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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside Centure a Hell training center

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Speaker 1: for another episode of Broncos and now, as always, I'm

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Speaker 1: your hostess, Sidney Jones. And coming up on today's episode,

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Speaker 1: the team is back from there bye week, so we'll

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Speaker 1: hear from head coach Sean Payan and bron The Leader

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Speaker 1: writer Eric de Lala joins the show.

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Speaker 2: All that more coming up.

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Speaker 1: The team is back from there a week and nine

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Speaker 1: bye week, and on Monday we heard from head coach

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton. He discussed the importance of a bye week

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Speaker 1: and giving your body a break physically and mentally.

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Speaker 3: There's a fatigue element. You know. There's one thing is

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Speaker 3: you get in a routine. Typically what happens and it's

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Speaker 3: you know, knocking what it hadn't happened yet. But when

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Speaker 3: you get in the routine of your weekly schedule and

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden you break for let's say six days,

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Speaker 3: five days. You know generally I catch a cold or something.

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Speaker 3: You know, something something happens physically that your body's like,

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Speaker 3: what are you doing? Blowing down anyway? I think it helps.

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Speaker 3: I think it helps for the coaches come back, you

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Speaker 3: know ours this year. You can't control it. That kind

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Speaker 3: now we get ready for you know that call it

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Speaker 3: the second half of the second the second part. And

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Speaker 3: you know you sleep a lot, and you know, everyone

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Speaker 3: has their their own little niches what they want to do,

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Speaker 3: and I think it's important they get to do that.

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Speaker 3: And to your point, I think there is a mental

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Speaker 3: break that allows you to come back a little bit

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Speaker 3: more focused and and and ready to go. Uh for

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Speaker 1: Chean Payne also used the extra time last week to

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Speaker 1: self scout and detailed what he learned about this team.

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Speaker 3: I feel like we're a better team today than we

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Speaker 3: were four or five weeks ago. You can see that

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Speaker 3: in a lot of ways. And then analytically, there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of times spend on what you're doing and who

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Speaker 3: personnel groups, aren't necessarily substituting play or play tendencies. You're

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Speaker 3: going to have tendency sixty forty, seventy thirty. I'm comfortable

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Speaker 3: eighties nineties. So a lot of the self scout, specifically,

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Speaker 3: I'm just giving an example on offense, but overall from

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Speaker 3: an overview as a team, yeah, I just I think

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Speaker 3: we're a lot further down the road, and because of that,

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Speaker 3: you get that much more invested and recognize, you know,

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Speaker 3: the next opportunity at hand. You know, we're going to

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Speaker 3: play a national TV game here a week from the night,

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Speaker 3: and then another national TV game the following Sunday night,

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Speaker 3: and those will both the important games for us as

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Speaker 1: He also talks specifically about different areas he saw this

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Speaker 1: team improve in from week one to now.

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Speaker 3: I think we're defending the run better. Number one. I

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Speaker 3: think our red zone defense has been much improved. I

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Speaker 3: think offensively we've been more efficient running the ball. You know,

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Speaker 3: we had better red zone numbers offensively last week. But

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Speaker 3: and then in the kicking game week to week, we're

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Speaker 3: winning most of those battles, which means a lot. You know,

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Speaker 3: the way we're returning right now, our punt return, our

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Speaker 3: that are necessary to win games that I don't think

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Speaker 1: Coach was also asked specifically about quarterback Russell Wilson and

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Speaker 1: what his assessment is his performance so far this season.

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Speaker 3: I think the most important thing is is how we're

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Speaker 3: You know, the number one job is to get us

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Speaker 3: and then continuing to look at reducing the turnovers, managing

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Speaker 3: So I would say to answer your question, I'd say that, man,

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Speaker 1: Looking ahead, the Broncos have a back to back primetime

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Speaker 3: The one thing we do know is if you're significant,

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Speaker 3: us it's twofold. We're playing good teams. You know, Buffalo

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Speaker 3: they present a huge challenge, especially in Buffalo in the

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Speaker 3: then to play them on Monday night. Those are those

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Speaker 1: Now joining me here inside the Broncos Podcast studio, is

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Speaker 1: Broncos lead writer Eric Delala. Eric, thanks for joining me

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Speaker 1: coming off the bye week. How was your bye week?

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Speaker 4: It was nice? Said it was a nice He a

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Speaker 4: little break and now I'm excited to get back at

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Speaker 4: it and some big games coming up.

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Speaker 1: I feeling nice, nice and refreshed, ready to kick off

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season here exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you have a nice time, said I did.

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Speaker 2: It was nice.

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Speaker 1: I just relaxed, good, some self care, got my haircut,

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Speaker 1: you know, the usual you.

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Speaker 4: Do some like run throughs of Broncos now just kind.

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Speaker 2: Of definitely not we do this enough as it is, Eric,

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Speaker 2: every day.

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Speaker 4: That's true.

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Speaker 1: Well, Eric, I know head coach on pay and he

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Speaker 1: talked earlier in the show about how and these bye

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Speaker 1: weeks are just not only for the players to get

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Speaker 1: the physical break, but the mental break from the game too.

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Speaker 4: I was just thinking about this actually, in terms of one,

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Speaker 4: a few weeks ago and Sean Payton referenced a New

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Speaker 4: he kind of talked about, well, it took a mental

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Speaker 4: work to do to get back to where they want

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Speaker 4: I think the rest element there helps. And then the

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Speaker 4: other side of it, I think too, is that it

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Speaker 4: would have been really easy to come off this win

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Speaker 4: it's almost a let down. And so hopefully this bye

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Speaker 4: Payton's mentioned, when you're playing well, teams are almost that nameless,

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Speaker 4: good reset, and now you're able to kind of put

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Speaker 1: Definitely, And Eric, I feel like the Broncos been lucky

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Speaker 1: the buy has really fallen right in the middle of

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been nice that the same bye week as

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Speaker 4: for the second half of the season. You know, obviously

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Speaker 4: there's still some tough stretches here. Yeah, there's a three

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Speaker 4: really impact your season. So definitely, the Rocket's ability to

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Speaker 1: Eric. I know head coach chan Payn, he talked today

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Speaker 2: We heard him talk about that earlier in the show.

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Speaker 1: So I want to ask you, you know, how do

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Speaker 1: you feel like this team has really gotten better since

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Speaker 1: Week one?

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Speaker 4: I think there's some kind of tangible elements. Right, there's

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Speaker 4: the run defense, which it was actually okay week one,

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Speaker 4: I believe that teams are three for sixteen and the

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Speaker 4: at those things, I think a couple you know, one

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Speaker 4: but the Broncos just feel like they're learning how to

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Speaker 4: I'm sure there's a little bit of all of that.

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Speaker 1: Looking ahead, and you mentioned it earlier, back to back

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think my big thing is that can you

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Speaker 4: for the overall confidence of this group that, as Sean

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Speaker 1: Well, they're back at it tomorrow, back on the practice field. Eric,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you joining the show today.

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Speaker 4: You got it said.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's going to do it for today's episode, Broncos Country,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in. Meant you right back

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Speaker 1: here on the Broncos Podcast Network in YouTube.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow for another episode. I'll see you all then,