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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back inside Central Health Training Center

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Speaker 1: for another episode of Broncos Now as I always am. Your

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Speaker 1: host is Sidney Jones, and coming up on today's episode,

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Speaker 1: following another day of practice, we hear from cornerback patser

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Speaker 1: Tan and all three coordinators. Plus we'll take a look

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Speaker 1: at today's injury report. All that more coming up Broncus

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Speaker 1: hit the road to head to Chicago in just two days.

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Speaker 1: The team is back at practice today as they continue

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Speaker 1: to prepare for Sunday's matchup versus the Bears, and we

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Speaker 1: heard from cornerback passer Tan today about the team's urgency

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Speaker 1: to get a win in all games.

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Speaker 2: Like the NFL, all you need is one, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean, you know, just to get that momentum screen,

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Speaker 2: you know, just to have that winning fielding going run.

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Speaker 2: So you know, this game is very important for us.

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Speaker 2: You know, obviously we want their first win in on column.

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Speaker 2: So you know, we're preparing the right way, just focus

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Speaker 2: on winning, you know, building that winning culture for this week.

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Speaker 1: We also heard from offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi and he

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Speaker 1: talked about what he hopes to.

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Speaker 3: Build on in the run game this weekend.

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Speaker 4: I think it's key for us, you know, to run

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Speaker 4: the ball efficiently, and like you said, Man, I've been

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Speaker 4: really impressed with how hard he runs, his contact balance.

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Speaker 4: You know, he gets he gets yards when he gets

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Speaker 4: the football. So hopefully we can establish that more and

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Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator Vance Joseph talked about how the defense will

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Speaker 1: look to take a step forward versus Bears on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: In my opinion, we have great staff, we have we

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Speaker 5: have good players. So just getting back to the fundamentals

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Speaker 5: and get more connected and in all three levels. You know,

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Speaker 5: that's going to be our first step. But you know,

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Speaker 5: Sundays it's coming quick. It's a good football team and

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Speaker 5: it's our next challenge.

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Speaker 1: Plus, coach Lombardi and Patzertan both talked about wide receiver

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Speaker 1: Marvin Mims Junior and what they've seen from him.

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Speaker 4: He plays already, smart, runs, fast, tracks the ball. Well,

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Speaker 4: you know, he's everything's been real positive from the start,

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Speaker 4: and you just see him getting the opportunity and you

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Speaker 4: know he's showing, uh, putting on film what we've been

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Speaker 4: seeing in practice.

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Speaker 2: He just make big plays because each and every week,

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Speaker 2: weekend and week out, and you know, when we see

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Speaker 2: devas a team to make big plays as well too.

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Speaker 2: And you know, this guy's a limit for him. Obviously

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Speaker 2: he's a great player, but it's it's crazy because I

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Speaker 2: know he's still got more in the tank, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean. He's very talented, and so you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited for him and his growth and his process.

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Speaker 1: So we spoke with Marvin Mims inside the locker room

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Speaker 1: today and he talked about his confidence and understanding of

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Speaker 6: Taking opportunity as they come, especially in certain places where

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Speaker 6: you know, just multiple honestly, with different plays. I mean

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Speaker 6: ball or not, so just you went out there doing

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Speaker 6: it and then making them play at the end of

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Speaker 6: like what he likes to see in different routes. You know,

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Speaker 6: the coverage he see and how I should do it

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Speaker 6: and all that stuff. I mean, we're just learning from

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Speaker 3: Tackle Garret Boles also talked inside the locker room.

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Speaker 1: Today discussing Chicago's defense and his expectations for Sunday.

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Speaker 7: Bears are good. You know, they got in the gutway.

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Speaker 7: You know, he was with the Raiders in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 7: Good player. You know, they have a lot of good

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Speaker 7: you know, DeMarcus Walker, guy that you know came in

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Speaker 7: But you know, their their defense is good.

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Speaker 1: Got certain also detailed the challenges that Bears wide receiver

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Speaker 2: A it's a different type of offense. They utilize him

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Speaker 2: So that's the challenges he possessed.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time to take a look at today's injury report.

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Speaker 1: Outside linebacker Frank Clark, inside linebacker Jersey Jewel, and defensive

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Speaker 1: Plus wide receiver jear Judy and safety Justin Simmons were limited.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me on today's episode of Broncos Now to

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Speaker 1: take a look at this matchup from the Bears perspective

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Speaker 1: is ESPN Chicago Bears reporter Courtney Cronin.

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Speaker 3: Courtney, so great to see you. Thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 9: I think the last time we did this was when

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Speaker 9: I was covering the Vikings, so a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 3: It's right off for George Bates hired.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, great to have you on again. How are you

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Speaker 1: has this season going over there?

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Speaker 9: It's definitely been rough an oh and three start for

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Speaker 9: a team that now has, you know, a losing streak

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Speaker 9: that extends back to last October. Certainly there's a lot

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Speaker 9: to sort through with this team, whether they're on the

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Speaker 9: right track, whether the end of this losing streak is

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Speaker 9: fourteen games. Certainly not the start of this team's hoping for.

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Speaker 9: But you know, this matchup between two oh and three teams,

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Speaker 9: two of the remaining four winless teams left, it could

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Speaker 9: be really good, it could be really bad. But either way,

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Speaker 9: we'll know more about where this Bears team is headed following.

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Speaker 3: Week four for sure.

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Speaker 1: I know, like you mentioned, both teams are heading into

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Speaker 1: Sundays the matchup looking for their first wins of the season.

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Speaker 1: I know head coach on Payton talk this week about

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Speaker 1: you know how much a win would just mean for

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Speaker 1: this team in Chicago. I'm sure kind of the same

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Speaker 1: thing's been said over there at the Bears headquarters too.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, And that's I keep going back to that Patriots

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Speaker 9: game Week seven last year.

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Speaker 8: So it was Monday Night football.

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Speaker 9: The team had changed a lot of what it was

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Speaker 9: doing offensively, coming off a really rough start, and that

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Speaker 9: there was hope with what this with the direction of

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Speaker 9: to fast forward nearly a year, Sydney. Since then, since

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Speaker 9: the Bears have had their last win, and I know

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Speaker 9: it's some new locker room, there was a ton of

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Speaker 9: but there's still guys like Justin Field, Cole Comet, Darnell Mooney,

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Speaker 9: Jaylen Johnson, Eddie Jackson who were part of that ten

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Speaker 9: tough to, you know, to stay motivated despite what what

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Speaker 9: teams say, when you kind of batten down the hatches,

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Speaker 9: when all of the outside noise, and especially coming off

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Speaker 9: of last week, where they weren't just the biggest story

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Speaker 9: because of what was going on with Justin Field's comments

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Speaker 9: that were at first directed at coaching and then walked

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Speaker 9: back and clarified, and then of course the resignation of

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Speaker 9: defensive coordinator Alan Williams very suddenly. So there's a lot

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Speaker 9: going on, and this is going to really, this game

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Speaker 9: right here test the fortitude of this team because it's

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Speaker 9: an opponent you're more evenly matched with versus having to

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Speaker 9: in Kansas, City. It was certainly difficult, and the score

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Speaker 1: You know, Courtney, given all of that, you know, looking

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Speaker 1: at Justin Fields and this Bears offense specifically, what if

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Speaker 1: you kind of just I guess from them the first

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Speaker 1: focus will be this week as you know they look

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Speaker 8: You know, they've got to run the ball.

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Speaker 9: And Luke Getz he spoke this morning and one of

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Speaker 9: the first things he said was, that's the lack of

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Speaker 9: explosive run plays they had last season, Like that is

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Speaker 9: such a glaring part of the game plan, a big

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Speaker 8: And you'd like to.

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Speaker 9: Think, after seeing what Miami did last week, that that's

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Speaker 9: whether they include Justin Fields in that or not. You're

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Speaker 9: not seeing them utilize him as much outside of the pocket,

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Speaker 9: Denver try to take that away. Just try to never

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Speaker 9: the way that some other teams have by playing such

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Speaker 9: still think that there's a way around that. Now on

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Speaker 9: the other side, we have seen Fields really struggle in

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Speaker 8: On him trying to stay in the pocket.

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Speaker 9: Now they've certainly, you know, they've certainly had time to

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Speaker 9: he does best, which is his ability to improvise, to

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Speaker 9: get out of the pocket, to make plays on the run.

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Speaker 9: That's the Justin Fields, that's the growth you need to

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Speaker 9: see from him to show you that he is taking

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Speaker 9: and then you know, in theory, all of those things

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Speaker 1: While on the other side of the all courtney, I

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Speaker 1: know the Bears have seen a lot of injuries, you know,

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Speaker 1: specifically in the secondary. So what's kind of the status

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Speaker 1: to some of those guys And given that, how do

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Speaker 1: you think that this Bronco's offense will faar going up

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's not great in terms of health right now.

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Speaker 9: Eddie Jackson, who I mentioned mentioned earlier, has a foot injury.

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Speaker 9: He missed last game. He sustained that in the first

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Speaker 9: last year that he had a season Enngland's frank injury.

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Speaker 9: So doesn't seem like the team has said they're optimistic

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Speaker 9: about it. If they weren't, I believe they probably would

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Speaker 9: have already put him on injured reserve. But if it's

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Speaker 9: not Eddie Jackson, it's Kyler Gordon who's on injured reserve,

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Speaker 9: their nickel corner. And then Josh Blackwell, the backup nickel corner,

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Speaker 9: has a hamstring injury and he didn't practice on Wednesday,

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Speaker 8: Yeah, thanks for having me see you soon.

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