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Speaker 1: What's a Broncos Country. Welcome back to the Broncos Podcast

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Speaker 1: Network in YouTube for the latest episode of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: As always were your host to Sidney Jones, and coming

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Speaker 1: up on today's episode, Film Malani joins the show. We'll

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Speaker 1: give our thoughts on a Sunday Super Bowl and look

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Speaker 1: ahead to the Combine this year. All more coming up.

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Speaker 1: Joining me here in the Broncos Podcast studio for today's

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Speaker 1: episode of Broncos Now is Fela Team reporter Film Malani. Phil.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining the showome On.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: We missed you last week. I know, of course we

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Speaker 1: had Eric on, but.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's not as good.

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Speaker 1: Well, Phil, how are we doing? Are you? Have you

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Speaker 1: recovered from Super Bowl Sunday yet?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? What a crazy game.

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Speaker 1: I know it really was so in the beginning.

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Speaker 2: But Broncos fans probably charing for the forty nine ers,

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Speaker 2: of course, But I think that at this point, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think it's okay to just kind of resign, be

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Speaker 2: resigned to the fact that, look, Patrick Mahomes is amazing,

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Speaker 2: and like, let's just appreciate some of the amazing things

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Speaker 2: that you know, take place. I think with like any

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Speaker 2: player like him, who's really great. There's like a period

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Speaker 2: of time where you're like, I hate this guy. They're

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Speaker 2: not as good as the everybody thinks they are. Then

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Speaker 2: at some point you just kind of cross a threshold

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Speaker 2: and you're just like, all right, this guy's amazing. We're

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Speaker 2: just gonna have to deal with this, and let's just

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Speaker 2: like appreciate what he's doing. I guess for what it is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't his ability at all exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And now, you know, I think it's kind of

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Speaker 2: like a similar thing happened with nicolee Jokich. I think

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Speaker 2: in the NBA, where like people are like denying his

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Speaker 2: greatness for a long long time. Then he wins, you know,

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Speaker 2: the finals last year, and then you're like, Okay, he's amazing,

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Speaker 2: and let's just like accept this is the same kind

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Speaker 2: of thing I think with my homes now, where now

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Speaker 2: he's like clearly like he's in the top three. I

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Speaker 2: think of quarterbacks all the time. Already, He's only twenty

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Speaker 2: eight years old, and like the pairing of him and

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Speaker 2: Andy Reid togethers teemed to be like a perfect marriage.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, it sucks that he place for

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs, but you know, it's No, there's no denying

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Speaker 2: the fact that he's amazing.

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Speaker 1: For sure, and it's fun to watch him play too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and it was like entertaining at the end.

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Speaker 1: It was, you know, so it came down to the wire.

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Speaker 2: I think the forty nine ers had some missed opportunities

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Speaker 1: Didn't nearly kill you phil to see John elwayhand they.

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Speaker 2: Did that, Yeah, why did I have to do that?

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Speaker 1: I think it was interesting.

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Speaker 2: I think it would be better for everybody involved if

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Speaker 2: like they had a former legend from each team sort

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Speaker 2: of on hand there to be able to walk to

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Speaker 2: deliver the trophy, you know, Like did you see at

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Speaker 2: the beginning where they were doing some of the intros

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Speaker 2: where like Jerry Rice did the video, Tony Gonzalez did

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Speaker 2: the video similar thing, I think to deliver the trophy,

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Speaker 2: you know, because it might have been cool for John

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Speaker 2: ers and John Lanch was there, you know, and their

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Speaker 2: buddies and stuff. But the Chief Yeah, I just oh

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Speaker 2: my god. And I know Chiefs fans were relishing in

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Speaker 2: that kind of sucked at the end. Yeah, like that

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Speaker 2: but I like John in an uncomfortable spot too, so

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Speaker 2: just all around. Yeah, the second game was over, I

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Speaker 1: TV, so I like watching the trophy presentation and everything.

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Speaker 1: I just turned Yeah, I turned understandably though.

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Speaker 1: Usher was great.

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Speaker 1: Give I thought really was.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Alicia Keys with the piano was amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was very outfit. Yeah, Chris came on so

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Speaker 2: Definitely, I hit my demo, you know, and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: oh am I getting all now that Time show? Is

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Speaker 2: it targeting me? But yes, I thought I thought it

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Speaker 2: was cool. I put on the roller skates.

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Speaker 1: I thought I thought that was cool too, and the

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Speaker 2: I think people at first were like, oh why Usher,

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Speaker 1: I think he's about to drop a new album here soon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or like a residency too, yeah or something. So yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think you're right, He's got to be like one

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Speaker 2: of the top five dancers of all time too.

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Speaker 1: All the time.

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Speaker 2: He's amazing dancer. So yeah, I thought the performance was

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Speaker 1: I thought so too. It was fun to watch and

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Speaker 1: that I think that Super Bowl was the most ever,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, most watched events watched in the US. It was

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Speaker 2: only behind the Moon landing in the US. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is crazy. Yeah really for CBS. It was

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Speaker 1: fun to watch. Well, Phil, Looking back on the week

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Speaker 1: and he kind of made his rounds at Radio Row

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Speaker 1: about the off season, talking about the draft, the combine,

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Speaker 1: the free agency coming up, all of that. I know,

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Speaker 2: I think that when the Super Bowl ends, it's kind

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Speaker 2: I mean anytime Sean talks to anybody, you're sort of

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Speaker 2: And this is gonna be a busy offseason, I think

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Speaker 2: so I think anytime you're in that situation, you're always saying, Okay,

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Speaker 2: the attention this offseason is going to be on the

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Speaker 2: this offseason. You know that that's certainly underway now for

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Speaker 2: ready for the Combine, and so much takes place that week.

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Speaker 2: You know, the whole NFL world sort of gathers in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 2: So it's certainly going to be a busy off season

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Speaker 2: for the Broncos now as the past season is in

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Speaker 2: the past. Now you can turn all your sites to

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Speaker 2: the Combine and the draft and free agency, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: it never stops.

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Speaker 1: It never stops. I know there's been so much talk,

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Speaker 1: trade up, trade back pick A. But you know, Sean

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Speaker 2: That's always happens, especially the quarterbacks in the draft processed,

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Speaker 2: like just like these guys get talked about so much

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Speaker 2: I think, And I think for the Broncos and having

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Speaker 2: by talking to George he's just so level, you know,

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Speaker 2: So I think that's important that you trust what your

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Speaker 2: because especially the quarterbacks in the first round, people just

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Speaker 2: training up, this team's not training up. I think I

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Speaker 2: will say. The thing that's exciting about Sean is that

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Speaker 2: you never really know that's what he's going to do,

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Speaker 2: you know, so much in the past with the with

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Speaker 2: I think. So it's just an exciting time, and especially

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Speaker 2: with somebody like Sean, who you know, likes to mix

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Speaker 1: I agree, well, Phil, talking about the combine, I know

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Speaker 1: it's only what less than two weeks away at this

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Speaker 1: point now, and I know you're going to be there

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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, but I'm most looking forward.

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Speaker 2: To, Well what then, I've helped put out the list

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Speaker 2: of I think it's like three hundred and twenty one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely agree, Phil. You mentioned it earlier. NFL

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Speaker 1: That, Well, there's so much coming up, phil looking forward

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Speaker 2: You know, free agency, in the draft, and it's just

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Speaker 2: It always goes by yeah, exactly, so the process under

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Speaker 1: Well, feel appreciate you joining the show today. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: your insight.

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Speaker 2: Always fun.

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Speaker 1: That's going to do it for this week's episode of

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Speaker 1: Broncos Now Broncos Country. Thanks so much for tuning in.

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