Weekly Pressers
Potent Quotables - Wednesday Media Walk-Through
by John Bena on Nov 18, 2009 7:57 PM MST
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Josh McDaniels, Kyle Orton and Brian Dawkins took their usual turn at the podium in preparations for the Broncos-Chargers showdown this Sunday at Invesco Field @ Mile High. While Orton hopes he can go on Sunday, he DID NOT participate in Wednesday's workout.
Here is the transcript for the Presser, brought to us by our friends in the Denver Broncos P.R. Staff -
HEAD COACH JOSH McDANIELS
On QB Kyle Orton's status
"I don't know. We'll see. He's going to do everything he can to get better every day. We'll make that decision at the end of the week."
On adjusting an offensive line to a left-handed quarterback vs. a right-handed quarterback
"We're not going to really change our system, so it's not that the plays are going to be different. If we feel like we need to do something different on the backside of a player, whether he be left handed or right handed, than that is up to us as a staff to do that, but I don't think the preparation for the linemen, in general, is going to be much different. They've got to still block the same guys, and the protections that we use, we use protections where we slide left, where we slide right, where the left tackle is singled (and) where the right tackle is singled, and we do that when we have either quarterback in the game. That shouldn't make a difference in terms of what we're doing and how we're preparing. They've got to do their assignment the same no matter what hand the guy throws with."
On if Orton is questionable for Sunday's game against San Diego
"You're going to see it on the injury report today."
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Potent Quotables - Josh McDaniels Monday Media Meetup
by John Bena on Nov 16, 2009 5:27 PM MST
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**Courtesy of the Denver Broncos P.R. Staff
Opening comments
"As I said yesterday, if you go on the road or at home, for that matter, and don't play a four-quarter game and certainly don't play nearly as well as you need to play to be competitive in every area, you're going to find it hard to win. Yesterday, that was really the case, and looking at the film, it shows us clearly what we failed to do and what we need to do a lot better going forward to get this corrected."
On a specific area that the Broncos need to improve on from Sunday's game at Washington
"There are a lot of things, not one thing."
On QB Kyle Orton's status
"He is questionable for this week. We're not sure exactly how that's going to go. We're going to see how he progresses during the course of the next few days."
On Orton's injury
"It's an ankle (injury)."
On if Orton's ankle has been thoroughly examined by the medical staff
"Yeah, we'll see how he progresses here the next few days."
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Potent Quotables - The Wednesday Washington Warm-up
by John Bena on Nov 11, 2009 7:12 PM MST
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HEAD COACH JOSH McDANIELS
On the offense's performance the past two weeks
"I think we haven't sustained our ability to stay balanced in both games. We didn't run the ball very effectively in the Baltimore game (and) didn't run it very effectively in the Pittsburgh game. That always puts more pressure on your pass protection (and) more pressure on your passing game in general. It is not really an effective formula to win any games in this league. I don't care what offense you are playing with. We have got to do a better job of being able to run the ball, stay in positive situations (and) stay out of third-and-longs, which we found ourselves in too many times the other night in the second half. If we do that-that is really kind of the formula that we played with for the first six games, and we have got to make sure that we sustain that going forward."
On why the Broncos have had difficulty running the ball the past two weeks
"We've played against two good defenses, and that's not an excuse that we are going to use. We have got to do better than what we have done, whether it be execution, whether it be mistakes (or) whether it be just somebody made a nice play on defense. We are playing against physical teams, and that's what we play against every week. We've got to do better at the point of attack. We've got to do better with the ball in our hands. We've got to do better in terms of scheming something if we can do that to help ourselves, but we haven't lost faith in our ability to run the football or play good offense here. We've just got to go back to work and do better."
On starting RB Correll Buckhalter against Pittsburgh
"We made a decision to do that. (There was) no huge reason. We're going to play both of them. They know that. It just so happens that that's what we started with the other night."
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Potent Quotables - The Post-Game Media Gathering
by John Bena on Nov 10, 2009 2:33 AM MST
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DENVER BRONCOS HEAD COACH JOSH McDANIELS
General
"Let's start by giving credit to the Steelers. They are certainly a well-coached football team, [Pittsburgh Steelers Head Coach] Mike Tomlin certainly does a good job getting them prepared every week. We knew we would have to play 60 good minutes of football to compete, and had an opportunity to win there at the end. I felt like we did that for a half and then they ultimately took over the game there in the second half and we struggled to do much offensively, struggled to stop them defensively, and really they took over the game there."
On the conservative play calling with 2:47 left in the second quarter
"One of our goals in that situation is to not give it back to a team like Pittsburgh. We wanted to just go ahead and get a first down and take it to the two-minute warning, and then we would go ahead and go into the two-minute offense, which we tried to do and ended up with a negative [yardage] play that killed the drive. We accomplished one thing, we didn't give it back to them with before there was 11-seconds left. We started our two-minute offense with 1:30-1:45 left, which is plenty of time if you run the right way to get down the field and score some points. We would do the same thing again."
On competing against 2 strong defenses the past 2 games
"We certainly haven't run the ball very well the last two weeks, and we had trouble protecting the passer tonight. There is a lot of things that go into that, and that is not just an offensive line thing or a tight end thing, or a running back. All 11 guys on the field have to work together to do that, and we certainly have not done enough the last two weeks offensively to help our team win a lot of games. We are going to need to improve significantly in that area and continue to work hard and get better."
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Potent Quotables - The Wednesday Media Gathering
by John Bena on Nov 4, 2009 9:55 PM MST
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HEAD COACH JOSH McDANIELS
Opening remarks
"We are excited to get back at work, getting ready to play a great football team, the defending Super Bowl champion, on Monday Night Football. It will be a great challenge ahead of us this week to prepare and get ready to play a game against a team that has very, very few, if any, weaknesses. We are going to have to play our best football in order to have an opportunity to beat them on Monday night."
On if Baltimore presented physical mismatches for the Broncos
"We didn't play the way that we are capable of playing, and that is not an excuse. Baltimore forced us to play the way we played. They deserve credit. We talked about it the other day. We have got to do much better, but it is not about matchups. We have enough players out there that can match up physically with anybody in this league. We didn't play as well as we can."
On Pittsburgh's physical style of play
"(Pittsburgh) is a very physical team in every phase. To me, that is where it starts with the Steelers. If you are going to get out-physicaled offensively, defensively (and) in the kicking game, you are going to have a hard time winning. They are definitely going to challenge you in every area. Every one of their players plays like that. I don't care if it is the kickoff returner, the kicker, the tight ends, the lines, whomever it is, (Pittsburgh QB Ben) Roethlisberger, they are all physical players that play tough and are going to present that challenge to us individually and as a team collectively."
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Potent Quotables - Josh McDaniels Monday Media Gathering
by John Bena on Nov 2, 2009 6:17 PM MST
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Opening remarks
"As we said yesterday, we felt after the game they (Ravens) were coached better, played better, (were) more physical (and) played faster basically in every area of the game. We certainly didn't do nearly enough in any phase to win the game. It is a hard lesson to learn. We have got a week now to get ready for Pittsburgh and try to make a lot of progress and improve significantly off of this game yesterday."
On responding to a loss
"We always learn things that we need to do better no matter if we win or lose. That is true for the preseason and the regular season, any game we play. Obviously, losing a game really makes the mistakes that much more glaring and the need to fix things more urgent. It will be easy for us to see what we didn't do well. There are so many things that we could do better and it would have made the game much more competitive in the second half had we done it."
On the Ravens' defense
"It is a good defense. There is no doubt about it. (They are) very physical, fast, did some different things but by and large just lined up and played. We made some significant mistakes, obviously, in the game and missed some opportunities that we had to maybe make some explosive plays in the game that could have maybe changed either the first half or the second half. Our plan didn't come together as we thought it would, whether that would be something we would change in terms of what we did and how we tried to attack them or just simply the way we executed some things held us back from gaining more yards and ultimately, scoring more points. Again, give them credit. They played well. We knew they were a good defense going in there. (They) have got a lot of great football players, and they played much better than we did yesterday."
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Potent Quotables - Chargers Week Wednesday Presser - McDaniels, Orton and Dawkins
by John Bena on Oct 14, 2009 6:07 PM MDT
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HEAD COACH JOSH McDANIELS
On if QB Kyle Orton’s performance was his most impressive this season
"He didn’t play perfectly, certainly, but I think that (New England) is a defense that gives you a lot of different looks to prepare for. (They) certainly gave us some things during the course of the game that Kyle adjusted to pretty well. Some things we didn’t practice because you couldn’t practice them. Going against a defense like that, (New England Head Coach) Bill (Belichick) always challenges you with different things. Kyle did a nice job of when he did get new things, he limited his mistakes, got us into some good situations and stayed ahead on the down and distance, for the most part, for the whole game."
On what he observed about Orton before acquiring him in a trade this offseason
"Kyle has always been a smart guy. You could see that very clearly on the film, any film. Put on any film of Kyle Orton and you will see a smart football player that has always had a lot of responsibility at the line of scrimmage identifying the defense, getting his team into the right situations. That is what we ask him to do here, and he has done a nice job of it."
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Potent Quotables - Victory Monday Edition - Josh McDaniels
by John Bena on Oct 12, 2009 4:44 PM MDT
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***COURTESY of BRONCOS P.R. STAFF***
On the Broncos not practicing today
"That is normally part of the year as the year goes on. You try to give them a little bit of extra rest and also give them a little reward for playing a tough game, physical game. (We are) just trying to give them a little bit of a bone as we head into a long week because we are going to have a long week: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice (Monday night game). As the season wears on, you don't want to give (the day off) to them right away. Obviously, there are plenty of things to correct. In fact, we have an extra day this week which will give us the chance to look at the film on Wednesday from this game without putting us too far behind the eight ball in our preparation for San Diego."
On if Denver's training camp style is similar to New England's and if it helped the club with conditioning
"I don't know the answer to that question because I don't know if they have changed (their training camp). I think they changed what they did. I think they went two-a-days-I don't want to speak on that. I am not really educated enough on what they did this year, but I thought our players played hard. I didn't feel like our players were tired in the second half. I felt like our conditioning, certainly, has played a role in our ability to play better football in the second half than what we have played in the first half. (The Patriots) were playing hard. I didn't see a huge drop off in terms of their conditioning level or the fact that they were tired or anything like that. They were playing a lot of people and so were we. We were running guys in and out of the huddle on defense as were they. They used a lot of people on offense, (which was) the same kind of thing as what we did. I think there were a lot of people that played, and we executed our game plan better in the second half than what we did in the first half. I don't think it had a huge thing to do with conditioning and training camp and that stuff. We just did a better job of trying to execute our game plan."
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