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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, I'm your

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

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Speaker 2: Broncos lead writer Eric Delala joins the show. We'll discuss

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Speaker 2: some of the new rule changes made at the NFL's

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Speaker 2: annual league meeting this week and discuss the Broncos news

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Speaker 2: signing all that more coming up. Joining me here in

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Speaker 2: the Broncos Podcast studio for today's episode of Broncos Now

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Speaker 2: is Broncos lead writer Eric Dalala. Eric, thanks for joining me.

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Speaker 2: Busy week this week. We just got back from Orlando

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Speaker 2: from the NFL's annual league meetings, so.

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Speaker 3: I feel like we're both a little more tan. Maybe

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Speaker 3: maybe that's some.

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Speaker 1: I didn't really get to lay out and have no

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Speaker 1: just worked, just worked pretty much.

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Speaker 3: I got to talk to a lot of great people,

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Speaker 3: pretty much all of Broncos leadership, and learned a lot

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Speaker 3: of stuff. There's a lot going on down there, I

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Speaker 3: said there was.

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Speaker 2: It was a fun few days down there, Eric, And

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Speaker 2: of course a lot of things coming out of those meetings.

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Speaker 2: All the NFL owners met and passed a few new

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Speaker 2: rule changes that will be implemented this year.

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Speaker 1: I want to start with kind of the main one, honestly.

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Speaker 2: One of the most significant changes we've seen in recent years,

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Speaker 2: and new kickoff rules.

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Speaker 1: Eric, what did you learn about that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, said, Well, the kickoff had become a play that

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Speaker 3: basically didn't matter much. And you know, we saw Marvin

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Speaker 3: Mims take one back against the Dolphins, but there were

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Speaker 3: very few touchdown returns last season. We've seen teams, especially

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Speaker 3: in Denver, just kicked the ball out of the end zone.

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Speaker 3: It was a ceremonial play for lack of a better word.

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Speaker 3: And this is going to make it fun again. It's

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Speaker 3: going to make it exciting. So it's going to look different.

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Speaker 3: For sure. They're taking an XFL rule. The kicker is

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Speaker 3: still going to be way back on the thirty five

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Speaker 3: then everybody else on the kicking team is going to

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Speaker 3: be up at the forty yard line on the other

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Speaker 3: side of the field. You've got the receiving team in

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Speaker 3: this landing zone between the thirty and thirty five yard line,

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Speaker 3: and nobody can move except the kicker and the returner

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Speaker 3: until the ball's either caught or touches the ground, and

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Speaker 3: so it's going to be kind of a mad dash

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Speaker 3: at that point to see who can cover the kick,

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Speaker 3: who can set up a block, and it'll be fun

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Speaker 3: to watch, I think. I think the hope is that

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Speaker 3: it sets up some big returns. Certainly if you watch

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Speaker 3: some of these XFL plays, there's some kind of trick

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Speaker 3: plays where a blocker can come back behind and take

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Speaker 3: a pitch and return the ball. It does sound like

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Speaker 3: said there's going to be some some strategy type of

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Speaker 3: things that have to be figured out. You have two

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Speaker 3: returners back there, because if the ball lands leave between

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Speaker 3: the twenty and the goal line, it's a live ball,

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Speaker 3: so anybody who's out the forty can run down and

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Speaker 3: get it. Right. If you kick it in the end

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Speaker 3: zone and it lands in the end zone first without

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Speaker 3: being caught or goes out of the end zone, the

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Speaker 3: touchback is now at the thirty They talked about the

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Speaker 3: thirty five, but it is going to be the thirty

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Speaker 3: yard line, so it's a little more penal in terms of,

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Speaker 3: you know, if you kick it back there. But some

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Speaker 3: teams may decide, hey, we're not risking it this week.

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Speaker 3: But the big thing is one I think I think

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Speaker 3: it's going to take some time to figure out, you know,

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Speaker 3: how does this all work? Fans are I think it'll

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Speaker 3: how do we want to block these? But I do

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Speaker 3: think it'll be exciting and it certainly puts a big

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Speaker 3: priority on having a great returner, and the Broncos have

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Speaker 3: him on and Marvin Mims and so Sean Payne was

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Speaker 3: asked at the coaches breakfast on Monday, hey, do you

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Speaker 3: like this rule? And he said he did, and then

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Speaker 3: he was asked, well, do you like it because you

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Speaker 3: that's a good reason to like it, right. So we'll

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Speaker 3: see if Marvin Mims gets a few more chances of

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Speaker 3: can maybe give their offense some good field position to

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Speaker 3: work with. We'll say, the other thing from a coverage

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Speaker 3: It's really going to matter now if you have a

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Speaker 3: having some more guys that can cover, having guys that

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Speaker 3: so having a trusted special teams staff is going to

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Speaker 3: be critical, and I think a place where the Broncos

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Speaker 1: An edge definitely. Yeah, are going off of that.

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Speaker 2: Curious how well on side kicks work then, because it

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Speaker 2: seems like those will no longer be kind of a surprise.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no more surprise on side kicks. So you won't

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Speaker 3: And some people think, hey, is this a precursor to

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Speaker 3: you know, you eventually get to that fourth and twenty

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Speaker 3: of years. But you're right, so that'll be a change

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Speaker 3: the squib kick, which we've typically seen. You know, you

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Speaker 3: time that you can't do that anymore, either because it's

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Speaker 3: got a land I believe again past the twenty yard line,

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Speaker 3: gonna be some some slight changes in terms of strategy,

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Speaker 3: and that'll be part of especially in the preseason, I think,

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Speaker 3: think figuring out what works what doesn't. Are there any

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Speaker 3: kind of unexpected consequences here, but it will be I

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Speaker 3: think for the first time in a long time, a

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Speaker 3: play and watch, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think it would be good. Well, Eric.

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Speaker 2: In addition to that, hip drop tackles are now banned.

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Speaker 2: That was another rule change in the NFL's competition committee

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Speaker 2: was actually all unanimous on that decision as well, So

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Speaker 2: that's interesting any change.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that was a kind of a quick thing, right,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think before last season a lot

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Speaker 3: I think it's an important distinction for those people who

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Speaker 3: The issue is that what they're really focusing on is

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Speaker 3: form of tackling. The NFL found it injures players at

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Speaker 3: and so there's certainly a reason to get rid of

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Speaker 3: to legislate. And we kind of have heard the same

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Speaker 3: you know, is this something where it takes some time

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Speaker 3: a lot of the officials and generally said, I think

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Speaker 3: we see people don't tackle like that. Generally, yeah, and

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Speaker 3: But again, it might take some time for officials to

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Speaker 3: we'll have to see exactly how that plays out. But again,

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Speaker 3: you can still tackle guys from behind. It's not about that.

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Speaker 3: It's about you can't lift yourself up and then bring

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Speaker 3: kind of that lifting off the ground.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, players to safety definitely the priority there. Eric. The

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Speaker 1: NFL trade deadline is also changing.

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Speaker 2: NFL own is approved on Tuesday to push that back

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Speaker 2: a week, so that will now be after week nine

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Speaker 3: Yeah, great move.

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Speaker 1: I think I think this is the best went so far.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I agree. I think the longer you're able to

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Speaker 3: push the trade deadline back the better, just because I mean,

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Speaker 3: And certainly I think the longer you're able to wait

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Speaker 3: make moves. And certainly you don't always want star players

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Speaker 3: do think it's exciting for fans when you see, you know,

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Speaker 3: And if you're a team that's not playing as well,

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Speaker 3: it gives you a chance to to get back some

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Speaker 3: draft capital. Obviously, the Broncos definitely, essentially almost every year

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Speaker 3: I mean, Sean Payton was acquired because Lebronco has got

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Speaker 3: think it just gives teams more information to work with.

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Speaker 3: If you're a contender, it gives you one more week

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Speaker 3: say we're gonna we're gonna see how this plays out.

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Speaker 3: So I think the longer the trade deadline or the

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Speaker 3: later the trade deadline is the better for teams, better

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Speaker 3: for fans. And said, we've seen it move a couple

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Speaker 2: Outside of that, today, on the Thursday, the Broncos assigned

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Speaker 1: Eric going on, so not going on. Yeah, it's nice. Well,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you joining the show.

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Speaker 3: You got it.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's going to do it for today's episode of

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

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Speaker 2: Let meed you right back here on the Broncos Podcast

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Speaker 2: network and YouTube, and next week for another episode.

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Speaker 1: Well then