Kubiak hoping history repeats itself with Elway, Manning

Denver Broncos president and chief executive officer Joe Ellis, left, fields a question during a news conference as Elizabeth Concordia, center, president and chief executive officer of UCHealth, and physician Dr. Richard Schulick look on at the team's NFL football training camp Thursday, July 30, 2015, in Englewood, Colo. The health care provider and the Broncos have joined forces in a partnership. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Denver Broncos president and chief executive officer Joe Ellis, left, fields a question during a news conference as Elizabeth Concordia, center, president and chief executive officer of UCHealth, and physician Dr. Richard Schulick look on at the team's NFL football training camp Thursday, July 30, 2015, in Englewood, Colo. The health care provider and the Broncos have joined forces in a partnership. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

By Associated Press July 30, 2015 4 min read

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) – Gary Kubiak sure has the blueprints.

He helped guide the Denver Broncos to back-to-back Super Bowls in the late 1990s as John Elway’s backup-turned tutor and now he’s trying to steer them back to the top of the NFL behind 39-year-old Peyton Manning.

On the eve of his first training camp as Denver’s head coach, Kubiak said: “I can remember some of the conversations we’re having now are some of the same conversations we had as coaches going into John’s last year or two, how we were going to approach his work, how we were going to go about things.”

Bottom line: plenty of rest for Manning, a notorious workhorse who’s long been loath to give away any snaps.

With Manning coming off a thigh injury that hampered him down the stretch last season, Kubiak gave backup Brock Osweiler lots of work this offseason and he plans to do that again through camp and into the season.