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Speaker 1: What's Up, Broncos Country. Welcome back inside the uc Hell

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Speaker 1: Training Center for another episode of Broncos Now. Team reporter

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Speaker 1: and host Sydney Jones here and coming up on today's episode,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from head coach Nathaniel Hackett as he reflects

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Speaker 1: on Sunday's loss. Plus I'll have the latest injury update

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Speaker 1: and a Bronco's lead writer, Eric Delila joins the show

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Speaker 1: for a game recap. All that and more on tonight's episode,

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Speaker 1: Broncos Now said at three and six as they fell

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Speaker 1: seventeen to ten to the Tennessee Titans on Sunday in Nashville,

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Speaker 1: we heard from head coach Nathaniel Hackett today as he

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Speaker 1: reflected on Sunday's loss and Go Tacket detailed the offensive

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Speaker 1: struggles in both the run and passing game, and he

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Speaker 1: said they need to run the ball more efficiently and consistently,

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Speaker 1: and when it comes to the passing game, there's a

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Speaker 1: few reasons why they haven't been able to find a

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Speaker 1: consistent rhythm. Unfortunately, it's been a bunch of different things.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't just been one thing. Um, I think that

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Speaker 1: you know, we need to be more consistent across the

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Speaker 1: word with the play calling on how I adjust things

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Speaker 1: and then it's just the execution. Something will go good

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Speaker 1: and then right afterwards something might now work out the

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Speaker 1: way that we thought it would or um, there might

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Speaker 1: be something with a route, or there might be something

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Speaker 1: collectively as an offense, we have to be more consistent.

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Speaker 1: That's what we haven't shown for each play over and

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Speaker 1: over which I could also spoke on holding people accountable

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Speaker 1: in constantly evaluating everything. I mean, first it starts with me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've got to make sure that the play

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Speaker 1: calls are the right play calls and the ones that

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Speaker 1: are going to put the guys in the right um

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Speaker 1: position to be successful. Will evaluate that, will evaluate everything

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Speaker 1: that we do. I mean, we're three and six. We're

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Speaker 1: not where we want to be. Nobody's accepting that. That's

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Speaker 1: not the standard that we want to be. Um, we're

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Speaker 1: not scoring enough points. It's that simple, and we've got

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Speaker 1: to find a way to do that. And so we'll

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Speaker 1: evaluate everything every person across the board. The team has

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Speaker 1: been in some really close games this season. Five of

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Speaker 1: their six losses have been one score game, but Coachakison,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I mean, we're close, but that's not

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Speaker 1: what we're here for. We're not here to be number

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Speaker 1: one in close games. We're here to win football games. UM.

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Speaker 1: It shows that, you know, the men in that locker

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Speaker 1: room stay together and they battle all the way un

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Speaker 1: till the end of the game. Um, which is what

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Speaker 1: that we have the potential to win some of these games.

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Speaker 1: But we gotta get get this stuff fixed. One guy

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Speaker 1: coach Ick had made sure to give credit to, though,

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Speaker 1: was wide receiver Kendall Hint. One guy I want to

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Speaker 1: give credit four credit to right away is Kendel Hinton.

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Speaker 1: I mean what Kendall did, he was under the weather, uh,

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Speaker 1: whole game, and I mean he didn't have any mental errors.

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Speaker 1: He went out there and made some plays. I mean

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Speaker 1: And as we wrap up the top news of the day,

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Speaker 1: updated us on wide receiver Jerry Guy. He said he

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Speaker 1: suffered a ankle injury and will only be a day

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Speaker 1: to day. Offensive lineman Billy Turner in cornerback k One Williams, however,

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Speaker 1: Cochacket said they dodged a bullet with offensive lineman Graham

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Speaker 1: Glasgow and they're hoping he will be day to day.

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Speaker 1: Not joining me here inside the Broncos podcast studio for

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Speaker 1: a game recap is Broncos lead writer Eric Delala. Eric,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me today. Feeling recovered it all from

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Speaker 1: yesterday yet, I mean, just another tough loss. It feels

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Speaker 1: like every week, Sydney, we've been sending here talking about

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Speaker 1: sort of the same thing thing week after week. Yeah, Eric,

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Speaker 1: you said it really tough loss on the road. Another

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Speaker 1: Kind of what happened after that? Yeah, I mean one,

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Speaker 1: up with a game plan this past Tuesday, then you

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Speaker 1: The offensive line I thought actually played pretty well to

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Speaker 1: Obviously there were problems with the exchange um, and so

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Speaker 1: that's you know, you don't want to blame anything on injuries,

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Speaker 1: and the Broncos still should be better than the thirty

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Speaker 1: figure it out the Broncos. Nathaniel Hackett, I think it

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Speaker 1: was kind of joking. You said, we're almost better on

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Speaker 1: wasn't that kind of game changing type play Greg Dulsach

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Speaker 1: looking like you're gonna be in these these slugfests, these

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Speaker 1: So you've got to find a way to make one

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Speaker 1: but I still got to go do it. Yah, well, Eric,

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Speaker 1: a lot of different things out there overall, Would you

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