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

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Speaker 1: Training Center for Tuesday's edition of Broncos Now. As always,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Sidney Jones, and today was one of

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Speaker 1: the hardest days in the NFL and also one of

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Speaker 1: the most rewarding for some teams across the league had

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Speaker 1: to trim down their rosters to fifty three players. So

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Speaker 1: let's take a look at the Broncos transactions. As their

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Speaker 1: initial fifty three man roster is set. Wide receiver Brandon

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Speaker 1: Titan Eric Tomlinson were all released, and defensive lineman mctalvina,

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Speaker 1: game tackle Quinn Bailey, defensive lineman Jonathan Harris, cornerback Fayon Hicks,

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Kendall Hen, guard, Zack Johnson, outside linebacker Jonathan Coongbo,

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Speaker 1: guard Michael Needs, running back Devon and Zegbo, Titan Dylan

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Speaker 1: George Payton spoke to the media following these transactions and

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Speaker 1: gave his thanks to all the players that were cut today.

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Speaker 1: As you know, these are always the two worst days

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Speaker 1: this is a business and and we know that they're

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Speaker 1: grown men and their football players. But when you know,

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Speaker 1: we see day in and day out with these players sacrifice,

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Speaker 1: And it starts back through a draft process at be

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Speaker 1: through the free agency process, but the day to day,

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Speaker 1: So this is tough, and and uh, this is a

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Speaker 1: really good group of players were releasing in and so

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Speaker 1: on behalf of Nathaniel, myself and the entire Broncos organization.

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Speaker 1: We just want to thank these players, and uh, we're

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Speaker 1: we got a long night ahead of us. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we had a lot of tough decisions. You know, we

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Speaker 1: had I think we had more depth this year on

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Speaker 1: our roster. So there are a lot of conversations and

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff and the scouts, and it's a fluid roster.

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Speaker 1: I feel good with where we are as a football team.

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Speaker 1: I know we're all excited for the regular season Week one.

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Speaker 1: You know, we face a really good opponent in Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think it's the toughest place to play

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Like I mentioned earlier, quarterback Josh Johnson

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Speaker 1: was released, so Brett Ribbon will serve as a Russell

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Speaker 1: skill set. It was really tough. Brett and Josh had

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Speaker 1: the rest of that. But it was a really close competition.

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Speaker 1: We hope to get Josh back as well. A tradition

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Speaker 1: continued here in Denver today. For the eighteenth time in

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Speaker 1: writer Eric de Lala. Eric, the initial fifty three man

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Speaker 1: roster is set. What are your real thoughts on it?

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Speaker 1: Was there anything really surprising to you? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: like that the Broncos take care of their guys. That

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Speaker 1: So that stood out to me, and you know, we'll

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Speaker 1: miss Malik. Great guy, UM, But that's a position where

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Speaker 1: you see, it's just harder to make the football team.

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Speaker 1: It's harder to have a contributing role, UM. And I

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Speaker 1: Obviously you'd have to kind of redo that deal. But

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