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Denver Native (Carol)
06-17-2012, 06:47 PM
Peyton Manning doesn't have to throw for 5,000 yards in his first season with the Broncos. Although in today's NFL, 5,000 is the new 4,000. (John Elway, a quarterback of the long-ago 1980s and '90s, passed for 4,000 yards once in his 16-year career.)

Nor is it imperative for Manning, the longtime Indianapolis Colt, to guide the Broncos to early leads so pass rushers Elvis Dumervil and Von Miller can ignore the run and concentrate on their human bull's-eye. Although this, too, would help.

Manning's most important task in his first season with the Broncos?

Figure out how to beat the Oakland Raiders in his new home.

rest - http://www.denverpost.com/klis/ci_20875011/peyton-mannings-no-huddle-offense-could-solve-riddle

OrangeHoof
06-17-2012, 07:01 PM
Figuring out how to beat the Chefs and the Chuggers seem equally important to me.

BroncoWave
06-17-2012, 07:04 PM
Waiting for OR to come in here and talk about how Palmer is better than Manning.

SR
06-17-2012, 07:50 PM
Waiting for OR to come in here and talk about how Palmer is better than Manning.

Inevitable.

Al Wilson 4 Mayor
06-17-2012, 11:46 PM
If we can get out to early leads, which is very likely, our home drought should be over. Maybe we'll win a division game at home this year!

Gotta take baby steps folks....

Cugel
06-18-2012, 12:01 PM
Just because the Broncos under useless Chode QBs like Orton and Tebow struggled in home division games, especially late in the year, does NOT mean they are destined to lose home games under Peyton Manning!

A lot of that is because other teams figured out how to defense against the Broncos offense! Against Orton they figured out he had a wet noodle for an arm and couldn't beat them deep, so they brought up 7 or 8 defenders in the box and dared him to throw over them. Plus he was about as mobile as a limpet so they could blitz him with impunity.

Against Tebow defenses finally figured out that you could play straight up vanilla defense against him and come up strong with S and LB support whenever he tried to run instead of chasing him all around the backfield. The Patriots dismantled Tebow in the playoffs using that strategy.

The significance of the Pats win was obscured by Brady. Everybody said "well it was Brady against Tebow so what did you expect?" But, the Pats could have beat Denver in that game with Sage Rosenfels at QB. Their defense utterly crushed and humiliated the Broncos offense. And they did it by simply lining up and playing a vanilla, nothing fancy, no blitzes defense.

Manning would pass for 500 yards against a defense like that. But Tebow was as helpless as a duck that had been stunned by hitting it on the head with a mallet.

So, the key to winning at home this year is going to be Manning going no-huddle and keeping the Raiders and Chefs from making substitutions. Keep them on the field until they're lying on their backs sucking oxygen by the 4th quarter.

Every time they try and rotate those big DL, get to the line and call a play and catch them trying to make a substitution. They're going to be totally gassed playing Manning and that hurry up offense at 5,280 feet altitude.

I look forward to the old Mile High magic returning this season where teams were AFRAID to come here. They HATED playing Denver at home because it was an ordeal.

Dean
06-18-2012, 01:53 PM
Definitely an up tempo game favors the offense, they know where the play is going. However, if the tactic becomes highly successful the Raiders will use other means like fake injuries or an encroachment penalty to get their people on the field. What is a few penalty yards when over the years the team has raised it to an art form?