{"id":847490,"date":"2026-08-05T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847490\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:42:09","slug":"d-j-jones-says-broncos-can-break-84-bears-sack-record-were-about-to-eat-again-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847490\/","title":{"rendered":"D.J. Jones says Broncos can break &#8217;84 Bears&#8217; sack record: &#8216;We&#8217;re about to eat again&#8217; | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jones isn&#8217;t the only Denver defender who&#8217;s been confident this offseason about snapping Chicago&#8217;s record. Pass rush mate Zach Allen said in early July that the Broncos <a node=\"[object Object]\" class=\"inline-block relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/zach-allen-expects-broncos-to-break-team-record-for-sacks-in-2026\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;fully expect to break it&#8221;<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Denver has a better shot than most, especially considering it is returning most of its defensive standouts from 2025, including Allen (seven sacks) Nik Bonitto (14), Jonathon Cooper (8) and Malcolm Roach (four).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos will be forced to replace the production left behind by John Franklin-Myers, who went to Tennessee in free agency, but Jones\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" node=\"[object Object]\" class=\"inline-block relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TroyRenck\/status\/2085079931835539836\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">said<\/a> Wednesday that Roach and Eyioma Uwazurike (3.5) are more than able to take up JFM&#8217;s mantle and help Vance Joseph&#8217;s unit make history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got what it takes,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve tasted it. Now, it&#8217;s time to cook the meal, eat it and take a break.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know how you eat a good meal, and you lay down after to take a good nap, and you wake up and go eat again? We&#8217;re about to eat again. It&#8217;s time. We got the numbers, we got the men, we got the will power, we&#8217;ve got free will to go do it. So, it&#8217;s up to us, and we&#8217;ll go do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jones isn&#8217;t the only Denver defender who&#8217;s been confident this offseason about snapping Chicago&#8217;s record. Pass rush mate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[10949,49,48,13153,1743,44,514,82,1722],"class_list":["post-847490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-d-j-jones","tag-denver-broncos","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}