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Speaker 1: Hello everyone in Happy Saturday. Welcome back inside the U

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Speaker 1: S Hell Training Center for today's edition of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: Team reporter Sidney Jones here and coming up, head coach

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett and announced the final injury report ahead of

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Speaker 1: the Broncos season opener. Plus Filmlanni joins the show for

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Speaker 1: a game preview. All that and more coming up. The

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Speaker 1: weight is finally over. The Broncos hit the road to

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Speaker 1: head to Seattle tomorrow. As we are now just two

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Speaker 1: We heard from head coach Nathaniel Hackett today and he

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Speaker 1: detailed the challenge that comes with starting the season on

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Speaker 1: the road. It's gonna be exciting. I mean there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of unknown and I think that's what that's why

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Speaker 1: So I'm you know, just as excited to see how

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Speaker 1: Everybody's talking and having fun. You know, it's all that

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Speaker 1: It's a very good football team in a hostile environment,

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Speaker 1: and how everybody reacts to true adversity is where you

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Speaker 1: get to learn about them and go chack. It cranked

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Speaker 1: up the crowd noise ad practice this week in order

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Speaker 1: I mean it's loud, and it's annoying, and you get

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Speaker 1: hours until kickoff. Now. Head coach Nathaniel Hackett discusses what

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Speaker 1: his next two days will look like relaxing. I think

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Speaker 1: you feel great. I feel energized, got a little extra sleep,

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Speaker 1: I had the ability to really put the whole game

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Speaker 1: plan in my mind, what I'm thinking about accomplishing on offense.

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Speaker 1: And now you get to kind of talk with Russell

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Speaker 1: put it all together. So in a great place right now.

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Speaker 1: And with this being the first full week of practices

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Speaker 1: also heard from outside linebacker Baron Browning and he said

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Speaker 1: inside linebacker Josie Jewel is unlikely to play on Monday.

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Speaker 1: And I got up with Phil Milani earlier this week

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Speaker 1: So let's dive into this Broncos Seahawks Monday night matchup. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the big storyline being Russell's return to Seattle. We've talked

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Speaker 1: he is about to prove a little something. You know. Hey,

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Speaker 1: But then, yeah, somewhere in that upper twenties, maybe Russ

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Speaker 1: I really think this Broco secondary could be special as year.

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Speaker 1: I know we talked about this on on Thursday Show

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Speaker 1: I just don't want to deal with it. Yeah, never

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a slow start. Uh, there's

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Speaker 1: do think that Seahawks fans are going to cheer him.

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Speaker 1: I just think that he's brought so much to Seattle.

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Speaker 1: They won the Super Bowl, but even away from the field,

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Speaker 1: The Walton Peyton Man of the Year a couple of

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Speaker 1: Russ and just know that, like, look, whatever happened there,

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Speaker 1: him in back properly. Then once the game starts, they're

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Speaker 1: I think that the offense will find a little bit

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Speaker 1: good job. Am I. It's gonna be a tough night.

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Speaker 1: I think for Geno Smith, you know, uh, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: I do think it might be closer than people expect. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just because there's a lot a lot of emotion going on,

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Speaker 1: So I think that that does play play a factor. Right. Well,

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Speaker 1: and for everyone watching, Phil will be in studio Monday

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Speaker 1: night after the four postgame show, so yes, I will

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Speaker 1: be on it. Eric Delalla will be on it as well.

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Speaker 1: We'll have live reaction interviews and everything you could want more. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so make sure to check that out on the Broncos

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Speaker 1: YouTube and Twitter in many other places. I'll appreciate your time,

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Speaker 1: thanks and appreciate it. That's all the time we have

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Speaker 1: for today's episode Broncos Country. Thanks so much for tuning

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Speaker 1: in for another edition of Broncos Now. I'll see you

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Speaker 1: right back here on the Broncos Podcast network in YouTube

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Speaker 1: next Tuesday, following the team's season opener. See you then,