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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country. Welcome back inside the UC held

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Speaker 1: Training Center for Monday's edition of Broncos Now. As always,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Sidney Jones, and the team was back

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Speaker 1: at practice today here in Denver following their second preseason

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Speaker 1: game this past Saturday. It was a tough one in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: The Broncos backups couldn't keep up with the Bill's starters,

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Speaker 1: and NFL forty two to fifteen head coach Nathaniel Hackett

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Speaker 1: detailed what went wrong on Saturday and what his message

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Speaker 1: to the team was. I think, first and foremost is

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to learn from mistakes. I mean, that's what

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Speaker 1: you have to get out of that. Otherwise that whole

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Speaker 1: game was a complete waste. Um. So I think that

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Speaker 1: just for them understanding what we're trying to accomplish mentally

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Speaker 1: in each rep is so important and you want to

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Speaker 1: get all that stuff out right now during the preseason,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully we got a lot out during that game.

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Speaker 1: One thing I'll say I liked is I like that

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Speaker 1: the offense kept battling defense finally got a couple of

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Speaker 1: stops there at the end. But you know, in the end,

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Speaker 1: that's what we want to be about when it comes

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Speaker 1: to physicality. You know, across the board, I think everybody

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Speaker 1: can be more physical. But it looked like they were

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Speaker 1: thinking too much. There was too much on their minds, um,

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Speaker 1: and they were just simple things that you know when

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Speaker 1: we come out here, you know, I wish we would

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Speaker 1: get some of those looks, and there were just some misalignments.

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Speaker 1: And in the starting point is always alignment and assignment

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Speaker 1: for for defense, for offense. It's just here in the

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Speaker 1: call and known where to line up and UH and

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Speaker 1: then execute. So those basic things, for whatever reason, did

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Speaker 1: it work. So we have to evaluate, you know, all

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Speaker 1: those guys. Those guys have to evaluate their process to

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Speaker 1: get ready for that game because we can't put that

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Speaker 1: stuff on tape. That's that's not what we're about. Inside

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Speaker 1: linebacker Josie Jewel also address the media today and discussed

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Speaker 1: what the young guys can learn from Saturday's mistakes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you want, you want to go out there and help

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Speaker 1: that one drive stop and help him out. But this

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Speaker 1: is part of the process learning, um, you know, learning

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Speaker 1: an experience too for some of those young guys, so

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Speaker 1: it's part of the process. We saw the run game

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Speaker 1: third two yards on seven team carries in average one

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Speaker 1: isn't worried really, just because I know the coaches keeping

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Speaker 1: a right to play something. They don't want to show

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Speaker 1: it so much in the preseason, so you really too

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Speaker 1: much worry about it now. Moving on to this week,

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Speaker 1: it is the final week of the preseason, so Coachacket

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Speaker 1: said he's going to change the schedule at a bit

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Speaker 1: to mock what a game week would look like in

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Speaker 1: the regular season. So what we're gonna do is we're

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Speaker 1: gonna change kind of how we'd go through this week

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Speaker 1: rhythm during a regular week. So we'll have Today's kind

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Speaker 1: Chacket announced that the current plan for Saturday's game we'll

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Speaker 1: look the same as it did last weekend versus Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: So no new starters, will play in this final preseason game,

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Speaker 1: and Josie Jewel added that he isn't worried about getting

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Speaker 1: no game reps this preseason. He's confident in the guys

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Speaker 1: um and if you do it smart and you do

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Speaker 1: as you do that, um, you know, things will show

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Speaker 1: So just kind of being a vet and taking those

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Speaker 1: Now joining me here inside the Broncos podcast studio is

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Speaker 1: Broncos lead writer Eric de Lalla. Eric, appreciate you joining

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Speaker 1: me on the show as always. Yeah, last week of

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Speaker 1: heard earlier in the show coach hackets frustrations from this

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Speaker 1: But Eric, wanna know what were your main takeaways from

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Speaker 1: the game on Saturday. Yeah, we'll start there with the

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Speaker 1: lack of physicality. I do want to say, let's be

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Speaker 1: careful about not equating a lack of physicality with a

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Speaker 1: Their jobs are on the line. You know. It's not

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Speaker 1: like it's um Bradley Chubb out there justin Simmons, guys

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Speaker 1: I thought. But I wanted to say that first because

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hacki is right. The physicality was not good enough.

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Speaker 1: And we heard Josie Jewel talk about out Hey, starters

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Speaker 1: Those things, to me don't really matter because it's preseason.

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Speaker 1: to keep it in perspective because last year, as Nathaniel

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Speaker 1: Hackett mentioned, Packers did not play well in the preseason.

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Speaker 1: appreciate you saying that you're because I think a lot

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Speaker 1: you for making that point. Yeah, it's it's hard. I

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Speaker 1: well and this is the first You know, the Bills

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Speaker 1: But what you have to remember the Broncos went three

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Speaker 1: know it's hard. We haven't seen Russell Wilson. We want

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Speaker 1: to see Russell Wilson play. We want to see the starters.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to get that for a couple more weeks.

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Speaker 1: It'll be okay, Everything will be fine. Yes, there were

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Speaker 1: some positives on Saturday, though, you know, Brett Reppon came

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Speaker 1: what did you think about some of those guys performances

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Speaker 1: who's going to be the backup quarterback um Montreal. Washington

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Speaker 1: Can he take hits? And so far what we've seen

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Speaker 1: from him is that he's really tough as well. He is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he'll take a hit and bounce right back up. It's impressive.

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Speaker 1: Eric Tomorrow, there's another round of cuts. The roster sits

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Speaker 1: currently at eighty four players. They have to get it

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Speaker 1: down to eighty by two pm Mountain time tomorrow. So

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Speaker 1: was there anyone in this last preseason game that you

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Speaker 1: thought really stood out that might have you know, improved

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Speaker 1: round of cuts. Um, I think you look at um,

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Speaker 1: which is good. Delarian Turner Yell. I thought came up

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