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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to the Broncos Podcast Network on

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Speaker 1: YouTube for the latest 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: we'll take a look at some of the reports surrounding

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Speaker 1: head coach Sean Payton's coaching staff, and I'll take a

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Speaker 1: look ahead to the NFL Combine. All that and more

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Speaker 1: coming up. Joining me here inside the Broncos Podcast studio

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Speaker 1: for today's episode of Broncos Now is a Broncos fellow

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Speaker 1: team reporter at fil Melanie. Phil. Always a pleasure to

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Speaker 1: have you on. Thanks for joining me today. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me. Yeah, how's it going? Doing well? It's been

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Speaker 1: kind of quiet around here every since all the big

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Speaker 1: news with Sean Payton and his price conference on everything,

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Speaker 1: but a little bit at downtime is okay? I think yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's good. We're gearing up for a long

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Speaker 1: weekend here. Yeah, president's today. No, nothing too crazy. You're

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Speaker 1: not just hanging out projects around the house, that kind

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Speaker 1: of thing. After a season, you gotta have something, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: You got along to do list though, exactly. Well, Phil,

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Speaker 1: Hopefully within the next coming days we'll have some news

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Speaker 1: um surrounding head coach Sean Payton's coaching staff. It's like

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, I mean, no official hirings yet. It's been

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Speaker 1: really slow around here. Yeah, it could be a long time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, who knows when some of these things might

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Speaker 1: get finalized. I know that when Champaigne was making his

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Speaker 1: media arounds at the Super Bowl, he said one of

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Speaker 1: the things that he learned when he was with the

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Speaker 1: Saints was take your time hiring your staff, and uh,

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Speaker 1: he's certainly doing that now and there's no rush, uh, certainly,

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Speaker 1: but you want to make sure you get the right

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Speaker 1: And uh, I think that anytime you're trying to turn

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Speaker 1: Saints his first year there and certainly now here with Denver,

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Speaker 1: the staff is really crucial just because they're the ones

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Speaker 1: who are interacting with the players, you know, really closely

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Speaker 1: what he wants them to teach. Yeah, definitely, Phil, You know,

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Speaker 1: there's been some growing rumblings this week just about potential Canada,

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Speaker 1: with the latest well, Mike Gara follow from the league's network,

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Speaker 1: he was reporting that Rex Ryan is sort of the

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Speaker 1: favorite candidate here and that's an interesting choice obviously, a

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Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen, but he has the resume, you know,

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Speaker 1: and he was a defensive coordinator with the Ravens prior

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Speaker 1: is surprising just because he hasn't been coaching right now.

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Speaker 1: But Rob Ryan, his brother was a part of the

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Speaker 1: make our jobs a little more interesting, uh sending you know,

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Speaker 1: gonna ask George Paynton or Champaynton about Jerry Judy his

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Speaker 1: that Chapain likes to do. Obviously alvit Kamara is like

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Speaker 1: a unique talent, but if they could get somebody in

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Speaker 1: Or maybe another wide receiver who's sort of that elite

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Speaker 1: a little scarier. Yeah, a spark for the offense. And

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Speaker 1: then to me pass rusher when I when I look

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Speaker 1: So I think that you have to be able to

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Speaker 1: they need another pass rusher just because Randy Gregory's had

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Speaker 1: in a little bit of a tough spot just with

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Speaker 1: And so especially if Draymond doesn't come back, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback, especially if the Broncos are trying

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Speaker 1: to play this um higher higher scoring games, you know,

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Speaker 1: means a lot more passing, uh. And if the Broncos

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Speaker 1: You gotta get the pass rush going. So I feel

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Speaker 1: like the secondary is in a good spot. I feel

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Speaker 1: like if they bring back Alex Singleton, maybe the linebackers

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Speaker 1: then on the offensive side, that's the side of the

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Speaker 1: it would not surprise me if one of those first

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Speaker 1: them doing something like that too. Well, Sean Payton and

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Speaker 1: George payon their hands, I love it, Yeah, Manning Sean

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Speaker 1: Payne and there's too many, too many Payton's endemo but

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Speaker 1: differing and all spelled differently. Yes, they definitely have their

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Speaker 1: hands full. Yes, off season, but looking forward to see

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Speaker 1: what they'll do. Yeah, hopefully we'll learn a lot more

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Speaker 1: from some news out there in Indie. Yep, I think

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Speaker 1: we will. Well, they'll appreciate you joining the show. Always

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Speaker 1: always a pleasure. Thank you. Well that I'll do it

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