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

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Speaker 1: Training Center for today's edition of Broncos Now. Team reporter

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Speaker 1: and host is Sidney Jones here, and coming up on

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Speaker 1: today's episode, we'll hear from quarterback Russell Wilson, safety Justin Simmons,

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Speaker 1: and head coach Nathaniel Hackett as they all spoke to

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Speaker 1: the media today. Plus I'll have the latest injury report

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Speaker 1: and Phil Malani it joins the show. All done more

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Speaker 1: coming up. The team was back at practice today as

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Speaker 1: they turned the page and look ahead to their Monday

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Speaker 1: night matchup versus the Los Angeles Chargers. Broncos will look

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Speaker 1: to get their first win over in a f C

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Speaker 1: West opponent. In Safety Justin Simmons put it very simply today,

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Speaker 1: this is a must win game, must win. That's that's

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Speaker 1: the urgent is as it can be. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: a must win for us on on Monday night. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, they they're already believe it's one and one

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, so they already have you know,

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Speaker 1: went in the division and um, you know we need

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Speaker 1: head coach Nathaniel Hackett also talked about this matchup and

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Speaker 1: the kind of threat that Chargers quarterback at Justin Herbert

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Speaker 1: poses for us. Were owned one right now in the West.

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Speaker 1: You know, the past is the past. Right now, we

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Speaker 1: gotta find a way to win a football game. And

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Speaker 1: it happens to be a West opponent, which makes it

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Speaker 1: more exciting because it's a rivalry. It's a very good

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Speaker 1: football team, and we gotta get out there and we

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Speaker 1: gotta get after him first and foremost. He can just

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Speaker 1: drop back and play quarterback, and then when things don't

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Speaker 1: work out or the pocket collapses, he can take off

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Speaker 1: and he can run, and he's an elite runner. He's

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Speaker 1: got very good speed, and he also has the ability

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Speaker 1: to keep his eyes down field and find explosive plays

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Speaker 1: down the field. So I think that's what really stresses

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Speaker 1: a defense more than anything. You want to try to

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Speaker 1: keep him in the pocket as much as you possibly can,

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Speaker 1: because when he gets out that sometimes I mean, and

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Speaker 1: that's not necessarily how we draw it up. Whenever there's

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Speaker 1: a scramble, it it looks really cool. But um, his

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Speaker 1: is the thing that he does best. Quarterback Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: also spoke to the media today and talked about trusting

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Speaker 1: his process as the offensive looks to improve weekend and

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Speaker 1: week out. You know, your commitment individually, as a as

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Speaker 1: a competitor, uh, and everything else's to me. It's always

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Speaker 1: been focused on the process and then result happens, and

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Speaker 1: just you stay focused on that and throughout the challenges,

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Speaker 1: throughout the great time. So at the tough times, Um,

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Speaker 1: you stay consistent. You stay consistent with your thought process,

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Speaker 1: your language, your your energy, how you practice, how you

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Speaker 1: go about your business, how you get here earlier, how

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Speaker 1: you leave late. And that goes where all of us

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Speaker 1: as a team, and we're we're committed to that, you know.

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Speaker 1: And UH, and that that's been that's the thing that

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Speaker 1: you stand on. You stand on the consistency of your

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Speaker 1: process and how you get ready. Justin Simmons has been

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Speaker 1: on i R the last four weeks due to a

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Speaker 1: quad injury he suffered in the Broncos season opener versus Seahawks,

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Speaker 1: and today he discussed what he's seen from the team

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Speaker 1: during that time. UM, I see a really good team. Uh,

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Speaker 1: just a lot of most times it seems like, you know,

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Speaker 1: we hurt ourselves. UM. And obviously when you're when you're

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Speaker 1: going up in the when you're playing against other good

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Speaker 1: too many games by hurting yourself. And so UM, I

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Speaker 1: mean that's defense included. And uh, I think there's room

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Speaker 1: You just take it one week at a time, and

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Speaker 1: as we wrap up the top news of the day,

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Speaker 1: let's take a look at today's injury report. Coach I

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Speaker 1: Can announced during his press conference today that both Josie

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Speaker 1: safety Caden Stearns, tighten Eric Sobert, running back, Mike Boone,

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Speaker 1: his press conference today and said that he's doing a

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Speaker 1: joining me here inside the Broncos podcast studio is a

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Speaker 1: fellow team reporter, Phil. Melanie, Phil, thanks for joining me again.

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Speaker 1: It feels like it's been a while, so I know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Broncos what ten eleven days off in between games,

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Speaker 1: So I missed you. I know I missed you too.

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Speaker 1: Did you get a nice little break? Yes, it was

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Speaker 1: a good little mini bye week. Good to relax a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, we'll Phil, We got a lot to

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Speaker 1: get to today. So first and foremost, foremost, we heard

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Speaker 1: You know, he said it isn't anything he's ever dealt

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Speaker 1: He just sort of said, Hey, Russ has been in

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Speaker 1: a little bit dinged up. But I think that Russ

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Speaker 1: in practices looked like nothing's wrong. He's going through his

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Speaker 1: Russ also talked a lot today about kind of his process,

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Speaker 1: very consistent in his process. He talked a lot today

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Speaker 1: I think that that helps this Broncos team, especially so

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Speaker 1: many young guys on this Broncos team that like, you've

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Speaker 1: So Justin Simmons, hey, you better step up. No, it's

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Speaker 1: that is what they are. But on the other side

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Speaker 1: until they prove it, they're this two and three football teams.

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Speaker 1: So what we've seen is what what they are. And

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Speaker 1: so until they do it, you know, there are two

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Speaker 1: I mean Justine Simmons started called this a must win game,

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Speaker 1: I believe it. Phil. Yeah, we'll see, uh but yeah,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me on the show today. Thanks Toney.

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Speaker 1: Well then I'll do it for today's episode of Broncos

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