Denver Broncos Over/Under Wins Odds 2021: Tough season ahead in Denver

The Denver Broncos are currently one of the more curious teams in the NFL. Supposedly, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the deal from the Denver Broncos for Aaron Rodgers is still on the table.

Obviously, if Rodgers or a player of his caliber were to join the Broncos, this shakes out an entirely different way.

There’s no nice way to say it, so I’ll just come flat out and say it; the Denver Broncos are the AFC equivalent of the Chicago Bears. Roster is pretty good in a lot of different areas, defense is the strength of the team, above average to good players at skill positions, an elite talent on the defensive line and most importantly, below average play from the quarterback position.

When he came out of Mizzou, I liked Drew Lock. But he’s gotten his fair shake and he’s just average. John Elway and the Broncos realized this and went out and acquire: *Drum Roll* Teddy Bridgewater!

As you can imagine the move was largely met with crickets. Is Bridgewater better than Lock? We’ll see. Is Bridgewater also just an average quarterback? Likely, yes.

Which is a shame. They have some real talent on the offense.

Noah Fant led the team in receptions last year with 62 and was second in yards with 673. Jerry Jeudy led the team in targets with 113 but only 52 were brought in for receptions. Most of the time, it wasn’t his fault, but he did have some drop issues last season, but I expect him to be sharper in that department this season.

A lot of people like KJ Hamler, but I like Tim Patrick a little bit more, personally.

On defense, they’re as good as you remember. Von Miller on the strong side and Bradley Chubb on the weak side with Alex Johnson in the middle.

Back in coverage, they’ll have Kyle Fuller this season, along with their first-round pick Patrick Surtain II, who was my favorite corner in this past draft.

At safety, they’ll have Kareem Jackson and Justin Simmons, who was tied for fourth in the league last season with five interceptions.

Like I said for the Bears, they’ll have to be a defense-first team and score just enough points to win. Fortunately, they were that once last decade and figured out a way to get to the playoffs.

I have Denver falling to the New York Giants in the opener but beating Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 2.

They’ll beat the Jets in Week 3, but losses at home against Baltimore and on the road against Pittsburgh. They’ll rebound with a win at home against Vegas, but drop the next three at Cleveland, at home against Washington and at Dallas before beating Philadelphia to go into the bye at 4-6.

But as schedules seem to do for middle of the pack teams, theirs gets harder after the bye. I have them winning only two of their last seven with wins against Detroit and Cincinnati in Weeks 14 & 15.

The losses will come Week 12 against the Los Angeles Chargers, 13 at Kansas City, 16 at Las Vegas, 17 at the Chargers and 18 at Kansas City for a record of 6-11.

Their over/under is currently at 8.5, so give me the under at plus money.

Even if I’m being harsh, the only games I could see that you could really overturn are the Giants in Week 1, Washington in Week 8 and Week 16 at Vegas. Even if you view them as 50/50 toss-ups, there’s no way they all go in Denver’s favor. Take the under.