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Speaker 1: What's a Broncos Country. Welcome back to the Broncos podcast

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Speaker 1: network and YouTube for the latest episode of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: As always, I'm your host is Sidney Jones, and coming

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Speaker 1: up on today's episode, we'll hear from head coach Sean

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Speaker 1: Payton and general manager George Payton as they met the

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Speaker 1: media for their pre draft press conference. All that more

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Speaker 1: coming up on today's episode. With the NFL Draft just

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Speaker 1: one week away, head coach Sean Payton and a general

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Speaker 1: manager George Payton met with the media today for their

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Speaker 1: annual pre draft press conference. George Payton opened it up

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Speaker 1: today by giving an update on where the team stands

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Speaker 1: on their draft prep.

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Speaker 2: We've been busy in meetings, just broke three weeks of

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Speaker 2: draft meetings. Have been really impressed how the draft meetings

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Speaker 2: have gone, and really the entire draft process, just to communication,

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Speaker 2: to collaboration with coaches, scouts, really the entire organization. We've

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Speaker 2: had a lot going on, a lot of players coming

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Speaker 2: and going, so it's been all hands on deck and

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Speaker 2: it's been really impressive. Just in regards to the draft.

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Speaker 2: We feel good with where we have eight picks. We

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Speaker 2: have the twelve pick in the draft, one thing, we

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Speaker 2: know we're going to get a really good player at twelve.

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Speaker 2: We've had we've had teams call to move up, we've

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Speaker 2: had teams call to move back. We have flexibility, but

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Speaker 2: we do know at twelve, if we stay on pat

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Speaker 2: we're going to get a really good player.

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Speaker 1: Both Sean pay and George Payton discussed the potential of

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Speaker 1: moving up in the draft and what their philosophy is

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Speaker 1: on trading the future first round picks.

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Speaker 3: The hypothetical relative to what the compensation is is it's

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Speaker 3: it's a lot of times driven by who else is interested.

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Speaker 3: So is George, and he's he's talked to all these

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Speaker 3: teams in front of us, and obviously depending on how

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Speaker 3: much further you go up. And then it's also if

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Speaker 3: there's someone else doing the same thing, and so that

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Speaker 3: I think George said it best at the very beginning,

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Speaker 3: that certainly is a possibility and and uh, and then

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Speaker 3: it's how much you can pell it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would just say, if it's a player you

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Speaker 2: think can change the landscape of your organization moving forward,

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Speaker 2: like a quarterback, then you do whatever you take to

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Speaker 2: get them. And there's a consensus in the building and

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Speaker 2: love in the building, and you're aggressive and you try

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Speaker 2: to get them. Doesn't mean you're going to get them,

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Speaker 2: but you try. And so we're open to everything.

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Speaker 1: We're wide open Shaun and George. We're also asked about

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Speaker 1: their communication throughout the draft process and how they stay

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Speaker 1: focused on their vision.

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Speaker 2: You know, we have a difference of opinion whether Shawn, myself,

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Speaker 2: myself and another coach we just watch. We just get

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Speaker 2: more information, gather more information. Typically that involves watching more

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Speaker 2: tape together. We have group studies going on throughout our

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Speaker 2: building right now. For these clusters that I talked about

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Speaker 2: to try to break a tie, we have a you know,

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Speaker 2: so I would say it never, It rarely gets to

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Speaker 2: draft day. These discussions. We've had so many discussions. We

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Speaker 2: spend so many hours in our draft room that we've

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Speaker 2: had most of these discussions. Our board will have been set,

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Speaker 2: so that rarely comes up. In my twenty something years, we.

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Speaker 3: Have fun debate like we're we're playing around. I mean today,

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Speaker 3: there's called it three segments in each round, and there's

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Speaker 3: a group of players within the framework and we're discussing. Oh,

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Speaker 3: the middle of the fourth let's say these six players,

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, he and I on on on

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Speaker 3: But but they're right there and and so it's it's man,

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Speaker 1: And in other news, the Broncos off season program began

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Speaker 3: I don't know that it's ever happened before. But we

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Speaker 3: the simple message on Monday was that's what we're doing

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Speaker 3: right now. You know, it's not football right now. We're

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Speaker 3: getting our bodies and look, we're in the business is

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Speaker 3: selling you know, it's optional to be here. I think

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Speaker 3: the player today wants to be somewhere where they feel like, man,

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Speaker 3: if it's if it's a player who's coming off an injury,

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Speaker 3: that's not good. And so the purpose for that message

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Speaker 3: our job is to maximize your earning potential win games,

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Speaker 3: and the first step in doing that is keeping you healthy.

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Speaker 3: And so that dramatic of a turnaround in one year.

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Speaker 3: There's a ton of people that get credit for that.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, and so it began. And but I don't

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Speaker 3: I want them to feel like they're coming to get

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Speaker 3: that part of it's been good year.

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Speaker 1: Inside the Broncos Podcast studio is Broncos lead writer Eric Sala. Eric,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me. Finally we got some new stuff

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Speaker 1: to talk about here.

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Speaker 4: That's right said the always eventful pre draft press conferences

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Speaker 4: the draft.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's crazy.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, no specifics.

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Speaker 1: Were shared during the pre draft press conference, but it

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Speaker 1: was still nice to hear from head coach Sean Pain

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Speaker 1: and general manager George Payann. Eric, what were some of

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Speaker 1: your biggest takeaways?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, they talked a little bit about the quarterback position.

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Speaker 4: Obviously there were quite a few questions about that position.

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Speaker 4: Biggest storyline around this team right now is what is

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Speaker 4: this team going to do in the draft at the

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Speaker 4: quarterback position? Are they gonna get somebody at twelve? Are

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Speaker 4: they going to trade up to get somebody? Are they

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Speaker 4: gonna wait till later in the draft and use the

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Speaker 4: the big conversation around this team, and I think what

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Speaker 4: we heard from them on Thursday was similar to what

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Speaker 4: we heard at the NFL Annual Meeting, which is that

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Speaker 4: first of all move up the board is on the table.

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Speaker 4: They talked a little bit more in depth about that option,

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Speaker 4: just in terms of George Peyton saying, well, he was asked,

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Speaker 4: you know, is it tough to palate or to to

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Speaker 4: stomach giving up more first round picks after you haven't

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Speaker 4: had him the last two years, and he said, listen,

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Speaker 4: if that player is a franchise changing player and it's

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Speaker 4: going to change the landscape of your franchise, you do

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Speaker 4: whatever it takes to go get that guy. And so

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Speaker 4: you know, you don't know what the cost is going

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Speaker 4: to be yet. Sean Payton talked about it's all hypothetical

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Speaker 4: at this point. You look at some recent deals to

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Speaker 4: and you figure out what's palatable for you to do.

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Speaker 4: But it was interesting to hear George Peyton say, you know,

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Speaker 4: if it's that guy and there's a consensus and people

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Speaker 4: And so that was definitely a main takeaway for sure.

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Speaker 4: I think the other takeaway from a quarterback position is

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Speaker 4: that there's seven to eight guys that they like that

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Speaker 4: the wrong goo is also to take a quarterback later

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Speaker 4: So that was interesting from a quarterback perspective. And then

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Speaker 4: at twelve, in part sid because there's going to be

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Speaker 4: on offensive skill position players, a lot of receivers that

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Speaker 4: Chargers talk about the fifth pick kind of being like

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Speaker 4: the first pick in the draft. It's possible a defensive

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Speaker 4: This isn't necessarily what George Peyton talks about, but just

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Speaker 4: kind of general knowledge of what's going on. But there's

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Speaker 4: a chance with the twelfth pick you could get a

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Speaker 4: top tackle. There's some good options there if you stay

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Speaker 4: at twelve. But what George Payton did recognize is we've

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Speaker 4: got a hit on this pick, no matter who it is,

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Speaker 4: no matter what position. He mentioned, quarterback at a tackle,

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Speaker 4: and wide receiver. I think those are probably just the

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Speaker 4: first three positions as you go down a list on

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Speaker 4: of year when people do list specifics, what they say,

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Speaker 4: so he mentioned those three spots. But yeah, it's important

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Speaker 4: to get an impact player because you take a quarterback,

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Speaker 4: it's got to be.

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Speaker 5: The right guy.

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Speaker 4: You don't want to set yourself back make the wrong choice.

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Speaker 4: As George Payton said, if you don't take a quarterback,

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Speaker 4: you've got to make sure that whoever that player is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was interesting. I think it was

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Speaker 1: Sean who said this that George has talked to every

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Speaker 1: George even said that he's had teams call him to

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Speaker 5: But a lot of that is just it's figured out

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Speaker 5: You got it said.

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Speaker 5: Meet you right back here on the

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Speaker 1: Broncos Podcast, networking and YouTube, and next week following the draft,

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Speaker 1: I'll see you all then,