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Speaker 1: First of all, let's start with how was your bye week?

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Speaker 2: Bie week was great, just hung out here in Denver,

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Speaker 2: enjoyed the time down. It was a dad for a couple,

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Speaker 2: you know, about a week and a half straight, which

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Speaker 2: was really nice and I hope my wife appreciated that.

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Speaker 2: But it was good, got some work in, got some

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Speaker 2: quality time at home, and ready to get back to work.

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Speaker 3: How are your bye weeks? I mean, you're a veteran league.

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Speaker 3: How have they sort of adjusted over time? Is it

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Speaker 3: about the same for you every single year?

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Speaker 1: I think I've definitely relaxed a lot more.

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Speaker 2: You know, when you get a time off as a

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Speaker 2: young player, sometimes you try and plan social things or whatever.

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Speaker 2: But you know, now I've just enjoyed time with my

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Speaker 2: family and get my body back to ready to go.

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Speaker 3: Let's I want to ask you about Luke Wattenberg and

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Speaker 3: getting that contract extension. You guys have obviously all been

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Speaker 3: working together for quite some time, having some success there

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Speaker 3: on the offensive line. What was it meant to you

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Speaker 3: guys to see Luke get paid well?

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Speaker 1: First, it's unbelievably well deserved.

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Speaker 2: He's earned every penny of that contract because of the

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Speaker 2: way that he's played, that he carries himself in our

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Speaker 2: building and the you know, the player and the guy

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Speaker 2: that he is.

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Speaker 1: We don't we don't do anything without Luke.

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Speaker 2: He's uh, you know, gets us all on the same page,

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Speaker 2: plays great football, and I think he's one of the

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Speaker 2: best centers in the NFL, and I think he got

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Speaker 2: rewarded for that, and you know it. It gives us

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Speaker 2: an excitement because there's not many buildings that that care

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Speaker 2: and invest in the offensive line the way that that

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Speaker 2: ours does. And certainly we believe that Zach has helped

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Speaker 2: us all get to where we want to be and

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Speaker 2: and we want to keep playing together. And that's uh,

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Speaker 2: we've had a lot of success and we're only scratching

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Speaker 2: the surface for what we want to do.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of the success, you guys are nine to two

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Speaker 3: right now, opportunity now down the stretch, one game of

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Speaker 3: the time obviously, But for what you had expectations coming

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Speaker 3: into the season to where you're at now, how's that

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Speaker 3: sort of married up?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we we're exactly where we want to be.

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Speaker 2: We give we've put ourselves in a position where we

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Speaker 2: kind of control our own destiny here as the as

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Speaker 2: the season unfolds, and it's an exciting time to be

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Speaker 2: a Denver Bronco. And I think all the work that

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Speaker 2: we've put in, not only from April this year, but

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Speaker 2: from when we first all got here under.

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Speaker 1: Sean, this is what we were working for.

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Speaker 2: We were working for to be the top dogs in

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Speaker 2: our conference, and we're and we got to finish the job.

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Speaker 3: Sean I mentioned the penalties is one of the things

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Speaker 3: that he wanted to focus on. Is there some things

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Speaker 3: that you guys can do as soon as this week

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Speaker 3: to sort of help that.

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Speaker 1: It's just focus, it's just focused in detail. I think.

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Speaker 2: The more we can do that, the more we can

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Speaker 2: all be on the same page. Those things go away.

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Speaker 2: And it's it's a it's a must. It has to

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Speaker 2: go away because if you want to play championship level football,

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Speaker 2: you can't be shooting yourself on the foot.

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Speaker 3: You got the Commanders this week. Tell me a little

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Speaker 3: bit about that defensive matchup and you will probably see

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Speaker 3: a little bit von Miller out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exciting to play Vaughn. He's obviously one of the

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Speaker 2: greatest players at his position ever. Always great to get

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Speaker 2: competition like that. They're a good front there, could play

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Speaker 2: hard and they're well coached. I mean, I've played against

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Speaker 2: dan Quinn's defenses for a long time and they're always very,

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Speaker 2: very difficult. So excited to get the opportunity to go

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Speaker 2: there and compete. And you know, we got our handsful.

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Speaker 3: Last one here expected to be kind of a wet track.

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Speaker 3: How does that sort of impact the way you guys

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Speaker 3: can operate?

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Speaker 1: Not so much for me. I'm not opening up.

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Speaker 2: I'm not opening up stride all that much, or if

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Speaker 2: we are, we're in trouble. No, I think it's just

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Speaker 2: a matter of keeping your feet underneath you. You've got to

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Speaker 2: plan for the cleats, you know, get the studs out,

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Speaker 2: get uh, you got to feel it out.

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Speaker 1: Pregame if what you need.

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Speaker 2: But you know, certainly that's you have to take care

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Speaker 2: of that stuff before the game so that you know

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Speaker 2: you're not even thinking about it when the game's going on.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate anytime