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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to the Broncos Podcast Network in

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Speaker 1: YouTube for the latest episode of Broncos Now. As always,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host is Sidney Jones, and coming up on

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Speaker 1: today's episode, the Broncos we're back at practice today as

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Speaker 1: they continue to prepare to face the Vikings on a

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Speaker 1: Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: We'll hear from head coach Sean Pan.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback Russell Wilson, in safety Justin Simmons on today's episode.

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Speaker 2: All that more coming out.

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Speaker 1: As the Denver Broncos are set to face the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings on a Sunday night Adam.

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Speaker 2: Powerfield at Mile High. Head coach Sean Pan and quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson talked about playing on primetime again and what

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Speaker 1: it will mean to be back in front of Broncos Country,

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Speaker 1: playing this.

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Speaker 3: Game at home and having a home crowd. I think

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Speaker 3: it's significant and we're looking forward to that. It looks

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Speaker 3: like the weather is going to be good and and

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Speaker 3: you know, we're going to count on that crowd noise

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Speaker 3: and all the things that you that you gain when

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Speaker 3: you play at home.

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Speaker 4: It's important. It's it's you know, whenning matters.

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Speaker 5: It's obviously important for us to you know, play our

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Speaker 5: best football game this week. These guys are These guys

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Speaker 5: are good. You know, I watched it on the film.

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Speaker 5: These guys can really play. They know what they're doing

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Speaker 5: be and their coach well and everything else. I got

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Speaker 5: great players. I've played a lot of these guys from

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Speaker 5: the Vikings over the years. You know, I know Harrison

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Speaker 5: Smith for years and gone against him obviously in the NFC,

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Speaker 5: and Danil Hunter.

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Speaker 4: I know how special he is. He's having an unbelievable year.

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Speaker 4: It's no no.

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Speaker 5: Doubt that he's one of the best in the game.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of guys on that side of the

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Speaker 5: football that can play.

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Speaker 4: On the defense. We got to bring our best game.

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Speaker 4: We got to play great in front of our fans.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, to come back home after a great road win

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Speaker 5: with all of our fans coming to Buffalo, which was fun,

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Speaker 5: and then coming back here at home in front of

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Speaker 5: Broncos country. It matters, and hopefully we can, you know,

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Speaker 5: continue to stay focused on one play at a time, one

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Speaker 5: practice at a time, and one game at a time and.

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Speaker 2: Looking ahead to that Vikings matchup.

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Speaker 1: Head coach Sean Payton talk today about his impressions of

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Speaker 1: Vikings quarterback Josh Jobbs.

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Speaker 3: You know when when you hear the stories about, you know,

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Speaker 3: coach giving him the routes over the headset. The first

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Speaker 3: time I met him, Tennessee had seven or eight draft

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Speaker 3: eligible players and we had flown in to work those

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Speaker 3: the next day we worked them all out, and he

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Speaker 3: and Alvin were in the in the quarterback room and

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Speaker 3: Pete Carmichael and I I think went in and what

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Speaker 3: was impressive is how smart both of them were. And

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Speaker 3: of course, you know the quarterback is one thing, and

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Speaker 3: then Alvin the same way. But it was pretty impressive.

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Speaker 4: And so.

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Speaker 3: You know from Afar you follow his career some but

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Speaker 3: but his football IQ obviously is unique and rare and safety.

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Speaker 1: Justin Simmons added to that, talking about what he's seen

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Speaker 1: from Doves on film.

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Speaker 6: I think the number one thing is a poise with him.

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Speaker 6: You know, he's he's obviously bounced around a little bit,

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Speaker 6: but man, he's so smart, you know. He the fact

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Speaker 6: that you can come men. I don't know what it

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Speaker 6: and you come in find a way to win a

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Speaker 4: It's not easy to win in this league.

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Speaker 6: And so and on the road at that, I mean

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Speaker 6: you're working snap count cadences on the sideline right before

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Speaker 4: I mean that that.

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Speaker 6: I think that just shows a testament of the culture

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Speaker 6: he is. And so it's gonna be a challenge for

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Speaker 6: us defensively. And he does a really good job to

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Speaker 6: answer your question, he does a really good job extending

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Speaker 6: containing him, making sure that you know, he doesn't have

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Speaker 1: Looking at the Broncos specifically, this offense had coach Sean

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Speaker 1: Payton talked about what he hopes to clean up, and

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Speaker 1: quarterback Russell Wilson detailed what the next steps are in

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Speaker 1: the development of this offense.

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Speaker 3: Look, it starts with reducing the penalties, and it starts

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Speaker 3: with reducing some of the the unforced airs, you know,

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Speaker 3: and there's gonna be times. It's not a perfect game.

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Speaker 3: It's an imperfect game, but some of the self inflicted

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Speaker 4: And so.

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Speaker 3: When we get there, I'll let you know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean discipline, you know, being really clear, clean,

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Speaker 4: Go forward and not go backwards.

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Speaker 5: I think we're arguably one of the best in the

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Speaker 5: third and seventeen against really good pass rushers and everything else.

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Speaker 5: And so I think the best thing we can do

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Speaker 5: playing clean football. These guys are really good and they're

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Speaker 5: coach extremely well. Like I said, you have great players

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Speaker 4: You know. So you know, we gotta we gotta play clean.

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Speaker 1: Plus as leaders on this team of Russ and Justin

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we got to have great practices. I

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Speaker 5: think that's the biggest thing. Great meetings, great practices. Uh,

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Speaker 5: we don't we get the work, you know, and and

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Speaker 5: the process and how we got here in the past

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Speaker 4: Who've gotten here by a few ways.

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Speaker 5: Number One, I think that the defense is doing a

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Speaker 5: think on offense, you know, we've we've really done some

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Speaker 5: really great things. I think we've really come up clutch

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Speaker 5: is about, you know. And it's We've gone against some

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Speaker 5: you know, as like the season goes on and we

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Speaker 6: I think it's it's the same thing that that I've

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Speaker 6: when things aren't going so well, it's continue to encourage

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Speaker 6: and you know, we still need to fix the little

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Speaker 6: In the same regard, and in terms of now that

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 6: I heard Sean and I was sitting over there. You know,

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Speaker 6: there's even though you win, there's still details that in

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Speaker 4: And that's the that's the perspective you need to look

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Speaker 6: And it's almost like when you when you win, and

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Speaker 6: as great as this, as great as a winning feeling is,

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Speaker 6: But in that same regard, man, you got to be

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Speaker 6: I think that's kind of my approach as a leader,

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Speaker 6: that we still got to put our head down. It's

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Speaker 6: a new week, one to know mentality, and.

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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: Safety PJ Lock and guard Ben Powers that did not

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Speaker 1: participate in today's practice. Wide receiver Jerry Judy was limited,

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Speaker 1: and outside linebacker Baron Browning, wide receiver Marvin Mims Junior,

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

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings team reporter Tatum Everett to take a look

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Speaker 1: at this week matchup from the Vikings perspective. Tatum, such

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Speaker 1: a pleasure having you on the show today. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining me.

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Speaker 7: Of course, Sidney.

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Speaker 8: I think for you guys, I feel like the Vikings

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Speaker 8: in Broncos have seen a lot of each other ever

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Speaker 8: since I joined.

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Speaker 7: The team about two years ago. Oh, it's kind of crazy, It.

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Speaker 2: Is kind of crazy.

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Speaker 6: How are you?

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Speaker 2: How are things going up there in Minnesota?

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Speaker 1: Doing great?

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Speaker 7: Doing great? Much better.

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Speaker 8: I'm sure you guys can relate to that a lot,

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Speaker 8: a lot better now that we're on the five game

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Speaker 8: win streak. You know, this team was really interesting because

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Speaker 8: they had the belief and I think a lot of

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Speaker 8: critics out there were ready to write the Vikings off

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Speaker 8: after the one and four start, but the five game

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Speaker 8: win streak has been super impressive despite almost everything going poorly.

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Speaker 8: I just feel like, you know, if you would have

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Speaker 8: told me Kirk Cousins would be out JJ's ow and

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Speaker 8: then all of the concussions and the injuries we've had

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Speaker 8: a quarterback have been happening and in other positions, I

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Speaker 8: would have been like, no way, And it's just surprising

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Speaker 8: what can be done. Football is a fun sport for sure.

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Speaker 1: Certainly, Yeah, Tatum, I feel like the entire NFL has

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Speaker 1: Yeah me too, Tatum. Can thank you enough for coming

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Speaker 7: Thanks Siddy, can't wait to see you Denver.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for tuning in.

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Speaker 1: We need to write back here on the Broncos Podcast Network.

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Speaker 2: In YouTube tomorrow for a game preview. I'll see you

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