BRONCOS QB SANCHEZ BRUSHING UP ON NEW PLAY BOOK AND NEW LANGUAGE

Players joining a new NFL team say that digesting their new playbook is a lot like learning a new language. Then that goes double for Mark Sanchez, who isn’t just absorbing the parlance of Gary Kubiak’s West Coast offence in Denver, but also mastering the tongue of his Mexican-American roots. “I think it’s important to learn Spanish,” Sanchez said. “One, because it’s my heritage and two, because I’m fortunate enough to live in a country that celebrates where you come from. And I think when you learn another language like that, I think it’s good for your brain. ... And then the most important thing was to be able to connect with those fans.” When the New York Jets drafted him in 2009, Sanchez said he was embarrassed when fans would speak to him in Spanish and all he could respond with was, “Gracias.”