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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country? Welcome back inside the uc HELD

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Speaker 1: Training Center for another episode of Broncos Now. Team reporter

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Speaker 1: and host Sydney Jones here and coming up on today's episode,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from head coach Nathaniel Hackett as he gives

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Speaker 1: the final injury report ahead of the Broncos Week thirteen

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Speaker 1: matchup versus the Ravens. Plus Broncos lead writer Eric Dolala

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Speaker 1: joins me here on the show for a game preview.

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Speaker 1: All that and more coming up this week on Broncos Now,

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Speaker 1: Slash Broncos Now. The Broncos hit the road tomorrow as

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Speaker 1: they're set to face the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday at

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Speaker 1: m NT Bank Stadium. We heard from head coach Nathaniel

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Speaker 1: this team if they're able to bring home a win

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Speaker 1: this Sunday. We want to go get our first win.

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Speaker 1: It's that simple. It doesn't matter who the opponent is

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Speaker 1: right now. It happens to be. The Baltimore Ravens are very, very,

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Speaker 1: very good football team. It's gonna be a great challenge

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Speaker 1: for us UH and we have to get out there

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Speaker 1: and we gotta go win a football game. I think

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, everybody's capable of beating everybody at any time.

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Speaker 1: And let's take a look at this week's the final

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Speaker 1: injury report as head coach Nathaniel Hackett updated US on

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Speaker 1: Coachack had said Cortland has a stomach bug. He also

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Speaker 1: mentioned that Brandon McManus had tightness in his kicking quad today,

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Speaker 1: had also went on to talk about Jerry Judy's status

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Speaker 1: be sure he's ready to go. Now. Joining me here

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Speaker 1: Broncos lead writer Eric de Lala. Eric, thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: me again, per usual. You got it Sydney well. Eric.

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Speaker 1: The big news of the day was that Jerry Judy

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Speaker 1: was back at practice. He's listened as questionable for Sunday's

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Speaker 1: game and will be a game time decision. Eric, What

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Speaker 1: get Jerry back on Sunday? Yeah, a lot, Tony and

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Speaker 1: most of the time, I would say a guy that

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Speaker 1: I'm a little more optimistic than usual, just because Nathaniel

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Speaker 1: it does seem like he's getting somewhat close UM, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he's gonna make it this week,

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Speaker 1: that you have to account for if you're a defense UM,

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Speaker 1: it would help Candle Hinting, Jalen Virgil, Brandon Johnson if

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Speaker 1: trying to do that? Yeah, it's not easy, obviously, UM,

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Speaker 1: I think with Lamar, you've got to decide, you know,

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Speaker 1: I believe in Pat's sartain. I believe in his mindset.

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Speaker 1: kind of expected perfection, which is an impossible standard to meet. Well, Eric,

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Speaker 1: Um and you know it's possible against the passing defense

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Speaker 1: every single one of them, they've blown fourth quarter leads,

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Speaker 1: it also shows they're good enough to get out to

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