We all are painfully aware of how poor the Denver Broncos offense performed in 2017. I could recount the rankings here, but I am not. What I am going to do here is talk about the strange piece of data that I came across today regarding our 2017 offense. There were 333 offensive plays in the 2017 regular season that gained 40 or more yards. Denver was dead last with only 4.
| Tm | Plays | TD | Pass | Rush |
| KAN | 18 | 11 | 14 | 4 |
| PIT | 16 | 3 | 16 | |
| DET | 16 | 6 | 16 | |
| NOR | 16 | 5 | 11 | 5 |
| SFO | 15 | 3 | 14 | 1 |
| LAR | 14 | 6 | 13 | 1 |
| OAK | 14 | 10 | 10 | 4 |
| NYJ | 13 | 5 | 8 | 5 |
| JAX | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
| PHI | 12 | 6 | 9 | 3 |
| LAC | 12 | 6 | 11 | 1 |
| SEA | 12 | 2 | 12 | |
| ATL | 11 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| MIN | 11 | 3 | 9 | 2 |
| NWE | 11 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| DAL | 10 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
| WAS | 10 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| TEN | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
| IND | 9 | 6 | 9 | |
| CHI | 9 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| GNB | 9 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| CAR | 9 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| MIA | 9 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| CIN | 9 | 4 | 9 | |
| HOU | 8 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| NYG | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| CLE | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| TAM | 6 | 2 | 6 | |
| BAL | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| ARI | 5 | 2 | 5 | |
| BUF | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| DEN | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Totals | 333 | 130 | 271 | 62 |
It’s also interesting to note that 39% of the time these chunk plays resulted in a TD while we only scored on one of four in 2017 (Brock Osweiler’s 54 yard TD throw to Jeff Heuerman).