Terrell Davis' message to the Denver Broncos running backs

On Thursday afternoon, at the Super Bowl Media Center in downtown San Francisco, the NFL Network on-air personalities were made available to media. One of those personalities, of course, is Super Bowl XXXII MVP and Denver Broncos legend, Terrell Davis.

We took the opportunity to catch up with Davis and ask him if he has spoken to the Broncos backs.

“We haven’t spoken a lot, I tend to leave people alone,” Davis said. “I’m the kind of guy — I’ll give you a couple nuggets every once in a while — but my philosophy is to just kind of let people be. If there’s something that I think they need to hear I’ll say it but my leadership philosophy is to let people do them and if they want advice they’ll ask you for it.”

Well, there was something that TD felt the Denver backs needed to hear.

“You’re going to get the ball a certain amount of times and they’re giving you the ball for a reason,” Davis said of his message to C.J. Anderson and Ronnie Hillman. “You have a chance to have an imprint on this game more than anybody else, besides the quarterback. Maybe, in some cases, more than the quarterback if you get enough carries. You have to believe that this game and everything around it relies on or is based on your performance. Not pressure, don’t put pressure on yourself but wouldn’t you smile if someone said, ‘If I can guarantee you win this game if you play well, would you take that?’ I’d take it.

“That’s the way I thought,” Davis added. “I thought, ‘You know what, it’s unique, I have a chance to do something where the game is going to be on me. I want them to have the same mentality because I really think the running game has to be there, they have to run the ball well for them to win this game.”

Of course, from his eyes, you’d expect him to feel that way but it’s tough to argue. The Broncos backs are going to play a huge role on Sunday and they’ve surely got people giving them advice left and right, but if there is anyone to listen to, it’s Terrell Davis.