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Upon Further Review
1. First thrust excessively easy. Five plays into the game, Cleveland was successful the pb for good. First play: OLB Malik Reed was precocious to respond to WR Jarvis Landry (seven yards). Second play: Reed was shed by TE Austin Hooper, who turned a mediate surface into 34 yards. Third play: No Broncos subordinate could get distant from their blocks and ILB Justin Strnad was retired of presumption (D’Ernest Johnson 20 yards). Fourth play: Johnson gained 10 down pb blocker Johnny Stanton. Fifth play: S Justin Simmons missed a tackle and Johnson scored a four-yard touchdown.
2. Better walk protection. Four days aft allowing a season-high 22 disruptions to Las Vegas, the Broncos’ violative enactment was booked for 10 disruptions (two sacks, 3 knockdowns and 5 pressures) by Cleveland. The sacks were divided betwixt RT Bobby Massie/LT Garett Bolles connected a play that shouldn’t person counted due to the fact that Massie (false start) and/or Clowney (neutral zone) moved early. The 2nd sack was coverage-related (7.82 seconds) erstwhile Bridgewater was incapable to scramble past the enactment of scrimmage.
3. Starting issues. The Broncos ran lone 17 first-half plays. They gained six yards connected third-and-7 connected the opening drive. They couldn’t capitalize connected WR Courtland Sutton’s one-handed 31-yard drawback during the 2nd thrust (interception). A mendacious commencement punishment connected TE Noah Fant to commencement the 3rd thrust enactment the Broncos down the sticks and they couldn’t person connected third-and-9. And their 4th thrust was capped by 2 Bridgewater throwaways.
4. Pressuring Keenum. It was a quiescent nighttime for OLB Von Miller pursuing his large Tuesday quality conference. Before exiting with a near ankle wounded precocious successful the archetypal half, Miller had 1 backmost knockdown. Overall, the Broncos rushed 5 oregon much connected 12 of QB Case Keenum’s 36 drop-backs (33.3%) and helium was 6-of-12 passing for 60 yards and 1 touchdown against other rushers. The champion rusher was rookie OLB Jonathon Cooper, who had 3 knockdowns and 1 pressure.
5. Third-down struggles. Cleveland was 9 of 15 connected 3rd down; the conversions were tied for the second-most of the Vic Fangio Era (the Raiders had 10 successful the 2019 opener). The Browns had six third-and-1 plays and converted each of them. After a uncommon third-down halt was 1 of the game’s biggest plays: On fourth-and-3 from the Broncos’ 6, Keenum scrambled and made ILB Curtis Robinson miss astatine the 4 and Strnad miss astatine the 2. The Browns scored connected the adjacent play to instrumentality a 17-7 lead.
6. Surtain successful coverage. Surtain missed a fourth-quarter tackle, but helium was on-point successful coverage. The Browns were 1 of 5 for 6 yards erstwhile challenging Surtain successful antheral sum (two walk break-ups). They were 3 of 3 for 17 yards against CB Bryce Callahan and 3 of 6 for 30 yards against CB Ronald Darby. Even Miller got progressive erstwhile helium was assigned to Landry (huh?), who caught an casual four-yard pass.
Four Key Numbers
36:51
Cleveland’s clip of possession, the astir by a Broncos hostile this year.
14/41
Rushing attempts and yards by the Broncos, their lowest of the twelvemonth successful some categories.
9
Snaps the Broncos’ defence played with 4 linemen connected the field.
21
Games during manager Vic Fangio’s tenure successful which the Broncos person failed to people 20 points (3-18 record).
Talking Points
Playing clip breakdown. After playing 81 snaps against Las Vegas, the Broncos’ discourtesy had lone 50 snaps against Cleveland. WRs Tim Patrick and Courtland Sutton played 47 apiece, followed by TE Noah Fant (45), RB Melvin Gordon (29), WR Kendall Hinton (24) and TE Eric Saubert/RB Javonte Williams (21). OLB Malik Reed played 67 of 71 snaps defensively and rookies Curtis Robinson (ILB, 45) and Jonathon Cooper (OLB, 40) played much due to the fact that of injuries to ILB Micah Kiser (nine) and OLB Von Miller (33), respectively.
Nothing doing downfield. Only 3 of QB Teddy Bridgewater’s 33 attempts traveled astatine slightest 16 “air” yards downfield — a 31-yard completion Sutton (one-handed catch, 27 “air” yards), an extremity portion interception by S John Johnson (31 “air” yards) and an incompletion to Patrick (27 “air” yards). In the past 2 games, Bridgewater is 3-of-10 passing for 83 yards connected attempts of astatine slightest 16 “air” yards.
Tackling issues. The Broncos were booked for a season-high 12 missed tackles; they entered Thursday averaging 3.7 per game. The breakdown: S Kareem Jackson (three), Strnad and Robinson (two apiece) and 1 apiece by Reed, S Justin Simmons, CB Pat Surtain II, NT Mike Purcell and DE Dre’Mont Jones. The Broncos’ erstwhile precocious was 8 against Pittsburgh.
Extra points
Coach Vic Fangio improved to 4 of 11 successful his vocation connected replay challenges with his archetypal triumph of 2021 connected his 3rd attempt. The Broncos challenged a 16-yard drawback by Browns WR Jarvis Landry connected third-and-7 successful the 4th fourth that was overturned. … NT Mike Purcell drew his 4th holding punishment connected an hostile successful the past 3 games. … Two Broncos RBs caught touchdowns (Melvin Gordon/Javonte Williams) successful the aforesaid crippled for the archetypal clip since November 2010 (Spencer Larsen/Knowshon Moreno). … WR Courtland Sutton has 4 penalties this year; his walk interference connected Thursday was his 2nd successful arsenic galore games.
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