In the worst position they’d been in for months, Troy Franklin was still willing to push his verbal chips in on his boys on the other side of the ball.
After the Broncos went three-and-out on their first drive of the second half last Sunday against Green Bay, the Packers hovered over them with a dagger. Up 23-14. With the ball, and with quarterback Jordan Love dealing. Still, Franklin smacked his thigh on the bench and gave a full-throated endorsement of this Denver defense, as captured by NFL Films.
“I believe in our defense,” Franklin told fellow wide receiver Courtland Sutton, sitting on the bench.