A Pre-Season Level Headed Review Week 2 2024

[DenverChief]

Injury Report:
BJ Thompson - Out (Medical)
Charles Omenihu - Out (Knee)
Marquise Brown - Doubtful (Shoulder)
Jawaan Taylor - Questionable (Shoulder)
Wanya Morris - Questionable (Bone Bruise)
Clyde Edwards-Helaire - Questionable (Illness)
Kelvin Joseph - Questionable (Hamstring) - Played
Chris Jones - Questionable (Shoulder)


Starting WR Line up was Rice, Worthy and Watson.

MAHOMES WITH THE BEHIND THE BACK PASS!!!

Worthy - first catch was a false start but the 39 yard catch was a thing of beauty. That TD pass from Wentz was too easy. Worthy is going to make defenses pay for leaving him one on one. (3/6 - 62 yards 1 TD & 1 Rush 11 Yards)

Watson with a nice catch on the first drive - I think he is a lock as your #4/Possession receiver. (1/1 - 20 yards)

Hicks with another great open field tackle on the first drive. Refreshing to see sure tacklers in the secondary. Hicks looked really tired by the end of the second. Had one near miss wide open and the catch at the 5 yard line at the end of the second was his guy to cover. To be fair it looks like he had played every D snap for the first half - but nice break-up in the Endzone.

Hardman as the primary PR/KR with LRZ & Steele.

Niang got owned and pushed back into the screen pass to Steele otherwise he would have had a nice gain.

Rice first two drives numbers were 4/5 35 yards. Looked really good picking right up where he left off last year.

Cam Jones caused the fumble on the KR Steele with the recovery.

Moore/Ross/Worthy were the 2s.

Ross sideline catches are still impressive even though he was half a shoe out of bounds on that. I think what is hurting Ross right now is that he isn't a special teams guy (at least a returner)

Herring got fooled badly on the Play Action Pass - crashed down too hard

CB Rolland -Wallace makes a good play on the ball - may have gotten away with a hold on the arm.

Toney makes an appearance on the Punt Return then gets called for a holding on the next play. I really feel like Toney is on the outside looking in at the moment. Unless he really shines in the third game I don't think he makes the team.

Prince got blown up on the block in the backfield where the throw to Toney was too high.

Araiza has just got an ABSOLUTE LEG on him and it looked like Moore (or Kelvin Joseph) caused the fumble on that tackle.

Keith Taylor had the missed tackle on the 69 yard TD but Cochrane was the coverage guy. Then comes back and gets the pick.

Prince looks really good in the open field. The 10 yard run that was called back on the Driskell holding and then the 41 yard run. Going to be some hard decisions in the RB room.

Goddrick got beat again on the Wentz sack.

Noah Gray did the Long Snap on the 56 yard field goal & LRZ kicked off the following kickoff and the 2nd half kickoff.

Remigio with an outstanding kick return in the second half.

Cornell Powell continues to shine better than Moore and Toney.

[TwistedChief]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Karlaftis had 10.5 sacks last year

Yes, King is saying he thinks he’ll exceed his previous sack high by a minimum of 2.5. Hence, teens.

[O.city]

Originally Posted by srvy

Niang looked like shit there, ran right by him.

Qb is way too deep made the angle to easy

[Danguardace]

Niang is useless

[smithandrew051]

With what we’ve seen from Worthy and Kingsley, I’m very excited to see this offense at full strength.

It’s going to be awesome once we get Thuney, Taylor, and Hollywood back.

[RunKC]

Watching again and found a few more interesting things:

-Williams is a nice boundary corner and so is Watson. Nazeeh Johnson did a nice job yesterday as well. Really excited for a 7th rd corner but man he looks like a contributor.

-Conner was almost exclusively at CB yesterday. They want him in the slot so McDuffie can be outside covering WR1’s.

-Jaden Hicks has to play a lot. Probably won’t technically start, but needs to be the 3rd safety playing on every downs and should play Willie Gay’s LB position on obvious passing downs, not Chenal. The kid is an amazing tackler and the 4.45 rumors about his speed are true. He’s got excellent closing speed.

-Dickerson looked really good yesterday. Think he’s making the team again. Wharton looked great last year. Hope we get some pass rush from them next to Chris Jones.

-Curtis Jacobs is a nice reserve player and ST. I think he needs some coaching but he’ll be a nice LB4 soon.

-George Karlaftis looks like he’s gonna get around 13-15 sacks this year. Unreal that this guy is only 23 years old