Both our own Jeffrey Essary and Broncos Country’s own Steve Atwater gave the same opinion on recent episodes of Broncos Country Tonight.
And that is, if you want a ball-hawking secondary able to get takeaways, you absolutely have to get pressure on the quarterback first.
Speaking to Ryan Edwards and Benjamin Allbright last week, Essary pointed out that Vic Fangio’s defense has always tried to send as few people as possible to get QB pressure, but last season he was forced to do more blitzing just to get the results he needed.
And while there weren’t a lot of turnovers on the defense’s part, there were a lot of stops.