Denver Broncos Just Unleashed the Most TERRIFYING Team in the NFL — The AFC Has NO Answer for This!

Denver Broncos Just Unleashed the Most TERRIFYING Team in the NFL — The AFC Has NO Answer for This!

Welcome to NFL Madness, your go-to YouTube channel for NFL action game highlights, analysis, news, and stories. Subscribe and fuel your football passion. We’ve got two teams coming off a buy. Washington Commanders taking on the Broncos. But the Broncos, last time we saw them, they did get a win over the Chiefs. Yeah, and I think for them, this is your chance. You own this division. You came out, you beat the Kansas City Chiefs. I look for Bo Knicks to possibly take that next step. He’s played well in the fourth quarter. How can we play a complete game? Yeah, for me, one of the best stories in the NFL this year, and a lot of people are talking about ugly wins. They’re just squeaking by. I look at it a different way. They’re mentally tough when they get in these situations down the stretch. They’re going to play good teams. They’re going to be in these games and they can rely on this kind of success they’ve had. All right. You can rely on us. Um, and right now we’re, you know, do we’re doing that now. There’s a lot of room to grow and, you know, we can just watch over and over things that we we can get better at. But I think that’s the the fun part of football. Yeah. You guys are number one team in the AFC. Okay. He said, “Yeah, we’re leading the division.” Blah, blah, blah blah blah. You’re the number one team in the AFC. Yes. Above the Colts. Actually had to have them pull this graphic up from my little monitor here to see where exactly we were sitting and where they were sitting cuz I wanted to talk immediately. And then I was sharing this graphic. It’s like, okay, Broncos number one team in the AFC. Everybody needs to relax. Okay. Everybody needs to show them their respect as they should. I take them all back. Especially after your unbelievable performance against the Chiefs. It feels like you have kind of silenced all the doubters and Adam Trotman gave a great postgame just about people who do talk crazy about you and you know you go out and have that performance and it’s unbelievable and you beat the Chiefs and then the conversation this week is more so about the Chiefs losing and the Broncos you know going out there and getting a massive win. Um do you guys have that bunker mentality within the you know the building where hey everybody else can talk about whatever the hell they want. We’re nine and two. We’re the one seed at the end of the day that is indisputable. They can’t really say anything about that. Uh, how is the team when it comes to that mentality? And does this feel like one of the closest teams you’ve ever been on? We actually do talk about how close our team is. Um, you know, we just got a lot of young guys. I mean, the I think our oldest guys are year eight, year nine, so we’re just all in similar stages of life. I think that’s what makes us close. But, um, we also know what it was like last year. We know what it was like to lose some of these close games and so we uh we have turned some of those around. We have had a better record in close football games this year. But I do think it just goes back to the, you know, the confidence and the belief of the team. We believe that we can win these games. Well, thank you. But it it definitely one starts with the defense in this league. You got to be able to stop people. Um and it comes down to the end so many times to where we just feel comfortable with our defense that they’re going to go out there and get a stop no matter what happens. um they rush the passer at a you know all-time um you know effective way and uh they do a great job downfield covering guys and um make open field tackles. A lot of erasers on that defense. So we know at all times you’re going to have to stop people and if you can stop people that’s the name of the game. Um and offensively we’re um you know at times we’ve been great this year. At times we’ve struggled, but um I think when it matters most, we we know how to go down there and just finish out the game and um do what we need to do to close it out. But at the same time, you know, we’ve done it for a couple weeks now in a row, but we still got to continue on this on this track and continue this uh um this role we’re on. But um it’s not going to be easy. We got a really tough schedule down the stretch here. And um you know, we just got to find ways to continue to close out these close football games that we’ve been in. Yeah, I think closing out games and winning games is a trait that great teams have, you know, and obviously you have five fourth quarter comebacks this season that’s tied for the most alongside the Bears. That’s some Hembo stats for you. It feels like we’re just watching Will Lutz kind of come out and win games alongside every other kicker that is in a winning position and on a winning team. I I uh I want to let you know, Bo, you’re fun to watch and we’ve seen a lot of you. Troy Franklin, second year, he’s only 22 years old. Marvin Mims, I believe, is only 23 years old, too. Obviously, you being young and coming in with these guys and building with this guy with these guys, is it exciting because you know that you’re all so young and that you can continue just to keep getting better? Absolutely. It’s uh um you know, being young is a great thing, but it’s also you know, in the league, they don’t really wait on you, so you got to you know, mature as as quick as you can. But we have a very, you know, all of those guys that you just um, you know, listed, they’re extremely mature. They’re great football players and they’re only going to get better um in this, you know, in during the season and then in their careers. But it’s I think it’s good that we’re all learning together and uh we know that there’s sort of a um um a hurry to get better. It’s like as fast as you can get better, especially in this situation we’re in, you know, going, you know, leading um you know, our division and and playing really good football. we the the urgency to even get better is there and um you know it’s great to have younger guys. They got all have uh you know fresh legs. They can run all day. Um they’re eager, they’re excited. They show up to work each and every day. Um and I think they’re just uh very competitive dudes that you know we all just want to show up and and do whatever we can to win. Who are we scared of? Ain’t got to be scared of nobody. That line isn’t just trash talk anymore. It’s a warning label slapped on the entire AFC because right now the Denver Broncos are not some cute little feel-good story. They are 92. They’re sitting on top of the AFC West and they’ve ripped the crown straight off Kansas City’s head after nine straight division titles by the Chiefs. Let that sink in. One year after drafting one of the most polarizing QB prospects of 2024, Denver has flipped the conference on its back. A rise nobody saw coming. a rise nobody wants to admit is real until they have to fly to mile high in January and breathe that thin air with their season on the line. This isn’t luck. This isn’t a hot streak. This is a team built to make you panic. And if you’re wondering how Denver got here, you have to start with the part of this team that’s turning Sundays into nightmares. We grew up on the old saying, offense sells tickets, defense wins championships. Denver used to live by Hall of Fame quarterbacks Elway Payton with a top 10 defense holding the line. But in 2025, that script is flipped upside down and lit on fire. This defense is the show. The offense is the question mark. And somehow it works. Denver is allowing the third fewest points in the league with the best red zone defense by a wide margin. Even when stars miss time, this unit doesn’t blink. It’s like a machine that chews up playbooks and spits out punts. And the face of that machine, Nick Bonito. He’s sitting on 9.5 sacks through 11 games, exploding off the edge like he’s late to a robbery. Every snap feels like a coin flip between pressure and catastrophe. Denver’s front is so violent, so relentless, they’re tracking toward all-time territory. The league is starting to whisper the scary word, “Historic.” But here’s the uncomfortable truth. Even with a defense this terrifying, Denver season still hinges on the most unpredictable thing in football. Their quarterback Bo Knicks is the walking contradiction of 2025. Three quarters, he’ll make you question reality. Fourth quarter, he makes you question your soul. On paper, you can see the uneven ride. Dariu 420 set passing yards. Depan plans TDs Dapen picks so far. A passer rating hovering around the mid 80 seconds. Not MVP numbers, not best QB alive numbers. And yet the moment the game turns into a fist fight, Nicks turns into the last man standing. He has authored some ridiculous escape acts this year against the Giants. Denver was dead and buried down 268 late. Win probability cratered to 0.7%. Then Denver detonated for 33 points in the fourth quarter, most ever in NFL history, after being shut out for three quarters. Knicks personally had four touchdowns in that quarter. Two passing, two rushing. That’s not a comeback. That’s a crime scene. So, every time someone says Denver doesn’t want to put the game in Bo Nicks’s hands, I laugh because his hands are the reason they’re here and the defining proof of who Bo Knicks is now. Came against the one team Denver was supposed to fear forever. Week 11, Chiefs at Broncos. The game every AFC contender was watching like it was a playoff preview. Kansas City does what Kansas City always does. Claw back late. Chaos. Mahomes to Kelsey. The inevitable gut punch. But Denver didn’t flinch. Bo Nicks took over the second half like he’d been saving receipts for two years. He pushed the ball downfield, hit explosive throws, and walked Denver into range repeatedly. Then the closer arrived. Will Lutz from 35 yd. Walk-off. Broncos win 22 19. Eight straight wins. Kansas City stunned. Denver sitting on top of the division like, “Yeah, we’re real. That wasn’t a win. That was a statement written in concrete.” Now, here’s where it gets dangerous. Because Denver is still winning while their offense is unfinished. Let’s not pretend everything is perfect. Denver’s offense has had slow starts all year. They’ve gone stretches without scoring on opening drives, falling into holes they shouldn’t be in. But even that has a dark flip side. They keep surviving it. They’ve got insulation. A top tier offensive line that has kept Nicks upright with a sack rate near the bottom of the league. Courtland Sutton still a dependable chain mover. Troy Franklin Nicks’s old Oregon teammate starting to become the speed threat connection this offense needs. Young backs and tight ends giving them juice underneath. Yes, there are drops. Yes, timing isn’t always clean. But if this passing game clicks fully, if Franklin becomes what Denver thinks he is, then the defense won’t just win games. It will turn games into executions. So the question isn’t, “Are the Broncos good?” The question is the one nobody wants to answer out loud. Look around the conference. Who’s built like Denver? The Chiefs? They just got walked off in Mile High, the Eagles. Denver erased them late and ended their streak. everyone else. They’re watching Denver’s defense like it’s an approaching storm they can’t outrun Denver’s two losses this year by a combined four points. That’s not fragility. That’s a team that lives on the edge and doesn’t fall off. And the most terrifying ingredient isn’t scheme, it’s belief. When a seventhrounder like Jonathan Cooper is shouting, “Who we scared of?” and the locker room echoes it, you’re not dealing with talent alone. You’re dealing with a team that expects to break you. And the worst part for the AFC, they’re only getting better. So, let’s end where this has to end with the road ahead and the nightmare waiting for anyone who draws Denver in January. Here’s the reality. If Denver locks home field and you have to pull up to Denver and see about this, your season is in trouble because playoff football isn’t about pretty. It’s about pressure. It’s about surviving ugly. It’s about fourth quarter nerve. And right now, Denver has all three. A defense that can strangle any offense alive, an offensive line and run game steady enough to keep them afloat, and a quarterback who, when the clock hits crunch time, turns into the league’s most dangerous closer. So, yeah, Bo Nicks isn’t perfect. But what young QB is, the point is, he doesn’t need to be perfect yet because Denver’s formula is already working. And if the offense finishes baking, the AFC might be cooked. And that’s the scary question we’re not done with because the next month decides whether this is just a breakout season or the beginning of a new AFC empire. Yo, Mike check 1:21 -2. Game over for this video, folks. Smash that like button, drop a comment, and subscribe to stay in the huddle for more. This is NFL Madness, bringing the heat and signing out. [Music]

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Denver Broncos Just Unleashed the Most TERRIFYING Team in the NFL — The AFC Has NO Answer for This!