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Speaker 1: What's a Broncos Country and Happy Friday. Welcome back inside

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Speaker 1: the uc Hell Training Center for another episode of Broncos

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Speaker 1: Now to a reporter and host Sydney Jones. Here and

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Speaker 1: coming up. On today's episode, we'll hear from head coach

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett as he gives the final injury report ahead

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Speaker 1: of the Broncos a Week ten matchup in Nashville. Plus

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Speaker 1: Broncos lead writer Eric de Lala joins the show for

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Speaker 1: a game preview. All that and more. On tonight's episode,

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Speaker 1: Broncos hit the road to head to Nashville, Tennessee tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: They are set to face the Titans on a Sunday

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Speaker 1: at eleven am Mountain time. We heard from head coach

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett today for the last time before Sunday's game,

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Speaker 1: and he discussed how he's prepared the team for this

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Speaker 1: physical matchup. It's funny as a coach, you present it.

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Speaker 1: You present all the different things that you want to

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Speaker 1: attack through the game plan, you present the mentality that

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Speaker 1: you're going to be facing each week. And every team

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Speaker 1: is physical. I mean every team wants to be physical.

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Speaker 1: We want to be physical. The Titans want to be physical.

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Speaker 1: Um that's what you're always preaching. Uh you never know

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Speaker 1: till game day, but it's made aware that that's what

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Speaker 1: this team, you know, really thrives on. Plus go. Chack

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Speaker 1: had talked about what he and the team learned about

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Speaker 1: winning on the road in London. I mean, I thought

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Speaker 1: it was it's such a different experience because we were

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Speaker 1: there for so long. I thought it was great for

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Speaker 1: our team to get away, to be able to bond,

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Speaker 1: to have tons of meals together and and hang out

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Speaker 1: and being a you know, a foreign land. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there were so many great things about that, and I

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Speaker 1: love that trip. I've done it a lot of times.

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Speaker 1: But it's just good to see those guys come together.

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Speaker 1: I Mean, we look at, you know, all these games

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Speaker 1: been very close games and we're a couple of plays

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Speaker 1: down to. Guys gotta make plays. Big time players make

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Speaker 1: big time plays and big time situations. And as we

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Speaker 1: wrap up the top news of the day, let's take

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Speaker 1: a look at the final injury report. Co Chack had

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Speaker 1: ruled outside linebacker Baron Browning, wide receiver kJ Hamler, and

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Speaker 1: An offensive lineman Kim Fleming and safety Justin Simmons are questionable.

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Speaker 1: Coachack had also said that cornerback Darius Phillips, outside lineback

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Speaker 1: questionable with an illness. Co Chacket went on to update

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Speaker 1: the media on cam Fleming's injury and why the team

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Speaker 1: has suffered so many hamstring injuries this season. It's a

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Speaker 1: if he's able to be able to compete out there,

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Speaker 1: if he can go. UM, we obviously we don't want

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Speaker 1: but we want to be sure that he's able to

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Speaker 1: test it and do what's right. So we'll continually evaluate that.

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Speaker 1: We've got really good people here and everybody's doing everything

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Speaker 1: we can to get these guys to be out in practice,

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Speaker 1: in the games and be able to play at a

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Speaker 1: high level. Um, those things that they happen, it's part

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Speaker 1: gonna do everything we can to prevent that. Now, joining

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Speaker 1: writer Eric Dalila for eight game preview. Eric, Happy Friday,

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Speaker 1: first and foremost, thanks for joining me today. Thanks, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Yeah. Well, Eric, seems like there's been some

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Speaker 1: I'm getting ready for a football game. It feels like

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Speaker 1: it's been a long time since the Broncos have played,

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Speaker 1: win this football game. Eric, We've heard a lot of

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Speaker 1: nothing insurmountable here. I think the Broncos can still win

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Speaker 1: despite missing these guys. Eric. One topic that's been, you know,

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Speaker 1: So that's part of it. But I think the bigger

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