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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country? Welcome back to the Broncos podcast,

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Speaker 1: networking and YouTube before another edition of Broncos Now. Team

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Speaker 1: reporter is Sidney Jones. Here just one day until we

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Speaker 1: are back in the power field at Mile High for

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Speaker 1: the Broncos first preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys. There

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Speaker 1: was no practice today here at the UC Health Training Center,

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Speaker 1: as yesterday marked the final day of training camp. Practice.

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Speaker 1: Head coach Nathaniel Hackett has not stated if any starters

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Speaker 1: or which starters will play on a Saturday, but Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson and pass Or Tan give their thoughts on whether

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Speaker 1: they think they need to play in the Broncos first

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Speaker 1: preseason game or even if they want to whatever coach

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Speaker 1: has I mean, I'm ready to do whatever. You know.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to be a Denver Bronco. I decided to

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Speaker 1: put the jersey off for the first time to run

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Speaker 1: out that stadium with I'm playing or not, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but um, whatever it is, I'm ready for it. You know,

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Speaker 1: anytime you getting strap on your cleets, it's in uh

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Speaker 1: everything else, it's a blessing. Do you ever propress? I

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Speaker 1: don't care, I mean I want to. I want to.

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Speaker 1: I want us to win the preseason games, and I

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Speaker 1: want to win when the rest of them, that's all

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Speaker 1: that matters. I can still go out there, you get

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Speaker 1: some working in, um, shopping at my school, shopping my game.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'll be eating even you know, just prepared

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Speaker 1: for the regular season by playing. So you know, I

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Speaker 1: would never say that, um, I shouldn't play, you know,

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Speaker 1: because I still got that you know, if you want

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Speaker 1: coaches down the side. Um what if I do, then

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Speaker 1: I played? You know. So Coachaka did say that the

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Speaker 1: Thursday's joining practice with the Cowboys is arguably more valuable

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Speaker 1: for his evaluation of players than this preseason game. And

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Speaker 1: here's why. It's in the preseason mindset you have, Uh,

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna go It's gonna be very limited, um,

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Speaker 1: So now you put them out there and they get

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Speaker 1: I mean a game. I mean they got two minutes situated.

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Speaker 1: The only differences we're just not tackling it, so you

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Speaker 1: say these are unbelievably important and that's why I've always

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Speaker 1: loved join this throughout my entire career. And with yesterday's

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Speaker 1: practice being the final one of training camp, Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: see how much that. Once again I get credit to

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Speaker 1: the guys. Man, there's the investment they've put into it

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Speaker 1: every day, every moment. It's it's all. It's all about them,

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Speaker 1: you know, and what they've done. Um you know, it's

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Speaker 1: been a joy to be able to work with them

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Speaker 1: every day and just putting the extra work, putting the

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Speaker 1: obviously added up to us looking really sharp, playing really

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Speaker 1: clean football, executing every way and throughout the day made

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Speaker 1: some great big plays. But Corlan looked amazing today obviously.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, Jerry Judy had a nice little touchdown

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Speaker 1: Soberg had a great play. A few of those um

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Speaker 1: a cool day. Now joining me here in the podcast

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Speaker 1: studio is Broncos lead writer Erica Lala. Eric appreciate you

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Speaker 1: coming on the show. As always, training camp is officially over,

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Speaker 1: I mean two crazy weeks but too fun weeks. How

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Speaker 1: a much better spot Um Russell Wilson said the other day.

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Speaker 1: But I think guys have bought into what Nathaniel Hackett saying.

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Speaker 1: They're playing hard for him, they feel rested, their bodies

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Speaker 1: Or if you think back, you know, two weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's a Vet obviously, so he's been in this

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Speaker 1: teams will treat as a dress rehearsal, that's when maybe

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Speaker 1: you see Russell Wilson UM. As far as some other guys,

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Speaker 1: I talked about Benito and mathis a little bit. I

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Speaker 1: So you think of that spot. I look at wide

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Speaker 1: morning of who's actually going to be competing for these

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Speaker 1: That's right, I love it. Well, just one day away

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Speaker 1: Excited to be back at the stadium. I know, game

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Speaker 1: days back again. Yeah. Well, Eric, appreciate your insight always. Well,

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