The Broncos defense completely shut down Dak Prescott and the Cowboys, earning Denver its sixth straight win and solidifying their status as one of the NFL’s hottest teams. Chris Harris Jr. joins Brandon Krisztal to break down how the defense dominated despite losing Pat Surtain II to a pec strain, and what the emergence of young players like Riley Moss and Chris Abrams-Drain means moving forward. J.K. Dobbins discusses wanting to finish his career in Denver, while Chris and BK debate whether the Broncos should extend him now. The guys also examine the addition of veteran tight end Marcedes Lewis, analyze Vance Joseph’s adjustments in the secondary, and take a deep dive into film room highlights featuring big plays from Tillman and the No. 1 red-zone defense in football. Plus, they preview the road test in Houston — including how Bo Nix and the offense can find success against DeMeco Ryans’ top-ranked Texans defense.
In this week’s Football Fridays with Chris Harris Jr. & Brandon Krisztal, the Broncos defense puts on a clinic against the Cowboys, leading to a confident look ahead to their matchup with the Houston Texans. J.K. Dobbins expresses his love for Denver and his hopes for a long-term future with the team. Chris Harris Jr. explains why the Broncos’ physical, disciplined play has made them elite in the red zone, while BK highlights how Sean Payton’s offense continues to find balance through the run game. The episode also explores the strategic signing of Marcedes Lewis, injury updates on Pat Surtain II and Marvin Mims, and predictions around key NFL matchups including Bills–Chiefs and Seahawks–Commanders. A mix of film breakdown, locker room insight, and honest analysis from one of the Broncos’ all-time greats.
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Brandon Krisztal
The Broncos are looking for a sixth straight win. They are headed down to the Lone Star State. Will they be the best team in Texas after beating the Cowboys? They take on the Texans. Chris Harris Jr joins me to break it all down. Football Fridays starts now.
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Brandon Krisztal
I got my, Halloween costume working on it.
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Chris Harris Jr
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Brandon Krisztal
These damn shoulder pads. Check out my Halloween costume. See if you can tell it.
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Chris Harris Jr
Wait. I'm not done. It looks like you got a game jersey.
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Brandon Krisztal
I do have a game jersey. It's signed and everything.
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Chris Harris Jr
So you can tell.
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Brandon Krisztal
I'm being for Halloween.
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Chris Harris Jr
Staff has. Or. I found.
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Brandon Krisztal
This to. I don't know how much money you made on these.
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Chris Harris Jr
Oh, yeah. Oh, we did pretty good math.
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Brandon Krisztal
No flies. Because I don't know if you can tell with the zoom. Which hat do we like? The no fly zone or the Jayhawks. What's less distracting.
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Chris Harris Jr
As the day are they disappoint us this week.
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Brandon Krisztal
Yeah, yeah. Basketball season is upon us. I'd like to be there for the opener Monday, but. So you refuse to wear Halloween costumes even though I asked you we're gonna wear Halloween costumes. And I had a different one. I was going to wear my friends on Fox 31 and channel two, and I talked to them every Friday. They didn't want to do.
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Brandon Krisztal
They didn't do like, that's a that's a TV morning show thing. It's Halloween costume. So I flipped it on. They're both they're all in suits. I was gonna wear my Where's Waldo costume, but I'm going to be I'm going to be straphangers today for Football Fridays. You're not wearing a Halloween costume now, but you have five girls.
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Brandon Krisztal
I guess I have two questions. One, do you and your wife dress up with them to go trick or treating into. Any or all of them K-pop demon Hunters characters? Because that is far and away the most popular costume that that I know. My daughter, we couldn't get one because they were all sold out. Watching the Halloween parade at my son's school.
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Brandon Krisztal
Every sixth costume was I was a K-pop demon hunter. Character.
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Chris Harris Jr
I think we did. We've done that before. But we didn't plan on it this year. We've kind of just let the girls do their thing, but, you know, we did the frozen. I think I was over one year. We did, Despicable Me. I was, was the guy with the big nose group. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did that.
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Chris Harris Jr
Miss, I don't know what they're going to do, you know, that's, they haven't shown me yet, so I'll be surprised and see what they were.
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Brandon Krisztal
How's the Dallas weather? I guarantee it's warmer than here. It's 55 here today. Little cool little.
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Chris Harris Jr
Chris, man. We got, like, a winter. Like a winter storm out here, man. It's, you know, winter blast, man. So it's been pretty cold and windy. So hopefully today you know today it's about 65. So it's a little bit better.
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Brandon Krisztal
I remember when I was in eighth grade in Dallas it being one of the coldest Halloweens I can ever remember. You know, now 47 years on this earth, like it was cold and we ended up cutting trick or treating short and watching silence of the lambs at somebody's house. But, do you like Halloween? Do you like getting dressed up?
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Brandon Krisztal
Especially with the team parties. Y'all had some good ones, you know, von threw some good ones, and you were part of those. We get the one with Chad Kelly. Gotten too much trouble.
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Chris Harris Jr
Yeah, yeah, I was at all of them, you know, and, me and the wife. But, every year was just fun, you know, good, team bonding. And, I think it first started with Payton, Dawn one and and then von kind of just took it over. It was like, now we're got a little bit better than you, Payton.
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Chris Harris Jr
Take it to the next level and then you see the level. I think it went TMZ. Right. So that's the level we took it in. Yeah. And man, it was always and then we started inviting the whole all the teams.
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Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. Nuggets.
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Chris Harris Jr
Yeah. Everybody was there. So then that even made it even crazier. But it was it was definitely a good, bonding, for the team. And you got to have stuff like that. You know, I'm pretty sure they had a little Halloween party.
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Brandon Krisztal
They did. And I talked to Courtland Sutton. I asked him about. I asked Bo Nix about it. There were some really cool costumes, I think, too. And his girlfriend, one, that he was Jack Skellington, and she was his, his bride, and their costumes looked awesome. NFL picked him as one of, like, the highlights of, like, hey, look at all the players having fun around the league.
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Brandon Krisztal
So yeah, looked at it looked really cool. Before we get to to though, let's talk about last week's game and that beat down in the Cowboys. I know you touched on it with obviously Shelby and Ryan Harris on where the Harris was earlier in the week. But what was your biggest takeaway on how they curb stomped?
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Brandon Krisztal
Your the city where you're a resident in the city where I grew up. It was not much of a contest, really. From about the midway through the first quarter.
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Chris Harris Jr
Well, you know, it was always going to be a great test going against the number one offense. Dak Prescott CeeDee lamb. Pickens. These are two number one receivers. And they've been high all year. So to be able to to have a great showing at home that's what you want. So even though it hurts losing to Miles play solid.
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Chris Harris Jr
Chris Abrams James play solid. Bang. The rookie came out and had an interception. And that's what you got to do, man. And offense you know they continue to continue to get better O line is played pretty solid all year. Been able to keep Bo Nix clean and allow him to make all the throws. Necessary in this offense.
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Chris Harris Jr
So it was a rookie showing a rookie blast. RJ Harvey went off three touchdowns. Brian was able to, catch one down the sideline a dart by Bo Nix. It was a great team effort. So that's what you want to see. From a team that's trying to go win the AFC West division and knock off the you know the team has won it.
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Chris Harris Jr
How many years now had the Chiefs won two in a row.
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Brandon Krisztal
Well let's go back to Patrick Mahomes first year. So since 2016 they've won it that nine straight years for years. Yeah because they won with Alex and company right after. Y'all want Super Bowl 50. I guess it no ten straight. Did they win it that next year in 2016. Are the Chargers.
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Chris Harris Jr
When they won that every year.
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Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. So they want it. Alex wanted that that year in 2016. And then 2017 was Patrick's rookie year where he only played obviously the one game. But yeah. So that's since 2016. So ten straight seasons, something like that. What's crazy is, you know, we've said Patrick Mahomes we'll get to the Chiefs you know in a couple of weeks.
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Brandon Krisztal
But that he is what Elway was the you know the the the nemesis the foe of what Elway was to the AFC West. But in John's 16 years they only won the division seven times. Even when they won Super Bowl, the first all Super Bowl 32. They were a wild card team. And so it just goes to show it's it's not easy to do what Tom Brady did, what Peyton Manning did in Indy.
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Brandon Krisztal
And then the four years here or what Patrick Mahomes and company are doing now like what's happening in the NFC East where they haven't had Back-To-Back winners every year is what is what what's great about the NFL and AFC North is another good one. The Ravens have been good. Steelers have been good, but they're still rotating. It's not oh five years of the Steelers five years of the Ravens.
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Brandon Krisztal
And so I think.
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Chris Harris Jr
Mahomes yeah look Mahomes came into a perfect situation right. When you fall in and you have the fastest guy in the NFL. All right. Yeah. Then you got the number one tight end with Travis Kelce. You had a young fresh Kareem Hunt. You had a solid O line defense Chris Jones and all those boys. So Patrick Mahomes fell into a great team a good team already that just need a quarterback right.
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Chris Harris Jr
And what a great coach. So that's why Mahomes was able to be dominant. The Chiefs have been able to you know been rolling so long is that you know look at where he started with. Look at those weapons.
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Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. If he goes to Jacksonville not saying he wouldn't have gotten there at some point, but it helps. And you know, Andy Reid, obviously, at the height of his powers play calling wise. And Matt Nagy before you became a head coach in that. So you had all that great. Eric behind me was obviously a big part of what they were doing there.
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Brandon Krisztal
So, but the Broncos are obviously making noise. And as we're looking at, because we touched on the Chiefs and their offense and defense are pretty good. The Broncos. And we'll get to the numbers here in a little bit when we look at the Texans. But their top ten in offense and and defense. The looking back on the Cowboys real quickly and again you live down there and it is the team that I did for growing up.
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Brandon Krisztal
And I'll still yell at the TV, but I don't lose announcers and wink asleep thinking about them. I can't remember. And maybe you can. You can, one can come to top of mine in recent years or I'm sure, ever. But a team that has more talent and potential on offense or on one side of the ball versus how bad they are on the other side, like that gap for the Cowboys defense, even if they're fully healthy.
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Brandon Krisztal
But that Cowboys defense and that Cowboys offense, that gap to me feels bigger than any team. You talk about complementary football there. They have nothing to complement. Can you remember a team that was so lopsided one way or the other in recent memory?
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Chris Harris Jr
No, I mean, I haven't seen a defense this bad in a long time. You know, when you look at the stats, the Cowboys are pretty much last in everything and and, run pass, third down, turnovers. You know, it's bad. And big plays. You know every week they're giving up big plays at a record number.
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Chris Harris Jr
You know, a record number going in a defensive season. So, I haven't seen the team so lopsided. And that's what we're supposed to do. You're supposed to go out there and dominate those guys. And we did that. We pushed them around with the O line with is, you see this guy? I mean, he's the Pancake King, you know, already.
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Chris Harris Jr
Bose is playing great. The O-line is just, you know, paving holes for Dobbins and Harvey. So, they can't stop the run or the pass over there in Dallas. You know, and it's going to take a while, you know? Good thing Jay has two first round picks. I'm pretty sure his next couple days will be straight defense.
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Brandon Krisztal
Yeah, the one of those first round picks is probably going to come pretty low with where the Packers are likely headed, but nonetheless, two first round picks. You can turn that into something, or you can trade back and turn that into more quality players. I mean, that's the way I would look at it. Unless there's two guys that they love.
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Brandon Krisztal
That's the thing is, it's crazy how good the Cowboys have drafted on offense, especially up front, and how much they've missed other than Micah Parsons in that front seven really for the last half decade, if not more. We don't even focus on the Cowboys. Just look at what the Broncos did well. And so Bo Nix was asked, and I'm kind of paraphrasing, but about sustaining that offense because you aren't going to see that JB defense really again the rest of the year.
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Brandon Krisztal
And we know it's a much tougher task this week. But here's Bo Nix quickly on on kind of keeping it going with what they've done in the last five quarters offensively.
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Bo Nix
Well, I think it's just go back and proves that when we do well early in the drive and we get a few first downs and run the ball efficiently on drives that we can, you know, turn those into points and, you know, when you can run the ball, it's it's really important.
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Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. So it's an easy answer, right. Run the ball leads to success.
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Chris Harris Jr
Yeah. And and that's part of Sean Penn's offense. He's always had a solid run game. And you got to be able to do that. To be able to work, to play action, to work all his screens. To work that running back to the flat dump off that he loves on third downs. So you got to be able to run the football and that just opens it.
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Chris Harris Jr
It makes Bo Nix his job a lot easier as a second year quarterback, to be able to let the game come to him and, really, you know, get into the flow of the game, you know, and just makes it easier on third downs. So we got to be able to be big. Definitely run the football with Dobbins.
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Chris Harris Jr
He's playing great that, you know, this guy looks like we need to, resign him for sure. So, but, you know, it might be too early. You know, it's still early, you know, and he's had injury problems, so they might wait for the whole year. But, let's keep riding, Dobbins. Let's keep, seeing letting Harvey get those outside runs.
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Chris Harris Jr
And the Broncos got a chance every week to win.
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Brandon Krisztal
Yeah, it's funny, because, you and I didn't necessarily go over this, David, our producer, did. But the next the next clip we're going to get is from J.K. Dobbins, who was asked, would you like a new contract? You know, a multi-year deal here in Denver.
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JK Dobbins
For the extension and stuff like that, that that doesn't cross my mind, but me just wanting to be here in Denver. Yes. Like, I, I hope to, you know, in my career, you know, and be here for the rest of my time in the NFL. You know, as far as extension and all that, though, you know, I, I don't think about that.
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JK Dobbins
I, I don't really think about that. But yeah, that would be nice because I want to be in Denver like I love it. I love the fan base. I think the fan base and I have a connection. I love my teammates and I also love I love Sean Payton and, I love the owners. And it's just like, you know, but I don't think about the extension part.
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JK Dobbins
I just I just think about me being here because I love it. I love the beautiful mountains and I love being an altitude now being, you know, I'm used to it now. So yeah.
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Brandon Krisztal
You gotta appreciate that. He's third in the league in rushing. And he said he wants to lead the league in rushing. That that is his goal. It was funny because last week when he talked he's like I'm not injury prone. I just had two bad injuries. But then yesterday right after, I was like, y'all may not remember, but I had two pretty bad injuries when I asked about is that a goal to lead the league?
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Brandon Krisztal
And he's like, y'all, man. I remember like, no, we remember you're the one that traded down downplay. We remember how hurt you were. But would you would you sign him to an extension now knowing that Russ's 30 million dead cap. No, dad cap money, you're going to have more room. The cap is going to go up next year.
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Brandon Krisztal
Would you say him to two years, 16 to 20 million range like I'm looking guys like Raymond Ray Stevenson, David Montgomery, James Connor, Aaron Jones. Those guys are in the 8 to 10 million DeAndre Swift Tony Pollard in that 8 to 10 million range a year. Would you give him a two year deal like that or maybe even a third.
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Brandon Krisztal
You know.
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Chris Harris Jr
But you have like a two year ten something like that ten total. Yeah like five a year running back because you got Harvey. He's still a young running back. And you know we don't know his extension. So you know essentially you know give him two year ten guaranteed. You know can he get more than that on the other on the market.
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Chris Harris Jr
You know I don't know, what was you know, the running back market hasn't been like outrageous.
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Brandon Krisztal
Jalen Warren with 6 million to take his job a year. You know I think it was obviously a few more years on that. But no Jalen one was a two year $11 million deal to take his job in LA.
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Chris Harris Jr
So yeah right there you know around 1015 to year to 15 you know around there. But you know I don't.
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Brandon Krisztal
Like the hell out of be like, hey, if you do lead the league in rushing you get this. If you make the Pro Bowl, if you make an all pro, and so that can, I think, help. Yeah.
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Chris Harris Jr
I mean, where he's going to be, you know, the way he's playing. And as long as he stays healthy, you know he's going to be a sought after guy. You know, I'm surprised a lot of teams that I thought he ran pretty good for the Chargers right. He just you know that's why we picked him up because he went hard versus the Broncos.
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Chris Harris Jr
So, I'm I'm excited to see what he does the rest of the year. And hopefully he keeps getting better and better. Because when you kind of come in later, you know, and, you didn't do OTA's with the team, you know, you kind of your legs a little bit, behind. So hopefully now he's starting to get ready to go.
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Chris Harris Jr
And he's, starting to pick out for sure.
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Brandon Krisztal
Well, he's getting ready to go. And RJ Harvey's coming along to make his life easier and. Well, you have to appreciate because I know, and maybe it's just circumstance, but you come in and Champ Bailey and Brian Dawkins are here, and then Dee where comes along as well. But you have vets that took you under their wing from the jump.
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Brandon Krisztal
Champ wasn't worried about you taking his job. He knew you would make his job easier and make his life better. Jake Dobbins and you have to believe him just based on his personality and how the locker room is, is has, gravitated towards him. He cannot speak highly enough about RJ Harvey and the love that he has for him in wanting him to be great because he knows the better.
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Brandon Krisztal
Harvey is, the better Dobbins. You know what? The work hand in hand. And they're six years apart or whatever. Five years apart. And he knows the business too. Like, is he going to play the year 20 like Mercedes Lewis? No. But that he being helpful is that goes around to the other 31 teams like, oh we can bring him in and he can help our young room to potentially it it doesn't work against you right.
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Chris Harris Jr
Well if he's already at the five mark you know for running back, he's already, you know kind of clips that you know, average, you know, the running back lifestyle in the NFL. So you know shout out to him. But you know Harvey, he's going to he's going to be a guy. He's going to be there. You got drafted there.
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Chris Harris Jr
So, I'm pretty sure Jake understands that this is going to be a it's a homegrown kid. And, so he's going to get his touches. But right now, you know, the way that champagne is rotating, it seems like it's working well for them. They they feel comfortable with the situation, and saying the touches and, hopefully that can continue to, work in the game plan.
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Brandon Krisztal
A couple more things that we're going to get to, in terms of hearing from now back to back coaches. You were a rookie in 2011, and I know you don't feel you don't feel old necessarily, but imagine that he came into the league five years before, you know, six off the street. The Broncos go get Mercedes Lewis, who played every game and started a bunch of games last year for the bears.
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Brandon Krisztal
You're 20. He was a rookie in oh six with Brandon Marshall, the receiver with Jay Cutler, with Elvis Tuberville, with those guys here, I mean obviously he was in Jacksonville with MJD. He's been on TV forever. They were rookies together. What do you think it says that they can get a guy off the street because they do need some depth there.
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Brandon Krisztal
With Atkins banged up Crowell getting surgery. And so for Mercedes Lewis I'm sure you've you've had to cover here and there. And probably you might have gotten blocked by to walking off the street in year 20. How crazy is that?
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Chris Harris Jr
I mean, he's such a big body man. And then him being able to block and he'll be able to help the O-line just being assistant there. You know, some of these tight ends are just in the game to block. And they you know, they rarely get any routes or any passes towards them anyway. So Marshall, bring in Mercedes Lewis, a guy that can block and be an extension to the tackles, that has experience with different type of fronts and, and, and is capable of blocking the ends and being able to help with that, you know, your protection.
00:18:13:13 - 00:18:33:16
Chris Harris Jr
So, I think it just overall just it helps out the whole team being able to have that back. And, you know, teams need that. You know, there's not a lot of vet tight ends around the league anymore when you look around the board. So to be able to bring him in on our team, which we've pretty much haven't used a tight end at all, a guy that can come in except for blocking.
00:18:33:20 - 00:18:38:23
Chris Harris Jr
So at least we got a guy to experience and and he's proven blocker.
00:18:38:25 - 00:18:52:20
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah, and he's on the practice squad. But you have to think he's going to get elevated to three times. But they can elevate him and they'll put him on on the roster. Assuming that he's playing well enough and there's no reason to think they won't otherwise. But here's Sean Payton on on why bring in Mercedes Lewis made sense.
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JK Dobbins
Well, he's someone you kind of follow his career and.
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JK Dobbins
I knew he'd been training. I know he's in great shape and he's a tremendous blocker. I think.
00:19:08:01 - 00:19:27:05
JK Dobbins
You don't want to get caught where, man, it's got to be jumbo. And so, we brought him in for a workout. Brought him on to our practice squad. I'm glad he's here. He's he's a tremendous leader. I'm anxious for you guys to be around him. So. Good. First day.
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Brandon Krisztal
Yeah, well, when you say you don't want to be jumbo, what do you mean? Is there? Right? Is you don't want to just bring in all offensive linemen, even if some of them do have tight end history down. You know, million years ago in high school or junior high, you want a tight end that can block but also still be a tight end.
00:19:42:09 - 00:20:02:01
Chris Harris Jr
Right. And that's all that is. He's just saying offensively we might need another big body out there, especially in the goal line or short yardage. And in a way that he can be a receiver threat or run threat. So, that's that's a good pick up. You know, with all the tight ends, I don't think it's a lot of good tight ends out there.
00:20:02:03 - 00:20:10:20
Chris Harris Jr
With that experience that he has. And, you know, our tight ends are pretty much, you know, are they how many talents have you had injured this year?
00:20:10:23 - 00:20:21:09
Brandon Krisztal
Well, Adkins was at the start of the year. Brown, who plays H-back fullback but certainly could line up there if they needed him to. Oh. Played at all this year. And now Lucas Kroll had surgery and.
00:20:21:09 - 00:20:41:03
Chris Harris Jr
Tight ends been out. So you know and Ingram you know he's kind of just straight receiver threat. Yeah. Right. And you know, we're we're still not getting him involved all the way yet. So, this is just a good pick up just to bring a guy that can block, you know Ingram's not going to give you too much on the blocking, especially in the run blocking.
00:20:41:03 - 00:20:45:07
Chris Harris Jr
So you can always bring Mercedes in and, be able to open up some holes.
00:20:45:09 - 00:21:03:21
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah, because otherwise you're really just relying on Adam Trautman in. This gives you just more versatility. You know, the one thing Sean likes is having options with with his packages. So, a week ago, we talked about how healthy they were. Minus again, girl getting the surgery and the biceps injury for Ben Powers. And then but otherwise really healthy.
00:21:03:23 - 00:21:21:04
Brandon Krisztal
What a difference a week makes me see. To go down in the first half with a knee thing goes into the tent jogging on the side. Gets back in the game. Then we don't see him go down. But at halftime he doesn't come back out. We find out a pec strain before we hear from BJ. What were your initial thoughts?
00:21:21:04 - 00:21:30:25
Brandon Krisztal
When you see pec strain, maybe it seems like you're trying to keep them off it and they're going to go week to week, but how much especially for a corner can can a strain affect you.
00:21:30:25 - 00:21:52:00
Chris Harris Jr
Yeah I never had a pec strain in my career, but I'm pretty sure it bothers him like a shoulder injury because you always got to use your. You always got a punch and use your arms in that way. So, depending on how severe and severe the injury is, you know, it'll probably, you know, he might have to deal with it for the rest of the year, you know, tackling, banging on it.
00:21:52:02 - 00:22:07:23
Chris Harris Jr
In the NFL, you know, Andrews don't really go away all the time. You know, they just go to where you can kind of, be able to play through it, play through the pain. So it'll be something I have to fight through the whole year. The Broncos is going to have to make a big, change and bring it on.
00:22:07:25 - 00:22:28:11
Chris Harris Jr
You know, I don't know who they're going to put in. You know, you got options with Chris Abravanel. You got band you can put out. J Jaquan McMillan can go outside. So I don't know what they're going to do in their playing. But I'm interested to see how the, you know, how BJ system's going to adjust and be able to, play the scheme, versus the Texans.
00:22:28:11 - 00:22:31:03
Chris Harris Jr
You know what that appears to.
00:22:31:06 - 00:22:44:16
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. And Vance, of course, isn't going to give you too much. Certainly. Sean isn't. We saw Chris Abrams rain come in and mostly play in that spot. But here's Vance when asked about what they lose with with Rp2 going out.
00:22:44:19 - 00:23:10:15
JK Dobbins
Well, you know, that's a great player obviously. Mike. You never as good, you know, as you could be, you know, without your best player. So but that being said, I'm confident in our group you know, it's a it's a hand-picked roster. And you know every year you kind of talk about next man up. So here's a chance for a young guy to kind of play and make a name for himself.
00:23:10:17 - 00:23:20:09
Brandon Krisztal
Look, you're five years younger than Mercedes Lewis. Did you think about calling him maybe like, hey, I can get you a couple. Like, I can make it in you, Houston. I'll see you down there. You did. You didn't think about jumping in. You know Vance's defense.
00:23:20:12 - 00:23:27:14
Chris Harris Jr
I know. And go play for the Cowboys here for sure. I go, I can go play for the Cowboys.
00:23:27:17 - 00:23:28:19
Brandon Krisztal
Sure. I guess Stephen.
00:23:28:25 - 00:23:47:24
Chris Harris Jr
Stephen, and I'm right here, and I'm ready, so I know I can play for them, but, you know what Ben said? You know, it's you. It's always next man up. It's an opportunity for the young guys to be able to show what they can do. And that's a big opportunity. You know, team Broncos sitting in a good spot going on the road.
00:23:47:26 - 00:23:52:06
Chris Harris Jr
I don't think we've played. Have we won in Houston the last couple of years? I don't believe so.
00:23:52:06 - 00:23:58:11
Brandon Krisztal
2019 Drew Lock's rookie year I think what's the last time they won there? And then a couple of years ago. Yeah, it didn't go great.
00:23:58:11 - 00:24:01:15
Chris Harris Jr
Nico Cobb was there in 2019, I think I yeah I wasn't like, hey.
00:24:01:17 - 00:24:14:05
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah you ought to play the fifth quarter. Deshaun Watson was turning it on a bit. It was a good thing that game ended in time for. But yeah two years ago Sean and and Russ together there and Houston didn't go great.
00:24:14:07 - 00:24:39:06
Chris Harris Jr
Right. So we need to go on the road and be able to bring this to the road. And, and without Pat, you know, it's going to be a great opportunity for these guys to show what they can do in the second day. A great opportunity for Moss to show what he can do. And, you know, I see Vijay, you know, playing a little bit more coverages, you know, not being as much as as aggressive as he has been, and relying on those guys to get a lot of pressure without as much blitzing.
00:24:39:06 - 00:24:55:20
Chris Harris Jr
So that's kind of what I kind of see him doing, knowing him. But you know, when it gets down to the nitty gritty in the game, he's going to always go back to who he is. So, you know, eventually I think probably for third quarter he starts in in the House again in Blitz. And these guys got a win on the island.
00:24:55:23 - 00:25:10:24
Brandon Krisztal
So I think the easy way to look and we're about to jump into the film room. But the easy way to look at it is oh well Chris Abrams jumped in the other day. That way nothing changes now when you have a week to set up, you can vary your plan and maybe it's a little barren. Maybe it's a little Abrams name.
00:25:10:24 - 00:25:28:02
Brandon Krisztal
But you mentioned something that I'm not sure we've thought about. And this may be in a world and we know Sean's always going to overthink things. But you mentioned Jay Mack can play outside, at least in base towns. Does it make sense to have Jay Mack out there with Riley Moss as opposed to Abrams, Drain or Bannon?
00:25:28:03 - 00:25:38:20
Brandon Krisztal
And I'm not saying that, you know, there's obviously pluses and minuses, but just because Jay Mack's been on the field the most and he's obviously in the slot not just in small guys anymore.
00:25:38:22 - 00:25:58:23
Chris Harris Jr
Yeah. I mean, if he wants to, you know, take his game to the next level as being a guy, that's not just a nickel corner, but I can also play outside and be a corner. You know, then he could then if I'm Jay Mack. Yeah. I want that opportunity. I want that opportunity to be able to show I can start on base on the upside and be able to hold up and then going inside.
00:25:58:23 - 00:26:16:28
Chris Harris Jr
So, Ben, I don't know what their plan is with them. Was he just going to be slated to play nickel and dime? Or was he going to be playing corner? So, you know, usually the first round guy would start, right? He you would think he would come in and start, this week, especially with Pat going down.
00:26:16:28 - 00:26:21:24
Chris Harris Jr
So, I would be surprised if Ben doesn't start.
00:26:21:27 - 00:26:41:12
Brandon Krisztal
But then with Abrams Drain, who obviously stepped in, that didn't change anything that Marion was doing, anything Riley was doing, anything that obviously Jay Mack's doing. And so that that made sense on the fly. Sean Payton told us he thinks Chris Abrams might have the best hands on the team receiver background. So then court comes up right after Sean.
00:26:41:12 - 00:26:55:19
Brandon Krisztal
I said, hey, you're head coach. You said great. And he actually even mentioned because someone asked him about it, like, oh, you know Cade, he's like, you got that pick last year. As a rookie, he's got really good hands. And so then I followed up with what your coach said. There he goes. Hey, I'm going to yield to the coach.
00:26:55:22 - 00:27:17:22
Brandon Krisztal
You know, he's the head coach. He knows. But when you've got a kid whose ball skills are that developed and knowing without Pat there, he'll get picked on. Maybe more than Riley's been picked on now. And how are they decide if they're going to roll him or if they're going to lead him on a side. But that Abrams brain, you know, played plenty last year when Riley was out in was last after Levi Wallace showed that he couldn't.
00:27:17:24 - 00:27:25:05
Brandon Krisztal
I don't know as much as you want the first rounder. I get it. Fundamentally, I don't hate Abrams brain starting and keeping barring doing what he's doing. For now.
00:27:25:07 - 00:27:42:20
Chris Harris Jr
The why did they draft him then? If they didn't, if he wasn't going to star in play, why draft him? Would your first round pick? There's a lot of other. There was a lot of other options out there that could be playing right now. That are first round picks. Right. That's a major investment that you put in on a guy.
00:27:42:20 - 00:28:05:06
Chris Harris Jr
So, to see Chris Abrams, right. Of course I think he's, you know, I was like that kid. I always thought he was a solid player, and he definitely deserves to, start if you're going to really go down to production. He does deserve to start this game. But, you know, with the politics and the business of it, you got a guy that you draft the first round and we don't expect him just to be a dime corner all season.
00:28:05:08 - 00:28:08:23
Chris Harris Jr
Right? If you dropped the first round, you expect him to play well.
00:28:08:23 - 00:28:10:27
Brandon Krisztal
And then maybe it's as simple as.
00:28:11:00 - 00:28:12:13
Chris Harris Jr
Is he not good enough?
00:28:12:16 - 00:28:28:09
Brandon Krisztal
No. No I don't think it's that at all. No. And all we hear about is how smart he is. But then you also, I think he's a leader in the clubhouse with, with me. He's on the defensive side of the ball is the sense I get talking to people in the know. And like, you watch the games every week and you know where he's supposed to be.
00:28:28:11 - 00:28:49:12
Brandon Krisztal
And some of that is just you can be super smart, but if you're a rookie, you're still going to make rookie mistakes. You just don't make the same mistake twice. What about a world where in base towns, it's not Jay Mack? It is Baron, because that is going to be, in theory, simpler. And then when they do get in a nickel and dime, especially dime, Abram's drain is out and he goes back to doing what he was doing as a dime backer safety, wherever he was.
00:28:49:18 - 00:28:51:20
Brandon Krisztal
That chess piece.
00:28:51:22 - 00:29:13:08
Chris Harris Jr
Yeah. I mean, that could work. You know, it's just whatever. Simple for Vance. And I think with Vance is he's probably going to lean on the older guys, put Chris Abrams outside and put Moss, and then probably J. Mack still in there and Baron still playing his dime role. But you know, when you play against a guy like Nico Collins, a guy that's a big body receiver, very physical.
00:29:13:10 - 00:29:32:09
Chris Harris Jr
You know, you got to have some guys that can be able to cover him, and I'm pretty sure he's gonna have a game plan for him, because right now there's really their only main target. You know, him and then, the tight end. So as long as they can be able to shut those two down, two guys down, I think the Broncos DBS can cover the rest of the, Texans receivers.
00:29:32:12 - 00:29:44:14
Brandon Krisztal
Now we go to the best part of the show every single week. We're going to jump into Chris Harris Jr's film room. So without further ado.
00:29:44:16 - 00:29:52:05
Brandon Krisztal
And we're going to do this in chronological order. Focus on the secondary. But this is early on very first drive after the Bo Nix interception.
00:29:52:07 - 00:30:14:09
Chris Harris Jr
Yes, sir. Man to man. You can see everybody got their man. And Pat does a great job of staying on the upfield shoulder. Right. Great job by man. Staying with his man being able to get there and then Pat being able to play the ball well that's a tough play. Find him. Yeah he's behind them. You know. And he's able to get hands on them fast and keep running and be able to make a play on the ball.
00:30:14:12 - 00:30:15:03
Chris Harris Jr
Right.
00:30:15:06 - 00:30:17:11
Brandon Krisztal
If they were hurt his knee.
00:30:17:13 - 00:30:21:19
Chris Harris Jr
Yeah you can you can fall down you know. Yeah he probably fell down awkward right there.
00:30:21:19 - 00:30:29:00
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah I think Pickens fell on his leg because I remember him rolling over and kind of doing an incomplete and then kind of like laying down.
00:30:29:03 - 00:30:44:27
Chris Harris Jr
And the Broncos are going to play man. So everybody does their job. Everybody does a good job of staying on the man. Linebackers have good eyes. Who has great eyes and great slip right there. It was great coverage all the way around. The Broncos are pretty you know they're pretty tight in the red zone right now.
00:30:45:00 - 00:31:01:28
Brandon Krisztal
How hard is it I mean the number one red zone defense in football. How hard is it when you're that compressed only a couple of yards. They're so not even full like inside the five. Inside the three. And you're in man where everyone's going to be crossing to not get caught up in traffic. I don't I mean full blown pick plays.
00:31:01:28 - 00:31:09:18
Brandon Krisztal
I'm just saying accidental friendly fire. You run into another player from the other team that isn't trying to pick you at all to be able to stay clean. How hard is.
00:31:09:18 - 00:31:30:03
Chris Harris Jr
It? Yeah. We call that tail piping, right? And you got to be able to have that tailpipe technique to be able to kind of squeeze through and not get picked. And it is a technique that you do have to learn. Right. And, and right there, see, I would, I might have tried to tailpipe them inside and probably try to undercut that.
00:31:30:05 - 00:31:35:27
Chris Harris Jr
But, you know, I think PSU could add, you know, but Pickens is a physical guy and you want to stay on top. So I understand why he did that.
00:31:35:27 - 00:31:42:17
Brandon Krisztal
But also, if he goes underneath, maybe he runs into Havana and and CeeDee lamb.
00:31:42:19 - 00:32:01:27
Chris Harris Jr
I, I think I do, I think that is, yeah. I think it was good enough to squeeze through right here and undercut that. You really pick that. But, you know, I think he's great, you know, still played a great play, still out of people. So, you can't knock him on that play. But, you know, me judging him, I think he could pick that.
00:32:01:29 - 00:32:15:00
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. And if he goes underneath it, that's house call. Oh, yeah. If he's on his feet. Okay, let's jump to the, next play, which is the aforementioned JT Barrett interception two.
00:32:15:00 - 00:32:33:20
Chris Harris Jr
Man. It's, always a, team versus, you always play coverage with two high safeties, man and man across the board. And JT, the tight end wants to him to jump inside. He jumps in a little bit. But you know he's able to to be able to run with this Titans is he's faster than them as being a corner.
00:32:33:22 - 00:32:39:19
Chris Harris Jr
And great job being able to stay right there on that hip and make the play good interception.
00:32:39:21 - 00:32:51:22
Brandon Krisztal
What's Dak looking at here. Because he's never open. And there's a safety or two I'm going to take his head off. If Jared's not underneath. Maybe that pass gets there and then he just gets tackled hard. But I don't know I mean this looks like.
00:32:51:22 - 00:33:09:08
Chris Harris Jr
I'm going to I'm going down a I'm going to slide. If I'm Dak I think Dak read this wrong. You know he just probably saw that as a rookie. And you know Ferguson hadn't been getting the ball game. So he probably tried to force it to. But it was definitely a bad throw. Bad read three guys on on that on that tight end and outside.
00:33:09:08 - 00:33:12:12
Chris Harris Jr
If you see right here on the corner route, he has them open.
00:33:12:14 - 00:33:27:12
Brandon Krisztal
Well in Ferguson, who has been as good a tight end as there has been catching the ball this season. Zero catches. So that says something about what that defense is able to do and better. And gets his first pick. He's got a fumble recovery now in a pick here through his first eight games.
00:33:27:15 - 00:33:35:17
Chris Harris Jr
That's a pretty good start man as a rookie you know getting on the board and I don't know how many picks we have. He might have we got about 2 or 3.
00:33:35:20 - 00:33:46:00
Brandon Krisztal
Have seven takeaways now four interceptions Brandon Jones has one right. He has one. Tillman has one. They got two in the game.
00:33:46:07 - 00:33:54:01
Chris Harris Jr
Oh yeah yeah. Tell me. Had a nice one man. We said that. Why didn't we put this one on the clips. Well come on man we got to remember that end.
00:33:54:01 - 00:33:55:10
Brandon Krisztal
You shall receive.
00:33:55:13 - 00:33:57:00
Chris Harris Jr
Oh okay. We got it. There we go.
00:33:57:03 - 00:34:00:13
Brandon Krisztal
We're going to be a surprise. Hey, how did he get this? And then how about the run after the catch?
00:34:00:13 - 00:34:22:26
Chris Harris Jr
Perfect. Drop by. Oh, by outside linebacker. You know, breaks the tackle, makes six guys miss parks. Dak Prescott right there. Man, if we just get a block from the, What was that a fullback right there. Yeah. One block away man. He he can probably take it to the house. So, Great job. Right there. Great call by Vance Collins.
00:34:22:26 - 00:34:42:12
Chris Harris Jr
Oh Blitz right there. The Cowboys weren't ready for it. And you know that continues you know though crucial picks and oh man look at that part man. He stutter step though. And I like it man. We need to put this. Is that a much better. He's going to just put him in a tight end. You know give this guy a road.
00:34:42:14 - 00:35:00:03
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. Because I know this on special teams. It's been a little rough between the leveraging and the missed tackle. On kickoffs. Yeah. Just give him the ball. That's what we needed to do the whole time was. Hey, how do you get DeAndre Tillman DeAndre Tillman the ball. You got to like a kid that spent three years in the UFL or whatever.
00:35:00:03 - 00:35:15:02
Brandon Krisztal
Finds his way to the NFL roster last year. Made made plays five sacks as a 26 year old rookie and now making plays here. Yeah that's pretty athletic that his because he plays outside linebacker but he's bigger than the other four.
00:35:15:03 - 00:35:21:12
Chris Harris Jr
Yeah he's like the end. Then I can play outside. So yeah that's that's that's nice man. And that's a tip.
00:35:21:13 - 00:35:40:23
Brandon Krisztal
Have you like CeeDee lamb is not even looking at this I remember in real time thinking even if KD turns around he's going to get he's going to get obviously hit hard. But CDM never looks like I mean is this CD is this Dak. Because here's CD looks. They're not even looking.
00:35:40:25 - 00:35:58:05
Chris Harris Jr
This is terrible. It's a terrible play calls and it's the whole play is terrible right. There's nobody open. Coach has a great scheme up verse them. Dak just needs to really do it into the ground. That's really what he wanted to do. Just throw it away. You just have to throw it to that. Oh that's a linebacker man.
00:35:58:05 - 00:36:07:21
Chris Harris Jr
And it was a terrible play and I don't know they said just ran the ball right there. Right. That's a run look that has to be able to hand the ball off right there for sure. All right.
00:36:07:21 - 00:36:21:17
Brandon Krisztal
And then our final play in the film room, the topic of the week. I heard where, you're about to leave said Randy Moss is being racially profiled, but Riley Moss back to back. I think par calls, which is if you're going to get him, that's where you get him. What can he do differently?
00:36:21:19 - 00:36:42:05
Chris Harris Jr
My advice would be, to try to catch him up before he gets in the end zone. Right. Riley. He's a couple steps. In the end zone. I would like to be right on that line so then he can get hands on them earlier, right? Down the field. I think they're calling it. They're saying that he had his arm on his collar right there.
00:36:42:08 - 00:37:00:16
Chris Harris Jr
It's hard to tell, you know, and and, you know, KB has his arms on Riley, so, I kind of you kind of let those things go and, Great play, you know, great defense. My only thing I would say is for Riley if, don't ever line up in the end zone. Right? All of them, you see, across the board, all our guys are on the end zone.
00:37:00:22 - 00:37:12:19
Chris Harris Jr
He could have easily went to Pickens on the back shoulder right there because we gave him so much space. So, you know that would be my advice to those guys. But still great play. That's a tough pick for sure.
00:37:12:21 - 00:37:18:20
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah, Riley's had a few of them. So some people have said, just get your head around quicker. Will that help if he's looking there.
00:37:18:20 - 00:37:34:27
Chris Harris Jr
Versus if he gets contact with them earlier, he'll be able to get his head around faster. So. So yeah, you know sometimes as a DB it's about inches in alignment. And if you align wrong sometimes that can get you beat.
00:37:35:00 - 00:37:42:26
Chris Harris Jr
But you know boxers are going to play man in the red zone. They're going to fight you. And that's why the number one defense in red zone right now in the league.
00:37:42:28 - 00:37:50:13
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. Well that was our trip inside the film room.
00:37:50:15 - 00:38:07:20
Brandon Krisztal
Let's jump to looking at the Texans. We were going to try to go behind enemy lines with your old teammate, longtime Texan Houston resident Owen Daniels. But, scheduling got screwed. Screwed up, and it's Halloween and all that. So we'll try to go down, down the road because it's going to be sort of friendly behind enemy lines because he's obviously a Broncos Super Bowl 50 teammate.
00:38:07:23 - 00:38:28:08
Brandon Krisztal
But looking at these numbers and and David I know you can throw him up there. All that green on the left under the Broncos means they're top ten offense and defense. And but what jumps out to me is probably what jumps out to you is all the way on the bottom right where we know the Broncos are number one in the league in sacks, and you see that the Texans are only middle of the pack.
00:38:28:10 - 00:38:46:18
Brandon Krisztal
They are number one in third down defense. Texans are really good in third down defense. But look at where the Texans are ranked red zone compared to the Broncos in the red zone right 31st or 3030 first is not good. The 31st on both sides of the ball actually in the red zone.
00:38:46:21 - 00:39:06:28
Chris Harris Jr
Or that just means they have less attempts, right? Teams aren't getting to the red zone as much, burst them as they are the Broncos. Right? But as you can see right here, is that the number one defense overall? You know, top five in a lot of categories on defense have has a lot of interceptions and takeaways.
00:39:06:28 - 00:39:30:03
Chris Harris Jr
So, you know, the Broncos, our top defense, this really is about all of the top defenses. I do like the Texans. Second day. Right. Last inner bullet. Stingley is probably my top three corner. So this is a good secondary. Very good secondary. Probably the best secondary that the Broncos faced all season. So I'm looking forward to seeing this matchup versus all receivers.
00:39:30:06 - 00:39:38:02
Chris Harris Jr
See if we can continue to throw the ball down the field versus these guys. But this is a definitely capable defense that we're going to see from the Texans.
00:39:38:04 - 00:40:04:09
Brandon Krisztal
And you played against Demeco Ryans and obviously know what he's about. It does feel like they embody his personality like we've seen with the Lions and Dan Campbell and and other places where former players Mike Vrabel and Tennessee and now in New England, but they're a base for three. So they're going to look different than the Broncos, as we mentioned, 16th in sacks even with Will Anderson, a high draft pick, and Danielle Hunter like guys that the new went to a bunch of Pro Bowls in Minnesota getting to the quarterback.
00:40:04:12 - 00:40:22:17
Brandon Krisztal
They're they're middle of the pack. They're 16th in terms of sacks. So when you look at the other side with the Broncos being best in the league at giving up sacks, I understand that they're not bringing the exotics maybe the way Vance does, but what can the Broncos exploit if anything. Or find find success with.
00:40:22:19 - 00:40:47:12
Chris Harris Jr
Well, you know, this team is like I said, they're pretty top five and everything. Rise up. You know, the sacks, right? But, you know, takeaways are up there, so that's all that matters. Anyways. So you got the Broncos got to be able to run the football, be balanced. Had J.K. Dobbins be able to run the, run, you know, that zone and being able to read the holes like he has Harvey on the outside and, you know, you still got it.
00:40:47:12 - 00:41:06:24
Chris Harris Jr
Those things. You still got those guys. You know, I think Colin still thinks he can win some matchups with those guys down the field. He he's gotten open on those guys before. You know we just didn't connect. I remember playing him a couple years ago Russell over to him for a couple you know wide open touchdown. So we can't get open on him and beat up.
00:41:06:26 - 00:41:13:23
Chris Harris Jr
But I think it starts with the run game. And then being able to find Colin on those third downs and being able to move the ball down the field.
00:41:13:25 - 00:41:29:24
Brandon Krisztal
So Dobbins is, Dobbins grew up outside of Houston, going about an hour outside of Houston. When you're going back home, how much can that boost a guy like you? You didn't have that in terms of obviously there's not a team in Oklahoma when you get into.
00:41:29:26 - 00:41:30:25
Chris Harris Jr
My post game.
00:41:30:27 - 00:41:38:12
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah, yeah, Kansas City is close to Tulsa. Dallas is close to Tulsa. But does that, like, give guys a little extra juice?
00:41:38:14 - 00:41:52:27
Chris Harris Jr
Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. I mean, when I play KC, I always want the ball in Kansas City, and I think I did. I had a lot of great games out there. So, you know, Kurt is one of he's going to come back. I think he played good when we went there. With, Drew Lock, you know, I think he balled.
00:41:52:27 - 00:42:09:05
Chris Harris Jr
So, I think Jordan is going to be expected to go out there and have a good game. And, you know, it's a great challenge. He's going to against a Pro Bowl corner. Another guy opposite him. That's pretty good. You know I think this is probably the best duo in the league that they'll see. So I think he'll be up for the challenge.
00:42:09:06 - 00:42:17:15
Chris Harris Jr
And, who whoever else is from Texas, you know, they'll be up and ready to go. And, this is a big game, you know, for both teams.
00:42:17:17 - 00:42:36:24
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. There's obviously, like, every NFL roster, a bunch of Texas dudes. I mean, Stidham is from further north in Stephenville, Brandon Jones from Waxahachie, JFK from up that way played his college ball though. So even if Austin and Nacogdoches John Burns from Austin. And so this is the closest game to home for him. And obviously he'll have plenty of, friends and family.
00:42:36:24 - 00:42:52:18
Brandon Krisztal
You got to think. And Longhorns that'll want to come come watch him and hit him up for tickets. So we know the Broncos travel well and there's lots of Broncos fans there. But yeah, there will be I think added for friends and family. Let's do this a do a quick injury report before we before we get our previews and get out of here predictions and get out of here.
00:42:52:18 - 00:43:03:25
Brandon Krisztal
So as we do all every week now, here is your Belen Pollock injury report.
00:43:03:27 - 00:43:26:18
Brandon Krisztal
So again, what a difference a week makes. No PES to not headed by our Nate Atkins dealing with the knee that I think you banged up on that almost touchdown catch. And then Marvin Mims selling concussion protocol on the other side. It's been a concussions Nico Collins cleared concussion protocol. So it looks like Nico is going to go even with no Pat and with obviously you know Nate Atkins this week we'll see where Marvin is.
00:43:26:18 - 00:43:38:02
Brandon Krisztal
Another Texas kid. He's from Dallas kid but another Texas kid. Do you do you at least how do you look at where the Broncos injuries are in general? No, in some teams have dozens of guys on it.
00:43:38:04 - 00:43:54:24
Chris Harris Jr
We're fairly healthy, you know, other than losing all the tight ends that we've lost. And then, you know, I think we lost powers. But the O-line has been able to, you know, still play pretty solid. PSU that's a big one, you know, but he's not gone for the whole season, so, we can still count him back.
00:43:54:25 - 00:44:12:04
Chris Harris Jr
You know, we just got to get it, get through a couple games. I think if the Broncos, probably penciled a tough game or possible loss, this will probably be one, you know, just being gone on the road. Haven't played too well in Houston. And, C.J. Stroud, you know, this. Guys, he's starting to get better.
00:44:12:04 - 00:44:27:10
Chris Harris Jr
He's starting to start clicking this season. They're starting to get hot. But I just think that the Broncos defense will be too much of that pass rush. Their O-line is horrendous in Houston, and I don't think they can block our guys. So I got I got Denver there. It's time to get predictions.
00:44:27:12 - 00:44:32:05
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. Let's get to let's get to predictions here and do Denver versus not a lot other than like.
00:44:32:07 - 00:44:33:19
Chris Harris Jr
You know Steelers.
00:44:33:21 - 00:44:53:13
Brandon Krisztal
Colts is a good game because give us another chance to see what the Colts are outside. And I don't know how cold it is in Pittsburgh, but I think it's getting cold everywhere. The Colts are slight favorites in Pittsburgh. But you like beyond that there's nothing you're like, oh, Chief Mills, give me a thought. In Buffalo, where the Chiefs are one and a half point favorites.
00:44:53:15 - 00:44:55:09
Chris Harris Jr
I got the bills one in this one.
00:44:55:12 - 00:44:56:01
Brandon Krisztal
Me too.
00:44:56:03 - 00:45:07:10
Chris Harris Jr
Yeah, I got the bills won in this one. It's going to be a, you know, a shootout. I would say 35 to 32 bills. They went by like a field goal. But it's going to be a close game for sure. Yeah.
00:45:07:13 - 00:45:21:22
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah I like the over in the in this as well. The bills manage to win these regular season ones. It's the playoff ones right that they struggle with. Especially with the game being in Buffalo. They're going to rally behind being slight underdog to it to the two and a half. Now Seahawks commander's also kind of a sneaky good game.
00:45:21:24 - 00:45:29:19
Brandon Krisztal
Jayden's back. That game is in the sea. If you have a quick thought on that. The commanders actually five and a half point favorites.
00:45:29:22 - 00:45:48:09
Chris Harris Jr
Oh man, I like Seattle. I like the way they're playing. I like the way their defense is playing. They got a lot of big corners, very physical. Is this all kind of walker? Can they be able to run the football over there and be able to, you know, get Donald some help in that. And that way Jackson Smith has been balling at the receiver position I think he leads the league.
00:45:48:09 - 00:45:51:01
Chris Harris Jr
So I'm I'm a I'm a rival Seattle in this one.
00:45:51:03 - 00:46:04:25
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah I'll take Washington at home. But I won't be surprised if Seattle goes in there and wins. And you know Jaden finishes the game starting the game in the same finish. When you're banged up. We thought we might get an okay game last night. The only thing came out of the Thursday night game was Chris Greer gets fired.
00:46:04:25 - 00:46:17:26
Brandon Krisztal
You realize he's the guy that hired and then fired Flores, and then he's hired Mike McDaniel, and he's obviously put these players together. Were you surprised Chris Greer get let go? And our pal Champ Kelly for the second time in three years, an interim GM.
00:46:17:29 - 00:46:42:14
Chris Harris Jr
Yeah, it's crazy man. I don't know when organization is going to just let champ be the GM. I mean, he brings in all the a lot of the guys anyways. But in this situation, you know, usually you see the head coach get fired first. Maybe the GM and the head coach wasn't seeing eye to eye, but the owner and the head coach see, you know, and, you know, more in tune.
00:46:42:17 - 00:47:01:01
Chris Harris Jr
I don't know, that's a weird situation, but, I, I don't see Miami Downs last too long. You can definitely see, two is not his system is not connecting with two right now. They're not getting the best out of them. And usually when that happens, when the quarterback starts dropping the head coach, usually drops. And then they're usually he's using God.
00:47:01:04 - 00:47:15:05
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. So we'll see how long they keep Denver's own Smoky Hill alum Mike McDaniel there. Maybe part of it is if an interim guy comes in and wins a few games, like, oh, now we have to keep this guy. If Eric Studios, Bill the running backs coach, or John Emery, who's there with them? What are they?
00:47:15:12 - 00:47:24:01
Chris Harris Jr
Carol. Yeah. Oh, yeah. If I were on getting all Ali Gordon. Man, I was one of my. That's one of my kids man down here, man. He comes and trains with this.
00:47:24:01 - 00:47:27:13
Brandon Krisztal
But if they weren't losing, you could text dude and be like, hey, come on, take it easy. Oh my God.
00:47:27:13 - 00:47:46:22
Chris Harris Jr
No, man. I'm had to hit him up, man. I'm had to fight for Ali on that, man. But, you know, it's the NFL's man. Not for long, even for the coaches. So, I think the Dolphins have had plenty of chances. You know, they had a solid team to, you know, to go make some things happen. And, you know, they just couldn't play in the cold.
00:47:46:24 - 00:47:52:07
Chris Harris Jr
You know, they can't go on the road and win in the cold. So you can never expect too much out of Miami.
00:47:52:09 - 00:48:00:20
Brandon Krisztal
All right then. Final thought Broncos were one and a half point favorites in Houston. How about that. How do you see it played out okay.
00:48:00:22 - 00:48:08:23
Chris Harris Jr
I see it 24 to 25. Close game one point I'm giving the Broncos one point.
00:48:08:25 - 00:48:20:23
Brandon Krisztal
The Broncos win 2524. I saw it on TV this morning 2017. I'll stick with that. But if you can score 20 or more against team, it's only giving up 14.7 means you're doing something right. And I think the Broncos offense will actually be.
00:48:20:23 - 00:48:23:02
Chris Harris Jr
You got to score 20 points to win this game.
00:48:23:04 - 00:48:40:20
Brandon Krisztal
I think you're right. So that'll do it for us. On this Halloween edition I came dressed as Chris Harris. Chris just showed up looking like himself. Thanks to David and DC on the other side of the glass. Thank you for watching. We will catch you next week after the Thursday night game when we previewing the Raiders, we'll be reacting to the Raiders on football Fridays.
00:48:40:20 - 00:48:42:05
Brandon Krisztal
Thanks for rolling with us and Happy Halloween.