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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country? Welcome back inside the u c

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Speaker 1: L Training Center for another episode of Broncos Now. Team

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Speaker 1: reporter and hosted Sidney Jones. Here and coming up on

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

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Speaker 1: all three coordinators as they spoke to the media today.

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Speaker 1: Plus I'll have the latest injury report in Cardinals. Team

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Speaker 1: reporter Danny Surrect joins the show. Take a look at

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Speaker 1: this matchup from the Cardinals perspective, all then more coming up.

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Speaker 1: It was another day of practice here at the uc

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Speaker 1: face the Arizona Cardinals this Sunday out in power Field

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Speaker 1: at Mile High. Head coach Nathaniel Hackett gave another update

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Speaker 1: on Russell Wilson. He was limited at practice today. He

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Speaker 1: of course, remains in concussion protocol and they're taking it

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Speaker 1: day by day. Coach Hackett was asked today about how

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Speaker 1: they're approaching practice this week with Russell and Brett Rippon. Again,

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Speaker 1: it's a combination. We're playing it day by day, minute

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Speaker 1: making sure we're getting ripped ready. Also. Offensive coordinator Justin

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Speaker 1: Nowen also spoke on Brett Rippon's performances past Sunday a

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Speaker 1: versus Chiefs and what he hopes he can build upon

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Speaker 1: if he is the one that starts at this weekend.

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Speaker 1: I thought he carried the system well. I thought he

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Speaker 1: had a no flinch mindset. Um, you know, when guys

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Speaker 1: and just running the offense. Coach Owen also went on

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Speaker 1: to discuss Russell Wilson in this offense is performance this

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Speaker 1: past Sunday, it being arguably their best outing of the season.

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Speaker 1: It's the Russell we all know and love. It's the

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Speaker 1: guy that's going to take the team on his shoulders

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Speaker 1: and do whatever he can to get the ball out

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Speaker 1: or use his legs. And um, you know, I got

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Speaker 1: flashbacks when we used to play him back in the

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Speaker 1: day of just him running down the field and going, oh, no,

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Speaker 1: here we go. But now we're on his side, so

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Speaker 1: it was a better situation. But it was exciting to

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Speaker 1: and just taking off on a few of those. But

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Speaker 1: when those crucial situations, you'd love to have a guy

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Speaker 1: And looking ahead to this weekend, a defensive coordinator, he

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Speaker 1: Jerry Vero, spoke on what he's seen from Cardinals quarterback

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Speaker 1: Colt McCoy in Arizona's receiving corps. Cool. We were with

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Speaker 1: him in San fran way back when. And uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: smart guy, very decisive, he plays very fast, gets the

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Speaker 1: protection issues last week, so we'll see how to adjust

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Speaker 1: from that standpoint. Um. But he's a very good player

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Speaker 1: and it's been in this league for a long time

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Speaker 1: a very um what's the word, I'm looking for a

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Speaker 1: Hopkins is a great player. Obviously, a J Green can

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Speaker 1: Special teams coordinator Dwayne Stokes also spoke to the media

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Speaker 1: today and discussed his impressions of Montreal Washington and how

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Speaker 1: job executing obviously on punt um. We got back to

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Speaker 1: and that's the most important part. Yeah. I commend Montreil

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Speaker 1: mechanics and provide explosive returns for our offense. But at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, we wont win a game.

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Speaker 1: And last but not least, coach I get detailed what

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Speaker 1: injury report. The only changes from yesterday's report are quarterback

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Speaker 1: reporter Danny Surrect to take a look at this matchup

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Speaker 1: from the Cardinals perspective. Take a listen, Danny, So nice

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Speaker 1: to see you again. Thanks you so much for joining

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Speaker 1: me today. Thanks for having Tony excited to talk about

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Speaker 1: this matchup. Yeah, of course, how are things going over

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Speaker 1: wild off season and season so far four nine. Definitely

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Speaker 1: not with the Cardinals were expecting to be at this

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Speaker 1: point in the season. Long list of injuries slurred to

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Speaker 1: the Crocos, but losing a franchise quarterback and Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: Monday next game against the Patriots for a year with

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of similarities in this matchup this weekend,

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Speaker 1: this weekend's game. We obviously will see how Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: progresses this week. But Danny, you mentioned it. Kyler Murray,

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