Chris Simms’ All-22 Team for NFL Week 15

December 21, 2016   ·   Chris Simms   ·   Jump to comments

For all I knew, Josh McDaniels wrote his Broncos playbook in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Certain numbers correlated to specific formations. Each protection (and there were a lot of them) had its own name. It was everything I'd learned in Jon Gruden's and Jeff Fisher's West Coast offenses flipped upside down and stacked 500 laminated pages high. I had to know it all.
Brock Osweiler's time in Houston has been that confusion personified. You could tell Bill O'Brien's playbook—with schemes similar to the kind I had to cram in Denver—never took hold. Osweiler was late with the majority of his downfield throws and needed to see his receivers to feel confident releasing. That's why he always locked on to his big tight ends over the middle; they were right in front of his face. I’ve been that guy before.
But it's not all on Osweiler. Houston thrust a guy with all of seven career starts into an offense that took me six months to fully comprehend. And the Texans...

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