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Speaker 1: What's Up, 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, the Broncos first week of OTA

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Speaker 1: practices is in the books. We'll hear today from head

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Speaker 1: coach Sean Payne and several players. All that more I

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Speaker 1: mean up Broncos. The first week of OTA's is complete.

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Speaker 1: Today's practice was open to the media and following it,

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Speaker 1: we're from head coach Sean Payn as he detailed how

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Speaker 1: the first week went.

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Speaker 2: There's always that transition the first week the rookies will

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Speaker 2: come in, they'll lift separately, and then you know that

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Speaker 2: second week there's that transition period where you know they're

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Speaker 2: in with the ninety one. But I thought overall, the

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Speaker 2: week went well and we tried to and this is

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Speaker 2: important for everyone. We try to split up all the reps,

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Speaker 2: so there's going to be a time where you read

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Speaker 2: into the reps. I don't think it's early in OTAs.

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Speaker 1: Plush On went on to talk about how we approaches

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Speaker 1: the quarterback competition between Jared Sidham, Zach Wilson, and Bow Nicks.

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Speaker 2: We had it in New Orleans after Drew left with

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Speaker 2: and with Well it was with Teddy and Taysom. Look,

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Speaker 2: we we we go by what we see. We try

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Speaker 2: to get him as many reps as possible. We rotate.

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Speaker 2: We're rotating all of them right now, you know, So Monday, Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: excuse me, you know, Steady ran with the ones and

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Speaker 2: then Zack and then and then Bow and we'll keep

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Speaker 2: doing that right now.

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Speaker 1: Plus, we also heard from quarterbacks Zach Wilson and Jared

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Speaker 1: Stidham today and they also talked about how the quarterback

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Speaker 1: competition is going so far.

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Speaker 3: Personally, I think competition brings out the best in anybody.

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Speaker 3: You know, I look forward to what we have. You know,

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Speaker 3: I appreciate the ownership and from the top down, you know,

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Speaker 3: just for the opportunity to be here to compete. I

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Speaker 3: think it brings out the best everybody.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been and it's been fun. It's been exciting,

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Speaker 4: you know, having having two new guys in the room.

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Speaker 4: This is the first time I've been to vet in

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Speaker 4: the room, so that's been that's been fun and exciting.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean this is a business. I understand

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Speaker 4: how this thing goes, but it's been it's been fun

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Speaker 4: to compete and that's what we're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: Today was also the first time we saw some of

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Speaker 1: the new veterans on the field and the guys the

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Speaker 1: Broncos signed in a free agency and we heard specifically

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Speaker 1: from safety of Brandon Jones and wide receiver Josh Reynolds

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Speaker 1: after practice and they both talked about how they've adjusted

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Speaker 1: to Denver and what the transition has been like.

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Speaker 5: I think, I think trying to trying to figure out

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Speaker 5: the plays, but I mean, at this point, you know,

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Speaker 5: kind of been been been at a couple of teams,

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Speaker 5: so a lot of it kind of carries over and

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Speaker 5: then uh, you know, i'd say the altitude, you know,

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Speaker 5: that's been a little tough.

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Speaker 6: I'm always looking up for growth in every aspect of

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Speaker 6: my game, whether it's blitzing man coverage, you know, playing

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Speaker 6: high anything, just trying to prove to everybody my teammates

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Speaker 6: that I could do kind of do whatever I need

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Speaker 1: Now, joining me here inside the Broncos podcast studio is

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Speaker 1: Broncos lead writer Eric Dala. Eric, thanks for joining me.

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Speaker 1: First full week of OTA practice in the books.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, nice to get out there and watch the Vets

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Speaker 7: and the rookies practice side by side, get another taste

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Speaker 1: Will be here before now. It's crazy. I know you

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Speaker 1: can't go into too many details, Eric, but what'd you

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I thought one of the guys that stood out to

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Speaker 7: went up to Kroll toward the end and said the

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Speaker 7: media is all look in at their roster right now

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Speaker 7: and looking up who's eighty five and said it won't

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Speaker 7: be long before people know that name. Obviously, the Broncos

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Speaker 7: need somebody to emerge at that tight end position as

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Speaker 7: in recent years. Greg Dolcich was on the side field

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Speaker 7: It's going to be sooner rather than later. But obviously

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Speaker 7: him back, but with kind of injury issues that Dulsich

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Speaker 7: I believe in that New England game as the Broncos

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Speaker 7: I think if you're looking at just top individual days,

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Speaker 7: year is going to be no different. Bow Knicks did

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Speaker 7: get the first team reps on this Thursday. John Payton said,

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Speaker 7: don't pay too much attention yet to reps. There will

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Speaker 7: and who's going first, who's going second, he said early

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Speaker 7: He did share with us. I think to make that

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Speaker 7: of tell how they how they performed. I would say

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Speaker 7: do think it's notable that they're spreading them out equally.

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Speaker 7: and I think that goes back to what Peyton Manning

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Speaker 7: Peyton obviously played his whole rookie season through twenty eight

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Speaker 7: look at a guy like Patrick Mahomes. He sat his

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Speaker 7: for it to be over. Yeah, but John Peyton talked

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Speaker 7: He pointed to Green Bay kind of the same way

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Speaker 7: It doesn't sound like no matter what sean, it feels

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Speaker 7: noticeable or a notable rather and the fact that they

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Speaker 7: split first team reps that stood out to me.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. We also heard today from Jared Sidham and Zach Wilson,

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Speaker 1: first time we've heard from Zach Wilson, first time he

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Speaker 1: talked about the quarterback competitions and you know, competition is healthy.

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Speaker 1: So that was great to hear just from them. We

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Speaker 7: Eric, Yeah, and I think one thing that stood out

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Speaker 7: from each of them. For Stidham, it's that he's really

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Speaker 7: if you think about an advantage that he has over

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Speaker 7: Nothing's gonna have changed, same coaching staff, same playbook. And

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Speaker 7: I think that's where his benefit is just getting the

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Speaker 7: But he's not just gonna sit down, lay down and

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Speaker 7: ready to fight for it. I think that's the right

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Speaker 7: be consistent every day in terms of knowing the playbook,

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Speaker 7: making the throws, leading the offense. I think we all

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Speaker 7: know and you could see on Thursday the arm talent

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Speaker 7: that Zach Wilson has. I mean, he made some throws

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Speaker 7: it's can you be consistent? Can you avoid the mistakes?

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Speaker 7: He mentioned that avoiding turnovers, and so the fact that

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Speaker 7: got to be consistent. I've got to know this playbook

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Speaker 7: every single day. That stood out to me from him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and for him too, this is just a fresh

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Speaker 1: And he even spoke about that too, like has a

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know, we heard Peyton Manning talk about

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Speaker 7: it on Wednesday night again that Sean Payton is a

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Speaker 7: great coach, has a great system for quarterbacks to come into.

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Speaker 7: Peyton joked that it's a system he'd want to play

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Speaker 7: in himself, and it can be a great second chance

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Speaker 7: for Zach. It's clear that you know, he's not leaving

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Speaker 7: But for him, it does seem like, based on all

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Speaker 7: having a clear slate is important and now these quarterbacks,

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Speaker 7: all of them have to go out and prove it.

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Speaker 7: Seohn Payton said, they're kind of like orphaned dogs in

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Speaker 7: terms of, you know, just having to find a new

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Speaker 7: out in a previous spot. Obviously, Jared Sidams played different places,

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Speaker 7: Zach Wilson. We know bo Nix had to transfer from

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Speaker 7: who can win the job?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, it would be fun to watch that play out. Eric,

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Speaker 1: and then we saw some of the new veterans out

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Speaker 1: Lebi Wallace, Josh Reynolds. We heard from Brandon Jones and

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Speaker 1: Josh Reynolds afterwards too. Where were kind of takeaway from that?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think they both have interesting experiences, vantage points,

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Speaker 7: whatever you want to call it, in that they joined

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Speaker 7: Josh Reynolds's case, they were in this kind of same

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Speaker 7: And obviously both teams were able to do that to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well only the first week of OTA's Eric, what

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, especially at the quarterback position, just take

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Speaker 7: But that'll really stand out to me. Just how do

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Speaker 7: these quarterbacks continue to progress, especially Bo who is just

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Speaker 7: and that he's looked good. But again, progress is the

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Speaker 7: and I'll be excited next week following week in mini

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Speaker 7: right now, said me too. It's all about the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: It is, of course. Oric appreciate you joining the show today.

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Speaker 1: You got it, said, let's going to do it for

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Speaker 1: this week's episode of Broncos Now Broncos Country. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for tuning in. I'll meet you right back here

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Speaker 1: on the Broncos Podcast Network in YouTube for another episode

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Speaker 1: next time. I'll see you then,