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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside Central a Health Training Center

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Speaker 1: for another episode of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 2: As always, every host Sidney Jones.

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Speaker 1: And coming up on today's episode, we'll hear from head

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Speaker 1: goach Sean Payn, quarterback Russell Wilson, and the coordinators as

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Speaker 1: they're set to face the Chiefs on Thursday night. Post

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Speaker 1: Broncos lead writer Eric de Lala joins the show for

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Speaker 1: eight game preview, all that more coming up. The Denver

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Speaker 1: Broncos hit the road on Wednesday to head to Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: For their first primetime matchup of the season.

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Speaker 1: Head coach Sean Payton spoke following a Tuesday's practice to

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Speaker 1: talk about where the team is that mentally given the

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Speaker 1: short week.

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Speaker 3: One thing to note, and we used to do these studies.

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Speaker 3: But if I gave you Sunday halftime lead win percentage,

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Speaker 3: you know, so the normal time slot games on Sunday,

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Speaker 3: you know, winning at the half, who wins the game,

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Speaker 3: it's probably in the sixty some percentile. What's unusual is

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Speaker 3: on Thursday nights it's spikes. So I just is talking

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Speaker 3: about fast start. It's important. And yeah, I mean, look

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Speaker 3: I asked the question, Patrick just answered it. I don't

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Speaker 3: know how long they played Thursdays, but I think it

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Speaker 3: goes back to six and then gradually it's expanded, so.

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Speaker 4: You get ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Sehn Paynon and quarterback Russell Wilson also talked about the

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Speaker 1: team's work they put in this week and how they

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Speaker 3: We're going into week five, so we have a little

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Speaker 3: bit more body of work on again. The cutups we're

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Speaker 3: gonna look at tonight, for instance, in the red area,

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Speaker 3: of last season, and periodically we'll go further back, like

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Speaker 3: specifically for maybe something we're looking for. So I think, yeah,

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Speaker 3: to answer your question, I don't know that it matters

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Speaker 3: that they just played the Jets, but certainly we have

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Speaker 3: that film and the Viking film and the prior games.

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Speaker 3: And one of the things I mean I like to

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Speaker 3: all last season, who rushed the ball? Well, who converted?

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Speaker 3: So we have all these plays, but sometimes you go

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Speaker 3: right to that game and you know, what, what was

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Speaker 3: It just depends but it is a quick turnaround and

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Speaker 3: you know, we get ready to go.

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Speaker 5: We had a great day today. We had a great

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Speaker 5: day yesterday. All the guys came in, they really kind

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Speaker 5: of spent we all kind of spent a lot of

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Speaker 5: time together watching film and getting prepared, watching the game

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Speaker 5: from before and then also watching you know, our opponent

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Speaker 5: this week. And so I think I think a lot

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Speaker 5: of it has been our preparation. That's always the key

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Speaker 5: in Thursday night games is how well you prepare and

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Speaker 5: and obviously everybody's get a little beat up and everything else,

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Speaker 5: but I think the best thing you can do is

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Speaker 5: go out there and and more than anything else, play

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Speaker 5: with great emotion, focus with great passion, you know, and

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Speaker 5: just stay focused on our task. And that's that's to

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Speaker 6: This week, we.

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Speaker 1: Also heard from both offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi and defensive

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Speaker 1: both the Chiefs offense and the defense presents.

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Speaker 7: Well, there's a lot of chaos, you know, every really

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Speaker 7: they can overwhelm your normal protections and so recognizing it

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Speaker 7: always that balance between keeping guys in to protect for

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Speaker 6: He's very good at seeing pressure and he can buy time.

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Speaker 6: He takes deep drops. He's at ten or twelve yards

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Speaker 6: But he's difficult to pressure all the time because he

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson also added to what coach Lombardi said talking

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Speaker 4: The defense is flying around.

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Speaker 5: They're doing a lot of great things. Obviously, Big christ inside,

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Speaker 5: do some things. I think their linebackers are really really talented.

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Speaker 5: They they you know, they run horizontally, they run sideline

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Speaker 5: the other thing about their team is obviously they've been

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Speaker 5: I think the best thing that we can do, though,

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Speaker 4: To be physical.

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Speaker 5: We've got to come in the game being physical. We

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Speaker 5: You know, when they do match up and man up

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Speaker 5: it's going to be it's gonna be a game. It's

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Speaker 1: And in terms of the Broncos defense, Vance Joseph talked

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Speaker 6: And we've got to coach better and we've got to

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Speaker 6: tackling fitting gaps. That's that's run defense. It's nothing special

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Speaker 1: Plus, coach Lombardy detailed how he hopes to see this

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Speaker 7: So you know, the best red zone teams usually run

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Speaker 1: And last, but not least, Russell Wilson talked about how

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Speaker 1: this team will look to approach this Thursday night game

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Speaker 1: with a clear mind.

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Speaker 5: I think that anytime there's adverse, there's always noise. Anytime

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Speaker 5: and good things and bad things and tough things and

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Speaker 5: it to. Right away, you stay the course, You trust

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Speaker 5: your you trust your belief in how you're preparing, You

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Speaker 5: You trust your belief and the guys around you, the

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Speaker 5: process and understand that you know what just one pitch

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Speaker 5: the next one, you know. And that's that's the thing

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Speaker 2: And I think that's.

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Speaker 5: The mentality you got to have, be able to be

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Speaker 5: have amnesia and be able to learn from those stakes,

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Speaker 5: but also continue to believe and continue to process and

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Speaker 5: continue to practice at the highest level, and to be

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Speaker 5: honest with you, that's what we're that's what that's what

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Speaker 5: we're here for, is to be to win and also

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Speaker 5: ultimately to give our best every day and we got

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Speaker 5: to continue to try to learn how to do that

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Speaker 5: every day in the midst of the storms.

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Speaker 2: Now it's time to take a look at today's injury report.

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Speaker 1: Now join me here inside the Broncos podcast studio for

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Speaker 1: a game preview is Broncos lead writer Eric Delala.

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Speaker 2: Eric, thanks for joining me this week.

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Speaker 1: I know it's a bit of a crazy week given

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Speaker 1: the Thursday night game, so appreciate coming on the show.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you got it, quick turnaround, but we're ready to go.

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Speaker 8: Happy to join you here.

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Speaker 1: Excited and yeah, it's the first primetime game of the

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Speaker 4: That's fun, that's true.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I get to play in front of the country.

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Speaker 8: Hopefully Broncos can find a way to get an upset,

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Speaker 8: pull out a win, show people what this team is about.

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Speaker 8: You know, the good football that they've played so far

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Speaker 8: hasn't necessarily translated to wins every time. They haven't been

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Speaker 8: those flashes sit as we've talked about it, and so hopefully

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Speaker 8: they can show this country what they're about.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 1: So certainly will be a tough challenge obviously going up

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Speaker 1: Don Payton, we heard from him earlier in the show

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Speaker 1: talk about just how good he feels about the work

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Speaker 1: the team put in this week, both physically and mentally.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's always big mentally, I think to focus in

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Speaker 8: got the game planing down the assignments. Certainly, the Chiefs

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Speaker 8: are going to test you in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 8: From a Chief's offense perspective, their motion, it really tests you.

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Speaker 8: And then defensively they bring a lot of pressure, and

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Speaker 8: so the Broncos are gonna have to find a way

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Speaker 8: to play good football.

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Speaker 4: We heard Russell Wilson talk about having.

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Speaker 8: A clear mind and you know, approaching this game realizing

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Speaker 8: that they're going to make some plays. The Broncos are

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Speaker 8: going to make some plays. You just have to find

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Speaker 8: a way to come out on top of this one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's been a lot of talk this week, Eric,

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Speaker 1: just about the mental aspect of this game. You mentioned it,

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson said, they're going to approach this game with

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Speaker 2: How important do you think that is for this team?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Really important.

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Speaker 8: I mean there's there's always a lot of noise when

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Speaker 8: you know, anecdotally what I feel every time we go

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Speaker 4: So that was too much of what we saw against

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Speaker 8: If you can stay in third and five, third and four,

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Speaker 8: It's just a tough way to exist as an offense.

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Speaker 8: And so you've got to have those positive plays, stick

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Speaker 8: make plays when they have to and have those kind

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Speaker 8: of momentum changing takeaways, certainly against the Broncos during this stretch.

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Speaker 8: You know, whether it's Tyron, Matthew, Daniel Sorensen, I mean,

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Speaker 8: you want to go beat this team. But it's a

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Speaker 8: good football team. But hopefully the Broncos can bring their

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Speaker 1: Well, last one here for Eric. Of course, like you

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Speaker 1: are you know, what do you think that will just

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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, it doesn't, like I mentioned earlier, doesn't change

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Speaker 8: the overall reality of your season overnight, right, you'd still

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Speaker 8: this point, I'm kind of at the point like you

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Speaker 8: got to go prove that you can do this. But

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Speaker 8: if they do get that win, I think it won

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Speaker 8: it shows this team and inspires some belief that we

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and.

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Speaker 4: You know, the home losses have been tough.

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Speaker 8: And then the one win comes over the Chicago Bears,

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Speaker 8: And if you can go out there and show that, hey,

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Speaker 8: we can beat Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.

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Speaker 6: One.

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Speaker 8: I think that that gives you confidence of what this

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Speaker 8: next week with a home game against a Green Bay

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Speaker 8: Packers team that has been kind of up and down

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Speaker 8: this year, to get back to three and four, and

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Speaker 8: maybe you don't, you know, maybe you don't sweep the

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Speaker 8: Chiefs when they come back here in a few weeks,

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Speaker 8: But at the very least, if you can kind of

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Speaker 8: get yourself just around five hundred, you stay in the mix,

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Speaker 8: you stay in the conversation. Maybe you're able to find

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Speaker 8: a way to go on a run later and just

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Speaker 8: start building. But I think it's mainly about what it

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Speaker 8: would what it would teach this team about what they're

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Speaker 8: capable of doing, and just get rid of those questions.

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Speaker 8: I mean, you'd have questions in two weeks of oh,

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Speaker 8: you finally beat the streak, can you keep it going?

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Speaker 4: But at least there'll be no more always questions.

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Speaker 8: There's always questions, but there'd be no more fifteen in

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Speaker 8: a row, sixteen in a row, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 8: So I'm sure that would be nice to for guys

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Speaker 8: to make that stop.

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll see what happens on Thursday night. Eric Show,

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Speaker 1: you coming on the show today. Well that'll do it

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Speaker 1: for today's episode of Broncos Now Broncos Country. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for tuning in. There will not be an episode

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Speaker 1: tomorrow given the game, so I'll meet you right back

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Speaker 1: here on the Broncos Podcast Network in YouTube on Friday

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Speaker 1: for a game recap