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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside the u S. Hall Training

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

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Speaker 1: host Sidney Jones here and coming up on today's episode,

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Speaker 1: Well you're from head coach Nathaniel Hackett and several players

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Speaker 1: as they look ahead to week six plus. Broncos lead

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Speaker 1: writer Eric Delala joins the show to discuss injuries surrounding

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Speaker 1: the team, who needs to step up in more all

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Speaker 1: that coming up. The team was back in practice today

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Speaker 1: here at the u C Hall Training Center as they

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Speaker 1: look ahead to their Monday night matchup of verse the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers. Broncos had a mini bye week this

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Speaker 1: weekend following that Thursday night game and gave him extra

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Speaker 1: time to let their bodies heal. Coach Hacket said it

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Speaker 1: came out of perfect time this season with the number

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Speaker 1: of injuries this team has suffered, it's huge for the

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Speaker 1: entire team. I mean to have this much time, We've

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Speaker 1: been banged up a little bit, and uh, the guys

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Speaker 1: need this time to be able to re energize themselves

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Speaker 1: and get all their bodies back. So I think it comes.

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Speaker 1: This mini bike kind of comes at the perfect time

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Speaker 1: for us with the extra couple of days this weekend,

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Speaker 1: Coachacket and company evaluated the first five weeks of the season,

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Speaker 1: and today gave his thoughts on the offenses efficiency negative place.

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Speaker 1: I think that's been kind of one of our nemesis

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Speaker 1: there in the league and we have some really good

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Speaker 1: The amount of get back on tracks we have are

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Speaker 1: is just too difficult. We need to be way more

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Speaker 1: efficient on first down, getting positive yards and even just

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Speaker 1: in completions instead of sacks or penalties. So I think

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Speaker 1: those are the things that we're focusing on, trying to

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Speaker 1: narrow down the things that we want to be great

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Speaker 1: at and then continually developing those. Quarterback Russell Wilson has

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Speaker 1: been dealing with a shoulder injury this past week, but

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Speaker 1: Coachacket said he should be ready to play on a

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Speaker 1: Monday night against the Chargers. Both Coachacket and guard Dalton

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Speaker 1: Reisner discussed Russell's resilience today. I've learned in this game

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Speaker 1: everybody has something that's going on. It's a very very

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Speaker 1: physical game as we see weekend and week out with everybody.

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Speaker 1: And Russell is a very tough human being. Uh, he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna miss anything. Uh. He wants to be out

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Speaker 1: just make sure that we take care of him, do

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Speaker 1: we can. Russell's a warrior for me as an offensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: I love block him for that guy, I love going

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Speaker 1: for him each and every day, each and every game. Um.

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Speaker 1: And it's no it's no question. Um. Now that you

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Speaker 1: guys know that he's been battling injury, and the cool

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Speaker 1: thing about Russell is that wasn't something that he let

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Speaker 1: everyone know. That wasn't something he was complaining about throughout

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Speaker 1: the week. He wanted to go to war and help

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Speaker 1: us get a win. And uh, you know, it's not

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Speaker 1: my job to figure out what's affecting my quarterback or

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Speaker 1: but we all got to be warriors and that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what he's done. Um, it's not my job to think

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Speaker 1: about my teammates play. I think the most important thing

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Speaker 1: that we all got to do our job. When all

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Speaker 1: when we're gonna get it clicking. I'm not gonna worry

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Speaker 1: You guys would not like for me to be your

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my job the best I can because

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm paid to do. That's what I'm here

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Speaker 1: what the best I can. And if everyone can buy

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Speaker 1: it's more than just buying in and give an effort.

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Speaker 1: or Tanna spoke on the a f C West and

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Speaker 1: and the whole division is rising. You can see from

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Speaker 1: joining me here inside the Broncos podcast studio is Bronco's

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Speaker 1: lead writer Eric de Lala. Eric, let's get to it.

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Speaker 1: You know, first things first, Justin Simmons, Greg Dolsach, and

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Speaker 1: and they've been designated to return from injured reserve. What

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Speaker 1: do you think this means for Monday night's game us

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Speaker 1: to Chargers having those guys back, Yeah, I mean, first

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Speaker 1: so that's important. They wave Jonathan Congbo on Tuesday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of clarification. They've been designated for a return,

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Speaker 1: which opens their twenty one day practice window, but they

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Speaker 1: still have to be activated to the fifty three man

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Speaker 1: made until Sunday. That could be. That's just kind of

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Speaker 1: been ghanes Uh. He's stated his own case for that,

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Speaker 1: little bit, it's getting interceptions. Obviously had a couple against

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Speaker 1: And then at cornerback we mentioned Ronald Darby not being there.

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Speaker 1: To Mari Mathis, he practiced on a side field on Tuesday,

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