Thread: Bradley Roby corners the market on big plays with Broncos

The 24-year-old with an easy smile steps through the door and heads to a corner in the hallway. The team's quarterback talks to a reporter across the room, but Bradley Roby doesn't mind. He is comfortable sharing the spotlight. In his first two seasons, despite not starting, he has earned a reputation as a playmaker.

The interview on this spring afternoon symbolizes his career. It's going by as fast and casually as possible. Roby possesses the ability to dim the spotlight, to slow his pulse when the hearts of Broncos' fans are in their throats.

Flip the pages in last season's championship scrapbook, and the cornerback's fingerprints cover some of the biggest moments. At Kansas City, with overtime a growing certainty, Roby scooped up a fumble by the Chiefs' Jamaal Charles, head faked quarterback Alex Smith and jogged into the end zone for a game-winning touchdown. Against Pittsburgh, with Denver's championship dreams flickering, Roby wrestled free from a block by receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, poked the football loose from running back Fitzpatrick Toussaint, then DeMarcus Ware pounced on it. A week later, the Patriots needing only a two-point conversion to send the AFC championship game into overtime, Roby left his man as Aqib Talib deflected the football intended for receiver Julian Edelman into Roby's hands.

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How many defensive starters did we lose?


Roby played something like 56% of the defensive snaps. Thats alot of dime package. Its encouraging to know that on 56% of our plays this year, we have lost only ONE

defensive starter, not two.


Look out league when Kollar brings Gotsis up to speed.


This defense is looking to show people it can be better.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Look, Wade Phillips has heard the chatter about the Denver Broncos’ losses in free agency this offseason.

The team’s defensive coordinator, in his fourth decade in the NFL, has heard how the Broncos' defense -- which led the league in most categories in 2015 and powered the team to a Super Bowl win -- can't possibly return to form. Because, the narrative has gone, defensive end Malik Jackson and linebacker Danny Trevathan signed in Jacksonville and Chicago, respectively, in free agency.

But Phillips doesn’t do the math the same way others do -- and cornerback Bradley Roby is a big reason why.

“We lost two guys -- two out of 11, really 12 if you count Roby, since he started most of the season," Phillips said. “Then in our dime defense, we really lost one guy -- one starter in Malik. ... We play dime 40 percent of the time. In our base defense, we lost two, and in the other one, we lost one. We feel good about the guys we have."

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