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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Broncos podcast network

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Speaker 1: and YouTube for the latest episode of Broncos Now. As

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Speaker 1: always from your host Sidney Jones and coming up on

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Speaker 1: today's episode, the Broncos continued their preparation as a head

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Speaker 1: out to Houston in just two days to face the Texans.

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Speaker 1: We'll hear from all three coordinators and quarterback patser Tan

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Speaker 1: a lot more coming up. The Thenver Broncos held another

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Speaker 1: day of practice here ads into a health training center

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Speaker 1: as they continue to prepare to face the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: this Sunday. Today we heard from defensive coordinator of Vans

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Speaker 1: Joseph about how impressed he's been with a Texans quarterback

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Speaker 1: c J. Stroud and what he's been able to do

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Speaker 1: as a rookie.

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Speaker 2: It's been amazing to watch. I mean, this guy is

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Speaker 2: playing like a veteran. It's poise obviously, it's it's it's

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Speaker 2: on point, you know. I mean, the pressure doesn't bother him.

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Speaker 2: Full man rush, three men rush, I mean he is,

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Speaker 2: he is playing at a high, high level. His accuracy

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Speaker 2: is very special. You know, if guys are open and

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Speaker 2: it's it's it's on your bodies, you know. Constantly. So

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Speaker 2: it's not a it's not luck, it's it's who he

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Speaker 2: is watching the tape. It's the reads, the accuracy, the poise,

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Speaker 2: it's it's it's all there, you know, So what you're

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Speaker 2: watching and what you're reading, it's it's for real.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback pats Ertan added to that, discussing CJ. Stroud's poison

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Speaker 1: the challenge that that presents for a defense.

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Speaker 3: You know, that's a great trait to have as a

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Speaker 3: quarterback when you were able to possess that poise, because

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Speaker 3: no matter what a defense in at you, you just

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Speaker 3: stay calm and collected. And that's what he does best.

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Speaker 3: He's able to stay patient in the pocket and delivered

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Speaker 3: to his outside weapons and on.

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Speaker 4: The other side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: Offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi talked today about the Texans defense

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Speaker 1: and what have you seen from them on tape.

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Speaker 5: I think there is a real solid defense. You know,

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Speaker 5: Demico is a guy that you know, we practiced against

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Speaker 5: in training camp when I was with the Chargers, and

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Speaker 5: you know, just one of those coaches you have a

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Speaker 5: lot of respect for. Fundamentally there he's always his defenses

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Speaker 5: are always really solid. I mean they just generally don't

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Speaker 5: beat themselves. They play hard. It's a scheme that's not

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Speaker 5: complex on first and second down, but it doesn't make

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Speaker 5: it easy to go against, you know, because they do

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Speaker 5: know what what their strengths are, and any defense they call,

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Speaker 5: they know where their weaknesses are and they know how

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Speaker 5: to kind of compensate for those weaknesses. They know how

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Speaker 5: you're going to try to attack them, and so it's, uh,

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Speaker 5: he's always been a challenging guy to go against, just

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Speaker 5: because they're just so well coached. They play hard, fundamentally

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Speaker 5: sound third down, it does become a challenge or pressure

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Speaker 5: package is tough to prepare for for sure. So just

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Speaker 5: you know, just a team that generally doesn't beat themselves

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Speaker 5: and makes you work to get drives and score points.

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Speaker 1: And in terms of the Broncos that Joe Lombardi discussed

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Speaker 1: the offenses at red zone efficiency last week and how

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Speaker 1: they'll look to continue that.

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Speaker 5: Like a lot of our scores, you know, Russ improvising

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Speaker 5: and scrambling around. You know, it's hard to plan that,

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Speaker 5: but something that I think we've been good at all year.

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Speaker 5: You know, running the football is always a priority down there.

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Speaker 5: Some of those quarterback runs were good for us. So,

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Speaker 5: you know, I don't know if I can point to

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Speaker 5: one thing. We just you know, executed well and got

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Speaker 5: than the normal. But you know, something we're working hard

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Speaker 1: As I've recorded twenty two takeaways so far this season,

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Speaker 1: a league high in defensive coordinator Vans Joseph spoke on

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Speaker 1: what's been key to those?

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Speaker 2: I think what's different with this group? Man, it's sick.

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Speaker 2: They're intentional with it every single day. You know, you

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Speaker 2: have teams you coach and you kind of coach taking

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Speaker 2: in practice. You know, no one goes by an opportunity

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Speaker 2: teams take to it and some teams don't. But this

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Speaker 2: a good job as a staff of showing them TV

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Speaker 2: cool to watch the slow mold, you know, and watch

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Speaker 2: On Thursday. We do that on Thursday and Thursday mornings.

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Speaker 2: So it's it's been fun to watch guys just take

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Speaker 1: And kicker Will Lutts was named AFC a Special Teams

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Speaker 1: up Player of the Month.

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Speaker 4: We heard from Special Teams coordinator.

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Speaker 1: Ben kottweek and Will LUTs himself about what this honor

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Speaker 6: Throw a shout out to Will Lutt's AFC Special Teams

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Speaker 6: Player of the Month. Well deserved honor. He's done a

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Speaker 6: tremendous job. And then Neat think about Will is he'd

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Speaker 6: be the first to tell you that's just not an individual,

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Speaker 6: that's that whole group. Snapper Holder and Riley and then

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's really cool. It's a unit awards for sure, Riley,

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Speaker 7: Mitch the Oline, I've been outstanding. I guess some credit

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Speaker 7: I'm sure Sean will tell you would rather be kicking

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Speaker 7: extra points. But all that aside, it's great hard work,

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Speaker 7: plays off, you know, and the three of us, Miss

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Speaker 7: and Riley have been working really hard to be able

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Speaker 1: And now it's time to look at today's injury report

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Speaker 1: that in Chris Manherts a defensive lineman Mike Purcell both

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Speaker 1: did not participate in today's practice. Wide receiver Jerry Judy, kicker,

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Speaker 1: Will Lutts, cornerback Damari Mathis, and wide receiver Marvin Mims

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Speaker 1: Junior we're all limited. An outside linebacker Baron Browning was

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Speaker 1: a full participant. Now joining me, you're on Broncos now

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Speaker 1: to take a look at this Sunday's matchup. From the

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Speaker 1: Texans perspective is Houston Texans analyst Harris John.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining the.

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Speaker 8: Show today, absolutely, Sidney, thanks for having me, of course.

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Speaker 9: Are how are you?

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Speaker 4: How are things down there in Houston.

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Speaker 8: Well, they've been a lot better than past Decembers have been.

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Speaker 8: It's been kind of a wild year to see this team,

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Speaker 8: a lot of young players, a rookie head coach, a

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Speaker 8: rookie offensive coordinator do some of the things that they've

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Speaker 8: been doing this year. You know, the last seven games

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Speaker 8: I think have come down to the last either walk

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Speaker 8: the last place. So it's been kind of crazy around here,

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Speaker 8: but really exciting and really excited for the Broncos to

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Speaker 8: come in here in a really big game, both teams

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Speaker 8: at six and five.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a really high stakes AFC matchup here

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Speaker 4: John, You know, I want to start by talking about CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud of course, I mean, he averages the most passing

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Speaker 1: yards in the league right now, he's breaking records left

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Speaker 1: and right, on pace to have honestly one of the

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Speaker 1: best rookie quarterback seasons that we've ever seen.

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Speaker 4: And so what has just made him so impressive to

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Speaker 8: I mean, you could talk about as intangibles just how

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Speaker 9: He never gets rattled with anything.

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Speaker 8: But I think just on the field, it's just his

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Speaker 8: pinpoint accuracy. And I do a lot of draft work,

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Speaker 8: and so I actually wrote up my scouting report on

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Speaker 8: him going into his last year at Ohio State, and

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Speaker 8: I was convinced that there were two guys that if

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Speaker 8: things had gone wrong here the Texans could look at

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Speaker 8: and Bryce Young and CJ.

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Speaker 9: Stroud. And I know a lot of people were.

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Speaker 8: Really upset by the Texans last year where they won

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Speaker 8: that Week eighteen game and they got bumped out of

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Speaker 8: the number one spot. And I said's okay, you get Bryce,

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Speaker 8: be okay. And I think CJ is coming here, and

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Speaker 8: he just he's taken. At first, he took what defenses

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Speaker 8: And he's gotten pretty good protection because offics coordinator Bobby

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Speaker 8: Slog has been really really good in finding what CJ

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Speaker 8: likes to do. And CJ can make the throws that

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Speaker 8: a lot of quarterbacks in the league, even guys they've

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Speaker 8: the flip side of that is you sometimes get cowenambered

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Speaker 8: And so he even talked about it in as press

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Speaker 8: conference on Wednesday, like, I've got to make sure that

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Speaker 8: I don't forget the boring stuff, as he called it,

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Speaker 9: At the age of twenty two, you can think everything's boring.

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Speaker 8: But there's that part of, hey, just take some of

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Speaker 8: the checkdowns, you know, Jacksonville left him some and he

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Speaker 8: got to find that balance again. But the fact that

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Speaker 8: makes them clutch moments into the first half when we

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Speaker 8: need a drive, I mean, after Jacksonville scored the other

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Speaker 8: day to take a twenty one to fourteen league You're like,

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Speaker 8: oh man, they just hit back.

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Speaker 9: Like what are we gonna do?

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Speaker 8: And he just throws a dime across the middle to

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Speaker 8: the money, and you're like, okay, So he answers big

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Speaker 8: plays from the other side. He's confident, he believes in

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Speaker 8: his wide receivers. He's really gotten honed in on Nico

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Speaker 8: Collins in Tank Dell and that's been really exciting to see.

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Speaker 8: But we always feel like we have a chance when

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Speaker 8: he has the ball in his hands, and that's always

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Speaker 8: a great that's a great spot to be in as

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Speaker 8: a fan base, as an organization when you know, no

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Speaker 8: matter what, we're down ten, we're up seven, we're down three,

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Speaker 8: there's thirty seconds, there's three minutes left.

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Speaker 9: He's gonna find a way to put.

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Speaker 8: Us in position to win a game or take it

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Speaker 8: over time like he did last week. He's been that

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Speaker 8: good as a rookie, like I've never seen sending anything

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Speaker 8: like this from a rookie, And hopefully it continues not

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Speaker 8: only this weekend, but on through the next how many

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Speaker 8: every years of his career.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 9: I don't have this guy on it. That guy, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I know. Russell Wilson of course, has gone up against

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Speaker 8: Well, you know, I think it's us that's really We're

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Speaker 9: Ben We've never beaten Russell.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Courtland's having a great season so far. He has

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Speaker 4: John, it's a pleasure having you on the show today.

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Speaker 9: That's my pleasure citing thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's going to do it for today's episode. A

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Speaker 1: Let meat right back here on the broad of this

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Speaker 4: I'll see you all then, mm hm