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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country? Welcome back inside the uc Hell

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

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Speaker 1: and host Sydney Jones here and coming up. On today's episode,

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Speaker 1: the Broncos selected guard Dalton Reisner to be their candidate

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Speaker 1: for Walter Payon NFL Man of the Year, Plus CBS

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Speaker 1: fours romy Bean joins the show to give her insight

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Speaker 1: surrounding the team. All that and more coming up. It's

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Speaker 1: the player's day off here at the uc Hell Training Center,

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Speaker 1: so there was no practice or media press conferences today,

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Speaker 1: but the team announced this morning that guard Daln Reiser

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Speaker 1: was selected as this year's nominee for the Walter pay

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Speaker 1: In Man of the Year Award. The Walter Payon NFL

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Speaker 1: Man of the Year Award recognizes a player for his

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Speaker 1: outstanding leadership both on the field and in the community.

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Speaker 1: Don Reisner has been selected due to his work as

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Speaker 1: an athlete ambassador for a Precious Child, a nonprofit that

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Speaker 1: provides children in need with opportunities and resources to empower

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Speaker 1: them to achieve their full potential. He was also selected

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Speaker 1: due to his foundation work the Rising Up Foundation, the

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Speaker 1: team's community outreach opportunities and more and for today's guest

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Speaker 1: on Broncos Now, CBS four's sports reporter and anchor, Romy

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Speaker 1: Bean joins me here inside the Broncos podcast studio to

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Speaker 1: give her thoughts surrounding the team. Romy so appreciate you

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Speaker 1: joining me here. Thanks so much for being on the

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Speaker 1: show today. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to be on all year. I finally got my call up. Yes,

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Speaker 1: of course, I'm so happy to have you on. It's

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Speaker 1: always a pleasure and always so fun chatting with you.

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Speaker 1: It's always just so good seeing in the locker room,

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Speaker 1: no matter what's going on. It's true or Romy as

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Speaker 1: you know, it's been a kind of a tough season

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Speaker 1: here for the Broncos. You know, team sits at three

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Speaker 1: and nine heading into week fourteen. Kind of hard to believe.

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Speaker 1: It's already weak fourteen of the season. How's this season

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Speaker 1: been going for you so far? I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's the same thing as everybody you keep

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Speaker 1: going back to the beginning of the season. What makes

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Speaker 1: this season so tough is there were such high expectations.

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Speaker 1: It's the sixth straight losing season, but it feels more

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Speaker 1: pain full. I think for Broncos fans and you know,

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Speaker 1: for players, for everyone, for guys who have been here

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Speaker 1: for a while, because the expectations were so different. This

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Speaker 1: is the first season really since posted the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: fifty that they've gotten in with such high expectations. Were excited,

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Speaker 1: so excited, and that's what makes everything so much tougher.

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Speaker 1: And the offensive ineptitude and the struggles on offense put

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Speaker 1: it better that way. That's what makes it all the

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Speaker 1: more stunning because you finally got that pieces because for

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Speaker 1: years everyone's been saying the Broncos are quarterback in a

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Speaker 1: coach away. They got the quarterback, they got the coach,

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Speaker 1: and nothing is working. And yet what is still the

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Speaker 1: strong state of this team is the defense. All these

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Speaker 1: things that you didn't expect to be talking about week

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Speaker 1: after week. That's what makes it just really stunning. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think what's been so hard week after week

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Speaker 1: in where you know, they have a lead going into

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Speaker 1: you know, the second half, the third quarter in aren't

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Speaker 1: able to finish these games. Why do you think they

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Speaker 1: felt really really bad about that game winning touchdown the

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Speaker 1: Russell agreed after the game that it's not on the defense.

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Speaker 1: They this offense just means to score my points. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just can't subscribe to that. I understand. You can

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Speaker 1: pull out the stats. They've given up points in the

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Speaker 1: the other, whatnot. I mean, held the Ravens to ten points.

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Speaker 1: How many teams are they holding you know, third, what

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Speaker 1: absolutely depleted. But at the same time, as Justin Simmons

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Speaker 1: And so it's it's, you know, what's frustrating for them.

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Speaker 1: We saw that in the game this week. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's consistently a point of emphasis every single week. You know,

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Speaker 1: And it's to a point now where it's a great point.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to believe that you can do it now

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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos, that hasn't existed. That's not just this year, right,

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Speaker 1: And I've asked a lot of guys this and it's

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Speaker 1: And you know, he kind of had a broad spectrum

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Speaker 1: And so at this point most of the guys who

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Speaker 1: kind of see these kind of seasons, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: That's not a thing. But everybody in the NFL is

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Speaker 1: And so it's not it's not a talent issue, but

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Speaker 1: it is a culture. You look at the Ravens are

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Speaker 1: to find a way to build that culture. What that

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Speaker 1: because they're trying. They're trying different coaches, trying different players, right,

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Speaker 1: Now Broncos Country. Thanks so much for tuning in today

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