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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back inside Center Health Training Center

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Speaker 1: for today's episode of Broncos Now, as always been your

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Speaker 1: host of Sidney Jones and coming up on today's.

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Speaker 2: Episode, the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: We're back at practice today as they prepare to face

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns at in power Field at Mile High

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Speaker 1: this Sunday. We'll hear from head coach Sean Pann, quarterback

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson in safety of.

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Speaker 2: Justin Simmons as they all look ahead all that more

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Speaker 2: coming out Broncus.

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Speaker 1: We're back at practice today as they prepare to host

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns at in Powerfield at Mile High this Sunday.

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Speaker 1: We heard from head coach Sean Pann and quarterback Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson as they discussed Cleveland's defense and the challenge that

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Speaker 1: they'll pose.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I think this defense Cleveland, I mean they

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Speaker 3: fly around Obviously. Miles is a tremendous football player. He's

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Speaker 3: playing some of the best football in the National Football League.

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Speaker 3: I got a lot of respect for me how he

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Speaker 3: plays the game. He's tough, his physicals, fast, athletic.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he can do everything. You know.

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Speaker 3: I think you know, they got a lot of great

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Speaker 3: players on defensive side. Denzil Award's a great player.

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Speaker 4: They got.

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Speaker 3: It's an experience across the secondary two as well, and

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Speaker 3: their linebackers fly around.

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Speaker 4: It's a really good defense. Big Big Areas.

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Speaker 3: Two is a good football player, and so they've got

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Speaker 3: a lot of players that can do a lot of

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Speaker 3: great things. I think the best thing for us just

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Speaker 3: staying on schedule. You don't want to get in third

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Speaker 3: and longs against these guys because their pass rush is

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Speaker 3: real and we want to be to you know, slow

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Speaker 3: them down by just you know, staying on scheduling first

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Speaker 5: We're playing really good defense first in the league and

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Speaker 5: in a lot of categories.

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Speaker 6: But He's He's he's something else.

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Speaker 1: And going off of that, head coach On Payan and

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson talked about how this offense will look to

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Speaker 1: be more efficient in the red zone.

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Speaker 5: First off, we've got to improve in that area, you know,

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Speaker 5: when we feel like you know, typically you want to

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Speaker 5: you want to have balance and you want to be

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Speaker 5: able to run it, especially when you get in those

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Speaker 5: tight quarters. But it's one of the areas that we

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Speaker 5: talked about offensively, you know, then I just finished with

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Speaker 5: the team. There's a number of things still that that

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Speaker 5: we've got to work on and improve, and that's one

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Speaker 3: I think we're making our plays and crucial moments, and

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Speaker 3: I think it's just you know, staying on schedule. If

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Speaker 3: we that first down play is really critical that.

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Speaker 4: We're not going backwards, you know.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's the big thing about the red zone,

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Speaker 3: And I think we I think we got a really

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Speaker 3: score some points. I think the best thing about it though,

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Speaker 4: Has to be, is is uh the.

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Speaker 3: Incremental gains every week. You know, we want to get

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Speaker 3: better as especially as the season goes on. The way

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Speaker 3: our defense is playing, we love it. Uh They're stopping, stopping,

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Speaker 3: you know, getting turnovers and everything that's giving a short field.

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Speaker 4: And we've played some really good teams over the.

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Speaker 3: Past several weeks too, and they do some good things

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Speaker 4: And so I think for us as you.

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Speaker 1: With this being an important AFC matchup. Head coach Sean

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Speaker 1: Pain and a safety Justin Simmons were asked about the

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Speaker 6: It's hard in this league.

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Speaker 5: You know, Periodically something will come up and my wife

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Speaker 5: will say, well, that's when we're playing the Chargers, and

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Speaker 5: think really the focus is inward and and and on

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Speaker 6: Enough that were they prepared to you know, why? Why

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Speaker 5: And so you can't wait to get back to work

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Speaker 5: that the questions are coming.

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Speaker 6: It's better than the alternative.

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Speaker 5: And yet there's just so many things that we've got

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Speaker 5: teams that you know, the twenty teams, let's say that

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Speaker 5: that do that better will be rewarded.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, confidence is as out of all time high. And

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Speaker 7: I think, you know, for the guys in the locker room,

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Speaker 7: it should be. There's no reason you shouldn't go into

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Speaker 4: For us man, and it's just I was sharing it.

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Speaker 7: I think after the after we just got done playing

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Speaker 7: handle the lows and the highs almost the same. And

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Speaker 7: so you know, starting the season the way that we did,

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Speaker 7: then when you're winning, you can't overreact, overhype, control the

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Speaker 7: and just keep working because just because you won, you know,

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Speaker 7: and you got to be able to prove it week

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Speaker 7: you should have confidence with that too, and there should

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Speaker 7: be some momentum with that. But it's only like I said,

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Speaker 7: And so that's the mentality for us every week.

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson added to that, discussing how he helps lead

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Speaker 4: I think there's a few think too.

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Speaker 3: I think first of all is you know, if you

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Speaker 4: The reality is that if you cheat treat every.

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Speaker 3: Week as if it's the most important week of your

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Speaker 3: to know that these challenges, these opportunities are just gifts

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Speaker 3: and opportunities and blessings to be able to play the

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Speaker 3: every week. And so you know, you don't you don't

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Speaker 3: you know, and I think that's your mentality. You supposed

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Speaker 3: And that's the thing, you know, we want to be

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Speaker 3: the best thing you can do is have great fundamentals

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Speaker 3: rising if we can have great fundamentals, great detail, great communication,

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Speaker 4: That's the formula to success.

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Speaker 3: And especially as the season goes on in crunch time

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Speaker 3: and people are writing about you talking about what if

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Speaker 4: This is where they can go. All that is just

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Speaker 3: But the thing is is that to be able to

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Speaker 3: balance it, it's just focusing on the details in the

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Speaker 3: is when it's when it's when it's Titan's crunch diame

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Speaker 3: and it's it's fun to play good football.

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Speaker 2: Now it's time to take a look at today's injury report.

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Speaker 2: Safety PJ.

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Speaker 1: Locke did not participate in practice today, Inside linebacker Josie Jewel,

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Speaker 1: all full participants. Now joining me here inside the Broncos

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Speaker 1: podcast studio for a more in depth look at today's

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Speaker 1: news is a fellow reporter, film Milani Phil Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining me on this Wednesday for you.

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Speaker 8: Sure, thank you. For having me happy.

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Speaker 2: Thanks you, Happy Thanksgiving to you. Phil.

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Speaker 8: Do anything tomorrow, just playing a turkey in the oven,

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Speaker 8: you watching some football maybe so should be good for me. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: it should be fun.

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Speaker 2: It should be fun.

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Speaker 1: We'll Phil looking at a Sunday's matchup. This is a

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Speaker 1: big one, big one for the playoff picture here.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it seems like as the Broncos can keep winning

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Speaker 8: like this every week that you keep going, the games

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Speaker 8: get bigger and bigger, and certainly against the Browns team

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Speaker 8: that is going to be wild card competition most likely

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 8: This this is a big one for any potential tie breakers.

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Speaker 8: You know that's looking way down the road. But of

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Speaker 8: course do something that you know, these games against your

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Speaker 8: conference are a little bit bigger.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of players and even head coach

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Speaker 1: On Payton talked about that today, Phil, about how they're

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Speaker 1: not really looking at the big pictures week by week

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Speaker 8: Yeah, he said that that sort of helps you just

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Speaker 8: stay in your flow and like focus on the task

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Speaker 8: at hand. You know, he's that helps with the preparation,

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Speaker 8: not thinking too far ahead. He said, Oh, like his

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Speaker 8: wife was trying to play something and he's like, oh.

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Speaker 8: She was like, oh, that's when we play a Chargers

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Speaker 8: and he was like, what, I don't know when that is. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: he's locked in all on the Browns.

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Speaker 1: Well, I know, you know, of course, quarterback Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 1: He's played in a lot of meaningful games in his career,

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Speaker 1: and you know, he was asked just how as a leader,

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Speaker 8: I think that they're giving up just one hundred and

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Speaker 8: I know that Marvin Mims. Everybody's so eager to see

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Speaker 1: Definitely, it's going to be important to be more efficient

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Speaker 8: Yeah, red zone is going to be crucial because this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Phelick, you mentioned Jaquon McMillan sticking there in

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Speaker 1: There will be practice tomorrow on Thanksgiving, Phil, but no media. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So no Broncos now tomorrow.

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Speaker 8: Yes, fun, thankful for this is a good Broncos team. Wins.

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Speaker 8: I think just like talking you know, meaningful football, talk

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Speaker 4: Me too.

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Speaker 2: I am as well.

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Speaker 4: Bill.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining the show, I.

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Speaker 8: Said, happy, Thanks you having happy, thanks you having everybody.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's going to do it for today's episode, Broncos Country,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in.

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Speaker 2: There will not be a show tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: So I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and

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Speaker 1: I'll meet you right back here on the Broncos podcast.

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Speaker 2: Network and YouTube of Friday afternoon. See you all then,