Understanding the Broncos' offense - and why it isn't working (yet)

With all the debates - both rational and irrational - regarding Peyton Manning and our Broncos offense, it seemed the best way to survive this Bye Week drama would be to take a step back, take a deep breath and then dig in to some analysis that can perhaps enlighten the debate on the state of this offense.

Any football player who intends to play quarterback learns as early as Pop Warner days that the position can bring all the glory or all the shame - and both are usually fair to some extent.

After all, "QB1" is the field general and has to make the decisions for the team. So it stands to reason, that if he makes good ones, he gets saluted; bad ones and he gets shunned.

But as with anything,…