Denver is minus 5 (ranked 28th) in the turnover ratio after just 5 games. All but 1 or 2 of the league's division leaders have a plus ratio in TOs. Von Miller summed it up by saying "Hey, if we can play the same defense we’ve been playing and add on some turnovers, we’ll be more than good.” Denver's D is dead last with zero forced fumbles and zero recovered fumbles. The Broncos are near the bottom for INTs by our D with just 4 thefts.

On the flip side, our O and STs have 9 fumbles (3 recovered) to add to the offense's 6 INTs coughed up. To sum it all up, we aren't protecting the ball on O and we aren't taking it away from opponents with our D and the margins are big enough to have cost the team 2 games already. Teams like KC, NE, PHIL, MN, NO, LAR and SEA are are either at the top or near it in their divisions and a common trait is their ball protection, their O's don't give it up and their D's take it away regularly. The Broncos need to improve on both counts.