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Broncos Special Teams

Mingo

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It really is interesting to consider what happened on the Broncos special teams the last few years - considering the Special Teams coach McMahon is always retained. This begs the question - if the special team performance or lack of performance wasn't due to coaching - what was it due to?

The answer is the Broncos were out of personnel balance on special teams - with many more defensive player participants than offense participants. Where it matters is when you have a lot of injuries on defense and the next guy up to start is a top special team performer. The Broncos roster design created the problem that defense starters injured and filled by special team starters - affects both the defensive performance and the special team performance. The way to mitigate that risk from happening - you build a special team roster equally chosen from offensive players and defensive players. Then if you have a rash of injuries on one side of the ball it doesn't also decimate your special teams cohesion.

This is why the Broncos are loaded up with large fast WRs - who can block downfield to support the run game and the return game.

It is a small item, but one I think Paton should get credit for addressing.
 

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We really got some help on coverage units this offseason I can assure you that. Should be better all around this year on those units.

One thing to note on our offense. We have potentially 10/11 of the same starters starting this year for us on offense. That is rare...

RT and possibly QB would be the only two we have someone different from last year starting. I am including Sutton who was hurt most of last year but he counts.
 
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