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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside the U s Hell Training

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Speaker 1: Center for today's edition of Broncos Now. As you all know,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Sydney Jones, and coming up on today's episode,

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

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Speaker 1: a look back at the Broncos season opener versus the Seahawks,

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Speaker 1: plus Broncos lead writer Eric Delalla joins the show for

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Speaker 1: a game recap. All that and more coming up. It

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Speaker 1: was a disappointing way to start the season for the

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Speaker 1: Broncos on Monday night in Russell Wilson's return to Seattle,

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Speaker 1: Denver fell seventeen to sixteen. The game came down to

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Speaker 1: the wire at Lumen Field. The Broncos trailed by one

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Speaker 1: point and it faced a fourth and five at the

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Speaker 1: Seattle forty six yard line. Head coach Nathaniel Hackett sent

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Speaker 1: out kicker Brandon McManus for the sixty four yard field

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Speaker 1: goal attempt, and the kick was no good. Today, during

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Speaker 1: Coach Hackett's press conference, he reflected on that decision. You know,

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Speaker 1: looking back at it, definitely should have gone for it.

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Speaker 1: Um just not not. You know, one of those things

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Speaker 1: you look back at it and you say, of course

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Speaker 1: we should go for it. We missed the field goal. Um,

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Speaker 1: but in that situation, we had a plan. I mean

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Speaker 1: we had a plan. We knew that forty six was

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Speaker 1: the mark. We were third and fifteen, I think third

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Speaker 1: and thirteen. I'm more upset about that play before it

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Speaker 1: to lose yards to be able to, you know, getting

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Speaker 1: that there would have definitely been better to be able

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Speaker 1: to call that same play and get extra yards. But um,

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Speaker 1: he dumps it out to Javonte. Javonte makes a move,

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Speaker 1: goes a lot farther than I think we had anticipated.

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Speaker 1: We were expecting to go for it on fourth down,

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Speaker 1: and then you hit the mark, you know, the market

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Speaker 1: we had all set before we started. We said forty

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Speaker 1: six yards. Forty six yard line was where we wanted

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Speaker 1: to be, and we got there. So we had to

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Speaker 1: make the decision if we wanted to give it to

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Speaker 1: our you know, Brandon, and we did and didn't work.

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Speaker 1: It sucks, but hey, that's part of it. But coach

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Speaker 1: I could emphasize that the game I shouldn't have even

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Speaker 1: come down to that. In the end, it lies on me.

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Speaker 1: I made that decision, and that was our plan. That's

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Speaker 1: what we said that's the yard we had to get to.

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Speaker 1: We all knew it, that's what we said in the

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Speaker 1: huddle before we did it, and we got there. We

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Speaker 1: made that decision. Should have never gotten to that. That's

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Speaker 1: the thing that I think. Obviously, the last decision is

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Speaker 1: something that you know, you're always gonna gosh, could have

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Speaker 1: done this, could have done that. But I think the

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Speaker 1: thing that frustrates me more is that red zone. You know,

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Speaker 1: we had so many opportunities. I mean we were inches away.

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Speaker 1: I mean talking with the tight ends even today, all

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Speaker 1: four of them had an opportunity to get in the

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Speaker 1: some opportunities. We missed them. And it's just, you know,

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Speaker 1: it should have never gotten to that. There's no time

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Speaker 1: to dwell though. With a short week coming up for

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Speaker 1: the Broncos, coach Ick had said he's already moving on

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Speaker 1: to the team's home opener versus Texans this Sunday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I've already moved on forward. We're already game planning.

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Speaker 1: We got the next week coming up here on a

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Speaker 1: short week, so we gotta get rolling. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: it's that simple. It's the next game. There's sixteen more games. Um,

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Speaker 1: this was the seventeen game, uh in my mind. And

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Speaker 1: you know, we did a lot of good things. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to take away from how we moved the ball.

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Speaker 1: I mean those guys executed, you know, all that stuff

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Speaker 1: those things which could have been better. Now it's time

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Speaker 1: to take a closer look at a Monday night's matchup.

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Speaker 1: So joining me here in the Broncos Podcast studio is

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Speaker 1: Broncos lead writer Eric de Lalla Eric. Obviously not the

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Speaker 1: way the Broncos had wanted to open the season. You know,

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Speaker 1: But it's only week one, I mean, Broncos Country, I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's time to panic. There's still some work

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Speaker 1: obviously that they need to focus on this week. But

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Speaker 1: I thought there was a lot of positives that came

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Speaker 1: out of the game. Yeah, there were positives. I mean,

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Speaker 1: at first, we can admit that it was just a

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Speaker 1: winning that the Broncos lost. The Broncos have to be better.

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Speaker 1: It's the game that the Broncos probably should have won. Um,

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Speaker 1: But I think there is something to be said for

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Speaker 1: the fact that the defense gave up seventeen first half

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Speaker 1: Oh for four in the red zone, including those two

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Speaker 1: with the Broncos, things haven't changed. The way I would

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Speaker 1: look at it is you've got to evaluate the performance

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Speaker 1: I look and I think, you know, does this team

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Speaker 1: you're only going to get better from here, and especially

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Speaker 1: the errors that happened, those are all things that in

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Speaker 1: my mind are correctable. Red zone efficiency is one of

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Speaker 1: those things that tends to um take a little bit

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Speaker 1: I think you often see week one those crop up,

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Speaker 1: and so these are not incorrectible issues. These are not

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Speaker 1: kind of major red flags that you saw on Monday

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Speaker 1: I think this team is still in a good place.

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Speaker 1: I actually, you know, I think I tweeted I feel

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Speaker 1: to happen this year. Eric, you also tweeted last night

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Speaker 1: after the game that Bronco's offense posted more yards in

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Speaker 1: You know, the offense really seemed like they were moving

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Speaker 1: I mean, there were there are things that we just

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have surprised me if the Broncos went out and

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Speaker 1: for this defense. Eric, you know you mentioned earlier they

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Speaker 1: the adjustments they made maybe at halftime. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb put it really well. He just said, we

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Speaker 1: they got it out of their system really quickly. Bradley Chubb,

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Speaker 1: That's as good as I've seen him in a couple

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Speaker 1: creating turnovers. We saw that as he stripped. DK Metcalf

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Speaker 1: he looked really good. And then the run defense settled

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Speaker 1: So obviously a couple of issues there in the first

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Speaker 1: have to acknowledge that Geno Smith is not the best

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Speaker 1: This team has the ability to come back. And uh,

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Speaker 1: I think this Broncos defense sets up well to to

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Speaker 1: Randy Gregory and Bradley Chub out there. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: I can do. Last one here for you, Eric, You

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Speaker 1: What do you think the mindset is for this team

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Speaker 1: It was built as this. It was built as like,

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Speaker 1: who is right? You know, if the Seahawks win, they're right.

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Speaker 1: They were right to trade Russell Wilson. If the Broncos win,

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Speaker 1: they were right to trade for Russell Wilson. It's not

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Speaker 1: that simple, you know this. It's about a long term process.

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson said, we have to be on wavering. Their

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Speaker 1: sixteen more games to go. He's lost season openers before.

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Speaker 1: I think he was. He was six and four in Seattle.

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Speaker 1: I believe in season openers. So lost four times, made

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Speaker 1: I think there were encouraging signs to the point where

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Speaker 1: The Broncos are right where they need to be. I

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Speaker 1: think you're right, Eric, We'll look forward to seeing that.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate your time and your insight. You got it. No

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Speaker 1: Take a listen to what kicker Brandon McManus, outside linebacker

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Speaker 1: You know, this is a tough place to play, a

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Speaker 1: You know, like you said, one loss out of seventeen games.

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Speaker 1: First half, I think we didn't stop and run the

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Speaker 1: keep going. That'll do it for today's episode of Broncos Now,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in today and every day

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Speaker 1: Broncos Country. I hope to see you right back here

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Speaker 1: on the Broncos Podcast Network in YouTube tomorrow evening. Afore

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Speaker 1: another episode, as the team turns the page and starts

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Speaker 1: to look ahead to their home opener this Sunday, m

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