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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside Central Held Training Center for

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Speaker 1: another episode of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 2: As always, I'm your host is Sidney Jones.

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Speaker 1: And coming up on today's episode, Hall of Famer Steve.

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Speaker 2: Atwater joins the show.

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Speaker 1: We'll discuss the Broncos season opener, the Broncos Raiders rivalry,

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Speaker 1: and more.

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Speaker 2: All that coming up.

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Speaker 1: For today's episode of Broncos Now, We've got a special

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Speaker 1: guest here inside the Broncos Podcast studio, the Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer himself, mister Steve Atwater.

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Speaker 2: Steve, appreciate you coming on the show today.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you allow me on.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely always love having you on. How you doing, Steve,

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Speaker 2: How you.

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Speaker 3: Feeling I'm doing great. I'm doing great.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting anxious. I'm getting fired up to see if.

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Speaker 1: I know, the season is here paid off. I know

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Speaker 1: it's crazy. Yeah, Steve, you know you've been out here

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Speaker 1: a practice, throughout training camp. You saw all the preseason games.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling about where this team is at

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Speaker 1: right now?

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Speaker 3: I feel really good.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: They put a lot of work in it.

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Speaker 4: They've they've really been working working their tails off, you know,

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Speaker 4: right from Minnie Camp all up the training camp.

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Speaker 3: Uh, and the physicality is there.

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Speaker 4: The guys select they're on the same page offensively, defensively. Uh, now,

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Speaker 4: we haven't seen the first team defense play a ton.

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Speaker 4: They did get some reps you know, in the first

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Speaker 4: couple of preseason games, but uh, a game that we won,

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Speaker 4: we haven't seen them play yet. And uh so it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be a big game for them to come out

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Speaker 4: of the come out of the blocks hard and strong.

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Speaker 1: Definitely, especially going up against Josh Shacobs, Davante Adams.

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Speaker 2: Got a couple of tough guys out there to defend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, tough, tough guys. But I think we have the roster.

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Speaker 4: We got the guys with the character and you know,

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Speaker 4: hopefully they they they can dig deep and and uh

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Speaker 4: they want this victory extremely bad as bad as we do.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. Yes, that's true.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if you know, they're kicking off the season hot,

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Speaker 1: you know, with the Las Vegas Raiders coming to town

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Speaker 1: here at home AFC West matchup.

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Speaker 2: For you, when you think about when you were a player.

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Speaker 1: Did you like getting some of these divisional games kind

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Speaker 1: of out of the way early on or well, it.

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Speaker 4: Kind of depended, you know if we were playing well, yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, and right at the beginning of the season,

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Speaker 4: you really don't have any idea how well you're going

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Speaker 4: to play, right, you're hoping you're going to play well.

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Speaker 4: You think you got everything lined up, but you know,

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Speaker 4: sometimes the other teams they just come out ready to

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Speaker 4: go and they and they may catch you off guard

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Speaker 4: or something. But I think for me personally, I would

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Speaker 4: rather they be more, you know, third fourth game in

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Speaker 4: the season before we started in the division game, just

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Speaker 4: so we could have a good idea of who we

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Speaker 4: are and you know under specially new offense, new defense,

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Speaker 3: Everything's kind of new.

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Speaker 4: Although they've been practicing for quite a while, it's still

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Speaker 4: relatively new. And again, guys playing a full game, they

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Speaker 4: haven't done that in a while.

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Speaker 3: I think they're in shape though they've been.

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Speaker 2: Doing long physical practices show.

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Speaker 3: It shouldn't be an issue.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I'm excited though, I'm really excited to

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Speaker 1: And it's nice to see, you know a lot of

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Speaker 1: so kind of get that out of the way, get

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because we didn't do that last year, and

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Speaker 4: that was you know, I thought all of us felt

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Speaker 3: So they got a chance to do that. I got

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Speaker 3: a chance to get dirty and have fun, and now

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Speaker 3: it's time for business.

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Speaker 2: I know definitely is well, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I did some research, so I want to take you

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Speaker 1: back a little bit. Back in nineteen ninety five, Steve,

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Speaker 1: it was Mike Shanahan's first year as a head coach

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Speaker 1: here with the Broncos, and back then the Broncos had

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Speaker 1: lost six straight to the Raiders. Kind of same situation

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Speaker 2: Here in Denver. You guys won that game of twenty

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Speaker 2: seven to nothing. Do you remember that game at all?

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Speaker 3: We have a look at number twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: There, that's true.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember, have a few memories of that game.

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Speaker 4: But the main thing that I remember conveying to us

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Speaker 4: was that we don't want to make this game any

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Speaker 4: bigger than any other game, and that we want to

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Speaker 4: look at Tim Brown is number eighty one. Not Tim Brown.

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Speaker 4: He's not Tim Brown out there. He's just number eighty one.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's what we have to do as

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Speaker 4: changed his number from twenty eight to eight. He's not

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Speaker 4: number eight. I'm sorry, he's not Josh Jacobs. He's just

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Speaker 4: number eight, number eight. It's not that beast of a man,

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Speaker 4: you know, that's number twenty. He's just he's just number eight.

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Speaker 4: You know, he's just he's just another player out there

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Speaker 4: do our jobs. And when I looked at things like that,

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Speaker 4: I looked at it differently, and you know, so you

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Speaker 3: Jerry Rice is I wouldn't be like, oh man, I'm

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Speaker 3: playing this Jerry Rice. He's just number eighty. I got

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Speaker 1: And you think about at that time, you know, they

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Speaker 1: kind of broke that losing streak there versus the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: and then following that game under Mike Shanahan, the Broncos

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Speaker 1: went on to beat the Raiders twenty one out of

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Speaker 3: So I'm not.

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Speaker 1: Saying there's some parallel, but maybe we're foreshadowing based on history.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I like that.

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Speaker 4: I like that stat and you know, this is This

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Speaker 4: would be a great way to get the season started

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Speaker 4: off on the right foot. And I know Coach Payton

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Speaker 4: didn't watch the CU Buffs game.

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Speaker 4: They shocked everybody, And you know, I don't think it

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Speaker 4: would be such a shock, but it would just give

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Speaker 2: Definitely.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel, like, Steve, this game is going

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Speaker 1: to set the tone for the rest of the season here.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's that's a good question.

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Speaker 4: I think it can set the tone, especially if it's

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Speaker 4: a positive game.

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Speaker 3: We have a positive outcome from it. But I think even.

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Speaker 4: If the guys go out there and they look at

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Speaker 4: the film and they say, man, we made some mistakes,

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Speaker 4: but man, we were flying around, we were playing our

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Speaker 3: We left it out there on.

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Speaker 2: The field, see the passion.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right right.

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Speaker 4: I think that can still you can still learn something

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Speaker 4: from that. But if guys a loaf from which I

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Speaker 4: don't think they're going to do under shopping, that's not

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Speaker 4: going to happen. He'll make some changes and you'll make

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Speaker 4: it to whear when they got in the field.

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Speaker 3: That he's proud of them and Broncos country is proud

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Speaker 3: of it. I like that.

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Speaker 2: It's a good way to put it. Yeah, well, see if.

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Speaker 1: There wasn't any practice today here at Central Health Training Center.

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Speaker 1: There was practice yesterday, and of course the guys will

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Speaker 1: return to the practice field tomorrow on Wednesday. But you know,

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Speaker 1: something that Courtland Sutton said on Monday really kind of

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Speaker 1: stood out to me. He was asked about Champayne's game plan,

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Speaker 1: and obviously it being Monday, they haven't really gotten to

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Speaker 1: the game plan yet, but he said the early bits,

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Speaker 1: the early pieces that he's seen from it, he's really

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Speaker 2: And I think all of us are just really excited.

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Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, I mean we only saw bits and

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Speaker 1: pieces of it in the preseason.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, with with the success that Sean Payton has had

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Speaker 3: I'm sure Cailing is looking at that, it's like look

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Speaker 3: at his child.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I just want to get half of that you know,

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Speaker 4: and again we've seen these.

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Speaker 4: So it won't be something new, it won't be a

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Speaker 4: but I think the standard will be will be higher.

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Speaker 4: Expect more to themselves this year than they have in

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Speaker 1: And we've seen Carland Sutton, he had a really good

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Speaker 1: are you hoping to see from him this season, Steve.

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Speaker 4: Well, the first thing is just to stay healthy, because

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Speaker 4: when he's healthy, he's he's tough to deal with as

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Speaker 4: a defender. And he's the kind of guy that you know,

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Speaker 4: he can block, he can catch, he can he can run,

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Speaker 3: He can go up and you know, make.

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Speaker 4: The circus catches, the key catches in the game, and he's.

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Speaker 1: Made some crazy catches out there. Yeah, yeah, he really has.

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Speaker 4: And he's he's a great leader for this team, not

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Speaker 3: You know, he leads the defensive guys.

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Speaker 4: The special teams guys, and the offensive player. They look

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Speaker 3: That he works.

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Speaker 1: Definitely, it will be interesting to see this how this

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Speaker 1: there's only four active wide receivers on the roster, and

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Speaker 1: of course don't know Jerry Judy status yet, but he's

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Speaker 1: still dealing with that, you know, hamstring injury.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's gonna be tough, and they'll have to

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Speaker 4: manage that. I'm sure he never know. I mean, they

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Speaker 4: a game day on the game day, uh, from the

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Speaker 4: and uh, it's just gonna be a matter of hey,

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Speaker 3: Can we get that run game going to where.

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Speaker 4: The play action pass can really make it a lot

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