One big reason the Broncos are Super Bowl champions gets too little credit. It’s something Gary Kubiak understands that many football coaches fail to grasp: To get an NFL team to play like champs, a coach needs to treat his players like men.
“It’s 100 percent football. It’s all we talk about. We go home and talk about football,” Broncos linebacker Von Miller said Thursday, explaining how cornerback Aqib Talib brings an edge to every practice and how the locker room can get animated with a spontaneous debate between teammates arguing about the best technique to run a post route.
Winning is a high. The Broncos are addicted to it. So in the locker room, it’s all about that action, boss.
“It’s just all football here,” Miller said. “We rely on it to get us through the day. We rely on that for our success, as well.”
It was Peyton Manning who originally set the no-nonsense tone, way back in 2012. Then the charisma of veteran linebacker DeMarcus Ware got players to buy in. Kubiak cemented the bricks in a winning culture so many teams desperately seek to build, without any real clue how to begin.
The nastiness in a Denver defense that leaves an ugly orange mark on the chest of foes was born of the freedom to go make plays rather than be enslaved by a scheme.
Kiszla: Broncos are NFL champs because Gary Kubiak treats them like men, not robots
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