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Thursday quotes:

Head Coach Gary Kubiak

(on if there was anything unusual today) “No, we had to stay inside because of the weather, so our normal guys we hold off the turf, we held today. Other than that, we had a good practice. It’s good work for us, go play on the road in this League, learn how to handle traveling and getting ready to play.”


(on if he’s made a decision on if ILB DeMeco Ryans will play on Saturday) “Well he wouldn’t practice today on the turf. I wouldn’t turn him loose. We’ll see. We’ll wake up tomorrow, see where he’s at. Obviously he hasn’t had any work this week. That really doesn’t scare me really as much as just that we do the right thing with him.”


(on if it’s a big deal if ILB DeMeco Ryans doesn’t play on Saturday) “I think every player needs to play. I don’t care who they are. DeMeco has played a lot of football, but we have to do what’s best for him physically right now. I think he’s going to be fine, so we’ll see.”


(on the offensive line’s health) “It’s a little nerve-racking right now. Obviously our ones have been fine. Our second group is really our third group that we started camp with. It’s been a struggle here the last couple weeks. We’ll see. It’s a big game to get through hopefully healthy and play those young guys next week, but we’re down in numbers.”


(on G Shelley Smith’s injury) “He got rolled up yesterday and so he’s not out here today. We’ll see where he’s at tomorrow.”


(on if it’s nerve-racking from an injury standpoint) “Yeah, just think about this; normally our second group has been (Kasey) Studdard, (Antoine) Caldwell, (Rashad) Butler; that’s a dang good group and all of a sudden it’s all young guys. When you get beat up in camp, those are types of things that happen and I think it really showed up especially in the second half last week offensively. We didn’t play very well in my opinion. It’s an opportunity for those young guys and a couple of them may end up making this team, so we’ll see.”

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