06-24-2024, 05:01 PM
(06-24-2024, 03:24 PM)Lucius Cincinnatus Wrote: Have there been any comments from Taylor about the change? Have there been any articles written about adjusting the offense? Peyton Manning famously preferred shotgun, and the colts primarily sat in shotgun because
1) That was his preference
2) That was the offense
So again, folks seem to be talking about less shotgun like it's this inevitable change and I have yet to see or hear anything that would make that seem iminent. Given the fact that we moved to more shotgun in 2022 and it's Burrow's preference, it seems more likely than not that our offense isn't changing the way many seem to think it will.
While Manning may have preferred the shotgun, the Colts did not primarily sit in shotgun. They often times weren't even the heaviest shotgun team in the league. More than league average? Certainly. However, the Manning-led Colts never registered more than 35% of snaps in shotgun until 2008, and never logged 50% of snaps from shotgun until 2010-ish. They were still primarily an under center team for most of his tenure.
