point is 00:24:26 in the regular season opener makes zero sense to me. And I know that they needed more plays. They couldn't sustain drives. So if they had more plays, maybe he would have got more plays. But we don't know that. And I just think anything would have been, give him that third and one opportunity. Would you have rather done what you did in hindsight than give the ball off to Adam Prentice or Jonah Coleman even, much less J.K. Dobbins or R.J. Harvey.

Starting point is 00:24:50 So it's just frustrating to me. It's frustrating that we see the forced involvement of all these different players. It's like, just give me, play the hits. Isn't that what Nick said in our squad show earlier this week? Like, play the hits, man. Give me Jalen Waddle quick passes. Give me Jonah Coleman on third and one. Give me the full back dive on third.

Starting point is 00:25:13 I mean, like, come on. That's what we need to see instead of all these, well, we got five receivers that need to get involved, and we've got four tight ends that need to get involved. And it's hard to involve three backs. Then don't. Then just get one involved. I mean, it's so simple in my mind.

Starting point is 00:25:30 I know it's not that simple in reality, but shoot, if the Broncos don't, make adjustments, they're going to get burned against Jacksonville. Yeah. And look, I know, I know we're not trying to complain Broncos country. Like we are just venting about like things that are frustrating. I think when you look at it based on like what we have been told, what we have seen. And now it's like we're not seeing that.

Starting point is 00:25:51 Like when you're throwing the ball as much as you are, when the game is tied 7-7 in the second quarter and you just let it get away from you after that because you have one score that happens and all of a sudden now everything's changed up. you're trailing by, you know, 11 points. And then you allow Phil goal. And now you're trailing by 14 points. It's just run the football early on when it's indicative, when it's there. Like you can't run the ball when you're down two touchdowns.

Starting point is 00:26:17 You're not going to. But yet the Broncos came out in third quarter after Kenneth Walker had the 60 yard touchdown. And now they're running the ball with JK. It's a run play. Okay. It's like, why then? Like, why does it have to be then versus like when you're actually like it's close? And the game's not out of reach.

Starting point is 00:26:34 that you're doing something that's going to milk time off the clock when it's a tie game or when it's early on in the game, that's when you need to get the run game going. Because guess what? If you're down 20 points, you're down 15, 16 points. As a defense, you know, hey, they're going to have to throw the football here because they're going to run out of time if they try to run the ball. It just, it seems like the Broncos did a complete 180 from everything that we saw in the preseason, from what we saw in the off season, granted, you're not showing your hand.

Starting point is 00:27:02 But was the game plan to say, like, you know, in the preseason, we're going to show this, and then we're actually going to go and do what we did last year instead, just to try to confuse people. That's where I think the fans are frustrated with, like, how the offense played. Like, in general, and we can say it. Bo Nix didn't play great. The offensive line didn't play great.

Starting point is 00:27:19 The play callers didn't put the offense in great position either. It was a disaster of a performance. And now that's what teams are going to look at you. Like, I don't know if the Jaguar is going to come to Denver and play them like they respect them. I don't think that they are. I think they're going to try to come into Denver and play, like they want to impose their will. They want to dictate the pace.

Starting point is 00:27:37 And knowing what Jacksonville did, and they did that last year against Denver, they're going to come out there and they're going to try to do the same exact thing. So the Broncos, they have to figure out their personnel as much as what do we want our scheme and our offense to truly be? We said we wanted to run the football, but we didn't do it. We didn't even try to do it. What is the approach going to be like coming in here into week two as the schedule gets tougher? And the Jaguars, they're a tough team that's coming to the mile high city. Broncos country.

Starting point is 00:28:02 Let us know your thoughts here about Denver's person. usage, wasting essentially an elevation of Adam Prentice from the practice squad to the game day roster, just for him to be on the field for six offensive snaps. He did play some special teams, but Jonah Coleman, you want to see a lot more than just three snaps for him on the offensive side of the ball. Pro that you trust the guy. You trusted him enough to give him that spot, that third running back spot. Trust him enough to actually get the on-field reps and see what he can do with that

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