Gary Kubiak Super Bowl 50 post-game press conference quotes

Gary Kubiak addressed the media following the Denver Broncos’ Super Bowl 50 win on Sunday. 

It’s not everyday that you can be the Super Bowl-winning head coach of the team that you once played for, but that was the position that Gary Kubiak found himself in on Sunday. In Super Bowl 50, his Broncos team came away with the 24-10 over the Carolina Panthers behind one of the best defensive performances that we have seen in a while.

While the defense did play an outstanding game, we all know that what everyone focused on was quarterback Peyton Manning who not only earned the second Super Bowl ring of his career, but also may finally have played his last game.

Following the win, Kubiak shared what he told his signal caller after the victory over the Panthers.

“I told him how proud I was of him,” Kubiak said via SI.com. “I could sit here all night and tell you the meetings he and I went through over the course of the last 10 weeks when he was injured, working his way back, battling his way back for the football team and he comes back and leads this group at the end, you know I know it was very, very special for him to be a part of.”

Kubiak would go on to pretty much credit the defense as well for helping Manning get that ring.

“He was on a team that could help him get a win,” Kubiak said via the Associated Press. “He didn’t have to go out there and do it all on his own, and he knew that.”

That certainly did help in a big way, that’s for sure.

Then the Broncos head man dropped one of the better post-game quotes, noting that this Super Bowl ring is one that he will be keeping for himself.

Finally, in what was maybe one of the classier moves that Kubiak could have pulled off, he did credit the man that he took the team over from, current Chicago Bears head coach John Fox who was fired following the playoff loss last year.

“I came to a really good football team; I know that,” Kubiak said via the Chicago Sun-Times. “We asked them to make some concessions along the way. We were going to be a different type of team.”

Kubiak did indeed build a different type of team — he built a type of team that can now call themselves Super Bowl champions.