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

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Speaker 1: Network on YouTube for the latest edition of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Sidney Jones, and coming up on tonight's episode,

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Speaker 1: the team officially named this year's captains. We'll hear from

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Speaker 1: head coach and Nathaniel Hackett and a couple of those players,

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Speaker 1: plus the team was back at practice today. All that

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Speaker 1: and more coming up. It is officially game week here

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Speaker 1: at the UC Held Training Center. The Broncos were back

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Speaker 1: at practice today as they are now just six days

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Speaker 1: away from their season opener versus Seahawks in Seattle. With

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Speaker 1: the start of the season quickly approaching, the Broncos named

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Speaker 1: their captains as voted on by the team. Quarterback Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 1: safety Justin Simmons, wide receiver Courtland Sutton, outside linebacker Bradley Chubb,

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Speaker 1: and kicker Brandon McManus are this year's captain's. Sutton, Chubb,

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Speaker 1: and McManus all spoke to the media today and discussed

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Speaker 1: what an honor it is to be named a captain.

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Speaker 1: It's honor, the privilege you know for to see you

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Speaker 1: know where to come from, um, your peers, your teammates,

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Speaker 1: guys that you you know, ground with every day. For

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Speaker 1: them to see, um, the things that we do on

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Speaker 1: the field, off the field, you know, trying to you know,

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Speaker 1: carry the team to the right direction. Um, it's an honor.

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Speaker 1: And you know the rest of the guys that were

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Speaker 1: voted captain's um, it's a it's a it's just honored

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Speaker 1: to be able to be in that in that run

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Speaker 1: with those guys and and you know, to you know,

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Speaker 1: lead the team into the direction we want to go

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Speaker 1: for the season. It's dumb, man. It just puts the

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Speaker 1: iceing on the cake, you know what I mean. It

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Speaker 1: uh puts uh kind of like a title on all

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Speaker 1: the hard work, all the type of leadership I've been

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Speaker 1: trying to steal and stuff like that. So it's a

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Speaker 1: great accomplishment to be looked at that by your peers

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So I gotta where it were now.

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Speaker 1: Each year it's an honor. It's it's a new staff here,

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Speaker 1: that's a new new group of players. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of new faces, a lot of new names for me.

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Speaker 1: Uh so just so to be it's a humbling experience.

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Speaker 1: And I group as a kid, you know, in the

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Speaker 1: the upper level Lincoln Financial Field, watching the Eagles games

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Speaker 1: and dreaming about being an NFL football player. So obviously

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Speaker 1: I've been able to accomplish being that player, but now

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Speaker 1: to be captain for for six years and now it's

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Speaker 1: it's been incredible. So it's still still humbling to me

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Speaker 1: each and every year. Head coach Nathaniel Hackett also chimed

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Speaker 1: in and gave his thoughts on this year's group. You know, obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know we had everybody vote. I think the best

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Speaker 1: testament was how many guys we got votes. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: just those five, it was numerous, numerous guys on the

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Speaker 1: offensive line, we had a bunch of guys, and I

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Speaker 1: think it's just great to see there's so many people

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Speaker 1: that believe in their teammates. It wasn't just such a

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Speaker 1: very specific amount of guys. So I think that's what's

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Speaker 1: great to see. Coach Hockett also took an early look

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Speaker 1: offense and defense. Looking primarily at the defense up to

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Speaker 1: this point, I mean, they're very good defensive football team.

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Speaker 1: I mean they've got some huge human beings upfront. Um

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Speaker 1: we all know Shelby. Shelby's a really good player. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know woods As at the nose, he's gonna be easy,

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Speaker 1: you know, dominant player up in the middle there. And

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Speaker 1: look at thirty three, I mean Galie, I mean he's

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Speaker 1: and I mean he makes his presence known. So um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's still got a bunch of good players

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Speaker 1: gonna be a heck of a battle. Both Courtland sun

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Speaker 1: And and and Bradley Chub discuss their excitement to see what

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Speaker 1: this team will look like on a Monday night and

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Speaker 1: what they hope to accomplish in Seattle. It's fun to

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Speaker 1: like everything, you know, all of the studd that led

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Speaker 1: put all the work that we've been putting together, put

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Speaker 1: that that one accord already. But it's just the lights

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Speaker 1: are on now, it's real now, proud time. We've got

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Speaker 1: to make sure that we we're not trying to do

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Speaker 1: defense not training me. Here in the Broncos podcast studio

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Speaker 1: is Broncos lead writer Eric Talala. Eric, the season is

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Speaker 1: finally here. It's game week. We did make it. I'm

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Speaker 1: excited me too. It feels like it's been a really

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Speaker 1: long time. It does training camp in the preseason. We're long. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: now we're here. That's right. Well, Eric, With the Broncos

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Speaker 1: season opener being on a Monday night football this year,

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Speaker 1: the team they got an extra day to prepare for Seattle.

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Speaker 1: I know we heard from head coach Nathaniel Hackett earlier though,

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Speaker 1: and he said that the game plan won't be set

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Speaker 1: until Thursday. So what do you think the next couple

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Speaker 1: of days look like? Really? Yeah, I mean today's practice

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Speaker 1: I think was as Nathaniel I could put it, just

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Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting. You've had this long stretch right

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Speaker 1: where and sometimes you know, for some teams you've prepared

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Speaker 1: that much. Bronco starters, as we know and we've talked

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Speaker 1: about at nauseum, have not played at all in the preseason,

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Speaker 1: but it has been a while since they've gone full speed,

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Speaker 1: the game plan in, because then that's when the football

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Speaker 1: week really starts. Thursday, Friday, Saturday. You do your final

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Speaker 1: go and you're trying to get a win. No game

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Speaker 1: getting ready for a Monday crowd noise. They try to

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Speaker 1: simulate what that would be like. Got practice today. Coach

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Speaker 1: early on that. Yeah, and you know we've heard at

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Speaker 1: But Umlumonfield is going to be a challenge from a

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Speaker 1: communication standpoint. I mean, I know most people they know

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Speaker 1: that radio, it's clear, but when it's loud, it's not

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Speaker 1: you see quarterbacks they've got there their hands clamped over

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Speaker 1: the best way to handle the crowd noises to go

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Speaker 1: crowd noise at UCL Training Center, I think will help

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Speaker 1: allows this team to get used to a really loud environment.

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Speaker 1: I've only ever been there for preseason a couple of times,

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Speaker 1: you know, like you mentioned Leumenfield Arrowhead, those are a

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Speaker 1: gonna play a real factor in this game absolutely, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully Russell is used to it by now I'll be

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Speaker 1: on the other side side of it. But well, Eric,

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Speaker 1: in terms of today, every single player participated in practice today.

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Speaker 1: always like to see the second injury report and see

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Speaker 1: there are trends that you can look at. And so

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Speaker 1: by a football Thursday, which is in this case of Friday,

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Speaker 1: I think we'll have a better sense of is Billy

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Speaker 1: As the Broncos put out their first official participation reports.

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Speaker 1: Well in other news, Eric today the team announced this

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Speaker 1: year's captains. We heard from them earlier in the show.

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Speaker 1: I feel like each of those guys kind of have

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Speaker 1: a different leadership style. Yeah, yeah, no, cool question about that. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Russell is the vocal guy. He's your quarterback, you want

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Speaker 1: him to be the captain. I'm not surprised that it happened, obviously,

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Speaker 1: In a lot of ways he's been expected to step

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Speaker 1: I would think going back to Seattle for us, but um,

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Speaker 1: kind of get back to those winning ways. I think offensively,

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Speaker 1: I would expect them to go out and play really

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Speaker 1: I think I'm really excited to see the defense too.

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Speaker 1: I know the offense is what everyone's talking about that, UM,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't kind of let the defense out of your site. Well,

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Speaker 1: the field. Excited to appreciate your time, Well, that's all

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Speaker 1: the time we have for today's episode Broncos Country. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for tuning in for another edition of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll meet me right back here on the

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Speaker 1: Broncos Podcast Network and YouTube for another addition tomorrow evening.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you all then,