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Speaker 1: What's Up Broncos Country.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back inside the Centurer Health Training Center for another

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Speaker 2: episode of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: As always, I'm your host Sidney Jones.

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Speaker 2: And coming up on today's episode, the Broncos held their

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Speaker 2: second practice.

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Speaker 1: Of mandatory Mini Camp.

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Speaker 2: We'll hear from head coach Sean Payon, all three coordinators

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Speaker 2: in Hall of Famer Steve.

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Speaker 1: Atwater joins his show All that more coming up.

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Speaker 2: The Broncos were back on the field Wednesday for their

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Speaker 2: second practice of mandatory Mini camp. On Thursday, will be

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Speaker 2: their last one before the players hit the road for

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Speaker 2: their summer break, and head coach Sean Payton talk today

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Speaker 2: about what the focus was at practice on Wednesday, So one.

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Speaker 3: More day tomorrow and then we break. We focused a

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Speaker 3: lot of situational stuff today. Third down, red zone obviously,

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Speaker 3: you know, gets a little chippy, and I liked how

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Speaker 3: we responded and got through the workout the messages. Look,

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Speaker 3: we gotta we gotta understand what we're trying to accomplish

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Speaker 3: as a team. And it's always Look, it's always the

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Speaker 3: challenge for the O and D lineman and and so,

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Speaker 3: and we also have to be able to understand discipline wise,

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Speaker 3: how to get to the edge but not cross the line,

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Speaker 3: and so games come up. We saw it last year

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Speaker 3: playoff run. I referenced to Cincinnati Bengals penalty late. You

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Speaker 3: know these You've got to train yourself mentally to get

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Speaker 2: We also heard from defensive coordinator Advance Joseph and this

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Speaker 2: Denver was the best fit for him.

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Speaker 4: Has been great obviously, but to have a chance to

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Speaker 4: work with Sean Payton was you know, it was a

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Speaker 4: good thing. Obviously I had some choices, you know, after

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Speaker 4: spot for me just to watch Sean, you know, on

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Speaker 4: it's been fun to watch. He's doing a great job

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Speaker 4: it's really strong. He spent time on his message and

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Speaker 4: it's been fun to watch him operate every day as

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Speaker 2: Plus head coach Sean Payton detailed why he loves having

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Speaker 1: The presence he has on the field.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's a commonness to him and professionalism to him

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Speaker 3: an extremely good communicator, and I think he's an extremely

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Speaker 3: it never gets mentioned, but dating back to even O

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Speaker 2: Plus, we heard from offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi, and he

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Speaker 5: You know, injuries are always a big deal. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Special teams coordinator Ben Kottweka also spoke to the media today.

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Speaker 2: It was also his first time meeting with the media

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Speaker 6: They're a great dynamic, right, So just the background there,

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Speaker 2: Now joining me here inside the Broncos podcast studio to

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Speaker 2: take a look at today's news is the Hall of

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Speaker 2: Famer mister Steve Water.

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Speaker 1: Steve's such a pleasure to have you on the show today.

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Speaker 7: See, I'm glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: It's always so fun when you're here.

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Speaker 2: Steve.

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Speaker 1: Another day of mini camp practice in the books.

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Speaker 2: I want to get your thoughts on what you've thought

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Speaker 2: of practice the past couple of days, and is there

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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, man, the thing that stands out to me

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Speaker 8: And I love that. I love that because, as we know,

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Speaker 8: full speed, and more times you can mimic that in practice,

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Speaker 8: in great shape. You know, the guys seem like they're

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Speaker 7: And I don't know.

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Speaker 8: The part of football that I love, you know, when

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Speaker 8: those small intricacies of the game. Definitely, and I've noticed that,

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Speaker 8: but you have a lot of attention to detail. Sean

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Speaker 2: Steve, there's been a main focus the past couple weeks

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Speaker 2: on situational football. You know, Coach has talked about that

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Speaker 2: these different end of half, end of game situations. Coach

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Speaker 1: For you as a player, Steve, you know, do you.

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Speaker 2: Like working on those type of things you know so

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Speaker 8: I love working on those situations because those are the

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Speaker 8: situations when you get a chance to make a play

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Speaker 8: And the more you work on them, the more it's

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Speaker 8: and the coaches will get a chance to say, hey,

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Speaker 8: which guy which Which of these guys is picking picking

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Speaker 7: That's a huge thing.

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Speaker 8: Sean Payton has said it's about every press conference that

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Speaker 7: Got to know what you're doing, and definitely that's super important.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the first time we heard from defensive

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Speaker 7: You know, this season, I just think it's going to

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Speaker 8: Vance Joseph's defenses have always been attacking. They've been aggressive. Uh,

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Speaker 8: they've made plays, uh, and he's uh. Sean Peyton said

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Speaker 2: It's cool to hear him talk about Justin Simmons and

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Speaker 8: The coaches they watch film, they watch their film and

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Speaker 8: that's uh, that's a very cool thing. And I think

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Speaker 8: that helps forge the relationship between the players that have

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Speaker 8: played for the coaches and the coaches because you know,

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Speaker 8: at the end of the day, UH, it's still about

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Speaker 2: Well, Thursday is the last day of mini camp practice

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Speaker 2: here before you know, the players and coaches they had

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Speaker 2: I know Coach Payton talked about a workout plan that

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Speaker 2: he has for the players over that break. Steve, was

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Speaker 2: that something you did when you were a player? Did

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Speaker 2: you have different workout plans you know throughout the month

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Speaker 8: Well, I didn't have different workout Well, I guess there

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Speaker 7: But yeah, my wife, she always knew that.

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Speaker 8: If we were on vacation or we were out of town,

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Speaker 2: A big focus is off season is specifically at the

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Speaker 8: If they have a running test or fitness test, they

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Speaker 7: Now let's get it going well.

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Speaker 2: On other news, Steve I know was announced this week

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Speaker 8: Yeah, super excited about it and really just so thankful

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Speaker 2: I know the team will also be honoring DeMarcus Ware

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Speaker 1: Two. But Steve, for those weekends for you guys, you know,

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Speaker 2: What's the best part about those weekends with everyone back together?

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Speaker 8: Well, really just seeing everybody and then obviously the stories

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Speaker 7: Like that, but okay, if you say so, that's that's

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Speaker 7: But we're gonna have a great time.

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Speaker 1: That's funny.

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Speaker 2: A couple of former teammates out here I practice today

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it was great.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he wants them around. And uh, you know, I'm

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Speaker 7: sure U it may call feel great because Carl.

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Speaker 2: Be a fun one to finish out, Brooki, Minie Brookie

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Speaker 2: Minni Caamp should be a fun one to finish out.

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Speaker 2: Mini Camp here tomorrow, Steve, always a pleasure having you on,

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Speaker 2: and we'll see you back here for training camp.

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Speaker 7: All right, thanks so appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Well, that'll do it for today's episode of Broncos Now

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Speaker 2: Broncos Country.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in.

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Speaker 2: I'll meet you right back here on the Broncos Podcast

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Speaker 2: Network and YouTube tomorrow for the final day of Mini Caamp.