The list of people who have coached talent like Von Miller or Khalil Mack is short. The list of people who have coached Von Miller and Khalil Mack is even shorter. After being hired by the Broncos to be their outside linebackers coach in January, Brandon Staley can count himself among that small group. After a recent practice, we caught up with Staley to hear about what it was like to make that transition from Mack to Miller, what has surprised him about working with Miller and why Bradley Chubb is such a special player and person.

What is it about Head Coach Vic Fangio that made you want to stay on his staff from Chicago to Denver, and how has he kept this team fighting even as there's been some tough stretches?

"I looked at his track record when I was with him in Chicago. All the things he accomplished at all the different type of places that he'd been — his start as an NFL coach in New Orleans to taking over an expansion team in Carolina and what he was able to do there; with the Houston Texans and then going to Stanford, just completely changing the face of that program only in one year; and then the success at San Francisco, which is probably, in recent history, what everybody remembers, what he did with that unit, taking them to a Super Bowl and having them amongst the top two or three [defenses] in the NFL. He's done it wherever he's been.

"He's been with a lot of the great players that have played, Hall of Fame players particularly at the position I coached. So it was just exciting. You knew you were going to be with one of the best defensive minds in all of football. So then being with him in Chicago, it only solidified all those feelings. You were able to see it up close. I had studied it for so long as a young coach, and I felt like I was coaching for him. But then ... to be on the staff of his, I really grew a lot in those two years and we accomplished a lot. And it was exciting for me to come here and do it in a different way and with a different franchise.