Broncos - 23, Jaguars - 13
Q. Vic and Von said he's back. Did it feel that way today?
COURTLAND SUTTON: You get into a rhythm. You kind of just take each play as it comes to you. And that's the status and everything, they take care of themselves, at the end of the day if you go out there take each play as it comes to you, Coach always says each play has a life of its own. If you have that mentality, that mindset at the end of the day you look up and the stat like I said the stats will take care of themselves.
Q. Frustrating start, you got held once, interfered once, no calls?
COURTLAND SUTTON: You've got to play through it. If they call it, they call it. If they don't, it is what it is. It's not like I can go out there yell at the ref and throw the flag two plays later. It is what it is. You take the game as it comes to you. And the ball finds you in crazy ways throughout the game.
And you can't dwell on the things that happened in the past. Gotta snap clear and keep moving.
Q. I'm sure you probably know this, but tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of your injury last season. Can you kind of reflect on this last year and what it means to have a game like this?
COURTLAND SUTTON: Man, you know, to even just be able to go out and practice is a blessing. I thank God every day that I'm in the position I am in right now because there's a lot of hard work that went into it. And a lot of support staff from the trainers, my family, my friends. I've had a lot of people in my corner supporting me throughout the whole process. And to be able to go out there and compete in games, it's just a blessing. I take each play as opportunity to go be me and just grateful.
Q. Two big plays you had. Could you talk about the first one, 33-yarder where Teddy stepped up in the pocket, kind of feather-touch passed to you, was that a scramble on your part?
COURTLAND SUTTON: No, it's Teddy being Teddy. Teddy finding a way to get the ball to us. No play is dead until they blow the whistle. Especially with Teddy, he always finds a way to get the ball to somebody down the field. And us as pass catchers, it's upon us to give him a target to throw the ball. It's just happy that he found me.
Q. And that 55-yarder, the deep one, is that the one where --
COURTLAND SUTTON: Oh, yeah, we needed that one. I feel like my mindset whenever the ball goes in the air, this opportunity -- Teddy's giving me an opportunity to go make a play for the offense for the team and when the ball's in the air, we don't get too many plays in a game. It's not like where we get 80, 90 snaps. You get opportunities and you've got to make the most of them as they come to you in the game.
So I appreciate Teddy giving me the opportunity to go make that play. Just continuing to build on that.
Q. Von was talking about how happy he was to see you out there. Noah was talking about it. You get a game ball; what does it mean to get all that support?
COURTLAND SUTTON: It's amazing. When your peers see the hard work that you put in. Von isn't unfamiliar to hard work and the rehab process. He went through the same thing pretty much what I was going through last year, the hard work to be able to get back.
It's fun to watch him be able to go out there have the success he's having. He's Von Miller. He's still out there being him, making plays. It's fun to watch. And I'm grateful for my teammates.
They're some of the ones who push me, continue to push me as we have been to practices, going into the game, just having confidence and faith in me that I can go out there and be who I am and play at a high level.
Q. What do you expect to see at Empower Field next week 2-0 with a crowd that hasn't been able to be in that place?
COURTLAND SUTTON: 75,000, that's the -- 80,000. 80. 80 is the max. Whatever the capacity is, I'm going to say about a thousand over the capacity, and I'm just excited that we're bringing a 2-0 start to Empower Field. Broncos Country is going to be loud. I already know -- I don't expect anything less. One of the best places to play ball in. And I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be a lot of fun. I hope Bronco country shows up.
Q. Two full games with Teddy, what have you learned about him since the preseason?
COURTLAND SUTTON: I'll say no play is dead. Teddy is going to find a way to get the ball to us. He's going to find a way to go out there, put us in position to go be successful. Just sitting out there watching him, he'll change a play, we'll be, like, we've never practiced that. But he's see something we might not see, to have a vet like that who sees the game at a different level than anybody else, you know, it's exciting. It brings juice to us because we know that he's always going to make sure we're in the position to go have success.
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