After losing to the Los Angeles Chargers 23-16 at home on Sunday, the Denver Broncos now have a short turnaround before traveling to face the New Orleans Saints on Thursday Night Football in Week 7.
The Broncos are glad to have an opportunity to move past the Chargers game quickly.
“You want to get that nastiness out of your mouth and just focus, you know, we’re going to recover as best we can,” left tackle Garett Bolles said. “Come up with our game plan that Coach [Sean] Payton and the coaching staff has for us and go down to Louisiana and take care of business.”
Denver is on to New Orleans.
“[Monday] the focus is all on New Orleans, and it will be with me,” Payton said. “It has to be … I just finished telling them, and I would have told them the same thing had we won, we have to quickly put this one to bed. We cannot forget it, but we have to learn from it. It is a short week. We have to get on to the next game.”
Players know the drill.
“After the loss, [with a] Thursday night game, you understand that immediately you have to leave it alone and move on to the next place,” defensive lineman John Franklin-Myers said. “We travel Wednesday, so understanding that sense of urgency and playing-wise for the Saints. But still, we have to correct the mistakes. Figure that out tonight and then tomorrow, get ready for New Orleans.”
Bolles said the team will be ready to go on a short turnaround.
“The ball just didn’t bounce our way [today],” the left tackle said Sunday. “You know, we lost today, but I know that this team’s going to bounce back and take care of business because that’s just who we are. We’re going to get in to watch film and do what we need to do and work out the kinks and get ready to roll on Thursday.”
Broncos rookie quarterback Bo Nix emphasized that the team is eager to improve and move past the loss to the Chargers.
“I think our team is excited,” Nix said. “If we could practice tonight, we would. We’d go back out there. We have a bad taste in our mouths. We just didn’t perform how we want. We feel like the fight was there. [Usually], you get back in the locker room, and some guys hang their heads. Oftentimes you get in a situation where it’s people start bad mouthing or talking, but there was none of that in our locker room.
“Everybody had their heads up like they were focused for the next week. It looked like they want to get back out there as soon as possible, so it’s good that we get to play in four days. It’s going to be tough on us, but we have a quick turnaround. I think we’re going to handle it well, and we don’t have a choice. We have to get back moving forward, and we have to grow and get better.”
Thursday’s game against the Saints will be available to stream on Prime.
