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Speaker 1: What's Up, 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 in your

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

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Speaker 2: Denver Broncos are set to hit the road to head

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Speaker 2: to Lost at Vegas. We heard today from head coach

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Speaker 2: On Payan as he spoke to the media for the

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Speaker 2: final time I had a Sunday's matchup and Broncos lead

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Speaker 2: writer Eric Dalala joins the show for a game preview

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Speaker 2: A lot more I mean out the Denver Broncos hit

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Speaker 2: the road to head to Las Vegas tomorrow. They're set

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Speaker 2: to face the Raiders for their season finaleon Head coach

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Speaker 2: On Payn spoke today to the media for the final

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Speaker 2: time I had a Sunday's matchup and talked about the

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Speaker 2: offense is inefficiency in goal to go situations and how

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Speaker 2: they'll look to improve that.

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Speaker 3: On Sunday I would say, when we do this off season,

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Speaker 3: you know we'll hit these evaluations. I'm sure it'll be

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Speaker 3: a handful of things. Generally speaking, the teams that are

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Speaker 3: better in the red zone are usually teams that are

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Speaker 3: better running it in the red zone, and they're there

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Speaker 3: are two elements. I always think of your running game

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Speaker 3: and your third down numbers. If you convert a third

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Speaker 3: down in the red zone, it's asked the change of

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Speaker 3: scoring a touchdown goes up, you know. And so you

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Speaker 3: can be a good red zone defense because you're good

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Speaker 3: playing like this team we're playing, I would say, is

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Speaker 3: a real good red zone third down defense. Now, overall,

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Speaker 3: the unique thing is some teams are defending This team

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Speaker 3: has defended few trips. You know, they're in the top ten.

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Speaker 3: So the first element to play in good red zone

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Speaker 3: defense is not allowing them in the red zone. But

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Speaker 3: and then you do the numbers when teams enter the

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Speaker 3: red zone. So third down is important, the running game

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Speaker 3: is important.

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Speaker 2: Now let's take a look at this week's a final

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Speaker 2: injury report. Ten and Chris Manherds and a tackle Mike mcglinche,

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Speaker 2: you have both been ruled out for Sunday's game. I'd

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Speaker 2: coach on Pan did say today that Kim Fleming will

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Speaker 2: get the start at right tackle and added to that

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Speaker 2: saying what it means to have a veteran guy replace.

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Speaker 3: He's saying, Mike McGlinchey, Yeah, tackle three has to be

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Speaker 3: and and you know, we're looking at cut ups from

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Speaker 3: a year ago and there he is. He jumped in

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Speaker 3: last you know, he's he's experienced. I think it's extremely

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Speaker 3: important and he's had a lot of snaps and uh yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean I think you know, when when the off

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Speaker 3: season came and we were looking at you know who

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Speaker 3: that who tackle three is.

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Speaker 1: That's an important position.

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Speaker 2: Sean Payton went on to talk about his schedule of

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Speaker 2: following a Sunday's game the start of the off season

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Speaker 2: and talked about the value of taking a few days off.

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Speaker 3: It's important, just we don't want to emotionally great period.

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Speaker 3: So typically the season ends with team meeting, you know,

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Speaker 3: we'll visit with the players Monday, you know, and then

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Speaker 3: that week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, the coaches are working on

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Speaker 3: just putting together their reports on their players. Just a

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Speaker 3: lot of it is snaps, playtime, you know, an overall

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Speaker 3: report and they can put it into the computer and

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Speaker 3: that's that's what next week is. And then the following

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Speaker 3: week they're off, and then Monday, whatever day that is

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Speaker 3: when we're back, we start, you know, the roster review

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Speaker 3: and that usually takes three maybe four days, you know,

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Speaker 3: we'll hear from the trainers, we'll hear from the strength coaches,

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Speaker 3: every player that came through our doors.

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Speaker 1: That's here.

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Speaker 3: We'll discuss in depth health in all elements of the program.

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Speaker 3: And then and then then we get into I think

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Speaker 3: one of the things you were Then we get into

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Speaker 3: scheme review, cutups offensively and defensively for a good two weeks,

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Speaker 3: and then free agency kind of you know, begins to

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Speaker 3: pick up relative to projects. Then there's a whole let

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Speaker 3: any of it. But the calendar, the calendar's done all

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Speaker 3: the way up until we break in the summer. The

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Speaker 3: only thing I don't have is when training camp starts,

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Speaker 3: and that's based on a little bit of the preseas.

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Speaker 3: So the calendar is pretty much laid out from here

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Speaker 3: through the end of the off season program before summer break.

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Speaker 2: Now, joining me here inside the Broncos podcast studio for

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Speaker 2: a game preview is Bronco's lead writer Eric Dalala. Eric,

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Speaker 2: thanks for joining me. Final game preview of the season.

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Speaker 2: So sad said it is, things are coming to an end.

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Speaker 1: I know, hopefully we end it with a win here.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I hope so too, Eric. Looking at the matchup,

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Speaker 2: I know head coach on Payton, He's topped all week

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Speaker 2: just about how this team's approaching everything the same as

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they are sorry to cut you off there, so

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Speaker 4: they are. They are treating it like a like a

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Speaker 4: get this ninth victory and means guys who are healthy

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Speaker 4: are going to play, and they largely are healthy for

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Speaker 4: the most part. Exciting that Courtland Sutton will be back

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Speaker 4: I think this game is important just in terms of

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Speaker 4: you know, it's a heck of a lot better to

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Speaker 4: finish the season eight and three than to lose through

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Speaker 4: your last four. And you know, this has been the

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Speaker 4: season said, We've talked about this a lot of ending

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Speaker 4: certain streaks, whether it's to the Chiefs on primetime at

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Speaker 4: so far, winning on the road in the division. I

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Speaker 4: know that Chem Payton has said it's more about getting

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Speaker 4: the ninth win and having a winning season, but I

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Speaker 4: do think there's something about showing that you can beat

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Speaker 4: a little too long, and you know, just heading in

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Speaker 4: the next season with some momentum and see where it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, Ic you mentioned a little bit earlier. You know,

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Speaker 2: will be out for Sunday's game and Kim Fleming will

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Speaker 2: start in his place. You know, we saw Kim Fleming

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Speaker 2: come in for him in the last game. What did

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously a veteran player, right, and so that's valuable.

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Speaker 4: And Sean Payton talked about how important that third tackle is,

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Speaker 4: a player that can play on both sides, that can

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Speaker 4: there for Mike Mcglinche went out pretty early in that game.

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Speaker 4: Jared Stidham was only sacked twice on the day, And yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, I think obviously it's a different challenge this

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Speaker 4: it's about the offensive line as a unit and Jared

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Speaker 4: we know Cam Fleming's a valuable veteran player. He's played

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Speaker 2: Eric, what do you hope to see, how to Jared

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Speaker 2: stood on this being, you know, final opportunity of the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, hopefully another win.

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Speaker 4: I think that's big And I know that QB wins

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Speaker 4: it's important that he can show he can go help

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Speaker 4: the team win this sort of game. Again, I think

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Speaker 4: you've got to show you can win this type of game.

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Speaker 4: You've got to be able to beat teams like the

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Speaker 4: Raiders on the road. And I think it's a different

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Speaker 4: the Chargers statistically at least had struggled going against opposing

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Speaker 4: near the top of the league in scoring defense. Since

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Speaker 4: Antonio Pierce took over, they've been really good in the

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Speaker 4: red zone. They've taken the ball away from opposing offenses,

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Speaker 4: and so this is a different sort of test, and

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Speaker 4: I think it gives Jared Stidham a chance to show

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Speaker 4: Doesn't mean he needs to play outside of the system

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Speaker 4: a good test just in terms of being able to

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Speaker 4: which he'll have a couple more since Courtland Sutton and

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Speaker 4: Marvin Mims are going to play in this.

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Speaker 1: Football so that's helpful.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I just want to see him again operate

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Speaker 4: things cleanly on the road, which is more difficult when

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Speaker 4: there's crowd noise. You work in the silent count all

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Speaker 4: And I'd expect it's going to be a hard flot game,

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Speaker 4: said back and forth. Even though it's week eight team

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Speaker 4: don't like each other. It's a rivalry and so you're

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Speaker 4: gonna want to go win it. And for him to

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Speaker 4: potentially beat his former team in to go to and

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Speaker 4: Oh with the Broncos.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was going to say, Eric, you know, his

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Speaker 2: first start on the road for the Broncos, but he

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Speaker 2: should feel a little bit comfortable in Allegiance Stadium.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, a different locker room, but otherwise he should,

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Speaker 4: you know, he should be pretty comfortable and it'll be

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Speaker 4: I'm sure cool for him to go against some of

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Speaker 4: with Max Crosby, I think Antonio Pierce said earlier this week,

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Speaker 4: Max Crosby's looking forward to saying hello to Jared Stidham

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Speaker 4: up close and personal. Hopefully nervous they keep some space

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Speaker 4: But yeah, you know, I think Jared'stidham isn't making it

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Speaker 1: And when you focus on.

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Speaker 4: Your job and what you have to do, which is

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Speaker 4: what Jared Stidham talked about, that I think can be

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Speaker 4: play against your former team, all those sorts of things.

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Speaker 4: If you just focus solely on what you're supposed to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or you mentioned this a little bit earlier, but

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Speaker 2: I want to circle back to it. You know, how

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Speaker 2: have you seen the Raiders just kind of change their

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Speaker 2: attitude culture under interim head coach Antonio appears, because I mean,

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Speaker 2: they look like a different team since yes took over.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they really do. And just four and four.

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Speaker 4: You know, the record hasn't necessarily been there, but there

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Speaker 4: playing hard. They're playing quote unquote the Raider way, which

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Speaker 4: I know is important out there to that team. They're tough,

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Speaker 4: They're gonna try to beat you up. They're gonna make

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Speaker 4: this a tough, difficult, physical game. You gotta be ready

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Speaker 1: Go week Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 2: I know. The Raiders did announce today that running back

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Speaker 2: I think so too. It's kind of crazy to think

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Speaker 4: It speaks to how this team has fought that they've

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Speaker 2: It's been a fun season.

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Speaker 2: Well, Eric, appreciate you joining the show all season long,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so appreciate it.

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

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Speaker 2: I'll meet you right back here on the Broncos podcast

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Speaker 2: network and YouTube on Monday for a game recap, and

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