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

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Speaker 1: Training Center for today's edition of Broncos Now. Team reporter

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Speaker 1: and host Sydney Jones here and coming up on today's episode,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from head coach and Nathaniel Hackett and all

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Speaker 1: three coordinators as they spoke to the media today. Plus

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Speaker 1: I'll have the latest injury report, and Chargers senior writer

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Speaker 1: Eric Smith joins the show to take a look at

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Speaker 1: this matchup from each Charger's perspective. All that more coming up.

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Speaker 1: Looking at the top news of the day, Head coach

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett gave an update on a Russell Wilson's shoulder

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Speaker 1: in the progress he's made his work ethic is unbelievable

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Speaker 1: and when it comes to anything that you know, if

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Speaker 1: he feels a tweak here there, he's NonStop trying to

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Speaker 1: get everything right. So in the case of the shoulder,

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Speaker 1: he's been working on it NonStop, and I mean twenty

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Speaker 1: four or seven he's making sure that it's good and

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Speaker 1: that's how he's got to full so fast. Bronco's Monday

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Speaker 1: night matchup verse the Chargers is now just three days away.

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Speaker 1: Coachackett went on to discuss the challenges of playing in

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Speaker 1: prime time and coaching on the road. I think we

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Speaker 1: embrace it. We love it, you know. We love being

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Speaker 1: on primetime. We love having the ability to showcase our talents,

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Speaker 1: and we need to get better in those primetime games.

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Speaker 1: But for us, I mean, hey, however, the NFL is

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Speaker 1: going to set it up. That's what we're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: The most difficult thing, I'd say is getting in that routine,

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Speaker 1: you know, just a regular seven day week. Um, we

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Speaker 1: really haven't been able to settle into and with the

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Speaker 1: new staff, new team, new group, we haven't had that.

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Speaker 1: But that's no excuse. We still gotta get out there.

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Speaker 1: We got to play at a high level. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we went through all those things, and for us, it's

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Speaker 1: the self inflicted wounds. I think that the guys just

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Speaker 1: have to go out there, not press, not overthink it,

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Speaker 1: and just play football like they were when they were kids.

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Speaker 1: Because defense has a tough task ahead of them going

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Speaker 1: up against Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert and a company defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator E. Jerry Vero spoke on what makes Herbert so

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Speaker 1: good and the challenge going up against him. Yeah, you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: the arm strength, Uh, you know, smart beyond his years.

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Speaker 1: He's a good players, a tough challenge for us. And

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Speaker 1: looking at the Broncos offense, offensive coordinator Justin Allen said

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Speaker 1: the staff did a lot of self scouting over the

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Speaker 1: mini by this past weekend and discusses staying patient as

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Speaker 1: the offense continues to improve. You know, there's not a

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Speaker 1: process where there's a magic being you put in the

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Speaker 1: You know, you gotta be patient. When you gotta water,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be you gotta just be ready for your

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Speaker 1: opportunity when it does come. So, you know, those are

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Speaker 1: situations that we got to take advantage of, just like

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Speaker 1: the drops he was just talking about. When your situation,

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Speaker 1: when your opportunity comes, you gotta capitalize, and um, we

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Speaker 1: just gotta be patient with that. There's a fine line

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of urgency to that, but you also

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Speaker 1: can't you know, go crazy and just think about all

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Speaker 1: that with quarterback Ronald Darby being placed on injured reserve

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Speaker 1: earlier this week, Jeri Vero said he's very confident in

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Speaker 1: both to Mario Mathis and Michael O Jimudia to step

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Speaker 1: loss for us. Obviously, ron was playing really well, has

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Speaker 1: as yesterday. Now let's welcome Chargers senior writer Eric Smith

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Speaker 1: matchup from the Charger's perspective. Eric, So nice to see you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me today. Of course I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: having me absolutely. How's it going over there in l

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Speaker 1: A nice and sunny. I can't complain. Um, Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: like any other season, you know, ups and downs in

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Speaker 1: you mentioned that two game win streak. What's been the

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Speaker 1: It's been good. It's been good. Um, it's beastly given

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Speaker 1: how the two game win treak has come on the road.

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Speaker 1: do it for today's episode of Broncos Now Broncos Country.

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

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Speaker 1: I hope you made me right back here on the

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Speaker 1: Broncos Podcast Network on YouTube tomorrow for a game preview.

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