Jonathon Cooper

in the running game, I will say the Broncos look quite different with one less pass rusher on the defensive line.

Jonathan Cooper has 27 sacks over the last three years.

He's a high-pressure guy.

And what has made the Broncos so tough is they have three guys.

That, what are we doing there? And to me, I felt like they missed, they didn't have the edge.

And I don't, Jonathan Cooper is that for them.

And so, Jonathan Cooper was missed last night.

John Franklin Myers was missed last night.

And to me, I haven't seen the Broncos in the last couple years get pushed around like that.

Like, all those fourth quarter comebacks last year in those close games, that's not repeatable.

I don't think that this defense is, like, anywhere near the class that people think that this defense is without Jonathan Cooper in the mix for them.

But I think the price is okay, honestly.

I...

Yeah, yeah

... and he just bounces and ta- Like, Jonah Ellis, like, that's where we talk about everybody was so enamored with Josh Simmons, and I pointed out a, a l- number of times last week, Jonathan Cooper's not playing.

Jonah Ellis is playing for Jonathan Cooper.

All right, so does Jonathan Cooper bring down Rashee Rice? I don't know.

If he does, do they not score on that drive? I don't know.

Who knows?

If you thought that this team, because of some of the defensive losses that they had, If you thought that because of the defensive losses that they had, you also were not proven wrong yesterday.

I mean, they didn't have Jonathan Cooper because of his off-the-field incident.

They didn't have John Franklin Myers, who now signed with the...

Tennessee Titans, I mean, this was a defense that we have talked about this Broncos defense only being one of the five best, being one of the top defenses in the National Football League.

If you thought that this team, because of some of the defensive losses that they had, If you thought that because of the defensive losses that they had, you also were not proven wrong yesterday.

I mean, they didn't have Jonathan Cooper because of his off-the-field incident.

They didn't have John Franklin Myers, who now signed with the...

Tennessee Titans.

I, uh, not as it's currently standing.

And I know that they're missing Jonathan Cooper, who probably shouldn't be back, but he probably will be, um, because of the domestic violence situation that he has.

Uh, but if that's the one piece that's keeping the whole thing together, that's not a good defense.

I, I would just be straight up.

I, I think this was more about Ken Walker and the Chiefs offensive line than it was about the Broncos defense being bad.

I think they're gonna be average.

I think like they said on the broadcast, they're missing Jonathan Cooper and that's gonna hurt, but that's not the o- only reason.

Ken Walker looked like-

The offensive line probably just as good as Denver's when fully healthy.

And now you have the variable of maybe this defensive line is better than Denver's, too, because of the amount of defensive linemen they added and the fact that Jonathan Cooper for Denver, we don't know when he's going to play.

John

Franklin Myers.