Bradlee Pelt Quotations

The last person that was successful here really at an extreme level was John Elway. Anyone that comes to this football club in Denver is going to have to fight it.

Being a backup is a lot harder than anyone anticipates. You don't get the reps, but you have to know everything. That's what he warns me about. He says, you've got to know your stuff and no one's going to know if you're preparing right until you go onto the field.

I don't view it that way. I've got to keep proving it to my coaches, my teammates and everyone around us that I deserve to be No. 2 and that if anything happens to Jake, that I can step in there and not miss a beat.

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

He's taken his team to the playoffs three years in a row. No one ever seems to highlight the good points. They're always pointing at 'throwing too many interceptions, can't lead the team, can't manage it.' They never really seem like they're giving him love.

I shouldn't be taking sacks. I'm too good an athlete to be takings sacks. I need to get the ball gone or find a crease and run through it. . . . As you can tell, I'm frustrated more on the negative than the positive.

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

They're going to give a lot of key guys rest.

I'm just glad to get it out of the way. Now I really know what I have to work on. . . . There's a lot of pent-up emotions. I was nervous.

I think of myself as a second-year player. Then again, I didn't play much quarterback at all last year. Am I a second- or first-year player? I don't know how the coaches view me, but I expect a lot of myself. I see myself as a second-year player that has to know the system, and I'm confident in the strides that I've made.