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Speaker 1: What's thet Broncos Country. Welcome back inside the UC Health

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Speaker 1: Training Center for another edition of Broncos Now. As always,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Sydney Jones, and just two more days

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Speaker 1: until the team hits the road to head to Buffalo

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Speaker 1: to take on the Bills for their second preseason games.

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Speaker 1: So coming up on tonight's episode of Broncos Now, we'll

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Speaker 1: hear from running back Melvin Gordon, cornerback Kwan Williams, and

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Speaker 1: of course, head coach Nathaniel Hackett as they continued to

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Speaker 1: prepare for this weekend's game will be a good test

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Speaker 1: run for the coaches and players as expectations will be

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Speaker 1: set for this year's road games. Who Jacket discusses what

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Speaker 1: the process will be like and what will mean returning

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo where he used to coach. I think everything

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Speaker 1: just has to be defined. It's about communication with everything

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Speaker 1: that we do. You have to communicate NonStop with everybody

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Speaker 1: so that they know exactly what we're looking for. Um,

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Speaker 1: we will make it just like a regular road trip

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Speaker 1: on how we do things with them. After a neon

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Speaker 1: out some things and work through. It's always a little

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Speaker 1: different when you have this many guys, um, but I

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Speaker 1: think we'll be able to get a lot of good information.

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Speaker 1: I had a great time there. I learned so much.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was there for quality control for two years.

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Speaker 1: I was the coordinator for two years, and it was

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Speaker 1: an amazing experience. You know, we still have friends that

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Speaker 1: are there. I'm excited to see um, but I mean, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's a business trip. It's still a game. Been back

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Speaker 1: there a couple of times already, and uh, hey, I

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Speaker 1: gotta go play some football. And yesterday we discussed coachak

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Speaker 1: It's philosophy when it comes to the preseason. He's not

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Speaker 1: a fan of it and would rather be safe than

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Speaker 1: sorry when it comes to playing starters and both running

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Speaker 1: back Melvin Gordon and cornerback k One Williams chimed in

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Speaker 1: on it today. You know, you see what happened to

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Speaker 1: one of your you know, your main guys before the

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Speaker 1: regular season need to start, you know, So it's just, uh,

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Speaker 1: looks out for us um as far as that aspect,

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Speaker 1: So and I think you know, we we we're pretty

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Speaker 1: I don't think you know they're be ab to flaw

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Speaker 1: I say it just get to be more mental, get

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Speaker 1: especially not being out there for preseason, so you got

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Speaker 1: beginning of the season. Melvin also discussed what is mindset

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Speaker 1: and he goes on to say that competition is really

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Speaker 1: So I'm in my head every day I kind of

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Speaker 1: giving anyone's position. You know. That's the NFL. You know

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Speaker 1: you should be able to you have to earn it.

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Speaker 1: You have to earn it. And that's what I sell

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Speaker 1: Like I said, you don't know how the future plays

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Speaker 1: One suffered a knee injury at the beginning of a

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Speaker 1: So it's just been exciting just being able to work

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Speaker 1: it's been working with a boat Justin Simmons and Kareem Jackson.

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Speaker 1: me as Nickel, I gotta be able to communicate and

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Speaker 1: being decisive in my decision making and ever. But everybody

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Speaker 1: on the same page. Now joining me here in the

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Speaker 1: Broncos podcast studio is Bronco's lead writer Eric Delala. Eric,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me again on the show today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got it. Yeah. Well, we heard from Melvin Gordon

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Speaker 1: Um Kawan Williams obviously has experience. I think he forced

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Speaker 1: Like I said, very good in that slot position, covering

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Speaker 1: the postseason. Certainly well well. In other news, Eric Randy

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Speaker 1: Eric appreciate you joined the show. Always said now it's

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Speaker 1: time to take a look at today's injury update. A

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Speaker 1: Broncos Podcast Network in YouTube for tomorrow's episode. As the

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