Do the Broncos now have the NFL’s best defense?

Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald discuss how Denver’s stacked secondary may mean the Mile High City is home to football’s top defense. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Let’s go with your number two team, the Broncos, who were my number one team and Matt Harmon’s number one team.

I’ll let you take the lead.

You start looking at the CV room, OK, wow, if those guys play up to the ability that we know they have, that’s insane.

You get Hofanga, the old 49ers safety on the back end.

That’s crazy.

I’m pumping the brakes a little bit on this Dre Greenlaw stuff.

I just, I don’t know how anyone can be confident on on what that’s going to be.

We’ll see on that front, but even if he’s not that good, this is still one of the elite defenses in the league.

They’re going to beat up the bad run games.

They’re going to give him hell.

I don’t I think they still have some things to prove as far as, you know, you go to Baltimore and you get demolished, and you go to Buffalo in the playoffs and you you get run right off the field again.

So you got to improve there, but they just check off so many boxes that it’s hard to have much lower than this.

I ended with them at number one because it’s just momentum from May and just getting excited about what they did and just, yeah, pass rush, pressures, like they can win with four.

They can win with blitzes.

They do funky stuff that makes it hard on battle lines and young quarterbacks or bad quarterbacks.

They have the dude at corner in Pat Surtain, reigning Defensive Player of the Year, who can lock down anybody.

Hank is a headhunter.

He’s a little risk-reward type of safety, but man, he can make some plays.

I really like him.

I think what you just mentioned about run games that can kind of steamroll people, that’s theirthat’s the Vance Joseph scheme weakness, I would say, because it’s the same discussion we’ve had with the Cardinals too.

It’s so funky and so much movement on the front end that if it gets blocked up, it’s a gash.

And that’s the risk-reward of their defensive style.

Do they kind of tone it down?

We’ll see, but it’s kind of dance with the one who brought you, kind of thing.

That’s why I always kind of, you know, I don’t know how to decide on those things.

But yeah, they have a lot of answers for a lot of different teams on top of speed, versatility, and all the good stuff.

Do the Broncos now have the NFL’s best defense?

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