Rodney Harrison: And I think from a player’s standpoint, typically on victory Monday, most guys – they still come in. If you win you get some time off physically to be away from the building, but when you come back in on Wednesday we’re still going to address those issues that came up even when you win. But we started in November and December – that it was kind of incentive. So I think you give some players some time off physically. I think good coaches really take advantage of all those times and make those corrections, and they’re tougher on their teams when they’re winning than when they’re losing. I don’t think victory Mondays or long winning streaks necessarily mean things get swept under the rug. Tony Dungy: Well I’ll let Rodney address that from a player’s standpoint, but I think from a coach’s standpoint I would disagree with that. Do you think sometimes that when teams get on long winning streaks, maybe the mistakes don’t get corrected like they should,and maybe there can be such a thing as a quality loss to give them a chance to kind of look at things that maybe they’ve been sweeping under the rug? When the Broncos lost at the Colts last month, they said it gave them a chance to refocus and recalibrate, like they hadn’t really had a chance to in a long, long time, and they got right back to winning. I wanted to ask you both about the so called victory Mondays and maybe how those can be a bit of a poison pill for teams that are really good. Thanks Tony and Rodney for doing this call. Peyton – obviously Belichick, you know, over my years of playing against Peyton, he’s given us everything.Īnd I really believe that this is probably going to be the highest-rated football game that NBC has ever seen, and I’m really excited about watching this game Sunday night. I know Wes – you know everyone talks about ‘will he play, won’t he play.’ Wes will play. You know you look at how uncharacteristically they’ve lost on the road, at times the inability to make adjustments, the injuries they’ve had to overcome on both the offense and defensive side, and Brady – Tom Brady’s not really having the type of year that we all expect Tom Brady to have.īut, you know, very exciting to see, obviously, familiarity with Wes Welker and Peyton Manning. They’re 7-3 in first place, but there are a lot of questions surrounding this team. To me, I think it’s more so how the Patriots will respond in the midst of this adversity. This is Rodney Harrison and I’m extremely excited about this Sunday’s game. And next we’ll take an opening remark from Rodney Harrison. I just think it’s going to be a lot of fireworks and definitely looking forward to it.Ĭhris McCloskey: Thank you Tony. I was very impressed with New England last night and their offense coming around playing against a great defense on the road. I’m sure the Broncos are looking at that the same way – the big challenge of going in and dealing with a Bill Belichick coached team with Tom Brady on their home turf and what’s that going to be like, but should be a very good game. For me it brings back memories of going into New England with playoff positioning at stake and a lot on the line. Tony Dungy: Well obviously going to be a great game Sunday night. We’ll go to opening remarks first, and we’ll start with Tony Dungy. So large audiences associated with that team and hopefully the same again on this Sunday night as the Broncos take on the Patriots. We’ve had three Broncos games this year with 26.9 million viewers for Chiefs-Broncos, 26.9 million viewers for Broncos-Colts, and in NBC’s kickoff game, Ravens-Broncos did 25.1 million viewers. Some of you may have seen the game did roughly 26.9 million viewers. Just before we get started, a quick note – we just sent out the press release regarding this past Sunday’s game between the Broncos and the Chiefs. Joining us today will be former head coach Tony Dungy, who obviously was head coach with Peyton Manning for many years in Indianapolis, and two time Super Bowl winner with the Patriots, Rodney Harrison. Chris McCloskey: Thank you everyone for joining us today for our call to preview this Sunday night’s game between the Broncos and the Patriots.
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