{"id":702317,"date":"2026-01-24T20:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702317\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:48:17","slug":"broncos-country-votes-pass-rush-as-key-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702317\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos Country votes \u2018pass rush\u2019 as key to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s an unprecedented AFC Championship Game with a backup QB taking actual game snaps for the first time in two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But as everyone keeps noting, it\u2019s not like Jarrett Stidham doesn\u2019t have experience. He has played regular season NFL games before and was quite successful in one with the Raiders where he nearly led an upset win over the 49ers and their top-ranked defense Jan. 1, 2023. No less, he was doing this under Josh McDaniels, and we all know how that can go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But this is the AFC Championship and Bo Nix has been a primary reason this team has so many comeback wins and has gotten to this point. Now that will fall on Stiddy\u2019s capable shoulders. Most in Broncos Country believe the key to a win for Stidham and the Broncos comes from the defense (63%) \u2014 with a slightly larger contingent voting for a strong pass rush to get to Drake Maye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s an unprecedented AFC Championship Game with a backup QB taking actual game snaps for the first time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,1151,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-702317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denver-broncos-news","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115952045952388905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}