Packers Total Access: Packers vs. Broncos! Every Major Takeaway from the Preseason Win! Biggest Surprise?

Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/CLNS and use code CLNS and get $150 if you win your first $5 lineup! Packers Total Access: 🏈 Packers vs. Broncos! Every Major Takeaway From The Preseason Win! Biggest Surprise? The Green Bay Packers walked out of Empower Field at Mile High with a dominant 33-13 preseason win — and the takeaways from the final meaningful starter action of the 2026 preseason are more revealing, more encouraging, and more genuinely alarming than any single game result can capture heading into the most important regular season opener of the Matt LaFleur era! The Packers wrapped up what was likely their final meaningful preseason action with starters against the Denver Broncos — and the results from this Broncos matchup are all the more significant for evaluating the roster heading into Week 1. Trey Smack drilled a 59-yard field goal that completely reset the kicking conversation. MarShawn Lloyd scored a touchdown that makes the Jacobs suspension risk far less terrifying. Nyjalik Kelly and Anthony Campbell delivered the most electric bubble player performances of the entire preseason. But the honest takeaways cut both ways — Barryn Sorrell was arguably less effective as a pass rusher on the night than Brenton Cox, and with Micah Parsons unavailable, the reality that Sorrell is still expected to start opposite Lukas Van Ness is a difficult one for Green Bay. Edgerrin Cooper gave up a big touchdown while the starters were on the field — with Denver running back RJ Harvey, a talented receiving back out of the backfield, outrunning Cooper on a well-designed play to score — and the Jaylen Waddle 35-yard third-down catch that forced the Packers to completely adjust their coverages is the single most revealing defensive warning sign of the entire game. The 2026 Green Bay Packers' championship identity is now fully visible — and the picture is both more exciting and more complicated than the 33-13 score suggests. AtozSports + 2 In this complete Packers vs. Broncos major takeaways breakdown and biggest surprise evaluation, we dive into: The Biggest Surprise — Trey Smack's 59-Yard Bomb: Nobody predicted that the single most electrifying moment of Green Bay's final meaningful preseason game would come from the kicker — but Smack's 59-yard field goal at altitude in Denver is the most important individual play of the entire 2026 preseason for the Green Bay Packers. After a rocky 71.4% training camp field goal rate and the specific memory of the missed kick that contributed to the January playoff loss at Soldier Field, Smack's 59-yarder is the most confidence-building single moment any specialist has had in a Matt LaFleur preseason — and the kicker job is now fully and unambiguously his. The Outside Zone Scheme Shift — LaFleur's Most Important Takeaway: The Packers are running much more outside zone concepts this preseason — and the results have been encouraging — with MarShawn Lloyd's touchdown coming directly out of an outside zone design that showcases exactly the kind of Matt LaFleur Year 1 offensive reset that the coaching staff has been building toward all training camp. The outside zone emphasis gives Jordan Love more play-action opportunities, creates wider running lanes for Lloyd and Jacobs, and directly addresses the run-game identity that was the most criticized element of LaFleur's offense throughout the 2025 season. AtozSports The Sorrell Concern Is Real — And The Clock Is Ticking: Sorrell was not able to generate much pressure against the Broncos — with Brenton Cox arguably more effective as a pass rusher on the night — and without Micah Parsons available, the reality that Sorrell is still expected to start opposite Lukas Van Ness is a difficult one for Green Bay. The Broncos do have one of the best offensive lines in football — making the matchup far from favorable — but a dominant pass-rush performance from the player who delivered a 60-yard pick-six in training camp and has been the most consistent edge rusher behind Cox all summer was the one individual performance the Packers needed most from Friday's game, and it did not materialize. AtozSports The Jaylen Waddle Warning Shot: Waddle's speed after the catch was on full display — hauling in a 35-yard reception on third down that forced the Packers to adjust their coverages to account for his speed, creating big openings in the passing game that Denver exploited repeatedly throughout the first half. The Broncos do not play the Packers in the regular season — but the warning shot Waddle's speed fired at Jonathan Gannon's secondary is the most important film study moment of the entire preseason. The NFC North features receivers with similarly elite after-the-catch ability — and the coverage adjustment problems Waddle exposed on Friday night are the exact same problems that Amon-Ra St. Brown and Justin Jefferson are going to try to replicate in the divisional games that define the championship window. Sports Illustrated The Full Roster Verdict — Who Helped And Who Hurt Themselves: Smack locked up the kicker job. Lloyd locked up a backfield role. Kelly and Campbell made the most compelling bubble player cases of the entire preseason. Cooper's coverage lapse against Harvey and Sorrell's underwhelming pass-rush performance are the two most urgent individual red flags heading into the September 13th opener at Minnesota — and with the Arizona Cardinals joint practice and preseason finale on August 26th and 28th reserved exclusively for backups and the roster bubble, the Broncos game is the final word on every starter's preseason evaluation. The 2026 Green Bay Packers championship window is open — the 33-13 win confirmed it — but the honest film from Denver tells Brian Gutekunst exactly what still needs to be fixed before the NFC North title race begins for real. AtozSports 📢 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Packers Total Access is your #1 source for Green Bay Packers football on YouTube. We bring you daily Packers news, injury updates, trade rumors, and comprehensive NFL coverage. 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