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Speaker 1: What's a Broncos Country.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Broncos podcast network and YouTube for

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

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

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Speaker 2: Broncos lead writer.

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Speaker 1: Eric Delala joins the show.

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Speaker 2: We'll take a look back at the season as we

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Speaker 2: get our evaluation of the year, look ahead to the

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Speaker 2: off season, all that more coming out. Joining me here

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Speaker 2: in the Broncos Podcast studio for today's episode of Broncos

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Speaker 2: Now is a Broncos.

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Speaker 1: Lead writer Eric Delala. Eric, thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 2: You got it said, first official week of the off

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Speaker 2: season in the books. Did you have time to debrief

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Speaker 2: relax a bit from the season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I did. It's going to be a busy off season,

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Speaker 3: but nice to take a few days and relax and

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Speaker 3: kind of reflect on the season and then look ahead

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Speaker 3: to what's next.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Like you said, it will be a busy

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Speaker 2: off season, but not a lot going on right now

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Speaker 2: in the Broncos world.

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Speaker 3: Eric, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Sean Payton, he talked about taking a little bit of

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Speaker 3: time off before starting the evaluation process of this roster,

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Speaker 3: just to make sure you get some good separation, and

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Speaker 3: you know, he shared the story of back in New Orleans,

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Speaker 3: when you would review a playoff team, you'd probably always

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Speaker 3: give him a little bit higher of a grade than

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Speaker 3: they deserved. And when you reviewed a losing team, a

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Speaker 3: team that didn't make the playoffs maybe would get a

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Speaker 3: little bit harsher of a grade. So putting some time

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Speaker 3: between those things is helpful from the grading process. But

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Speaker 3: they'll be back at it soon. With that process, senior

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Speaker 3: roles on the horizon, Coybine is closer than you would think,

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Speaker 3: and then before you know it, will be talking about

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Speaker 3: free agency in the draft.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Eric, like you mentioned, coaching staff is thinking some time

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Speaker 2: to have a mental reset. But I figured, since we'll

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Speaker 2: be back doing those evaluations next week, I figured week

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Speaker 2: ago in doing a little evaluation of the rosters, so

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Speaker 2: I want to start first looking back at the season,

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Speaker 2: who do you think was the best offensive and defensive

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Speaker 2: player of the year?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean offensively, I think it's got to be

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Speaker 3: Corland Sutton. The ten touchdowns were impressive, a lot of

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Speaker 3: spectacular plays. You know, it didn't have the kind of

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Speaker 3: the yardage numbers that normally go with a touchdown total,

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Speaker 3: like that, but I do think just in terms of

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Speaker 3: his ability to show up in big moments, he was

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Speaker 3: the season about Sean Payton in his offenses, normally there's

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Speaker 3: and Courtland became that guy. Russell Wilson obviously had a

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Speaker 3: with Courtland Sutton and just personally to see Courtland bounce

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Speaker 3: was really cool to see him have this season. He

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Speaker 3: team MVP and and he was tremendous. You know, I

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Speaker 3: do want to maybe just to be a little different,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Jakwon McMillan just because I thought

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Speaker 3: Jmack made those plays was really impressive to me. And

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Speaker 3: I don't know that nationally he got enough credit for

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Speaker 3: But he had a heck of a season and certainly was,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when you said you weren't gonna pick Pat, Eric,

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Speaker 2: who do you think had the best rookie season?

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Speaker 3: And I know a lot of those came in the

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Speaker 3: Special Teams game, but that's an area of the Broncos

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Speaker 3: just haven't been very good, frankly in a long time.

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, Rick Goslin puts out his Special

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Speaker 3: the credit goes to a lot of people there in

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Speaker 3: for an Ike, he makes some good videos for the

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Speaker 3: Obviously got a touchdown game too, exactly touchdown in the

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Speaker 3: what he does moving forward, you know, Julil. Obviously McLaughlin

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Speaker 3: he'll be another guy that as you enter twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: I think so too.

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Speaker 1: Kind of going off of that, I know Julil.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's whenever Sean Payton brings up that

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Speaker 3: a player. He talks about Greg Dolcic potentially fulfilling that

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I think the fact that he's he used

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Speaker 3: speed that compliments the broncos other backs really well, and

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Speaker 3: it just doesn't take the big hits. As Sean Payne

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Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see kind of how he develops.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, he's kind of like the Broncos almost like

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Speaker 3: to see those guys take the next step. But who

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Speaker 3: But certainly Julio great story, great guy, you love easy

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Speaker 1: I have to see that too, all right.

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Speaker 2: Well, our next grouping top offensive play and top defensive

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Speaker 2: play of the year. Oh man, I'm putting you on

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 3: It's maybe a little bit of a cop out, but

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Speaker 3: that that play in Buffalo that Courtland Sutton made is

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Speaker 3: But just the Buffalo play for what it meant, just

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Speaker 3: It just kind of changed the season. And I know

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Speaker 3: ultimately it didn't go the Broncos way and they didn't

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Speaker 3: from that point forward, the defense was a lot better,

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Speaker 3: such a fun play, I believe, right the lone defensive

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Speaker 2: I agree, those were the two onths I had right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: all right, Well, ask the kind of evaluation question of

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Speaker 3: Oh Man, that's a tough one, you know. I'll say this.

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Speaker 3: The offensive line has taken a lot of flak here

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Speaker 1: I love that choice.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't sure where you were gonna which you were

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Speaker 2: going to go there, but that was a good one. Eric,

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Speaker 2: you mentioned the Browns and then the Bills atle bit earlier.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I saw stat from our friend Mike

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Speaker 3: Cliss said that no team has beaten more than three

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Speaker 3: Obviously the Broncos lost games to the Commanders, to the Jets,

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Speaker 3: I think you look at this playoff field and you say, Okay,

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I agree.

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Speaker 2: Well, like you said, it's going to be a busy

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Speaker 2: offseason to get to that point, Eric, appreciate you joining

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Speaker 3: You got it said.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's going to do it for today's episode of

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Speaker 2: Broncos Now Broncos Country. Thanks so much for tuning in

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Speaker 2: reach you right back here on the Broncos Podcast Network

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Speaker 2: in YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Next week for another episode. I will see you all

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