The Broncos are the first team in NFL history with at least 35 sacks on defense and 10 or fewer sacks allowed on offense in the first eight games of a season.

After two bad weeks, it's back to the winning ways for me with my NFL picks. I went 9-4 against the spread last week and 10-3 straight up. That's my kind of week. It ups my season records to 64-57 ATS and 86-34-1 straight up.

While Broncos Country is frustrated over the unexplored routes over the middle of the field, it’s Nix’s misfires on those deep shots in Weeks 1-6, especially ones in Los Angeles, that burned coach Sean Payton’s britches.

NFL Week 9 odds, picks, predictions, TV channel, streaming information for the Sunday football game between the Denver Broncos and Houston Texans.

Not every team in the National Football League can say they have a good, serviceable running back that they feel completely confident in.