Price: The ONE Thing That Could SAVE the Broncos vs. the Patriots

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00:00Fast forwarding to the AFC Championship game, I mean, there's no other way to put it.

00:04This has gone from, you know, house money to you got to win this game.

00:11Yeah.

00:11I mean, that's completely fair.

00:14You, Christopher, what do you say about that?

00:17The expectations have changed.

00:19Right.

00:19You know, not just for the, you know, the way the Patriots are playing, but obviously,

00:23you know, the Bo Nix-Jarrett Stidham situation.

00:25The wild card for me coming into this game, and I'm glad John mentioned it there at the

00:29top of the hour, is J.K. Dobbins.

00:31If J.K. Dobbins can be effective at all, when he's been healthy, he's been a good back.

00:35Not a great back, but a good back.

00:36If he can be healthy, if he can get healthy in time for this game, which is obviously

00:41a question mark, but if he can get healthy in time for this game, it gives the Broncos

00:44another option, you know, and it gives maybe, you know, Stidham a little bit more time back

00:50there.

00:50If he can be effective running the ball, and I'm not talking wildly effective.

00:53I mean, look, this is a guy who averaged, I think it was 77 yards a game over the first

00:5710 games of the season before the foot injury, five yards a carry.

01:00So he's good, not great, but he gives them another option when it comes to maybe showing

01:05the Patriots a little bit of a different look.

01:07Is there anything about Jared Stidham, though, to make you think that the Patriots are not

01:12going to be able to do to him what they did to Herbert, what they did to C.J. Stroud,

01:17and even to a greater extent to where they could render him completely ineffective?

01:21I mean, does he have anything that they need to be concerned about?

01:26I think, Hardy, the first quarter is going to tell you everything you need to know about

01:31where Jared Stidham is.

01:32If the Patriots are able to get up early, if the Patriots can build a 10-point lead, a

01:3614-point lead, then you're going to be able to pin your ears back and get after the quarterback,

01:40and you're going to see a lot of situations like we saw over the course of the first two

01:43playoff games where they're able to generate pressure.

01:45You know that the Broncos are fundamentally playing with one hand tied behind their back

01:51because they have to throw to get back in the game.

01:53So then I think things could kind of start to roll downhill.

01:56But if the Broncos can, I don't know, find some special teams magic in the early going,

02:00block a punt, run a kickback, whatever the case may be, you don't want to let them get

02:04that momentum going and have that carry over to the offensive side of them.