Broncos report card: Nik Bonitto and pass-rush shine against Bengals despite offensive penalties

Well that was easy The Broncos got out to an early first-half lead Monday night and sleepwalked to a blowout - win over an overmatched Bengals association There was plenty of good Also plenty frustrating Here s The Denver Post s account card as Denver improves to - OFFENSE B- Call it the tale of two halves The Broncos had one baffling goal-line possession in the second quarter two boot rollouts to Evan Engram then a Wildcat package for RJ Harvey then an interception on another Bo Nix rollout But Denver piled up yardage and three first-half touchdowns with particular of the best playmaking distribution Sean Payton s attack has shown all year There was balance in all phases Dobbins and Harvey complemented one another in a consistent ground match Nix sprayed screens navigating routes and seam routes and the Broncos utilized all their playmakers effectively in the passing contest The second half though brought more of the same offensive dysfunction that Denver s seen all season Troy Franklin had his second drop of the competition Center Luke Wattenberg had five penalties in total Monday night two were declined The Broncos finished with an easy-season high total yards and J K Dobbins had the first -yard rushing challenge by a Denver running back in the Payton era but the unit left too much on the board as a whole Broncos analysis Denver sows seeds of offensive identity in pulverizing Monday night win over Bengals This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e details if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i