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Speaker 1: What's a Broncos Country.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Broncos podcast network and YouTube for

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Speaker 2: the latest episode of Broncos Now. As always, I'm your

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Speaker 2: host is Sidney Jones, and coming up on today's episode,

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Speaker 2: Broncos lead writer Eric Delala joints the show. We'll recap

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Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl from this past weekend and look ahead

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Speaker 2: to this week in Las Vegas for NFL Honors. All

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Speaker 2: that more coming up. Joining me here inside the Broncos

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Speaker 2: Podcast studio for today's episode of Broncos Now is a

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Speaker 2: Broncos lead writer Eric Delala.

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Speaker 1: Eric, thanks for joining the show today. Welcome back. It's

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Speaker 1: been a few weeks, got it, so thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it yours always. How are things?

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Speaker 3: They're good, sid It's been somewhat quiet of an off

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Speaker 3: season compared to the last couple of years. But uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, the Senior Bowl happened last week, Pro Bowl

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Speaker 3: happened last week, So still stuff going on. You and

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Speaker 3: I are about to head out to Las Vegas for.

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Speaker 1: The Super Bowl, so exciting stuff. Funny, Is stuff still

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Speaker 1: going on here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: No, there is definitely, Eric.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about the Pro Bowl, Like you mentioned,

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Speaker 2: the past weekend, side to see Peyton Manning and the

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Speaker 2: AFC lose. But look like a fun weekend out there

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Speaker 2: in Orlando for Justin Simmons, Marvin Mims and patser Tan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was cool. Marvin got a little bit of

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Speaker 3: run with the offense during the Pro Bowl games, didn't

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Speaker 3: get any targets. He's gonna maybe you gotta be a

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Speaker 3: little bit older and not be a rookie to get

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Speaker 3: the ball thrown your way. But Patzertan had another pick six,

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Speaker 3: second year in a row that he's done that. It's

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Speaker 3: just it's fun to see these guys in a different light,

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Speaker 3: and you know, everything's so serious obviously during the year,

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Speaker 3: and you get to get to see them hang out

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Speaker 3: with their friends from around the league, guys that they

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Speaker 3: can learn from pick things up from.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: And certainly with Pat in particular, you see all these

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Speaker 3: guys Jalen Ramsey, you know, Darius slay Ar and Ben

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Speaker 3: Swanson said he talked to both those guys and they

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Speaker 3: were highly complimentary of Patzertan and where he stands in

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Speaker 3: the league. So I think that's one of the cool

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Speaker 3: things about the Pro Bowl. It's a chance to hear

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Speaker 3: from some of these other guys about what they think

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Speaker 3: about your team, and certainly some high praise for those guys,

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Speaker 3: and it's like fun for them too, which is a

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Speaker 2: And Marvin crushed the skills showdown was that Thursday.

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Speaker 1: He caught a lot of football, so it was impressive.

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Speaker 3: Impressive justin Simmons, not as good as good, but he

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Speaker 3: tried his best thing.

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Speaker 2: And it was great to hear from Peyton Manning and

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Speaker 2: Marcus Ware too. I know Ben Swanson also talked to

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Speaker 2: them down there. A lot of Pro Bowl content on

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Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos dot com in our social media channels,

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Speaker 2: so if you guys haven't seen it, check it out

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely DeMarcus and Peyton they're always dialed into what's

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Speaker 3: going on with the Broncos and it's just fun. Even

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Speaker 3: if the Broncos wish they were playing into the postseason

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Speaker 3: or you know, last year just one Pro War this

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Speaker 3: year three. Like you see Peyton and DeMarcus down there,

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Speaker 3: it's like a little Broncos connection still, so it's nice.

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Speaker 1: It is nice.

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Speaker 2: Eric, Like you mentioned, we have a fun week ahead

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Speaker 2: of us as we're both heading to Las Vegas for

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Speaker 1: Should be fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it should be a good week. Some content coming. Hopefully,

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Speaker 3: hopefully we run into some of our guys this week.

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Speaker 3: We'll be out there with Steve Atwater the Hall of Famer,

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Speaker 3: and you know, Sydney hoping a catch up with Garrett Bowles.

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Speaker 3: it'd be nice to see him, hopefully catch up with

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Speaker 3: him a little bit. And then Randy Gratis shar knock

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Speaker 3: Obviously was named a senior finalist in the fall, and

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Speaker 3: it's a long time coming. He's obviously very deserving. So

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Speaker 3: here's hoping fingers crossed he takes that final step.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is his I believe, fourth time as

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Speaker 2: a finalist, right Eric, so hopefully he gets things done

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, this time as a senior finalist

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Speaker 3: was chosen from that pool of senior nominees this fall, clearly,

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Speaker 3: like I said, deserving. No members of the Orange Crush

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Speaker 3: for him to represent those guys. He came from humble

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Speaker 3: and then hopefully he becomes that next Hall of Famer here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely one of the greatest defenders in Broncos history.

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Speaker 1: Eric, Why do you think he's just so deserving? Back

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Speaker 1: of his career.

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Speaker 3: It was able to play all over the place. He

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Speaker 3: I said, we've talked a lot, right about how we

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Speaker 3: know a lot of Denver connections to the San Francisco

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Speaker 3: forty nine ers. Obviously, Kyle Shanahan, Mike Shanahan, Christian McCaffrey,

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Speaker 3: some of our broadcasts. So and several other connections as well. Right,

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Speaker 3: Hopefully they're able to keep the Chiefs from winning another

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Speaker 3: It just in that everybody's gunning for you. Everybody knows

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Speaker 3: And so hopefully the Chiefs don't join that club and

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Speaker 3: the forty nine ers are standing in their way, and

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Speaker 3: it should be a good game kind of, I think,

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Speaker 3: just be you know, Patrick Mahomes kind of he makes

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Speaker 3: So hopefully Christian McCaffrey, local guy, hopefully makes a couple

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Speaker 2: You know, it's fun to see our Broncos connections to

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Speaker 2: the forty nine ers. But I really like Brock pretty too.

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Speaker 2: No connections there, but his story is fascinating to me.

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Speaker 2: Well, Eric, do you have I know it's early in

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Speaker 2: the week still, but do you have any Super Bowl predictions? Then?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going to try to speak it into existence

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Speaker 3: and then say that the Niners are going to win.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be a close one. I think so too, Eric.

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Speaker 2: Going back for a second, you said the Broncos are

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Speaker 2: just one of two teams in the past twenty five

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Speaker 1: Who's the other team?

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Speaker 1: Obviously, hopefully the Chiefs don't do that. Did you watch

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Speaker 1: So that was that was fun funnyvent TV kind of.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, practical, but guys, some good juice from Travis on

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Speaker 3: Taylor's album.

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Speaker 1: So that's album coming.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's fun. It's a cool event and a

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Speaker 3: nice way to kick off the week.

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Speaker 2: I agree, Well, should be fun out there in Las

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Speaker 2: Vegas this week. Eric, looking forward to it and appreciate

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Speaker 2: you coming on the show today.

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Speaker 3: You got it said.

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Speaker 2: That's going to do it for today's episode of Broncos

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Speaker 2: Now Broncos Country. Thanks so much for tuning in. We'd

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Speaker 2: be right back here on the Broncos podcast network and

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Speaker 2: YouTube next week for another episode.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you all then,