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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and happy Monday. Welcome back inside the UC

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

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Speaker 1: up on today's episode, we'll hear from head coach Nathaniel

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Speaker 1: Hackett as he reflects on Sunday's game. Plus broncos lead

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Speaker 1: writer Eric Delala joins the show to take a more

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Speaker 1: in depth look at the broncos win. All that and

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Speaker 1: more coming up. The broncos got their first dub of

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Speaker 1: the season at home on a Sunday, a six to

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Speaker 1: nine win over the Houston Texans, and it was not

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Speaker 1: the prettiest win, but a wins a win. Head coach

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett spoke to the media today and addressed some

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Speaker 1: of the game management and Operation Miss Ques that we

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Speaker 1: saw on Sunday. When it comes to the operations, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's something that we're talking about quite a bit. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things we got to make sure

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Speaker 1: the communication is clear and concise. I need to do

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Speaker 1: better at making decisions faster and quicker in getting that

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Speaker 1: information to the quarterback and being on the same page

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Speaker 1: with him. So that stuff that we're talking about uh

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Speaker 1: this morning all the way to this evening, and making

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Speaker 1: sure that it's it's it's got to improve. It starts

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Speaker 1: with me and then getting the proper information that I need.

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Speaker 1: You know, I get um excited, I'm a little aggressive

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Speaker 1: at times and then sometimes that might not be the

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Speaker 1: right decision, and so I just need to be sure

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Speaker 1: that all the right information is get given to me

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Speaker 1: at the right time so we can make the right

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Speaker 1: decision for those and that's just gotta be better, Um,

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Speaker 1: when it comes to a Russell and I you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's just gonna be a continual growing process.

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Speaker 1: You know this. It's all about Russ you know, want

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Speaker 1: to be sure that he's comfortable and he's feeling good

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Speaker 1: and I'm getting the play as fast as I can

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Speaker 1: to him, Um, and we want to do what's right

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Speaker 1: for him. So I think that's gonna be something that

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Speaker 1: we're just going to grow as the season goes on

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Speaker 1: and the offense continue to struggle in the red zone again,

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Speaker 1: the Broncos are over six in the red zone in

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Speaker 1: two games. Head coach Nathaniel Hackett took responsibility for it today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean first and foremost, you know, we've got to

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Speaker 1: make sure we have the best place called and I

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Speaker 1: think that always starts with me. I want to be

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Speaker 1: sure that we always have the best things and, Um,

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Speaker 1: we've got to make sure that we're giving the ball

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Speaker 1: to our playmakers, whether it's, you know, a courtland and

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Speaker 1: I just want to be sure that we're continually getting

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Speaker 1: the right schemes for down there and then executing it properly.

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Speaker 1: And on the other side of the ball, the defense

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Speaker 1: had a dominant performance versus Texans on Sunday. In total,

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Speaker 1: they've had five force fumbles so far this season. Coachak

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Speaker 1: at details how much of a priority that's been for

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Speaker 1: the defense so far. We talk a lot about the ball,

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Speaker 1: you know. That's something that we're always talking about, both

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Speaker 1: taking care of it and getting it and the defense

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Speaker 1: has had a lot of opportunities to get that thing

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Speaker 1: it's gonna fall to us, because you know that they're

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Speaker 1: doing a great job getting around the quarterback and getting

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Speaker 1: it out. Looking at the past two games, coachack has

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Speaker 1: said that all in all, it's about organization and Communication.

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Speaker 1: It's about organization and communication and in those moments you

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Speaker 1: know it happened so fast and Um, I think that

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Speaker 1: at today's injury update. Great News for the broncos Wide

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Speaker 1: Receiver Jerry Judy, who exited Sunday's game with a rib injury.

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Speaker 1: In cornerback Pat Sir Tan, who also left the game

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Speaker 1: Ik had said they thought those injuries it might have

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Speaker 1: they're not sure if they'll play this weekend but they're

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Speaker 1: he's hopeful they will both practice this week. Now let's

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Speaker 1: welcome Broncos lead writer Eric Delala into the Broncos podcast

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Speaker 1: Sunday's when Eric appreciate you joining me on Broncos now today. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: broncos got the win at home on Sunday. Not The

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Speaker 1: prettiest win, but a win's a win. You know, Eric,

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Speaker 1: your main takeaways from this game? Yeah, I mean let's

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Speaker 1: start with the fact that the Broncos did win. It's

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Speaker 1: important to remember it didn't look pretty. I think the

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Speaker 1: number one, um. And then, you know, I'm sure we'll

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Speaker 1: talk more about this, but offensively they really struggled. Without

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Speaker 1: that hurt them offensively, along with all sorts of other penalties.

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Speaker 1: I believe eight offensive penalties that hurt them. And then defensively,

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Speaker 1: what a stellar performance. The defense of the reason the

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Speaker 1: Broncos won this game. That and Russell Wilson, courtland Sutton

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Speaker 1: finally able to put something together there in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: The broncos won this game and they were able to

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Speaker 1: make the plays they needed to, but there's so much

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Speaker 1: how do you think the team really builds upon this performance?

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Speaker 1: obviously a blown coverage helped on that thirty five yard

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Speaker 1: As far as building on us and you I don't

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Speaker 1: but still only two red zone opportunities. That's not good enough.

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Speaker 1: Those are the sort of preventable things that the Broncos

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Speaker 1: from courtland sutton this year. Absolutely well, let's look at

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Speaker 1: this defense. You know, they certainly came to play on Sunday. Eric,

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Speaker 1: your main thoughts from this Denver Defense? Yeah, they're they're

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Speaker 1: He's calling really good plays. The broncos are executing. They're

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Speaker 1: So they're finding ways to play complimentary football within the

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Speaker 1: They're all complimenting each other. Um. And now six straight

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