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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country. Thanks for joining me back here

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Speaker 1: on the Broncos podcast Network and YouTube for another edition

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Speaker 1: of Broncos Now. I'm your host Sydney Jones, and I

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Speaker 1: hope you all had a wonderful weekend. It was so

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Speaker 1: great seeing you all out here on Saturday four Back

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Speaker 1: together Saturday yesterday, it wasn't off day, but the Broncos

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Speaker 1: were back at it here at the UC Health Training

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Speaker 1: Center today for day five of training camp. So 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 and get his reactions from the day as the

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Speaker 1: players practice with pads for the first time this camp.

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Speaker 1: Also discuss observations from practice as the offense got off

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Speaker 1: to a slow start. Plus kJ Hamler was activated off

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Speaker 1: the pup list this morning. We'll hear from him in

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Speaker 1: more coming up. The Broncos wore shoulder pads today for

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Speaker 1: the first time this camp. Full pads go on tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: but it was so nice to find they see some

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Speaker 1: real football and see some real action out there. Coachecker

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Speaker 1: reacts to it being the first up padded practice of

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Speaker 1: camp and what stood out to him first and foremost

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Speaker 1: coming off a day off getting used to that. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think some of us had a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a slow start, so we gotta address that. UM. But

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Speaker 1: I think that the defense, that's some really good things.

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Speaker 1: There were some pads that were popping, which is always awesome.

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Speaker 1: Got to run some different run schemes that we wanted

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Speaker 1: to get to that you typically only do with pads.

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Speaker 1: We got to see some of those. So there was

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Speaker 1: some good stuff. A lot of missed opportunities, um that

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Speaker 1: we gotta continually grow on and capitalize on. Like Coacheck

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Speaker 1: has said, this offense got off to a slow star.

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Speaker 1: In today's practice, even Russell Wilson rounded the entire offense

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Speaker 1: up into a huddle to try and get them back

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Speaker 1: on track. Guard Dalton Reisner said that this team can

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Speaker 1: continuously learn from Russell every single day. So we gotta

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Speaker 1: get going. In the situation we were down four teen points, um.

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Speaker 1: All these different situations, right, these coaches do a great

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Speaker 1: got a role you know, that might not have been

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Speaker 1: the prettiest practice thus far, but it's wiped that away.

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Speaker 1: Let's get moving forward. That's what championship ball is all about.

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Speaker 1: So I think we can continuously learn from Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: on this team, at anybody. I've been in the league

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Speaker 1: three years, it don't matter. I'm gonna I'm gonna listen

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Speaker 1: back on every single day to see how he approaches

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Speaker 1: the game, how we approaches situations like that brings the

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Speaker 1: team together. So that's kind of what that was all about,

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Speaker 1: rallying us together. Hey, let's get moving forward. The offense

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Speaker 1: rebounded later in practice though, during red zone work. Russell

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Speaker 1: back into their grove. The name of the game is,

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Speaker 1: you know, crazy things go back and forth all the time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, a long touchdown, how are you gonna respond?

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Speaker 1: You know, interception, how you're gonna respond? And um, you

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Speaker 1: day and learn what it, why it happened, Why weren't

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Speaker 1: I know they don't want it to be that way.

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Speaker 1: But the idea is to learn from that moment so

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Speaker 1: then when you're out of the field and crowded screaming,

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Speaker 1: kJ ham Weare was activated off the pup list today

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Speaker 1: and was back at practice. Coachack Hat said it seemed

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Speaker 1: feel good. It feel a little weird, but um, you know,

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Speaker 1: But it feel good being back out there. Finally. What

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Speaker 1: his mental health struggles throughout his journey, rehabbing and being

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Speaker 1: So you know, I take every day, every step. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm blessed, you know, just because I can get out

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Speaker 1: You know. So football brought me back to life. I'm greatful.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time to welcome Bronco's lead writer Erica Lalla

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Speaker 1: on the show. Eric thanks so much for joining me

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Speaker 1: here again in the podcast studio, of course, and I'll

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Speaker 1: try to look in the correct spot. I know our

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Speaker 1: fans on YouTube don't really love where you're looking. Doing

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Speaker 1: the best up here at the camera. You said, we'll

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Speaker 1: just we'll figure it out. Well, Eric Pads, We're finally

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Speaker 1: on today at practice. But a slow start for the

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Speaker 1: offense today. You know what really went wrong for them

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Speaker 1: early on? Yeah, I think it was a lack of focus,

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Speaker 1: maybe more than a lack of execution. You saw I

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Speaker 1: the plays either. Obviously, Russell Wilson went deep to Courtland

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Speaker 1: broke up both those passes. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, I think it was mainly that pre snap stuff,

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Speaker 1: and that sometimes happens when you're coming off an off day, right,

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Speaker 1: guys are relaxed, they're trying to ease back into things. Well,

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Speaker 1: third false start penalty, Russell Wilson gathered the whole offense

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Speaker 1: together and said, enough of this. We gotta get going um,

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Speaker 1: and we did see them react to that and kind

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Speaker 1: it did not look great. It didn't And yeah, you

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Speaker 1: the execution was much better down there in the red zone.

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Speaker 1: That Jerry Judy was kind of a busted coverage from

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Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton who kept Pets or Tan kind of like

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Speaker 1: that's what you have to do in a game, and

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson throughout his career has shown the ability that

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Speaker 1: even when he falls behind, you're not out of a game.

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Speaker 1: And the last few years when the Broncos have gone

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's kind of a turn the page

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Speaker 1: to next week. How can you rebound, you know, against

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Speaker 1: a different team. But with Russell Wilson, I think you're

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Speaker 1: And maybe the biggest thing that I noticed was not

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Speaker 1: they figured out, hey, what went wrong. They threw those

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Speaker 1: again and again and again. That's good leadership from Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: That's the way to step up if you're Courtland Sudden,

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Speaker 1: That's what's going to make this Broncos team different because listen,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have times when you're not playing well, you're

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Speaker 1: I think we saw kind of the hints you want

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Speaker 1: this offense? Yeah, I mean, first, I know you talked

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Speaker 1: a locker room setting. A lot of it's over zoom,

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Speaker 1: so so props to kJ first and foremost, But from

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Speaker 1: when Jerry Judy got hurt last year in Week one

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Speaker 1: that's when things really change because the offense all of

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Speaker 1: and Jerry Judy for intermediate gains. So that's where I

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Speaker 1: thought the Broncos missed kJ Hamler. And even with Russell

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Speaker 1: Alberto and all these guys, to have a guy with

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Speaker 1: blazing speed like kJ, it just brings a different dynamic

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Speaker 1: whether that's in the preseason or just for week one,

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Speaker 1: he's going to change what Nathaniel Hackett is able to

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Speaker 1: to be. That's pretty fast. That's really fast. That's what

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Speaker 1: I was thinking too. Well, let's take a look at

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Speaker 1: some of the guys on the defense real quick. Baron

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Speaker 1: Browning seems to be having a great camp so far.

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Speaker 1: Seems that moving him back outside to where he played

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Speaker 1: in college has been the right move so far. You know,

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