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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to the Broncos podcast network and

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Speaker 1: YouTube for the latest episode.

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Speaker 2: Of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: As always, I'm your host, Sydney Jones, and coming up

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Speaker 1: on today's episode, the Broncos held their final practice of

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Speaker 1: the week. Today, we'll hear from some younger players who

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Speaker 1: made Denver's initial roster and take a look at some

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Speaker 1: of the team's transactions today.

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Speaker 2: I'll add more coming up.

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Speaker 1: Broncos held their final practice of the week here at

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Speaker 1: centur A Health Training Center before the long weekend and

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Speaker 1: the start of the regular season, and following practice today,

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Speaker 1: we talked to a few of the younger players who

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Speaker 1: made Denver's initial fifty three man roster. Wide receiver Brandon

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Speaker 1: Johnson in defensive lineman Elijah Garcia. Both talked about making

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Speaker 1: the team in their time here in Denver last season, the.

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Speaker 3: Works just just now starting.

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Speaker 4: You know. You know it's hard enough to make the team,

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Speaker 4: but you know it's harder to stay.

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Speaker 3: So you know, stay on it, stay on your p's

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Speaker 3: and q's, and be on your.

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Speaker 4: Stuff every day I come out here, man, I just

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Speaker 4: try to be the best player I can be, And

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Speaker 4: for all those games, I really just wanted to enjoy

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Speaker 4: the experience of being putting an NFL jersey, on going

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Speaker 4: out there and just playing hard in front of my

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Speaker 4: friends and family. You know. So yeah, of course as

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Speaker 4: my main goal, you know, to make the squad and

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Speaker 4: I didn't want to like look too far ahead because

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Speaker 1: As we mentioned earlier this week, four undrafted rookies made

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Speaker 1: this year's initial roster running back Julia McLoughlin, tackle Alex Polcewski,

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Speaker 1: Titan Nate Atkins, and outside landbacker Thomas Incomb.

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Speaker 2: The team plays Poucheski on.

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Speaker 1: Injured reserve earlier today, but we did hear from the

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Speaker 1: three other guys. Following practice. Julia McLoughlin talked about making

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Speaker 5: It was definitely surreal, definitely a surreal moment of getting this,

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Speaker 5: knowing that I made the team. My mom was my

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Speaker 4: She was excited.

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Speaker 5: It's just a blessing.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 4: It was. It was definitely a great day.

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Speaker 5: I wanted to give it everything I had, no matter

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Speaker 5: the outcomes, no matter what happened, made the team, not

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Speaker 5: be able to say that I gave it everything that

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Speaker 4: From day one.

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Speaker 5: I want to come in and I want to work

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Speaker 5: everything else play itself out. And that's where that's where

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Speaker 1: So tight End Nate ad Cans discuss his Top thirty

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Speaker 1: visit here in Denver, talking with head coach Sean Payton

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Speaker 6: Coach Peyton was, you know, whenever I came on my visit,

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Speaker 6: And then I met with Decklan coach Doyle, and he said,

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm just trying to do my best to

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Speaker 1: An outside linebacker Thomas Incomb said he knew about Denver's

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Speaker 1: history of undrafted rookies making the team and discuss what

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Speaker 7: Just taking the day by day, coming in and just

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Speaker 4: Always come in, approach, approach you like a job.

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Speaker 3: You know, you come in, you have a job to do.

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Speaker 7: Great Manteo's man, Great Mantell's going in fan They tell you, like,

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Speaker 7: you need to fix your hand place, man, you need

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Speaker 7: to do this and that. Come out here and fix

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Speaker 1: The Broncos announced several transactions today. The team signed tackle

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Speaker 2: Now joining me here.

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Speaker 1: Inside the Broncos podcast studio was Broncos lead writer Eric Dalala. Eric,

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Speaker 1: today was the final practice of the week here for

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Speaker 1: the Broncos. Crazy to think next time they're back out

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Speaker 2: Gonna be game week, that's right, Yeah, Ed crazy, it's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when they're back out there, they'll begin ready for

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Speaker 3: the Raiders. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I know, well, Eric, you know the team announced some

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Speaker 2: Unfortunate for some of those guys to start the season there.

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Speaker 8: And so the fact that they decided to put him

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Speaker 8: it doesn't sound like any of these injuries are season ending.

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Speaker 3: We've seen PJ Lock.

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Speaker 8: Out there kind of running around a little bit, so

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Speaker 8: maybe he's a guy who comes back sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 8: We'll have to see, but yeah, I mean it's all

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Speaker 8: hopefully the Broncos get him back at some point. We

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Speaker 1: I know we've already talked earlier this week about Jerry Judy,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good point.

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Speaker 8: Young guy who obviously the Broncos have high hopes for,

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Speaker 8: month long timeline that Sean Payton mentioned when he underwent

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Speaker 1: Where it seems like the practice squad is, you know,

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Speaker 1: Today they added a new few guys, wide receiver Philip

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Speaker 8: Is it a guy like Dorset who's got that speed?

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Speaker 3: But clearly they saw something.

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Speaker 8: On tape they liked bring him in and develop behind

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Speaker 2: You mentioned undrafted.

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Speaker 1: You know we've heard we heard earlier in the show

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Speaker 1: highlight are tight end Nate Adkins in outside linebacker Thomas Inkomb.

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Speaker 1: We haven't really talked about them a lot, Eric, so

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Speaker 1: what it's really just impressed you about them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, see you next week for Game Week.

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Speaker 1: Well that'll do it for today's episode of Broncos Now

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Speaker 1: Broncos Country.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for tuning in.

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Speaker 1: I'll be off tomorrow, so I'll meet you right back

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Speaker 1: here in the Broncos Podcast Network.

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Speaker 2: And YouTube on Monday. See you all then,