Denver Broncos Training Camp Quotes Wednesday, Aug
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Denver Broncos Training Camp Quotes Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 HEAD COACH JOSH McDANIELS On how CB Perrish Cox has progressed throughout camp “We’re doing – you know ‘Zo’ (CB Alphonso Smith) was in there yesterday a bunch and (CB) Nate Jones has been in there too, so we just put Perrish on the left with that first group, again, to rotate and see what happens. That is a competitive group now. Perrish made a lot of good plays today, but he gave up some too, so you know it was rookie day but they are all competing for that spot behind (CB) Champ (Bailey) and ‘Goody’ (CB André Goodman). We’re trying to move them from right to left too.” On what he is seeing out of the team’s in-game situational drills “Well, we’re trying to simulate – you know, a game is going to be three hours long – it’s going to possibly incorporate two two-minute drives which we did today. We went in the red area, short-yardage, third down, blitz drill, you know finished it there in the red area with the two-minute drive. So we’re trying to just get our players into that mindset of playing good football for more than just an hour, more than just 30 or two periods. They responded well to it. Again, when you’re going against each other somebody is going to win and somebody is going to lose, but I think we split most of the periods today – very competitive day of practice (and) really good work making a lot of improvements. Again, situations are so important for us, that we have to continue to get better at them.” On his thoughts on the left tackle position right now “(OL) Ryan Clady is in there getting better, which we all know and you know we put (OL D’Anthony) Batiste in there some today and (OL Tyler) Polumbus is competing with that spot too. You know, nobody is guaranteed anything. We know that. We tell all our players that, so you’ll see that probably quite frequently during the course of camp.” On the inside linebacker position “Wood (LB Wesley Woodyard) – he’s experienced now in our system. He is a little bigger than he has been. Definitely a physical player – (has) great speed and has certainly played a lot in our nickel and dime packages in the years past, but he’s really showing the ability to be able to play in there on that weak side. He is just a guy that deserves what he is getting right now because he’s earning it every day and I think he’s a great example for some of the younger players. (He was) not a highly-touted player in terms of where he was drafted when he came out, but he’s worked his way into a great role for our football team.” On the play of the quarterbacks in the two-minute drills “I think we had some good things there and then struggled there in the very last one. (CB) Nate (Jones) made a good play on the interception there, but the two-minute drive before and the middle of practice – both quarterbacks did well. You know, that’s a hard drill, because there’s a lot of communication necessary to make it work, different looks from the defense and you don’t have time to stop in between plays, so they’re getting good at being able to adjust on the fly. The big thing we are looking for there is communication and conditioning because I think seven or eight games last year of ours came down to what happened at the end of the fourth quarter. They’re doing better every day, but I was pleased with most of what they did in those two-minute drills.” On if the team has enough depth at running back “Right now, I think we are – I mean the thing is obviously if we go heavy there you know we’re going to go light somewhere else. Right now, we are in a lot of one-back sets, so if we need two then we just – we put (RB) Spencer (Larsen) in there today some. He took some reps there and that gives us five guys that are out here practicing. Again, most of the time there is one of them in there during the course of a play, so you know if we have another guy go down we might have to think about it.” On if he would bring someone else in at running back because of injury “Well, if they get hurt, but again there are other spots. I think there’s obviously 10, 12, 14 guys that were out this morning from practice for different reasons. (If) we add another running back we might have to go thin somewhere else we are already thin at. It’s a balance, and right now I think those guys are all fighting it out and they’re getting a lot of good work today and going forward.” On how close (DL) Jamal Williams is to returning “He’s getting closer. Hopefully, tomorrow might be D-Day for that. We’re excited about that and I think he is too. I don’t want to put any guarantee on that, but it’s definitely getting closer.” On (DL) Ben Garland and his service in the U.S. Air Force “Yep, awesome – you know those are the kind of people that you’re really glad that you met sometime in your life. We were talking about it yesterday. He’s running down on the kickoff team, gets knocked down, gets up, shakes the guy’s hand that knocked him down, and then sprints back to the huddle and does it again. Then, he goes to the next period and he’s doing a lot of those things and doing a lot of dirty work in training camp, but he always does it with a smile on his face. We were talking about it in a staff meeting yesterday. We think this might be kind of easy for him relative to what he’s been through and that’s a tribute to all the hard work and all the training and all the things he’s done in his life to get where he’s at. He’s a special individual and we think he’s got a future as a football player as well, so we’re excited to have him here.” Denver Broncos Training Camp Quotes Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 On players running laps around the field “We are not putting a chart up and counting them, but you might be right about that. Certainly not something we are looking for. We tell them it’s not a punishment, it’s a reminder of something that will beat us and you know right there at the end we have the ball at the six-yard line and we jump offsides and now we are at the 12 or the 11. You know, you just make it harder on yourself and ultimately we didn’t get it in, so it affects us. Five yards – no matter when it is – can hurt your football team and we just want them to think about it while they’re running the two fields.” On the tight ends practicing with the offensive linemen “We always talk about winning the edge in the running game, and whether that’s the outside linebackers and defensive ends working against the tackles and tight ends we think it’s a real critical part of the way we play defense. At the same time, it’s a real critical portion of our run game on offense, so those two players make a lot different calls based on the play and the blocking schemes we have, and it’s real necessary for those two to feel comfortable with each other and make sure they are seeing the blocks the right way. So far in camp I think we’ve gotten off to a good start in that area, but we need to continue to work on it because it’s a difficult part of anybody’s game.” .