Broncos coach Josh McDaniels said he didn’t know of a team that has flipped its left tackle to the right side based on starting a left-handed quarterback. And even if another team has done it, he won’t.

Along with everything else in the game plan this week, not much will change for the Broncos if Chris Simms has to start instead of Kyle Orton, who missed practice Wednesday with a left ankle injury. McDaniels said the line won’t be affected at all.

“If we feel like we need to do something different on the backside of a player, whether he be left handed or right handed, than that is up to us as a staff to do that, but I don’t think the preparation for the linemen, in general, is going to be much different,” McDaniels said. “They’ve got to still block the same guys, and the protections that we use, we use protections where we slide left, where we slide right, where the left tackle is singled (and) where the right tackle is singled, and we do that when we have either quarterback in the game.

“That shouldn’t make a difference in terms of what we’re doing and how we’re preparing. They’ve got to do their assignment the same no matter what hand the guy throws with.”

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