Chiefs Coordinator Quotes
November 13, 2025
ASSISTANT HEAD COACH AND SPECIAL TEAMS COORDINATOR DAVE TOUB
Q: On the altitude and weather in Denver.
TOUB: “Every time it seems like we have weather, (but) it seems like we’re going to be good this year. Right now, it looks promising, so that’s always a positive. It looked like last week on Thursday it was cold and windy and both punters struggled it looked like. Hopefully we get some good weather. The altitude is always the altitude, and it affects the ball flight. It hangs a little longer, and we pick up an extra few yards there but as far as the conditioning goes, I think the guys feel it early in the game then it kind of goes away. They get used to it. That’s what it seems like to me over the years.”
Q: On Harrison Butker’s progress throughout the season.
TOUB: “He (Harrison Butker) has had a couple of good games in a row. That’s great. He has had a really good practice – I thought it was his best Wednesday practice yesterday. The ball is flying good right now. I think the rest might have helped him. We talk about, ‘you know you got to go back to work’, and he does a lot. I think this break was really good for him because he looked good yesterday. He had two good games, and hopefully we got this thing righted.”
Q: How do you get the guys locked in mentally for the Broncos?
TOUB: “It’s easy. Our guys are ready. They’ll be ready for this game for sure. You can feel it already in practice, coming off a bye (week). They know the urgency. We’ve been there before (and) we have enough veterans. We know where we’re at. We know where we stand, and it’s an important game on the road. We’ll be ready.”
DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR STEVE SPAGNUOLO
OPENING STATEMENT: “Alright, so it’s been a while, it’s been two weeks. It’s good to be back at it. Our guys – we had yesterday, and then the walkthrough this morning. It’s nice when they came back in the building on Tuesday because it’s not the same being a football coach without any players. With that, I’ll just open it up.”
Q: On Broncos Head Coach Sean Payton and the Broncos offense with changing a lot of personnel.
SPAGNUOLO: “Well, I think they (Broncos) do a really good job of changing personnel. They end up in that a lot when you do the numbers and the percentages and that’s certainly the highest. Especially earlier in games they are rolling a lot of people. If you watch the TV – we watch the TV games and they’re rolling bodies in and out, you got to stay on top of that, that’s one thing. I mean, one thing that we feel a little bit good about is (that) we see 11 personnel from April – I mean, our guys are in it all the time, so it’s not something that we’re uncomfortable with. I think they (the Broncos) do a really good job in what they have quarterback-wise and what he (Bo Nix) does really well, and I think that’s why they’ve had some success.”
Q: What have you seen from Bo Nix this year compared to last year?
SPAGNUOLO: “Listen, so he (Broncos QB Bo Nix) has a year under his belt, he looks like he has full command of what to do at the line of scrimmage. You could see that last year as the year went on, he got better and better at that. I think the coaches, obviously, have confidence in him now with changing plays and he’s another athletic quarterback. Those guys are always a little bit of a headache because even when you’re right in what you’re doing, he can make you look bad by making you miss.”
Q: Generally speaking, you guys usually peak defensively towards the end of the season. Why is that?
SPAGNUOLO: “We have been able to do that. I hope that that continues because we do need to get better. I give all the credit to the assistant coaches and players. You have to have coaches that feed it and keep working at it, which our guys do. Then, you have to have cerebral players that embrace it (and) want to get better. We have a lot of guys that – we always talk about chasing improvement and that’s what our guys do. Not every team has that I don’t think, but we’re blessed that we have guys that think that way.”
OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR MATT NAGY
Q: On the Broncos defense.
NAGY: “Well, that’s the very first thing that jumps out on tape, is you go back to some of the statistics and you see the one thing that jumps out to me is red zone wise, it’s not just this year that they’re number one, they’re good every year. I think (Broncos Defensive Coordinator) Vance Joseph does a great job at doing some things schematically, he has got great players, that jumps out. Making sure we’re efficient there. And then you look at that front, they lead the league in sacks. They make game changing plays, which I think is very important that if – that’s the other thing in the Buffalo game, we had a ton of third and eight, nine (and) 10 pluses in that game. Stay out of those. They know that, but we know it too and we got to figure out ways to do it. They’re really good across the board. They’ve lost some valuable players too and they’re still good, that’s a credit to them.”
Q: Do you feel like the run game is hitting with Kareem Hunt?
NAGY: “We do. We feel good about that. And I agree with you, in the game there versus Buffalo we had some good things going and sometimes it’s just the rhythm but big picture for us as we look at kind of how the year has gone. Where we feel with our run game, we feel like internally as an offense that we like some things we’re doing and we want to grow from that. It’s so important in these times, especially this time of year with the weather changes, you can’t be one dimensional number one, and number two you always got to be able to run the football, sets up play actions (and) screens, we like where we’re at, we want to keep that going and it’s going to be a super big test against a great defense.”
Q: On the Denver Broncos pass rush and how the offensive line needs to communicate.
NAGY: “Huge. That communication is massive. They’re (Denver Broncos) good enough as is one on one. So you just go one on one, they’re really good. Then you throw some stunts and some blitzes and second level guys coming into it. Then you throw the communication part, they’re good at it. We just have to make sure schematically, that we understand we like where we’re at as an offensive line. We like where we’re at with our protections and then in the run game, that’s critical too. Let’s just make sure we understand, we respect how good they are but we’ll put together a plan, they put together their plan and then we go butt heads and see where it lasts. Ton of respect because they’re really good and they’ve been that way.”
Chiefs Player Quotes
November 13, 2025
DT CHRIS JONES
Q: On the importance of the game this weekend.
JONES: “Division game. We know it’s very important for where we want to be at the end of the year. This game kind of counts as two games. Last year was (a) very close physical game. We have a lot of respect for those guys, and we know what they bring to the table so we’re going to prepare well and be ready to play Sunday.”
Q: On the Broncos offense.
JONES: “They’re killing it. They’re killing it. They’re playing well. (Bo) Nix makes the game very easy for them and they slow the game down for him (Bo Nix). Play action passing (and) running the ball. When you can run the ball as efficient as they’ve been running, then it opens up for the quarterback with play-action passes. They’ve been doing a really really good job, and they have a head coach (Sean Payton) who I respect the heck out of. (I’ve) seen him this summer over in (Las) Vegas (and I) said a couple words to him. I’m excited to play these guys, man. Division game is always tough, it’s the Denver Broncos.”
Q: Does it feel different that you are not winning the division as of right now?