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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — If there is one signature moment that encompasses the Denver Broncos’ frustrating season thus far, it’s been authored by wide receiver KJ Hamler.
Hamler took off his helmet and slammed it into the turf over and over after the Broncos failed to score a game-winning touchdown in the final seconds of a dismal loss to the Indianapolis Colts last Thursday.
The Broncos rarely score touchdowns this season — with six through five games — and the lack of consistency offers little hope for things turning around. Coach Nathaniel Hackett, quarterback Russell Wilson and the rest of the offense aren’t on the same page often enough and, sometimes, they don’t look like they’re reading the same book.
Every migraine-inducing punt looks familiar to Denver legend John Elway. He felt the same pain when former head coach Mike Shanahan arrived in Denver in 1995. He brought in the playbook that Hackett and so many others have built on since.
“I even came into it, my first year in the scheme, having been exposed to some of the components of it at Stanford a little bit, and when I was with [Jim] Fassel when Wade [Phillips] was the [Broncos] head coach,” Elway said. “I felt like I had a certain background, but the timing of it, the precision of it, there is an adjustment in it for everybody in the offense, not just the quarterback. That exists in everything you do, no matter what offense you’re in, but in the version of this scheme we ran, those initial games it really struck me how much of an adjustment it was for all 11 guys.”
The roots of what Hackett is trying to do with Wilson and the Broncos’ offense date back to one of the franchise’s signature eras — the Elway-Shanahan pairing in 1995 that led to back-to-back Super Bowl wins to close out the 1997 and 1998 seasons. It was also the start of a coaching tree that eventually branched out to include Kyle Shanahan in San Francisco, Matt LaFleur in Green Bay, Sean McVay in Los Angeles and Mike McDaniel in Miami.
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Source : espn
