Head Coach Brandon Staley
On Broncos OLB Bradley Chubb and preparing G/T Jamaree Salyer for the matchup:
“He has coaches that are going to be breaking those guys down. Every week, I’m trying to insert myself where I can with players and specific matchups. I love doing it on the offensive side of the ball, especially because I’m so familiar with a lot of the defensive players in the league and structures and stuff like that. I really love that part about being a head coach. Jamaree [Salyer] is one of those students of the game. I think that’s why you’ve seen him play well. Then, he has really good coaches. [Offensive Line Coach] Brendan Nugent and [Assistant Offensive Line Coach] Shaun Sarrett, those guys, to me, are as good as any tandem in the league. Then, [Offensive Coordinator] Joe Lombardi, obviously, leading the way. The other good thing for Jamaree is that he also has another coach, [Rashawn Slater], who is helping him out, too — Corey [Linsley] and Trey [Pipkins III], who have played a lot. What we try to do with guys like him, that are new to the NFL, is use everyone’s experience to help them out.”
On the offensive line’s performance thus far this season:
“It’s just been a team effort. It starts with that premise, that it takes a team effort to play like that. It’s not just the O-line, it’s their coaches, it’s the skill players around them, it’s the protection plan, it’s the run game plan. Things take time, and I think that for us, up front, early in the season, it’s just taken some time for those guys to play together, to get into rhythm together, but I think that you’ve seen, over the last couple of weeks, us play really quality football on the road. That’s also a factor, when you have a group that can go on the road and play like that. We’re excited. We have to keep improving.”
On the EDGE production on the opposite side of OLB Khalil Mack:
“I think that those guys are all combining to try and pick up the slack, and, certainly, to get the production. I think that they all can give us something that is going to give us an edge. I think that when you take a look at Khalil [Mack], we don’t want him to have to shoulder more and play more. Then, as the season goes on, then he wears down. We want to use those four guys to really play, and that’s what we’re doing. In terms of rushing the passer, in the Houston game, I thought that all four of those guys were outstanding. Last week, in terms of just pass-rush production, they didn’t get to rush a lot in that game It was just a bloody run game and they didn’t get very many opportunities. That’s what happens in a game like that, when you don’t get the lead early — and then, the run game, for them, is working — you don’t get very many chances to rush. I think that that group last week just had to play a tough, rugged game on the edge. Hopefully, we’re going to earn more opportunities to rush early in the game.”
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