Patrick Surtain

Let's go to Los Angeles.

Denver trailed the Chargers 17 to 10 entering the fourth quarter, and then the defense, without Patrick Surtain and without Raheem Morris, shut the Chargers down.

LA's five fourth quarter possessions went punt, turnover on downs, Justin Herbert fumble, Justin Herbert interception, and then a game-ending sack by Jaquan McMillen They had 19 net yards on 19 offensive plays, and the Broncos complete the comeback win 23 to 17.

Sean Payton took over play calling from Davis Webb, but the offense didn't improve much.

In the secondary, that's not really the case.

I- if Patrick Surtain, th- it, there's, it's basically not a well-defined statement to say Patrick Surtain is better than a wide receiver.

P- Patrick Surtain is going to lose to most wide receivers in the NFL given enough opportunities.

It's just too hard to run with players of that talent.

Pat Surtain, the best corner in the NFL, doesn't lose much, but he, he will lose if you, if you put Certainly the best wide receivers on the NFL on him.

That's just kinda how I feel.

I think that's a fair point, and I do kinda wanna see how their defense performs without Patrick Surtain.

I mean, he is so good, their defense is structured around having him.

A lot of the reason they get the pressure that they do, they've been such a successful team with sacking the quarterback, is because of the coverage they get from him, and from Riley Moss on the other side, who's also a bit banged up.

He was really good in Denver.

You know, running it with Patrick Surtain as your top corner versus whoever their top corner was in that game with Ben Ford out.

They kind of rotated.

Deion Ford maybe, until he got-

Like, the NFL, like I, I was ...

When I watch it now, realizing, like, it's so hard to be like, are you gonna be a Ja'Marr Chase and a Patrick Surtain? There's no such thing.

Like, you can be one.

Mm.

You know what I'm saying? He's going couple passes here and there.

Like, he's a gadget guy.

If you wanna be Patrick Surtain, strapping people up, you get three picks.

Look, Joy- G- Joy put up three picks in the whole career so far, that's $30 million a year.

Right.

And that's what the league has gone to, and that's usually the only way that you can sustain offense and be able to get a guy like Patrick Surtain, or be able to get a guy like Jalen Johnson off of your best player, and be able to get yards, free yards down the field, is by confusing the defense.

And if our quarterback can only read out when our receivers are stagnant, we are in trouble because we need to graduate to a more complex offense.

To your point, that, that's like, who was it? Uh, Stafford.

And the problem is, Tori, it's really fi- great and dandy to play man, press man coverage.

When you have Patrick Surtain and Sam Madison as your outside corners-

Yep, yep, yep

... go for it.

It's a take

... look, we like Christian Benford, Bills fans do, for the fact that he is a legitimate corner, okay? But he's not Stingley, he's not Patrick Surtain.

He is not at the level that is going to fully take away a wide receiver.

Teams are still going to take their shots with their number one wide receiver against Christian Benford, and he made a, a really nice play, broke up two passes in the red zone against the Lions.