{"id":1312819,"date":"2019-07-25T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/broncos-sutton-forgoes-the-spectacular-for-the-steady\/"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T21:48:00","slug":"broncos-sutton-forgoes-the-spectacular-for-the-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/broncos-sutton-forgoes-the-spectacular-for-the-steady\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos\u2019 Sutton forgoes the spectacular for the steady"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Denver Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton (14) gets sunscreen from a field assistant during drills at the team’s NFL football training camp Friday, July 19, 2019, in Englewood, Colo. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)<\/strong>
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 Courtland Sutton hasn\u2019t been the star of training camp like he was last year with a daily diet of highlight reel catches on deep fade routes, and the Denver Broncos are glad about that.<\/p>\n

Sutton is working on becoming an all-around receiving threat in Rich Scangarello\u2019s new offense, so he\u2019s running all the intermediate routes, not just the deep posts where he\u2019d leap over DBs for impressive catches.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis offseason that was one big thing I wanted to work on was being able to run every route on the route tree,\u201d Sutton said, adding he doesn\u2019t want to \u201cjust be a guy that\u2019s known for going deep on the outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s still something I have in my arsenal, but I want to be able to run all those routes so that it can set up those big-shot plays.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, the spectacular has been replaced by the steady this summer.<\/p>\n

Sutton said coach Vic Fangio \u201cis attacking practice in a different way. A lot of those 50-50 balls you all saw came in one-on-ones. Right now, Coach knows that\u2019s something that I have in my arsenal. It\u2019s like, \u2018Why keep feeding that horse? Add something to the game, don\u2019t just be a one-trick pony.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Sutton is fine with the extra workload and the reduction in oohs and ahhs from the crowd because he\u2019s certain it will pay dividends this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to run more routes, that\u2019s the biggest thing. Being able to run more routes and not just being a guy where they are like, \u2018Oh, 14 is in, he\u2019s able to go deep,\u2019\u201d Sutton said. \u201cYou probably won\u2019t hear too many DBs saying that. I can get in and out of any route and that\u2019s one thing I\u2019m just really trying to incorporate into my game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Receivers coach Zach Azzanni has been riding Sutton to disguise his intentions because film from his rookie season showed he sometimes tipped off what was coming.<\/p>\n

Safety Justin Simmons said he can testify to Sutton\u2019s growth this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s true. He\u2019s running digs, he\u2019s running outs, he\u2019s running comebacks,\u201d Sutton said. \u201cHe\u2019s still running his deep routes, but last year it just felt like fade after fade after fade and he just kept snagging them down.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be great for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sutton hasn\u2019t been immune to the drops that have plagued Denver\u2019s young receiving corps this summer as veteran Emmanuel Sanders slowly works his way back from a ruptured Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n

Last week, Fangio said he\u2019s more of a swift kick kind of guy, not a pat-\u2018em-on-the-back sort when it comes to encouraging corrections from his players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of ride him and tease him a little bit,\u201d Fangio said. \u201cSo, I\u2019ll take advantage of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fangio said, however, that he didn\u2019t get the chance to razz Sutton.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was ducking me yesterday a little bit,\u201d Fangio said. \u201cI relied on you guys to get the word to him, the little teasing.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one message Sutton didn\u2019t need to hear.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as it hits our hands and hits the ground, we know that it is unacceptable,\u201d Sutton said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to drop it. It\u2019s not like we go out there like, \u2018I\u2019m going to drop this pass.\u2019 So, when we hear everybody saying, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s unacceptable,\u2019 we already know that. Thank you for reminding us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Denver Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton (14) gets sunscreen from a field assistant during drills at the team’s NFL football training camp Friday, July 19, 2019, in Englewood, Colo. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)AP | AP ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 Courtland Sutton hasn\u2019t been the star of training camp like he was last year with a daily diet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 07:21:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}