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The scar on Tez Johnson’s forearm is a couple of inches long, maybe an inch wide.

“It’s Bo’s fault,” Tez says. “You can tell him I said that, too.”

Bo is Bo Nix, Tez’s quarterback at Pinson Valley High in Alabama in 2018, who now plays for the Denver Broncos. Tez was Bo’s star wide receiver.

Their opponent, Clay-Chalkville, ran a corner cat blitz in which the cornerback came hard off the edge. Bo tried to throw Tez a bubble screen pass to the side of the blitzing defender, but the corner torpedoed Tez, helmet to forearm, sending him flying and leaving a gash.

In every game he’s played, Tez has been the smallest player on the field. But he also has been one of the most resilient. His breath was lost to the Alabama sky on that hit, and blood flowed. Then Tez brushed off the grass and cobwebs, had his arm bandaged and hurried back to catch 17 passes for 247 yards and three touchdowns.

He scored seven more touchdowns that year and 12 the next. Tez followed that with 29 in college. As an NFL rookie last year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — a 5-foot-10, 152-pound rookie — he had five more. On Sunday, he scored his first touchdown of 2026 in Carolina on a 14-yard pass from Baker Mayfield. That’s 47 touchdowns in eight years.

And after his touchdowns, he often celebrates with backflips — high in the air, graceful, stick-the-landing-on-a-lentil backflips.

So he’s known for touchdowns and backflips, not a scar.

But that scar tells his story.

It’s a story about being wounded.

And about being healed.

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Jonah at the Nuggets vs Warriors game last night🏀🏔️🏈

Not a Broncos fan, though they are my second favorite team, and I am a big Steve Atwater fan.

Edit Audio Credit: no mercy ~ edit audio, mxlyy on youtube

Jonah Coleman is the best back on the team. We all see it.

He out-snapped J.K. Dobbins 30-14 last week and needs to continue to lead the team in snaps. Even Sean Payton said he needs more.

Film of every run he had last week inside the article too. Go Broncos!

I know it's a long shot, but I'm traveling this weekend for a wedding, and will be in Durham and Winston-Salem on Sunday. Considering it's the KC Revenge game, just looking for someplace fun to watch the game with like minded folks.

We owe them one so start chanting this to yourself today!

The Cardinals franchise is an embarrassment to our city. Every home game we have opposing fanbases take over our stadium and it’s embarrassing. Yesterday, I seriously think there were more Broncos fans than Cardinals fans, which is a total disgrace for Larry Fitzgerald, who was inducted into the Ring of Honor and had his number retired.

The Broncos fans who participated in holding up the red and white cards showed total class. Thank you for understanding the moment.

How is Javonte killin it as soon as he left Denver? Last year almost 1400 yards from scrimmage and 13 TDs. This year he already has 8 scores and racking up yards on MNF.

I don’t get it, where was all of this when he was in Denver ? Terrible injury 2nd year but what about year three and four ? How did we miss so badly on this ?

I heard the clip of Bo explaining the big play to Mims several times today. As a coach, I thought it might be helpful for the layman fan to have a breakdown on what Bo said.

Mug is how the defense lines up before the play. It means they are showing the QB a lot of pressure. They're threatening to blitz.

But they might:

• Blitz the quarterback.
• Drop back into pass coverage.
• Send one defender while another drops.

Palms is how the defense covers receivers after the play starts. It's a mix in coverage that tries to trick the quarterback into throwing where a defender is waiting.

Two defensive backs work together: a cornerback and a safety. Normally, the corner covers the outside receiver and the safety helps with the inside receiver. But in Palms, if the inside receiver runs a short route toward the sideline:

• The cornerback jumps down to cover that short route.
• The safety takes over the outside receiver running deep.

On the long pass to Marvin Mims:

1. Arizona showed Mug, threatening to blitz.
2. Bo anticipated that the defense might actually drop into Palms.
3. The short outside route would attract the cornerback.
4. That left Mims running deep against a safety who had to get across to cover him.
5. Bo threw the ball before the safety could get there.
6. He also identified Budda Baker's earlier disguise, in which Baker moved toward the middle before the defense settled into a two-high zone.

In plain English: Arizona tried to confuse Bo about who was rushing and who was covering. Bo figured out the trick and used Arizona's own coverage rules against them.

That's what makes the play impressive. He didn't just see Mims open. He understood why Mims was going to be open before he got there.

From a quarterback-coaching standpoint, this is a much more sophisticated play than simply finding an open receiver. Bo identified a likely coverage before the snap, understood the rules governing the defenders, and anticipated where the receiver would be open.

That's the difference between throwing to an open receiver and throwing a receiver open.

Thanks for listening.

Whilst you rightfully flame me for my Jeudy shirt giveaway, I figured I’d also offer this black wallet given that a duplicate was sent to me by Fanatics yesterday and they told me to keep both (I don’t need two). It’s half leather and half synthetic materials per their website. Will ship for free to any North American address, and as I’ve previously done with other Broncos giveaways I will use a random generator to pick a winner within 48 hours.

ETA: Please comment to be considered by the generator for a giveaway. Thank you :) The winner will receive a DM by 8:30PM Eastern (EST) on October 28th. I will also comment once I’ve closed this post and asked the generator to pick a winner.

I have to admit wasn't sure how our secondary would hold up after losing PS2 and having Riley Moss banged up the past few weeks. Was super anxious especially about the Seattle game. JSN had a good but not great game against us but JSN has been frankly unstoppable. Otherwise our patchwork secondary including Barron and Rapp have been excellent. Defense hasn't missed a beat and I actually think our tackling has improved. I would love to keep everyone on this defense but seeing these guys step up makes me think we'd be fine if we can't re sign Riley Moss next year.