Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton was asked about facing the fearsome Washington Commanders defensive front and scheming against it.
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00:00 Yeah, they create a lot of minus plays.
00:02 I mean, just looking at the cut-ups,
00:04 you'll see second and 12s.
00:06 I'm not even talking about rushing the passer.
00:09 Just within the framework of the run game,
00:12 they're real active, they're athletic.
00:16 All of those guys have had, obviously,
00:19 great college careers.
00:20 A lot of them are first-round draft picks
00:22 that are playing well.
00:24 And the defense kind of feeds off that.
00:27 So they're a handful.
00:28 I mean, you've got to look closely
00:30 at what you want to do in the running game,
00:32 and then certainly in the protections as well.
00:35 With Payne and Allen in particular,
00:38 is it harder to deal with elite interior players
00:40 even than the edge guys in some way?
00:43 It's hard to deal with elite players.
00:46 If there's an elite corner, you could say,
00:48 we're going to throw over here.
00:50 When you deal with elite ends, you
00:52 might be able to nudge one of them.
00:54 And then to your question, when it's inside,
00:56 which way is the center turning, if I'm the guards,
01:00 I'd like the center to come to me.
01:05 So yeah, I think to your point, there's
01:08 some different challenges in protection
01:11 that maybe are a little different with an end.