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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside the uc Hell Training Center

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Speaker 1: for another episode of Broncos Now. Team reporter and host

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Speaker 1: Sidney Jones here and coming up. On today's episode, head

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Speaker 1: coach Nathaniel Hackett takes a look back at Sunday's win

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Speaker 1: over the Arizona Cardinals, plus Broncos lead writer Eric de

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Speaker 1: Lala joins a show for a game recap, all that

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

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Speaker 1: Hell Training Center. The Broncos now sit at four and

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Speaker 1: ten after defeating the Arizona Cardinals to fifteen this past

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Speaker 1: Sunday out in power Field at Mile High. The offense

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Speaker 1: one unanswered points in the second half. Head coach Nathaniel

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Speaker 1: Hackett spoke today on how the offense was able to

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Speaker 1: adjust at halftime. I think the guys have done a

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Speaker 1: really good job. We went in, We've gone in with

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Speaker 1: that the defense made versus I think we were able

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Speaker 1: and maybe completely throw something out and do something completely new.

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Speaker 1: I think referring just to this game, it was we

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Speaker 1: wanted to really push the run game. I thought that

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Speaker 1: was something that the guys did a great job on

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Speaker 1: And every week it's different. Every every single time you

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Speaker 1: go out there, it's different matchups for us, it's been

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Speaker 1: different players on offense. Also, as you're trying to figure

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Speaker 1: those guys out, make sure you're putting them in the

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Speaker 1: right spot. You might go into do it with the

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Speaker 1: but you don't know until you go out there. So

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Speaker 1: that's our job and that's the fun part about this game.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know you love scoring points at the

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Speaker 1: second half. We just want to put it together for

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Speaker 1: four quarters. We saw the offense commit to the run

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Speaker 1: game in the second half, finished the game with a

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Speaker 1: hundred in a sixty eight rushing yards, and head coach

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett talked today about how that was the key

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Speaker 1: to their success versus Cardinals. I think that was something

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Speaker 1: that as an offense, especially that second half, and I

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Speaker 1: give so much credit to Justin out and he was

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Speaker 1: forcing the run. Uh, Clint uh calling it and Butch

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Speaker 1: it and whenever you can get in a rhythm. We

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Speaker 1: past game, but it also goes with the run game. Uh,

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Speaker 1: to be able to call a run and get a

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Speaker 1: back to that same run or or get to a

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Speaker 1: thought that those guys all adjusted well. I thought LaTavia

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Speaker 1: he was the eraser. He made a guy miss and

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Speaker 1: I went for some yards. We were going outside inside.

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Speaker 1: There was just a lot of things that we mixed

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Speaker 1: As Broncos defense has recorded eight picks in the last

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Speaker 1: three weeks, and as we know, head coach Nathaniel Hackett

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Speaker 1: gives this defense credit weekend and week out, and today

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Speaker 1: it was no different. They've got a tenacity about them

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Speaker 1: communicating there, talking, they're understanding the differ route concepts. I

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Speaker 1: think you, Jero, CP all all those guys have done

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Speaker 1: in the end, it's about those players going out there

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Speaker 1: and executing. And those guys are playing at very high level.

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Speaker 1: And it starts with the rush. I mean, it goes

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Speaker 1: studio is Bronco's lead writer Eric D. Lalla for a

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Speaker 1: game recap. Eric, we finally get to talk about a win.

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Speaker 1: That's right about time. It's been a while. Victory Monday

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Speaker 1: at last. I love it. Well, there is a lot

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Speaker 1: to talk about today, Eric, you know, I want to

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Speaker 1: some of the adjustments they made at halftime. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett said in his postgame press conference, he went

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Speaker 1: Obviously there was some protection issues there in the first

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Speaker 1: It was not a method that was gonna work for Denver.

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Speaker 1: They weren't gonna be able to score points by dropping

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Speaker 1: as good a rushing performance as we've seen all season

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Speaker 1: And obviously with Russell Wilson coming back this week, you're

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Speaker 1: it's got to give the Broncos confidence to see that

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Speaker 1: gotta keep it going now. But a really encouraging performance. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: nice for him. Eric. You know, you mentioned we're gonna

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Speaker 1: to go this weekend. But what did you think overall

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Speaker 1: of Brett Rippin's performance here? Yeah, I mean, um really efficient. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: I thought he managed the game well, Sidney. Obviously you

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Speaker 1: UM And obviously you know he did what he needed

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Speaker 1: And so for Brett, he started against the Jets. Before that,

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Speaker 1: ball hawks the last three weeks and hopefully they can

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Speaker 1: keep it going. Yeah. And I know last week Passer

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Speaker 1: Now he's got another one, UM, and back to back games,

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Speaker 1: And nice to see the Broncos get rewarded with one win.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully there's more to follow. Yep. I agree, definitely something

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