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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 of Broncos Now As I

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Speaker 1: was with, Your host is Sidney Jones. And coming up

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Speaker 1: on today's episode, the Broncos got back in the win

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Speaker 1: column on a Sunday. We'll hear from head coach Sean

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Speaker 1: Payn and several players as they take a look back

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Speaker 1: at a Sunday's win in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Plus Broncos lead.

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Speaker 1: Writer eric alalaj Win's a show for a game recap

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Speaker 1: all that more Coming up the number Broncos got a

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Speaker 1: back on track on a Sunday in Los Angeles with

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Speaker 1: a twenty four to seven win over the Chargers, and

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Speaker 1: we heard today from inside linebacker Alex Singleton and running

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Speaker 1: back at Javonte Williams on what this bounce back win means.

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Speaker 3: You know, you got to win division games.

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Speaker 4: If you know, everyone wants talking about the playoffs and

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Speaker 4: all that stuff, but you know to get there, you

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Speaker 4: have to win division games. And you know this is

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Speaker 4: you know obviously the one on our schedule, you know,

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Speaker 4: for this last week, and you know, to go down there,

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Speaker 4: especially defensively that you know, we knew we could, you know,

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Speaker 5: It's huge. It's huge for confidence and you.

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Speaker 3: Know, to just build on to go into this week.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it felt real good.

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Speaker 6: I think this is my first time being one of

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Speaker 6: But it was a good win, dominating when we came

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Speaker 6: that's always good when we can do that in and

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Speaker 5: Ending the game.

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Speaker 1: Sean Pan also spoke to the media today and was

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Speaker 1: asked about the AFC playoff race. With six teams sitting

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Speaker 5: A game out in our division and and that's how

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Speaker 5: we're looking at it. Uh So, you know, we kind

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Speaker 5: pole is gonna obviously define a lot for a lot

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Speaker 5: you know, we we just got to focus on the

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Speaker 5: next the next job. But but it is unusual. I

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Speaker 1: Sean Payn also went on to talk about Titan Adam

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Speaker 5: Was a play that came off of a fourth than

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me today. Another win yeh, Broncos got

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Speaker 7: It was a fun one and it wasn't always perfect,

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Speaker 7: They took care of the Chargers, got a big win,

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Speaker 7: So as we approached the final four weeks of the season, it's.

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Speaker 1: An exciting time. Eric was their first Divisional road win

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Speaker 1: he said after the game that was one of their

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you'd put it right up there with

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Speaker 7: the Kansas City win at home. They played well across

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Speaker 7: John pay talked about being able to play the game

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Speaker 7: And let's be clear here, the Roncas had just as much,

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Speaker 7: great day punting the football which helped flip the field

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Speaker 7: and you know there's more to come, right there's Yeah, Hey,

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Speaker 7: can you beat the Raiders after the Raiders have beaten

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Speaker 7: But I think this team is mentally and physically strong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, going off that, Eric, I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: They came out and set a tone really early on.

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Speaker 1: You know that big stop on forts down after you

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you're right. A lot of it does

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Speaker 7: And just the ability to then respond when you do

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Eric, you know you mentioned Javonte Williams. His

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so I could save you some time if we

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Speaker 7: just talk about Courtland's catch and you just clip it

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Speaker 2: There's something to be said.

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Speaker 2: It's about putting that together.

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Speaker 7: And you know, this was a game too where I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric, you mentioned that seven minute drive. You know

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric is crazy to think sitting at seven and

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's still gonna be. I think a tough road

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Speaker 7: Certainly in good shape in the wild card standings. Bunch

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Speaker 7: That shows you again that mental and physical toughness and

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Speaker 1: It's been really impressive. Yeah, exciting stuff here for the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you coming on the showreck you got it said.

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Speaker 1: That's going to do it for today's episode of Broncos

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

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Speaker 1: in YouTube tomorrow for another episode.

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Speaker 2: I will see you all then,