The Denver Broncos played a solid game against the Seattle Seahawks, but there’s still room for improvement. Here are five players who must be better.
The Denver Broncos won their seventh straight home opener and looked really good at times in all three phases of the game.
With that said, it wasn’t a perfect performance throughout and that’s why Denver won by just three points instead of three scores. They gave up 17 points off of three turnovers and had some issues with big chunk plays allowed defensively.
Despite the fact that the Raiders looked like the worst team in the division in week one’s Monday Night Football finale, the Broncos have to find a way to be better in week two and put together a complete performance.
If that happens, there’s no telling what kind of destruction they can bring upon Jon Gruden’s crew.
Which players specifically must be better in the week two divisional matchup?
Let’s take a look at five guys, starting with the team’s captain.
Case Keenum, QB
With a $36 million contract, expectations are going to be high, even if they are unfairly high.
Case Keenum threw seven interceptions in 2017 over the course of the entire regular season. Dating back to last year’s playoffs, he’s thrown six interceptions in his last three games.
That cannot continue.
The Broncos would have won against Seattle by at least two touchdowns and probably more had Keenum not thrown three interceptions. Even if he had thrown one or two picks, the Broncos would have won by double digits if the offense had been able to move the ball after Justin Simmons picked off a Russell Wilson pass and set the Broncos up with some of their best field position in the entire game.
The offense went zero yards after that interception.
Keenum had some great moments in this game, and for the most part was very good, but there were some areas in which he can definitely improve and he must do so before the Broncos play host to the Raiders on Sunday.