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Speaker 1: What's Up, Broncos Country.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Broncos Podcast, networking and YouTube for

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Speaker 2: the latest episode of Broncos Now. As always are, your

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Speaker 2: host is Sidney Jones, and coming up on today's episode,

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Speaker 2: the team held working mini camp this weekend, so we'll

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Speaker 2: hear from head coach Sean Payan in all seven of

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Speaker 2: the Broncos draft picks.

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Speaker 1: All that more coming up the number Broncos held.

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Speaker 2: Rookie mini caamp this weekend in which more than fifty

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Speaker 2: players participated, including all seven of the Broncos draft picks.

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Speaker 2: We heard today from head coach Sean Payn as he

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Speaker 2: detailed how the weekend has gone so far.

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Speaker 3: So we just finished basically our second full practice of

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Speaker 3: the rookie camp. We'll have a walk through tonight, We'll

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Speaker 3: have one more practice tomorrow, and then you know, that'll

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Speaker 3: conclude the players on the roster. You know, free agents

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Speaker 3: or draft picks will then stay and acclimate into the

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Speaker 3: off season program.

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Speaker 4: We have a number of players trying out here.

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Speaker 3: So basically there's four groups of players. You have our

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Speaker 3: draft picks, you have our free agents. There's eight or

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Speaker 3: nine current Broncos that don't have a year credited that

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Speaker 3: are able to come to this, and then the last

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Speaker 3: group are the rookies or veteran trial players.

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Speaker 4: The hardest thing.

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Speaker 3: With this camp every year is just it's the only

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Speaker 3: time as a coach you don't really know the conditioning

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Speaker 3: level of the masses. I know, the Broncos that are

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Speaker 3: out here have gotten sixteen workouts in, but other than that,

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Speaker 3: you know, these draft picks have been visiting college or

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Speaker 3: visiting teams. So that's the challenge is just the overall

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Speaker 3: off the ground and staying healthy.

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Speaker 2: We also went inside the locker room a falling practice

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Speaker 2: today and heard from a few of the Broncos a

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Speaker 2: draft picks. They detail their thoughts on their first few

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Speaker 2: practic this is over community camp.

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Speaker 4: So far, all we're pretty good. You know, day two

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Speaker 5: You know, my local is just to you know, go

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Speaker 5: out there, make sure I'm doing everything right and just

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Speaker 5: give a percent better every day, you know.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's been good.

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Speaker 5: It is a lot of you know, vernacular verbish that

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Speaker 5: they throw at us, but you talk kind of run

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Speaker 5: the similar offense the same way that the Broncos run here.

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Speaker 4: So it's not too big of a difference. She's got

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Speaker 4: to make sure I get in my playbook. I mean,

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Speaker 3: You know the coaches, you know they're doing and treat

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Speaker 4: So it's it's a huge positive. And the culture here

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Speaker 4: already is awesome. It's been amazing.

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Speaker 6: It's dream come true.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, hit now like I got drafted. It felt good,

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Speaker 4: but does it hit till you get here? And I'm

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Speaker 5: Opportunity here good, just just trying to get better and

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Speaker 2: Sean Payton went on to talk about quarterback a Bone

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Speaker 2: next and discussed how he's learning the playbook and how

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Speaker 4: He's handling the install well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you had a pretty good practice

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Speaker 3: He's doing a good job with two or three down

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Speaker 3: You know, sometimes when you watch his game over two years,

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Speaker 3: term boring that's that's not the right term. But yep,

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Speaker 4: And look, we've.

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Speaker 3: Done these camps for a long time and some teams

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Speaker 6: So a lot of that's completing passes, you know, run

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Speaker 4: It can be a lot.

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Speaker 6: But you know, I feel like, you know, I'm being

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Speaker 2: Plush On Payin went on to talk about what he's

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Speaker 2: how he evaluates them during this time.

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Speaker 3: Number One, does a player know what to do? I mean,

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Speaker 4: Does he know?

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Speaker 3: Do they know what to do? And we know we're

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Speaker 3: how quickly are they learning it? And are they trying

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Speaker 3: to do what they're being coached? Number three? How well

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Speaker 3: Are they trying to do what's being coached? How well

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Speaker 3: a for a guy who's trying out, man, it's a

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Speaker 3: it's challenging because you know there's there's essentially one two,

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Speaker 4: They're just trying to make an impression.

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Speaker 3: And our job is to make sure that none of

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Speaker 1: And a few of the Broncos draft picks also talked about.

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Speaker 2: Their initial impressions getting to work with head coach Sean

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Speaker 2: Payton this weekend.

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Speaker 6: He's been awesome. He teaches me, you know, so much already.

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Speaker 6: He's got a lot of knowledge and you know, he's

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Speaker 6: you listen. So that's what I'm excited to continue to

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Speaker 6: And uh, you know, as we go through practices and

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Speaker 6: like an amazing feeling because I used to watch the

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Speaker 6: Saints a lot, being from Obs, I used to see

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Speaker 1: But for him to be my coast nice just an amazing.

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Speaker 2: Feeling now joining me here in the Broncos podcast studio

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Speaker 2: is Broncos lead writer Eric Dall.

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Speaker 1: Eric, thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 2: Nice to get back outside, see the guys back on

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Speaker 2: the practice field.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Football's back.

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Speaker 2: I know football is back. Well, I want to start

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Speaker 2: off today. Obviously it was rookie minting camp. We heard

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Speaker 2: a few of our draft picks. Eric, but I know

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Speaker 2: our fans are dying to know more about bone Nicks obviously,

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Speaker 2: So what were your takeaways from practice today in terms

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think first, when we watch these practices,

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Speaker 5: we do have certain regulations that were things were allowed

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Speaker 5: Can't unfortunately give folks throw by throw breakdown, But it

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Speaker 5: was nice to be out there and kind of get

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Speaker 5: things that stand out, like they stood out to this

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Speaker 5: coaching staff in college, where he gets rid of the

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Speaker 5: ball quickly, look looks poised back there, made some good throws.

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Speaker 5: He looked the part and you know, obviously fans will

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Speaker 5: get a look you'd think during training camp at more

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Speaker 5: of what Bonix is able to do on the football field,

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Speaker 5: But just I think you don't want to make grand

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Speaker 1: So early in the most season exactly.

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Speaker 5: But it was exciting to see him out and just

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Speaker 5: kind of get going and throw some passes to Troy

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Speaker 5: you watched Devon Vley play during Saturday's practice, he would

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Speaker 5: have guessed he and Bo or college teammates, just the connection.

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Speaker 5: They had some nice plays there, So it was it

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Speaker 5: was fun to watch. And yeah, as Sean Payton said,

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Speaker 5: Boenix had a good practice, picking things up quickly, doing

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Speaker 5: a good job with the install Those are all good signs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, head coach Sean Payton, he joked, gave

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Speaker 2: an analogy that watching bo is kind of like watching

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Speaker 2: a good golfer just in terms of his patients, his

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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, the execution is good, like you said, the

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Speaker 5: decision making, he said, Bo plays with patients, which I

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Speaker 5: think you saw out there. Talked about it, and he

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Speaker 5: said boring is the wrong word, but maybe uneventful, like

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Speaker 5: there's not there's not panic when you watch him play.

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Speaker 5: And Bo kind of joked after in the locker room

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Speaker 5: that he wished he played golf that way. Yeah, maybe

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Speaker 5: a better quarterback than he as a golfer, I guess

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Speaker 5: according to what he said. But yeah, definitely there's this

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Speaker 2: Definitely, Eric, you mentioned Troy Franklin and Von Bailey there too,

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Speaker 2: But any other draft picks out there kind of specifically

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Speaker 1: Maybe some guys on defense.

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Speaker 5: think one thing, kind of looping back to the offense

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Speaker 5: really going to be something to watch, and the Broncos

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Speaker 5: worked on that. Sean Payton talked about it. He thinks

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Speaker 5: there's going to be double digit touchdown returns this year

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Speaker 5: based on the new rules, and there's certainly some lanes

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Speaker 5: for these guys to find, and so that was one

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Speaker 5: of the more interesting parts of practice was getting to

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Speaker 5: of find angles, find space, And that's a chance you'd think, right,

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Speaker 5: if you want to make this football team, if you

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Speaker 5: be a special teams contributor. So that that stood out

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Speaker 5: to me as well during today's practice, Eric, why.

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Speaker 2: Do you think this time rocommuning camp is so important,

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Speaker 2: you know, in terms of these players, these rookies getting

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Speaker 2: all the vets come onto the field.

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Speaker 2: It's nice to be outside watch practice again. Eric, appreciate

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