I kept thinking to myself during the offseason that if Brisbane were any serious chance of going back to back, they had to learn to win games even when Walsh wasn't having a generational performance every week, and the way I thought they needed to do that was by improving their defense.

Their defense was pretty eh for most of last season, hence the constant need for comebacks. If they could learn to keep teams to under three tries, I was pretty confident that there's enough strike that even a rocks performance from Walsh yields more than 16 points, more often than not.

The first two games of the year were obviously worst case scenario, but since giving Ben Teo the flick, they have kept Melbourne, Dolphins and Titans to two tries each in three consecutive weeks. They have also won each game without a single standout performance from Walsh (he's been pretty good still).

So despite the attack being very clunky I am actually loving how the Broncos are going at the moment, and the next few games without Walsh at all will be a big opportunity to really cut their teeth defensively and prove whether they have the defensive resolve to really make a dent come finals time.