JACKSONVILLE – The Jaguars on Thursday practiced at the Miller Electric Center.

The Jaguars (10-4) will play the Denver Broncos (12-2) at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, Col., Sunday in a 2025 Week 16 game. A look at Thursday around the Jaguars – with Offensive Coordinator Grant Udinski and Defensive Coordinator Anthony Campanile speaking to the media before practice:

The respect for the Broncos is real around the Jaguars, and Udinski showed it Thursday.

The Broncos' defense not only leads the NFL in sacks with 58, it features 2024 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Patrick Surtain II at cornerback. Denver ranks No. 2 in the NFL in run defense at 90.2 yards per game allowed, and Surtain is far from the unit's only strength.

"You can search all day for weak spots, but you're going to be searching for a long time," Udinski said of the Broncos. "You see really, really, really tough, physical play, fundamentally sound, good at all three levels of defense. That success kind of speaks for itself in the stats."

The Broncos rank No. 5 in the NFL in yards allowed per game at 287.7 and No. 3 in points allowed at 18.6 per game. They're on pace for 70 sacks this season, 2 shy of the all-time NFL record for sacks in a season of 72 by the 1984 Chicago Bears.

"You don't put up that type of production, you don't have that disruption on the ball, you don't stop the run, you don't affect the pass the way they do without being good really in all areas of the game," Udinski said. "You add on top of that the scheme … they're creative, they're multiple, they do a bunch of different things to challenge you.

"It's a great challenge for our guys and we're looking forward to it."

Broncos second-year quarterback Bo Nix has 23 passing touchdowns this season with 9 interceptions, throwing at least 1 touchdown in all but 2 games. Nix, who excels at extending plays and making plays outside the pocket, had perhaps the best game of his career last week when he threw 4 touchdown passes with no interceptions in a 34-26 victory over the Green Bay Packers.

Campanile on Thursday said Nix "is playing at an elite level in my opinion, hard to bring down, but making good decisions, too."

"You don't see a whole lot of flaws there," Campanile said of a Broncos offense that ranks 11th in the NFL at 345.5 yards per game and 12th with 24.4 points per game.

Jaguars kicker Cam Little kicked the longest field goal in NFL history at normal altitude.

How far he might kick at Denver's mile-high altitude has been a topic this week, with the second-year veteran this week saying, "I think the ball does fly a little bit further there, obviously."

"We'll have to experiment with that in pre-game a little and see how far it does impact the ball," he said. "I don't know the wind situation, the cold situation. There are a lot of factors that go into it."

Kicks at Mile High shared or held the record for NFL's longest field goal from 1998 through 2021. Broncos kicker Jason Elam's 63-yarder against the Jaguars at Mile High in 1998 tied New Orleans Saints kicker Tom Dempsey's record 1970 kick against the Detroit Lions and the two shared the record until Broncos kicker Matt Prater converted from 64 yards at Mile High against the Tennessee Titans in 2013.

Ravens kicker Justin Tucker's 66-yard field goal against the Detroit Lions in 2021 broke Prater's record and stood until Little converted from 70 yards in a 29-28 overtime victory over the Las Vegas Raiders in Las Vegas in Week 9 this season.

"It'd be cool to watch," Jaguars Head Coach Liam Coen said. "My golf ball goes a lot further than it does out here, I think. So, I'm excited to see what that looks like. Maybe it's a big factor in the game, maybe it's not, but I do think it'll be pretty cool to watch him at least let it rip."

The Jaguars on Thursday issued the second of three injury reports for the week, with rookie running back Bhayshul Tuten (finger) and rookie defensive end Danny Striggow (knee) missing practice for a second consecutive day.

Starting defensive end Josh Hines-Allen returned to practice on a limited basis after missing Wednesday with illness/shoulder. Practicing limited for a second consecutive day: Starting left guard Ezra Cleveland (shoulder) and rookie linebacker Jalen McLeod (ankle).

Practicing full for a second consecutive day: Starting defensive tackle Arik Armstead (hand), left tackle Walker Little (concussion) and starting defensive end Travon Walker (knee).

The Jaguars opened McLeod's 21-day window to return from injured reserve on Tuesday.