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Please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE... Get Alex Singleton off my football team.

Takeaways from #Broncos' loss to the Chiefs: • Outcoached and outclassed. Badly. Pathetically. The Chiefs wanted this one MUCH more than Denver did. The Broncos were sleepwalking compared to the home team. Shocking and pitiful, even for Week 1 standards. • No way to spin it: Bo Nix wasn't good tonight. The offensive line wasn't good tonight. The playcalling wasn't good tonight. Nothing, really, was good tonight. • The Davis Webb-as-OC experiment still has a LONG way to go and many issues to work out. I scratched my head tonight way more than I thought I would. • Speaking of, it was apparent they were trying to air it out with Nix and felt like they were trying to prove something. What's the point of bringing back Dobbins and drafting Coleman if you're not gonna run the ball? • Also, trading a first-round pick (and more) for Jaylen Waddle only to barely get him the ball? Hi-larious. • Nix appeared a little erratic and bailed from the pocket too soon at times. But the amount of pressure in his face all night was ridiculous. What happened to the "best O-line in the NFL"? • The sheer amount of missed tackles was astonishing. I can't remember seeing a defense play so consistently sloppy — from the opening whistle to the final seconds. That's a coaching issue that falls directly at the feet of Vance Joseph. • As I tweeted earlier, this is right up there with 70-20 in terms of pure, fundamentally BAD defensive football. Like, breathtakingly bad. • Alex Singleton is who some of us thought he was. I respect his story, his journey — I DETEST his play. The day the Broncos find an upgrade at ILB legitimately cannot come soon enough. • It could be time to have a conversation about Jahdae Barron... • This was a major reality check and a big slice of humble pie for Sean Payton and the Broncos. How they respond next week will tell us a lot about the 2026 team.