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Speaker 1: Hello, Broncos Country, Welcome back for another episode of Broncos Now.

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

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from quarterback Russell Wilson, head coach Nathaniel Hackett,

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Speaker 1: and safety Justin Simmons as they discussed Russell's return to Seattle,

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Speaker 1: their excitement four week one and more. We are now

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Speaker 1: just four days away from the Broncos season opener in

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Speaker 1: Seattle on Monday Night football versus the Seahawks, So of course,

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Speaker 1: the main storyline this week is Russell Wilson's returned to

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Speaker 1: his former city to face his former team. Russell spoke

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Speaker 1: with the media today and said he has nothing but

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Speaker 1: there and play. First of all, um, you know, my

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Speaker 1: experience in Seattle was uh one of a kind, you know,

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Speaker 1: ten ten years. I couldn't imagine those, you know, those

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Speaker 1: and how many games we want and how many amazing

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Speaker 1: So I'm think of all those memories and everything else

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Speaker 1: and the joy of that and the gratitude of that

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Speaker 1: and then also, um, we got a football game in place.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to just get out there and play again.

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Speaker 1: You know, I love this game. UM. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: passionate about it. And I guess a lot of great

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Speaker 1: teammates and a lot of guys I'm super close with

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Speaker 1: another side, So it'll be a great battle. It will

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Speaker 1: definitely be an experience I've never experienced before. UM, But

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Speaker 1: it also be experience that I'm gonna enjoy the journey

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Speaker 1: of it all and know my focus is gonna be

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Speaker 1: I was playing our best football that we can possibly

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Speaker 1: play against a really good football team. And that's what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to do. And so to UM, to

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Speaker 1: to play a great game, you can't be um. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can have passion, you can you know, have some

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Speaker 1: emotions and all that be can't be emotional, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's just part of the Head coach Nathaniel Hackett

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Speaker 1: and safety Justin Simmons were also asked about Russell's return

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Speaker 1: needs to go out there and execute. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: That's exciting, you know, just in its own I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously he is going back to where he

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Speaker 1: gotta go out and execute. It doesn't matter who or

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Speaker 1: most important thing is getting to win, right, and any

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Speaker 1: extra motivation you know that you can add, you know,

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Speaker 1: the rust going back to where he's won so many

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Speaker 1: our end, we also went on to discuss his expectations

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Speaker 1: start thinking about everything else, or you know, detailing this

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Speaker 1: worry about that, you're wasting time. You know, I don't

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Speaker 1: think winners don't waste time on on things that have

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Speaker 1: is on what what does it take to win? Today's practice?

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Speaker 1: out there and executing every play. Now, let's welcome fellow

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Speaker 1: team reporter Phil Malani into the Broncos Podcast studio. Phil,

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining me today. Thank you for having me,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Excited to have you on Broncos now every

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Speaker 1: single week. Yeah, ready, looking forward to it. Yeah, me too. Well, Phil,

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Speaker 1: I know this is your season here with the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: You were here during the Peyton Manning era Super Bowl fifty.

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Speaker 1: Does this week Week one feel any different to you?

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Speaker 1: This season? Excitement? Yeah? I mean I think that after

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Speaker 1: we heard from Russ earlier in the show about his

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Speaker 1: conference earlier. I think that it's gonna be emotional for him.

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be emotional. I mean it just is and uh,

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Speaker 1: I think that as long as you could say, look,

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Speaker 1: Let that muscle memory kick in. I think he'll be okay.

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Speaker 1: you gotta just recognize, look, this is a little bit

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Speaker 1: most defo. I mean Russ has been such a consistent

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Speaker 1: We also heard a lot of talk about how coach

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Speaker 1: You know, Justin Simmons said that he and Kareem have

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Speaker 1: I think that Russ probably knows some of their guys's tendencies,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's like that. Well, Phil, I know

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Speaker 1: What do you think about that? I don't know. I

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