The [Denver Broncos](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/denver-broncos) are coming off a great season, but not everyone is buying that they'll do it again, and some numbers suggest it isn't the wrong idea.
Sports Illustrated’s Matt Verderame pointed to a stat that typically raises red flags when projecting how things will go in the future, and it's a bit tough to argue with what he's saying.
“Denver won 11 one-score games a year ago, often a signal of a team needing to improve to stay the same record-wise,” Verderame wrote. “If that’s the case, the Broncos could be a prime regression candidate.”
Winning close games is a skill, and I'll try to push back here and say that the Broncos defense is so good that it's possible that they continue to win these low-scoring and one-score games.
However, at the end of the day, winning one-score games can simply be changed by just committing an extra penalty or two in any drive. If the Broncos' defense were to have to take a player off the field for any reason, and they were to give up a touchdown, there's a chance they'd lose the game. It's really that small of a margin
For the Broncos, that puts pressure on everything else to improve this offseason, and they've done that by adding Jaylen Waddle.
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