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Speaker 1: Football is back here at the UC Health Training Center

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Speaker 1: as day one of training camp is complete. What's the

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Speaker 1: Broncos Country? Thanks for tuning into the very first episode

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Speaker 1: of Broncos Now. I'm your host, Sidney Jones, and Broncos

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Speaker 1: Now is a new podcast and video series that will

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Speaker 1: aim to give fans a daily recap of what's going

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Speaker 1: on with the team, from the top sound bites and

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Speaker 1: plays of the day to analysis and injury updates. I'll

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Speaker 1: have all of your Broncos news right here every afternoon

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Speaker 1: Monday through Friday. And I can't think of a better

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Speaker 1: day to kick things off than the first day of

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Speaker 1: training camp. So coming up on today's episode, I'll dive

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Speaker 1: into head coach Nathaniel Hacketts and Russell Wilson's reactions from

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Speaker 1: day one. I will be joined later by Broncos lead

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Speaker 1: writer Eric de Lala will analyze the highlights of the

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Speaker 1: day and discuss who stood out to us on the field.

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Speaker 1: Plus we'll take you around the locker room as we

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Speaker 1: talked to several players after practice today. There was so

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Speaker 1: much excitement and energy here at practice today from all

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Speaker 1: the fans and attendance to the players, from the coaches,

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Speaker 1: from the media. You know, we've said it all off season.

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Speaker 1: There's a different energy here in Denver with the arrival

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Speaker 1: of Russell Wilson and head coach Nathaniel Hackett. And today

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Speaker 1: was the first day we really got to see those

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Speaker 1: two in action. Even Russell said, practice today had the

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Speaker 1: It felt like a game. Honestly. We were getting after um,

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Speaker 1: You know, is this is you know, this is why

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Speaker 1: I said, anytime you you want to be successful, you

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Speaker 1: got to put the work in. There's there's no there's

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Speaker 1: no magic pill, there's no hidden tricks, there's no nothing.

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Speaker 1: It's just are you gonna do the work? A You're

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Speaker 1: And that's what we're doing. That's what we've done and

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Speaker 1: and what we did today doesn't mean anything tomorrow, and

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Speaker 1: excited about it. It was so cool to see the

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Speaker 1: fans out here today too. It's my first time obviously,

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Speaker 1: my first practice. I feel like it was my rookie

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Speaker 1: but yet also um, something I've uh, I feel like

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Speaker 1: I've always dreamed of, you know, just to continue to

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Speaker 1: just do what I love to do. So um, every day,

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Speaker 1: Crazy that training camp is already here. Day one is

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Speaker 1: first honored to be on the first episode of Broncos. Now,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me, of course. Um yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: what did you think about Russell's performance today? As you

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Speaker 1: We didn't see that Wednesday necessarily, but you can you

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Speaker 1: That's something that Broncos haven't had in years. Looking at

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