call the offensive plays<\/a> in Denver.<\/p>\nThis isn\u2019t a minor change either. So that speaks to the level of trust Payton has in Webb. Payton made the announcement at the NFL Combine earlier this week.<\/p>\n
When he was asked if Webb has a gift for calling plays, Payton told the media:<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he does. I think he\u2019s sharp, and I think he\u2019s been around it. He\u2019s a coach\u2019s kid, played quarterback, and then in the preseason, it was really good. So yes. And again, I think that I want to do everything that I can to support him. So we\u2019re not going to sit and grade his play-calling each week, at least, hopefully, we\u2019re not. I think it\u2019s more about the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Payton will still have a hand in the offense; he\u2019ll just have a more hands-off approach.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m going to have opinions with plays,\u201d Payton said to the media at the Combine. \u201cMine will be the bad ones; his will be all the good ones (laughing).\u00a0But I want to support him in that. I can recall being in that situation. Even in Dallas, two or three years there, I don\u2019t know that anyone knew who was calling plays. It was (Pro Football Hall of Fame Coach) Bill (Parcells) and myself. I think that stepping back and looking at it, he\u2019ll do a fantastic job.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the process, this will allow Payton to better manage the game and the team as the game progresses. It\u2019s no secret that Payton has struggled at times with clock and game management. The most recent example of that was the decision to go for it on fourth-and-1 early in the second quarter, rather than kicking a field goal, to give his team a 10-point lead in the AFC Championship Game against the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n
Having Webb call the plays will allow Payton to have a more holistic approach to the game and his team.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSometimes you feel like your hand\u2019s empty because you\u2019re used to doing it for 20-some years,\u201d Payton said. \u201cI think overall, it will slow down a little bit. You\u2019ll see more of the game. I know that there\u2019s a lot of prior to the game prep when you\u2019re calling one side of the ball or the other. So I know there\u2019s philosophies.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the end, Payton thinks this move makes the Broncos better. This brings them closer to their goal of winning the Super Bowl. After a season where Denver came so close, the sense of urgency is a little more palpable than usual.<\/p>\n
And while change is always difficult, this is one instance it could help the Broncos get closer to their goal of a Super Bowl win.<\/p>\n
When asked if being so close makes this offseason a little more urgent, Payton told the media:<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a great question. I think a little bit of both. You do have to know that you really have to go back. It\u2019s painful, but you have to start from the beginning. You really do. From my lens, we won a lot of games by one score or less.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not naive enough to think those games couldn\u2019t have swung. And you could grab any two or three, but where\u2019s the meat on the bone? The meat on the bone exists with our takeaways. That has to improve. Our run game consistently. Consistency. Our meat on the bone relative to a number of things that we won despite maybe not being as good as others. I think that\u2019s the only way to look at it relative to this team writing its own chapter and getting us to where we want to go, which is obviously a game and a half further than where we went.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Broncos Country! Change is inevitable. That is especially true in sports. And while it feels like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2062],"tags":[925,232,1242,229,48886,231,258,8302,2426,7,125,249,6,1813],"class_list":{"0":"post-784281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-bo-nix","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-chase-daniel","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-davis-webb","13":"tag-denver","14":"tag-denver-broncos","15":"tag-denver-post","16":"tag-denverbroncos","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","19":"tag-new-england-patriots","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-sean-payton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116153911306200519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784281","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=784281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}