Why worry about Brock Bowers when Broncos’ Bo Nix could confront Sean Payton? | Sports

Initial ideas from the Broncos’ 34-18 win over the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 5 at Empower Field at Mile High:

Talk your speak, Bo: A yr in the past, Russell Wilson simply took it. Sean Payton was in his ear, chewing him out on prime-time nationwide TV in Detroit, and the then-Broncos quarterback mentioned nearly nothing. Fast ahead to Sunday, and Bo Nix was having none of it. Confronted by the Denver coach after rookie vast receiver Troy Franklin dropped a tricky, however catchable, deep ball in the long run zone, Nix didn’t simply stand his floor. He let Payton have imt. Then he went out and led back-to-back landing drives, sneaking one in and throwing one other to Josh Reynolds from 9 yards out. Could it's that every one the Broncos wanted was somebody to yell at Payton?

Rai-duh satisfaction: One of essentially the most irritating points of the Broncos’ eight-game dropping streak to the Raiders (now mercifully over). It’s the flippin’ Rai-duhs!!! A franchise with a well-earned fame for persistently taking pictures itself within the foot!!! Like on Sunday, when Gardner Minshew floated a ball to Pat Surtain II on the Broncos aim line for a 100-yard pick-six. Or when Janarius Robinson dedicated a useless private foul on Wil Lutz’s 59-yard discipline aim miss on the finish of the primary half. Ten factors completely gift-wrapped by the Rai-duhs, and a 13-10 Denver lead it by no means ought to have had.

Take a Bow-ers: Get prepared to listen to this for the following decade: Brock Bowers could’ve been a Bronco. There for the taking at No. 12 in final spring’s NFL draft, the staff’s mind belief opted to draft its subsequent franchise QB (fingers crossed) as an alternative. Thus, it got here to be that on a day when third-year tight finish Greg Dulcich was a wholesome scratch, the Raiders rookie massive bro’ed security P.J. Locke on the fourth snap of the sport for a 57-yard landing catch and customarily ran roughshod in his Mile High debut. Get used to it, Broncos Country. This man’s going to be round for a very long time.