The Denver Broncos bounced back from from that humiliating loss to the Kansas City Chiefs to win a come-from-behind game against a very strong Jaguars team. The Jacksonville Jaguars had won nine straight regular season games coming into Sunday’s matchup with the Broncos, although they did lose to the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs last season.
The Bronco defense which was atrocious against the Chiefs in missing 24 tackles, missed only 3 tackles against the Jaguars. Both Alex Singleton and DJ Jones
were tagged with four missed tackles in the loss to the Chiefs. Neither player had a missed tackle against the Jaguars. While the Bronco defense is still “leading” the NFL in missed tackles with 27, the Colts are close with 22.
What concerns me more than the missed tackles is the lack of pressure. The Broncos are only getting pressure on 20.3 percent of dropbacks. That is currently 23rd. Two defenses are getting pressure on more than 40% of opponent dropbacks, The Raiders and the Vikings.
In terms of allowing pressure, the Bronco offense is currently 15th according to PFR – allowing pressure on 21.9 percent of dropbacks. The best pass blocking team right now (by pressure allowed) is the 49ers (9.38 percent). The worst pass blocking team right now is the Panthers allowing pressure on an astounding 41.5 percent of dropbacks. By most accounts the Broncos allowed a great deal of pressure on Bo Nix in game one and they were much better in game two. NFL.com shows that the Broncos allowed seven QB pressures in game 1 and only three in game two. The Jaguars got 10 pressures on the Browns the week before.
The Bronco run game was mostly silent in week one partly because of the lack of run plays. Denver had 14 actual runs (kneeldowns count as runs in the NFL STILL, for some stupid reason) for 62 yards (4.43 YPC). That’s respectable, but the run game was not employed very often. The Broncos had 25 actual runs for 107 yards on Sunday against the Jaguars (4.28 YPC).
The Broncos have been about average in terms of avoiding wasted run plays. Denver has five runs that gained 11 or more yards – one by Pat Bryant, two by JK Dobbins and two by Jonah Coleman – that’s 12.8 percent.
So far the average NFL team gets 16.7% stuffed, 24.3 % gaining 1-2 yards, 31% gaining 3-5 yards, 18.8% gaining 6-10 yards, and 9.2% gaining 11 or more yards. Every team in the NFL has as least one long run with the exception of the Browns. The Texans have been the worst at getting 28 percent of their runs stuffed (no gain or loss).
The Broncos had 48 runs in 2025 that gained 11 or more yards with JK Dobbins getting 19, Bo Nix 13, RJ Harvey 8, Jaleel McLaughlin 4, Marvin Mims 2, and Troy Franklin and Adam Prentice both had one. The run game looked much better against the Jaguars than it did against the Chiefs. The Broncos have 11 total runs that gained 6 or more yards, with eight of those coming against Jacksonville and only three coming against Kansas City.
The defense did a much better job of stopping the run against the Jaguars. After giving up 223 rushing yards on 35 actual runs (6.37 YPC) the week before, the Broncos allowed 95 yards on 24 carries on Sunday (3.96 YPC). The Denver defense is still 30th in the NFL in YPC allowed, but they were 31st after week one. Not missing tackles is good for stopping the run.
