VonDoom
06-02-2015, 09:16 AM
Mike Tanier has an article on Bleacher Report today about our offense. He's one of my favorite football writers and always brings the stats. Good read especially for people who worry about how "slow" our offense might become under Kubiak:
Some of the differences between the old Broncos system and the one Kubiak and Dennison will run are an optical illusion. Ever see the trick where two circles are exactly the same size, but one is surrounded by tiny circles and the other is surrounded by huge circles? The circle surrounded by bigger ones looks smaller.
When Kubiak sends the offense onto the field to huddle before lining up in an I formation, his system looks extremely run-oriented. When Manning hurries to the line with a spread formation and hollers a bunch of gibberish, his system looks extremely pass-oriented. But many of the differences are superficial: Play ratios are about the same, use of play action is about the same, even the style of the running plays is not that different once you get past the formation shift.
The Manning offenses don't even run that many more plays than the Kubiak offenses. In 2012, both the Broncos and Texans executed exactly 1,090 plays. The 2014 Broncos ran 1,067 plays to the Ravens' 1,021 plays.
Some more talk about pace as well - a chart shows that last year's Ravens actually took fewer seconds per play in the first half of games than the Broncos.
The rest: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2482074-will-the-broncos-passing-stats-go-in-the-tank-under-gary-kubiak
Some of the differences between the old Broncos system and the one Kubiak and Dennison will run are an optical illusion. Ever see the trick where two circles are exactly the same size, but one is surrounded by tiny circles and the other is surrounded by huge circles? The circle surrounded by bigger ones looks smaller.
When Kubiak sends the offense onto the field to huddle before lining up in an I formation, his system looks extremely run-oriented. When Manning hurries to the line with a spread formation and hollers a bunch of gibberish, his system looks extremely pass-oriented. But many of the differences are superficial: Play ratios are about the same, use of play action is about the same, even the style of the running plays is not that different once you get past the formation shift.
The Manning offenses don't even run that many more plays than the Kubiak offenses. In 2012, both the Broncos and Texans executed exactly 1,090 plays. The 2014 Broncos ran 1,067 plays to the Ravens' 1,021 plays.
Some more talk about pace as well - a chart shows that last year's Ravens actually took fewer seconds per play in the first half of games than the Broncos.
The rest: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2482074-will-the-broncos-passing-stats-go-in-the-tank-under-gary-kubiak