The Denver Broncos held organized group actions final week as we bought our first actual take a look at the 2026 roster. We’ve already coated a lot of the larger information occasions from the practices, however hidden away on the finish of head coach Sean Payton’s press convention have been a slew of questions associated to preseason and joint practices.
Unlike earlier seasons, Payton won’t be holding any joint follow session with one other group.
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“We’re not going to this year,” Payton mentioned, “and there’s a reason why: because of the postseason and we pushed things back here. When you do have a joint practice, you miss maybe two days of installation. So this year we know we have the preseason games, but we’re not going to have a joint practice.”
I had questioned why it appeared like all the offseason dates have been pushed again every week or two in some instances and now I see why. He is extra frightened about set up and fewer frightened concerning the physicality of a joint follow session. He was requested a follow-up on whether or not the joint practices have been good alternatives to judge gamers and he responded crisply that video games are additionally a very good alternative to judge gamers.
He was then requested if it was more durable to judge gamers in preseason video games over these joint practices and he brushed that off as properly.
“I don’t really pay attention to that,” he mentioned. “When we have a joint practice, we pay attention to the reps they get and then we try to manage that with the reps they get in the game the next couple days. We’ll do the same if we’re not [joint practicing], because obviously we haven’t had a joint practice every preseason week. We’ll manage their snap count.”
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Frankly, I like this method. The first six weeks is an actual take a look at for this group and getting each minute he can with this group to organize them to come back out beginning the season sizzling is extra necessary than a joint follow that always finally ends up extra chippy and, apparently, much less useful on the set up aspect of issues. So in that means, I’m wonderful with it and looking out ahead to seeing how the change in technique performs out.