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Speaker 1: Welcome back inside the uc Hell Training Center for another

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Speaker 1: episode of Broncos Now. Team reporter and host Sydney Jones

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Speaker 1: here and coming up on today's episode, we'll hear from

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Speaker 1: interim head coach Jerry Rossberg as he takes a look

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Speaker 1: back at Sunday's loss in Kansas City. Plus Broncos lead

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Speaker 1: writer Eric Dellala joins the show for a game recap.

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Speaker 1: All that more coming up here at the uc Hell

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Speaker 1: Training Center. Today, we heard from interim head coach Jerry

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Speaker 1: Rossberg as he reflected on the Broncos twenty four laws

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Speaker 1: to the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead this past Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen, We've been through a lot around here,

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Speaker 1: and our players have, coaches, have fans have. We recognize

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Speaker 1: that and we say thanks, We're grateful for all the

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Speaker 1: challenges we've had. Is just put it in a place

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Speaker 1: to improve ourselves and we've taken that attitude and for

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Speaker 1: all that is to come, Yes, bring it on. We're

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Speaker 1: looking forward to it. We're prepared. We're gonna make the

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Speaker 1: best of the situation that we are with you. And

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Speaker 1: I've really had a good vibe today when I was

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Speaker 1: with the team. The best way to describe it, I

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Speaker 1: think is that they're really disappointed. They're certainly not discouraged.

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Speaker 1: I challenged them to look at the tape with their coaches,

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Speaker 1: make their corrections necessary, and for all the good things

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Speaker 1: that are on that tape, it was not good enough.

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Speaker 1: So for all that we we're striving to be yesterday,

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Speaker 1: we want to do that and better. We need to

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Speaker 1: improve and I need to improve as a coach to

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Speaker 1: try to make that happen, and I'm committed to doing that.

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Speaker 1: So We're gonna have a great week of practice. I'm

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Speaker 1: really looking forward to getting back with these guys on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Things are early part of this week now are a

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Speaker 1: little bit more normal for them and the coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: I think our preparation will be a little better. On point,

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Speaker 1: we made too many mistakes down the stretch that hurt us,

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Speaker 1: and some during the early parts of the game as well.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Rossberg also went on to talk about Russell wilson

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Speaker 1: performance versus Chiefs on it Sunday and the success he had.

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Speaker 1: I liked the way it was set up by our

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Speaker 1: coordinator Clint Kubiak and we had lengthy discussions on what

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Speaker 1: this was going to look like. And while I will

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Speaker 1: certain we're not at a finished product yet. But we've

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Speaker 1: been taking consideration a lot of things when we make

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Speaker 1: our offensive game plans, of course, the opponent and where

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Speaker 1: we have players at certain positions, and Russell Wilson is

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Speaker 1: at the apex of that. You know, what does Russell

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Speaker 1: think I said to that in her last week. We

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Speaker 1: in to those things. And I really believe that happened

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Speaker 1: last week. And as I said earlier in this this gathering,

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Speaker 1: better next week. Rusperg also talked about what it meant

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Speaker 1: than he expected. You know, you never really know until

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Speaker 1: you get there, right. It's true with anything any new endeavor.

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Speaker 1: And when I walked out there after all the things

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Speaker 1: as a special teams coach, I'm in their early guy.

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Speaker 1: It was a great feeling. It was it was a

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Speaker 1: humbling moment of great gratitude that I could walk out

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Speaker 1: And somebody asked me, here last week, I think, are

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Speaker 1: C West, excluding a strike shortened season back in two

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Speaker 1: So Jerry Rossberg recognizes the importance of winning this game

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Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna ramp up the importance of

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Speaker 1: and is a goal of most teams in this league

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Speaker 1: natural path. The past games that this team has suffered

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Speaker 1: not where I'm looking I'm looking at this game as

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Speaker 1: I want to see our guys in the locker room

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Speaker 1: see their families. That's my goal. Now, joining me here

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Speaker 1: on today's episode of Broncos Now is a Bronco's lead

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Speaker 1: writer Eric Delala. Eric, Happy new year, Thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: me again today. Yeah, of course, a new year, new studio.

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Speaker 1: I know, I thought about changing up for the new year,

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Speaker 1: like well, Eric, it was a hard fought battle at

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Speaker 1: Arrowhead on a Sunday, you know the Broncos. They took

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Speaker 1: game for Jerry Osberg is in a round head Coach,

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Speaker 1: just I guess what we're kind of your main takeaways

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Speaker 1: I think it's impressive what the Broncos offense did before that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's an identity, and it can change week

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Speaker 1: at that point the play is just it's broken before

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Speaker 1: it even really again. So we heard Russell say, I

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Speaker 1: wish we could have that play back. Um, But hard

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