KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Back home in Denver, the beating heart of Dove Valley is the Ugly Cona. Small. In reality, it is the cubby home to Broncos nose tackle D.J. Jones. In theory, it is a sort of club, with amorphous boundaries. Fellow D-lineman Eyioma Uwazurike, a couple lockers down, is a member. So is defensive tackle Malcolm Roach.
The name comes, as Jones explained one afternoon in October, from Florida rapper Kodak Black. Specifically, one line from one 2016 single — “There He Go” — that Black dropped a few weeks after being released from jail in December 2016.