The Denver Broncos have the NFL’s best pass rush, leading in sacks and pressures entering their Week 11 matchup with the Kansas City Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes knows he has a challenge ahead of him on the road in a must-win AFC West battle.

“They have five really good defensive linemen that can all win in different ways. They have guys that can rotate in and play good as well.” said Mahomes during Wednesday’s press conference, “They know what their scheme is, they know to get after the quarterback. So for us, it’s just having great protection schemes, changing up the looks for them so they can’t just tee off, and then I think just going out there and getting the ball out of my hands whenever I need to, and then take shots when I need to as well.”

Denver’s defense has held opponents to just 11 points per game over the last two games. Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy weighed in on the Broncos’ success defensively earlier in the week during his press conference.

“Well, that’s the very first thing that jumps out on tape, is you go back to some of the statistics and you see the one thing that jumps out to me is red zone wise, their (Denver Broncos) – it’s not just this year that they’re number one, they’re good every year. “I think (Broncos Defensive Coordinator) Vance Joseph does a great job schematically. He has great players that jump out,” said Nagy. “Making sure we’re efficient there.” And then you look at that front, they lead the league in sacks. They make game-changing plays, which I think is very important, that if – that’s the other thing in the Buffalo game, we had a ton of third and eight, nine (and) 10 pluses in that game. Stay out of those. They know that, but we know it too and we got to figure out ways to do it. They’re really good across the board. They’ve lost some valuable players too, and they’re still good; that’s a credit to them.”

Kansas City enters Week 11 as one of the best offensive groups in contrast to Denver’s top-rated defense.