Peyton Manning was always excellent at changing plays at the line of scrimmage. It appears that his successor as the Broncos’ quarterback is as well.
Brock Osweiler said after the Broncos beat the Patriots on Sunday night that he called an audible to check into C.J. Anderson’s 48-yard game-winning run in overtime.
“It was a check that we had worked on all week in practice,” Osweiler said. “We were trying to run the ball [to the] weak [side]. They gave us a specific defensive front that we can’t run that ball into, so I checked to our second play that we called in our huddle. The line did a hell of a job and C.J. did the rest.”
Osweiler said it was tough matching wits with Patriots coach Bill Belichick.
“He made it very difficult for us,” Osweiler said of Belichick. “In the first quarter, he had us off balance a little bit. We saw some looks that we hadn’t seen previously on tape. The thing that I think our offensive group did was that we stuck to our rules that we’ve been coached to do and we just battled through it.”
And in the end, the Broncos won with Osweiler running the offense like Manning.