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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside Central Hall Training Center for

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Speaker 1: another episode of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 2: As always, I'm your host, Sidney.

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Speaker 1: Jones, and coming up on today's episode, the Broncos fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster is set. We'll take a look at

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Speaker 1: the team's transactions and hear from head coach Sean Payton

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Speaker 1: and general manager George Payton all that more coming out

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Speaker 1: as Broncos trimmed down their roster to fifty three players

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. Head coach Sean Payon and general manager George

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Speaker 1: Payton detailed where the team stands now.

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Speaker 3: So we're kind of right in the thick of the

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Speaker 3: roster being shaped, and I'm not going to go through

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Speaker 3: every player here. You'll see in the next probably ten days.

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Speaker 3: There's still a lot of shuffling with teams, and ours

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Speaker 3: will be one of those teams.

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Speaker 4: A busy day obviously, always busy this time of year.

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Speaker 4: Don't love this time of year. It's hard, but you know,

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Speaker 4: it is what it is. And had a lot of

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Speaker 4: good players. We feel like we'll get some of them

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Speaker 4: back on practice squad and feel like a lot of

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Speaker 4: these guys will get jobs at other places as well.

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Speaker 4: But we feel, you know, feel good.

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Speaker 5: About our fifty three.

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Speaker 4: Like Sean said, it's fluid, you know, especially fluid next

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Speaker 4: twenty four hours, you know, as we get through this

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Speaker 4: week and we get through that wire, you know, I

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Speaker 4: think fourteen hundred or something players on that wire that

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Speaker 4: will sift through tonight.

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Speaker 1: And looking at some of the transactions the Broncos made today,

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Speaker 1: the team traded albert O Kuaimanham and a twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: now features Adam Troutman, Chris Manhertz, Great dulcic In, Nate Adkins.

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Speaker 1: Both head coach Sean Payton and general manager George Payton

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Speaker 1: discussed the trade today and what they like about Nate Adkins.

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Speaker 3: Basically a pick flop in twenty five. We get six

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Speaker 3: from the Eagles, they get our seventh. Pretty pretty pretty ordinary.

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Speaker 3: At this time of the process, Teams like Philly maybe

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Speaker 5: Yeah Atkins.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Sean just spoke about it, The versatility, the

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Speaker 4: toughness of smarts, He's a football player. He's a guy

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Speaker 4: we had targeted throughout the process, just like Juliel. We

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Speaker 4: almost drafted him, just didn't fall. We didn't have a

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Speaker 4: him as an undrafted free agent. He's been everything we

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Speaker 4: I love the visit. I mean, he's got a great mind.

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Speaker 4: He can do a lot of different things. He's a

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Speaker 4: coach's dream just because he can do so many different things,

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Speaker 1: The runk is also traded for Saints kicker Will Lutts.

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Speaker 1: The team traded a twenty twenty four seventh round pick

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Speaker 1: and had coach Sean Payton detailed what he likes about

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Speaker 3: I think you'll fit in fine. At the beginning of

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Speaker 3: the whole process, he was a target for us. We

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Speaker 3: You know, I was there through the whole beginning with Will,

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Speaker 3: much like Riley's going through right now. Obviously his numbers

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Speaker 3: And look, this is a place kickers want to be

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Speaker 1: And now some of you may know the Broncos have

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Speaker 1: a long history here of undrafted rookies and making the

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Speaker 1: initial fifty three man roster, and this year is no different.

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Speaker 1: For the nineteenth time in the past twenty years, college

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Speaker 1: free agent hasn't made the roster. In this year, four

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Speaker 3: If you just look at the landscape of our leg

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Speaker 3: And and that's I don't know any other way to

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Speaker 1: And general manager George Payton spoke specifically about running back

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Speaker 4: You know, you start recruiting these guys early in the process,

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Speaker 4: You never know what these free agents. You know what

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Speaker 4: But he kept he passed every test. I mean from

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Speaker 4: It wasn't too big, and then you know, you're and

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Speaker 4: plays every day, so we're really not surprised. You know,

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Speaker 4: what he could do, and he made plays every game.

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Speaker 1: We also heard head coach Sean Pan and general manager

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Speaker 4: His coaching staff, and it's easy to evaluate for him.

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Speaker 4: It's easy for scouts because they have a vision, a

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Speaker 4: from the day that Sean arrived, you know, we talked

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Speaker 5: So we visit every.

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Speaker 4: Day every day during training camp, we meet, we talk

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Speaker 5: You know, if we don't know.

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Speaker 4: What they want, we can't build it, and we can't know,

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Speaker 4: you know, we don't know what to look for, and

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Speaker 4: so it's really important. We're experts and everything on is

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Speaker 4: so's it's pretty clear what we're looking for.

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Speaker 1: Now. Joining me here inside the Broncos podcast studio is

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Speaker 1: Broncos lead writer Eric Dalala and a fellow team reporter,

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Speaker 1: Phil Malani. Guys, we had to get the whole crew

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Speaker 1: together because it's a big day. Initial fifty three men

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Speaker 1: roster is set.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you get fill in here. You know it's serious.

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Speaker 5: I know that's true. They were there. Initial fifty three said.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, Well, guys, there was a few trades today, so

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Speaker 1: let's start with that. Start off with the Albert okuweban

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he he had a strong final showing obviously, but

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Speaker 6: I think the Broncos like who they have at tight

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Speaker 6: and I think Alberto's skill set maybe it was just

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Speaker 7: And you heard George Payton, I think he said Nate

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Speaker 7: capable of going out there catching a bunch of passes

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Speaker 7: They got some big guys this offseason and that carried

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Speaker 7: they didn't feel like his game was there at that point.

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Speaker 1: Broncos also traded for Saints kicker Will LUTs and of

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Speaker 1: course then cut Brett Maher So nice little reunion there

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Speaker 6: Yeah, young guy, still a very good kicker. Dealt with

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Speaker 6: Will Lutz ended up being the guy they go with,

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Speaker 6: and it wasn't anything against Brett Maher, but I think

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Speaker 6: And where Sean Payton, say, Will Lutz has made some

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Speaker 7: I'm starting to think that Sean Payton likes former Saints,

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Speaker 7: you know, I'm starting. I'm picking up on it now.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, he had a lot of good things to

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Speaker 5: We need you to do it. Just do it.

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Speaker 7: That comfortableness and assurance that he feels like Let's is

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Speaker 7: George Payton even said today that he thinks that Brett

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Speaker 7: But yeah, the Broncos felt like the opportunity to bring

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Speaker 1: Well, you guys know, the Broncos have a long tradition

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Speaker 6: And it almost felt like when Philip Lindsay made the

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Speaker 7: Yeah, dozen yards right for Philip Lindsay. There seems like

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Speaker 1: Definitely excited for those four guys, you know. General manager

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Speaker 6: Yeah, good good news, right, that Jerry can be back

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like if it's definitely longer than four

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Speaker 6: Definitely, Yeah, I didn't get the sense that Browning was

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Speaker 1: Definitely, And George Payton did say that three players on

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Speaker 6: Mechanics here too, right where you can only use you

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Speaker 7: I think that more so than years past, they really

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Speaker 6: up to speed. Sure, you'll evaluate some guys on other

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Speaker 6: teams who have been waived, but you know, I think

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Speaker 6: typically fans might think, oh, you can go out and

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Speaker 6: get get I'm excited about this. You get whoever you want,

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Speaker 6: but it's easier a lot of times to keep your

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Speaker 6: than not you find a practice squad, it's ten or

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Speaker 6: with you all off season.

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Speaker 7: And what the Broncos are fifth in the waiver claim, right,

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Speaker 7: so they should be able to get at least one

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Speaker 7: or two good players out there.

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Speaker 2: Just being fifth in line definitely yep.

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll see what happens over the next couple of

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Speaker 1: days here, guys, appreciate you joining the show.

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Speaker 5: You got it saying, said, well.

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

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in. I'll be right back

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Speaker 1: here on the Broncos podcast network and YouTube tomorrow for

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Speaker 1: another episode. I'll see you all then,