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Brian Flores – November 20, 2020 Download PDF version

Friday, November 20, 2020

Head Coach Brian Flores

(Opening statement.) – “I just want to send our thoughts and prayers to Jake Scott and his family. Obviously he was a great player for some of the greatest teams – the greatest team ever – and played an integral part on those teams, and our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.”

(Could you please give us an update on the two guys who were limited Wednesday and Thursday? LB Kyle Van Noy and G Solomon Kindley?) – “Yeah, both those guys are limited; questionable for the game. Solomon (Kindley) with the foot and Kyle (Van Noy) with the hip, so limited and questionable.”

(Now that you’ve concluded practice for this week, you were able to get several coaches back on top of getting a few back last week. Just how more complete did the coaching staff feel this week now that you’ve got those guys back?) – “It’s always good to get those guys back. They’re obviously a big part of our team. Just good to see them out there. Good to see them healthy and safe. Players were excited to see them, I was excited to see them and they just jumped right back in and they had been in a lot of the meetings from a virtual standpoint, so it’s good to see them in-person face-to-face on the practice field. So always good to be back at full strength from a coaching and playing standpoint.”

(It’s sort of a piggyback question. One, there’s a kind of legendary video of you on draft day when you guys selected DT Raekwon Davis and you’re holding your hand out and blocking and showing emotion. Where did that come from and what kind of improvement do you hope to see from him in the second half of the season?) – “I don’t know if there’s anything legendary about me. I was excited obviously to get Raekwon (Davis). We got him. He’s improving on really a daily basis. It’s important to him, he’s competitive, we’ll continue to work with him. He’s probably never seen me smile, so he can go back and look at that and spend time thinking about whether or not that’s the same guy who he deals with on a daily basis. I’m not sure he feels that, just to be quite frank. (laughter)”

(I know we’ve asked you about the cold weather. What’s your experience with playing at altitude? How big an adjustment do you think it is, especially coming from sea level, and what’s the key?) – “I think every stadium, every environment’s a little bit different. Obviously teams come here and deal with heat, humidity; we’ll go to Denver and deal with altitude in a little bit different, a little colder weather. But honestly, the players on the Broncos pose more of a threat than I would say the altitude or the weather. They’ve got very good players. They’ve got a very good skill group. They’ve got good defensive players, they’ve got good coaches. They’re tops in the league defensively in some of the most critical categories: red zone, third down, sacks. So my message to the team is the players on the Broncos pose much more of a threat than the altitude. We did a little bit extra conditioning. It’s just something we have to deal with being on the road. I’d like to think we’ll be able to – it’ll be an adjustment, but we’ve got to make that adjustment. That’s just part of playing football in the National Football League.”

(I don’t think we asked you about Broncos RB Phillip Lindsay and RB Melvin Gordon this week. How big of a challenge do those two guys present to you in stopping the run game?) – “Yeah, you guys haven’t asked me much about this team. This is a good football team. Phillip Lindsay, Melvin Gordon, (KJ) Hamler, (Jerry) Jeudy, Tim Patrick, Noah Fant, good o-line, talented quarterback, top defense, Justin Simmons, Kareem Jackson, (Bradley) Chubb. We’re not talking much about them. This is a good football team. We’ve stressed that to our team. They’re well-coached. They’re hungry for a win, so this is going to be a tough, tough test. We’re going to have to play well really in all three phases and this is the National Football League. We’ve got to show up every week. We know that. They know that. Those two backs are very good as everyone knows. Very good. And they’re tough to tackle, they’re tough to – zone schemes, gap schemes, edge plays, inside runs, screen game, catching the ball out of the backfield – you name it, they can do it. These young receivers are good – very good – and we’re going to have to play well and coach well.”

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