Your Guide to Beating the Denver Broncos

The Broncos are not only the best team in the NFL right now, but are ridiculously better than everyone else. The Broncos right now are as good as any other team in the history of the NFL during the first four weeks. If any team is going to beat them, here are four things that team must do:

1. Dare the Broncos to RUN the football - Don't waste your time trying to stop the run. Let them run free. Focus all energy on stopping the pass. Peyton doesn't want to run the ball. He doesn't trust any of this 3 running backs (Ball, Moreno, and Hillman) as he shouldn't (they kind of suck). Peyton loves throwing the ball. Peyton wants to throw the ball every time. He doesn't want to go a whole game just handing the ball off.

And If  their running backs are picking up two or three yards every time they carry the ball? Who cares? You shouldn't. Two yard gains are a million times better than Peyton Manning having open looks to his four dangerous receivers (D. Thomas, J. Thomas, Decker, and Welker). As long as you're effectively guarding the pass, let them pick up small gains on the ground all day.

Throw away your run-stopping defenses. Have as much man power as possible focused on defending the pass. When Payton hands the ball off and the running back picks up three yards, that is a win for you!

The only time I even think about run defences is on 3rd and short. And I still am expecting a fake hand off and have my defence ready for a big play.

2. Have a confusing defence - Peyton is maybe the smartest quarterback of all time. If he knows what defence you are playing, he's going to absolutely murder you. Your defence must be one-hundred percent in the game. They must show and sell one thing, then do the other. Show a zone defence, and then play man. Show blitz, then don't, then do. Do everything and nothing.

If I am in the AFC, I start making a defencive playbook today that I will only use when I play the Broncos. Even if I don't play then until week 17.

3. Have an effective pass rush - This one you can't just plan. If your teams can't pressure a quarterback without blitzing all the time, then you're going to lose to the broncos. Peyton is a double-edged sword. If you blitz him too much, he will burn you. If you give him all day in the pocket, he will burn you. You must be able to pressure him without having to blitz often. If you have a good pass rush, and only give him so much time, you can keep Peyton in check.

4 - You still need to score - The Broncos also have a pretty good defence. Plus, even if you do all the right things on defence, Peyton will not be held to zero points. If you hold the Broncos under twenty points, then you did a great job. That means you have to be able to score at least twenty points if you want to win.

Conclusion - The broncos will not lose to any bad team this year. They are too good and too disciplined. The only teams that have a chance to beat them must have an effective pass rush, a good offence, and confusing defence, and protect well against the pass (forget the run).

The only four teams on the Broncos schedule that are good enough to even have a chance are the Colts, Patriots, Chiefs, and Texans. And probably not even the Texans. If I were one of them, I start today to make an elusive defencive strategy to use against the Broncos.

And even all that might not be enough. The Broncos have a real chance to go undefeated this year. They are historically good right now and, barring an injury to Peyton Manning, will continue to dominate all year.