VonDoom
09-04-2015, 08:58 AM
Pretty good analysis of our boys at the MMQB today:
It will be interesting to see how often Ray, Ware and Miller are all on the field together. Miller’s viability as a standup amoeba rusher presents an array of options—almost all of which involve at least one, and often two, of these dynamos drawing a one-on-one matchup against a heavier-footed pass protector.
With it likely to be a very potent dime package in Denver, and with opponents’ wanting to keep Manning, arguably football’s most commanding field general, on the sidelines, there’s a strong likelihood that teams will try fervently to run the ball on this defense, keeping it in its more vanilla 5-2. In that case, 2013 first-rounder Sylvester Williams becomes perhaps the group’s most important player. Williams is tasked with filling the very big (literal and figurative) void of departed nose tackle Terrance Knighton, who’s now in Washington. Williams has the raw ability, but he has not stood out over his first two seasons and has had trouble at times holding ground and working off run-blocks. That’s a problem if you’re a B-gap defensive tackle and a more significant one if you’re playing the A gap, where he’ll now be.
The rest: http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/09/03/denver-broncos-season-preview-nfl
It will be interesting to see how often Ray, Ware and Miller are all on the field together. Miller’s viability as a standup amoeba rusher presents an array of options—almost all of which involve at least one, and often two, of these dynamos drawing a one-on-one matchup against a heavier-footed pass protector.
With it likely to be a very potent dime package in Denver, and with opponents’ wanting to keep Manning, arguably football’s most commanding field general, on the sidelines, there’s a strong likelihood that teams will try fervently to run the ball on this defense, keeping it in its more vanilla 5-2. In that case, 2013 first-rounder Sylvester Williams becomes perhaps the group’s most important player. Williams is tasked with filling the very big (literal and figurative) void of departed nose tackle Terrance Knighton, who’s now in Washington. Williams has the raw ability, but he has not stood out over his first two seasons and has had trouble at times holding ground and working off run-blocks. That’s a problem if you’re a B-gap defensive tackle and a more significant one if you’re playing the A gap, where he’ll now be.
The rest: http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/09/03/denver-broncos-season-preview-nfl