The Denver Broncos will kick off tonight’s game on Sunday Night Football in the bright lights of primetime against the Los Angeles Rams. What are the top three matchups that you need to pay attention to?
Denver Broncos top three matchups to watch for vs. Rams
Sunday Night Football will provide the Broncos with one of their toughest matchups of the season against a deep and experienced Los Angeles Rams team led by Matthew Stafford.
Patrick Surtain II vs. Davante Adams is made for primetime
After having some epic battles early on in Patrick Surtain II’s young career, he’s older and wiser and even better as he faces off against former Raiders’ rival Davante Adams, who is trying to maximize his shot at a championship with Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams.
Surtain and Adams have had some entertaining back-and-forths over the years, but Surtain has gotten the edge over the course of their last two matchups, production-wise, although Adams is 4-0 against the Broncos in their last group of head-to-head matchups.
Putting their best cornerback on Adams, who is coming off an eight-catch, 195-yard performance and two touchdowns, is the right move for Vance Joseph. Surtain can follow Adams outside, in the slot, and anywhere else he may try to line up. All eyes should be on this matchup specifically.
Quinn Meinerz vs. Aaron Donald
In his first game back since retiring a couple of seasons ago, Aaron Donald is more than likely set to line up in front of Quinn Meinerz on Sunday Night Football if his alignment against the New York Giants is any indication.
Donald didn’t register a sack, but he had three tackles and one tackle for a loss, and he showcased his strength and high motor. Even though he retired, Donald never changed his workout routine and is in great physical shape, as he still tries to get back into football shape — those are two different things.
He can still be very disruptive, and this matchup will be fun to watch considering Meinerz has been manhandling defensive linemen for two consecutive weeks, including a pancake against the Jaguars on one of Jonah Coleman’s 12-yard runs late in the fourth quarter that helped them put the game on ice.
If you love trench warfare, it doesn’t get any better than this.
Broncos’ front seven against Rams’ 13-personnel
The Los Angeles Rams love to operate out of 13-personnel as one of their bread-and-butter identities on offense. Throughout their two games and 117 offensive snaps, they’ve operated out of 13-personnel 53 times. Their next highest personnel group is 11-personnel, where they’ve had 60 snaps.
It will be curious to see if the Broncos deploy their base personnel against the Rams in 13-personnel, and evolve to their nickel group in 11 tonight.
The Rams offense aims to get Kyren Williams and Blake Corum rolling in the run game to set up Matthew Stafford and the rest of the offense in the play action and quick passing game.
One of the bigger keys to success tonight will be pressuring Stafford and disrupting his ability to let Adams, Atwell, Parkinson, and Ferguson get open in the middle or vertically downfield.
Kickoff is set for 6:20 p.m. MT.
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