{"id":666080,"date":"2026-01-10T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/666080\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:23:11","slug":"denver-broncos-offensive-line-is-the-engine-that-drives-teams-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/666080\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Broncos offensive line is the engine that drives team\u2019s success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I\u2019ve been covering the Denver Broncos for his entire career and I remember writing up some pretty harsh criticism of his play early on \u2014 especially in regards to holding penalties. I recall at one point he was committing holding penalties at a record-breaking rate. He was so far above the rest of the field that he\u2019d break charts if anyone tried to chart it. The best part of that saga is that he never let the outside noise (from me and many others) get to him. He worked on his craft and he got better. And then got even better to the point where it is pretty clear that he is one of the best left tackles in all of football. He is going to go down as one of the best tackles in franchise history too when its all said and done. It\u2019s a great comeback story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">All that said, he wasn\u2019t the only one of the Broncos players on that offensive line to make an impact with guard Quinn Meinerz also being named a PFF All-Pro player. The whole offensive line has been dominant in nearly every category and is the main engine that has driven the offenses successes this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">4) Denver Broncos<br \/>Team OLi Grade: 83.0<br \/>Best-Ranked OL: Garett Bolles, 89.0 (7th overall, 3rd position)<br \/>Worst-Ranked OL: Alex Palczewski, 63.5 (159th overall, 61st position)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And one more to complete the picture comes from Sharp Football Analysis who has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpfootballanalysis.com\/stats-nfl\/nfl-offensive-line-stats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broncos ranked fifth-overall<\/a> in their NFL Offensive Line Stats:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There is so much evidence that shows the trenches on both side of the ball is what has brought the success of the 2025 Broncos. It\u2019s an area that Sean Payton has said in the past is always an area of focus. He knows you don\u2019t win consistently if your team is being dominated in the trenches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve been covering the Denver Broncos for his entire career and I remember writing up some pretty harsh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,1151,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-666080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denver-broncos-news","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115870787572605960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}