Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton gives an update on injured edge rusher Nik Bonitto.
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00:00 - Good.
00:01 You know, optimistic.
00:04 I can't, you know, it's going to be questionable
00:06 for this game.
00:07 You know, he didn't go today,
00:08 but man, I know he's feeling better.
00:09 And, and so that's kind of day to day with an NCL.
00:14 But I know he had a good first week of rehab and recovery.
00:19 And, and so it's kind of, you know, daily,
00:22 I'll ask Bo in the staff meeting, you know,
00:24 where are we at?
00:25 And then usually it's two players.
00:29 It's a good question.
00:31 Man, I felt like it happened early enough.
00:34 We were still growing and trying to figure out
00:36 where we were going.
00:37 It's, it's hard to say because if you don't have it,
00:43 then you start going somewhere.
00:44 You just, you don't have it.
00:45 And so, now there's some things we've seen from Lucas
00:50 that we really like.
00:53 And, and man, I'm glad we have him.
00:55 And so, you know, he's got an expanded role.
00:59 But it's hard to say because it was, it was just in those,
01:04 I would say infantile stages at the very beginning.
01:08 We had Shockey, we had Graham, we had, I mean,
01:11 we had some guys that were uniquely different,
01:14 Witten and Dallas.
01:15 And so,
01:18 yeah, yeah.
01:22 I mean, is he a Joker player?
01:24 You know, that, that, that's right.
01:26 That's right.
01:26 And so, and then, but you never get, you know,
01:29 like you've got packages and then they just kind of
01:32 go back on the bookshelf, you know.
01:34 I mean, there's, there's some things we try to do
01:36 and these other guys are, are receiving threats.
01:39 And, but I've been spoiled a little bit
01:43 with some of those unique skill sets.
01:44 Those guys are unique.
01:45 And I was in New York with Shockey when we had them there
01:48 and traded for them.
01:49 And then of course we drafted Jimmy and,
01:51 and we're still developing some of that with Jaleel
01:55 relative to that position at running back.
01:58 You know, he did a good job on a choice route
02:01 the other night, you know, the,
02:03 down in the tight red zone.
02:05 And so, but yeah, I think it,
02:08 it shelves some stuff that we probably would have gotten
02:11 into had he been healthy.