"Any new system will take a little time — from high school to college, college to NFL, NFL one team to NFL another team — it's going to take some time," Tolbert began. "But the good news about this particular offense is I think it's very wide-receiver friendly from a standpoint where the offense Coach Kubiak is bringing is very detailed from a standpoint where it kind of tells you, as a receiver, more times than not what you actually have on that particular route. A lot of routes we have are concepts as well, but more times than not it's very specific on X, you have this; Z, he has this; F has this.

"So from that standpoint, he'll pick it up a lot more and he's going to get to hear from the quarterback in the huddle when we do huddle, which we will most of the time, I would imagine. We still have a lot of our old offense involved so we'll have some of that mixture in so he obviously won't have to relearn any of that stuff; he still knows that. So combining the two offenses, his learning curve won't be as steep because he really only has to learn half the offense, if you will."

Thomas knows the potential the offense can bring him, especially with opportunities for big gains off play-action passes. The greater balance the Broncos hope to achieve brings with it the ability to catch defenses off guard.