Mile High Report
The Denver Broncos are on a bye for the Wild Card round, but we’ve got some regular season stats to share. In fact, we’ve had so many that I’ll need to break this up into two posts. One for this week and one for next week.
Denver has a chance to face four of the six playoff teams next week: the Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Texans, Buffalo Bills, or Los Angeles Chargers. We could know Denver’s opponent as early as Sunday if the Chargers or Bills win, but if both lose then we’ll find out Monday night.
Here’s what I’ve got for the Wild Card round:
We’ll start things off with just a “well that’s cool” type of thing. This infographic took me a moment to understand because shapes make me think of geometry and I failed geometry. I like algebra just fine, but boy… add in some shapes and my brain just crashes out.
That said, it was neat to see things aligned in a way where all of the Broncos opponents are aligned as they should be.
Though that schedule looks pretty damn brutal if you ask me!
You could have quite an explosive offense and still find yourself out of chances. The Dallas Cowboys would be a good example of that. It’s the defensive side of the ball that sets teams above the rest and the only real exception to that rule this season was the Chicago Bears. However, the Bears were among the league leaders in turnovers and that helps overcome their poor defensive output in other areas.
I think back to 2013 when the Broncos offense set records. Frankly, I think the injuries to Von Miller and Chris Harris Jr. that year was the death blow that led to the Super Bowl blowout. Maybe they still lose that game, but also maybe its not 43-8…
Nearly all metrics kind of show the same teams at the top. The Broncos defense is obviously very good.
I’ve shared this chart multiple times down the stretch, but this time I found it in The Feed section on Mile High Report. I recall the first time I shared it we had Bo Nix in third behind Justin Herbert and Josh Allen. Nix dominated in this situations over the final two weeks of the season and blew past the field to finish first in the NFL.
In some ways, this metric is also bad because it shows an offense gets into those situations far too often. However, looking at the Top 10 listed those are mostly elite quarterbacks and so its good to see Nix leading a field of elite quarterbacks on the season.
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