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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and Happy Monday. Welcome back inside the uc

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Speaker 1: Hell Training Center for today's edition of Broncos Now. Team

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Speaker 1: reporter and host Sidney Jones here and coming up on

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Speaker 1: today's episode, we'll hear from head coach Nathaniel Hackett as

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Speaker 1: he reflects on a Sunday's game, Plus Broncos lead writer

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Speaker 1: Eric Delala joins the show to take a more in

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Speaker 1: depth look at the Broncos win. All that and more

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Speaker 1: coming up. It's Victory Monday here at the uc Hell

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Speaker 1: Training Center. The Broncos got the win in primetime over

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Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty Niners, final score eleven to ten.

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Speaker 1: It was another dominant performance by Denver's defense. They've now

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Speaker 1: just allowed one touchdown in the past ten quarters. Head

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Speaker 1: coach Nathaniel Hackett spoke on their performance versu forty Niners

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Speaker 1: in the camaraderie in that group, those guys play so

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Speaker 1: well together. You know that that they've been in a

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Speaker 1: kind of a familiar system together, so which is always great.

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Speaker 1: And then there's a couple of new wrinkles that have

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Speaker 1: been thrown in there, and I think it's just great

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Speaker 1: to be able to get that communication done is huge.

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Speaker 1: And um, even with Justin Simmons not there, all those

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Speaker 1: to e Jero cp Uh, you know, Marcus Bert Pete

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Speaker 1: I think whenever you look at good defenses like just

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Speaker 1: have been consistently a very good football team and a

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Speaker 1: when you're starting to call some pressures and things like that,

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Speaker 1: everybody has to have their gap integrity, and I think

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Speaker 1: there were a lot of good instances of that, especially

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Speaker 1: job just playing together. And in terms of the offense,

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Speaker 1: coach I had discusses some of the struggle and miss

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Speaker 1: He emphasizes that it's just a transition period as they

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Speaker 1: continue to master this new system. Yeah, I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you look at it, you look at Russell's been

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Speaker 1: new fans, new press, h new system, new people that

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Speaker 1: you know, we're all working through all kinds of things.

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Speaker 1: I'm working through things with him on making sure I'm

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Speaker 1: calling the proper plays for him, um, that the players

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Speaker 1: And there's been some good and there's been some bad,

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Speaker 1: this offense is identity is. Yeah, I think that we

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Speaker 1: we just have to continue to execute it better. The

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Speaker 1: small things. We've got to make those easy plays when

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Speaker 1: his press conference today talking about the relationships on this team.

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Speaker 1: He said that it's something really special here in Denver

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Speaker 1: get those extra inches. Now, joining me here inside the

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Speaker 1: writer Eric Delala. Eric, Broncos get the win in prime time? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was an exciting game. Probably not what you want

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Speaker 1: that was a fun one. It was what a wild

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Speaker 1: final five minutes of the game. Eric, We predicted a

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Speaker 1: one point game, that's right. Yeah, we thought it was

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Speaker 1: be a defensive battle. San Francisco's really good, especially upfront,

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Speaker 1: and they challenged the Broncos all game long. Against the

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Speaker 1: but ultimately Russell Wilson did what we know Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: and then the defense did its part to keep the

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Speaker 1: defense first today. You know, they had another dominant, dominant

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Speaker 1: They had eight consecutive drives with a stop. They obviously

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Speaker 1: What do you think about his overall performances last game? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it worked. Um. There were no real delay a game penalties.

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Speaker 1: But I thought both challenges were pretty good calls. The

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Speaker 1: big deal on Sunday night. That's a really good sign.

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Speaker 1: Definitely awesome here for your Eric, how important and do

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Speaker 1: you think this win is for this team not only

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Speaker 1: That to me was really critical to maybe build some

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Speaker 1: I don't know this for sure, Sydney, but back in

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Speaker 1: The offense obviously doesn't look as good as it did

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Speaker 1: and maybe they can strain together some victories. We talked

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Speaker 1: I really think the way they want it, it's possible

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Speaker 1: this team gets on a roll. I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll spark a role as well. Eric. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: gotta love it. Well, that'll do it for today's episode

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Speaker 1: of Broncos Now Broncos Country. Thanks so much for tuning in,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you all will meet me right back

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Speaker 1: here onto the Broncos Podcast Network in YouTube tomorrow evening

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Speaker 1: for another episode. I'll see you all then,