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

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Speaker 1: YouTube for the latest episode of Broncos Now as always

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Speaker 1: from your host, I Sidney Jones and le Broncos hit

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Speaker 1: the road to head to Los Angeles A tomorrow. We'll

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Speaker 1: hear from head coach Sean Payn today for the final

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Speaker 1: time ahead of Sunday's matchup, and Broncos lead.

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Speaker 2: Writer Eric Delaladrod's a show for a game preview. All

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Speaker 2: that more, I mean out the Nuver.

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Speaker 1: Broncos hit the road to head to Los Angeles A

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Speaker 1: tomorrow for an AFC West showdown of verst the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: We heard today from head coach Sean Payn as he

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Speaker 1: met the media for the final time of head a

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Speaker 1: Sunday's matchup, and he talked about how they look to

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Speaker 1: address some of the miscues that they had last week

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Speaker 3: One thing that I've learned, and as a young coach,

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Speaker 3: I was poor at this. When you're just getting started,

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Speaker 3: you address everything always. You don't realize it when you're

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Speaker 3: doing that. By addressing everything always, you're not really addressing

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Speaker 3: anything then. In other words, so with wisdom and experience

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Speaker 3: you learn to you learn what to ignore and what

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Speaker 3: to clean up and correct so that the points you're

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Speaker 3: making are noticeable. And so the same thing after a game,

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Speaker 3: like you know, something will happen on a play and

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Speaker 3: the coaches will be talking well, and they're over on

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Speaker 3: the sidelines and I said, we're not running that again. Stop,

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Speaker 3: let's get onto the net. You know, we'll clean that

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Speaker 3: up next week. Now, if there's something that is a staple,

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Speaker 3: you know, a basic but but you know, learning what

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Speaker 3: to ignore, what to correct, and then and then examining.

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Speaker 3: I think as a teacher, we always have to examine

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Speaker 3: the why. You know, did we explain it well enough?

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Speaker 3: Did we cover it well enough? How could we have

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Speaker 3: done a better job ourselves?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 3: And so if you hand out a test to your

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Speaker 3: then you have to look at yourself. So when we

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Speaker 3: if we we always say this in the staff, meaning

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Speaker 1: He also talked about how this team is approaching the

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Speaker 3: Here, look you your preparation, your attention to d all

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Speaker 3: of that is consistent.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: In other words, you know your routine and your schedule

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Speaker 4: On the opponent. But I don't think.

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Speaker 3: I don't think you're you're necessarily changing things because you

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Speaker 3: know you're in this routine and look, when those games matter,

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Speaker 1: I would say, let's take a look at this week's

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Speaker 1: a final injury report. Running back some ma JP rein

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Speaker 1: me on today's episode for a game preview is Broncos

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Speaker 1: lead writer Eric Dalala.

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Speaker 2: Eric, thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 4: You got it said.

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Speaker 1: We got a big AFC West matchup on the road. Eric,

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Speaker 1: should be a fun one. I know the Broncos have

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Speaker 4: It really has.

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Speaker 5: And certainly the Broncos they struggled a lot since Super

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Speaker 5: how the team responds after a loss to Houston. In

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Speaker 5: It's been hard for this team to just get off

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Speaker 5: here about Ronca's ability to go on the road snap,

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Speaker 2: Definitely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric, we heard earlier in the show from head

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Speaker 5: I think the communication is the big thing, and just

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Speaker 5: So have the Broncos found a way to make sure

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Speaker 4: Those things are all important.

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Speaker 5: But I think on the road in particular, it's it's

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Speaker 5: And Sean Payton talked about that, I believe Monday he

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Speaker 4: Got some points.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric, specifically on offense. You know, who do you

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Speaker 1: want to see step up for this Broncos team.

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Speaker 5: JP Ryan right, he's listed as questionable, did not practice

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Speaker 5: And I think that starts with Javonte Williams obviously, and

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Keenan Allen is He's a good football player. He

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Speaker 5: Catches a lot of passes, gets a lot of targets.

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Speaker 5: Herbert's numbers aren't quite where they've been the last few years,

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Speaker 5: has the ability to extend plays, has that mobility which

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Speaker 4: Can't just kind of tee off.

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Speaker 5: You've got to be aware of his ability to get

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Speaker 5: so that a big Keenan Allen play goes for fifteen

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Speaker 5: just the huge chunk plays. There were two plays of

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Speaker 5: There're some ones over twenty five yards, and it just

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Speaker 5: that one play can can mean points because you know,

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Speaker 5: one fifty two yard pass puts you in field goal range.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't matter if you get another first down, and

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Speaker 5: so can you prevent that from happening, because then you're

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Speaker 5: you know, even if you're perfect from there, you're still

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Speaker 5: I look at, is you find a way to stop

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Speaker 5: The offense fired up in the second half against Houston. C. J.

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Speaker 5: we saw them adapt really well. The Broncos, but they've

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Speaker 5: They can put up, thirty five points, they can put

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Speaker 5: think if I trust this defense, if you make them

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Speaker 1: Eric, I know I ask you this every week, but

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Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to ask you. You know, what

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Speaker 1: would a win mean for this team at this point

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we're at a point where le Broncos

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Speaker 5: so you know, Sean Payne has talked before about nameless,

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Speaker 5: it doesn't matter if it's justin Herbert. You know, you've

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Speaker 5: just got to have a good plan and go in

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Speaker 5: even if all the other results around the league go

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Speaker 5: in the like playoff standings, you wouldn't. I think it'd

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Speaker 5: I think, like we said after the game, had that

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Speaker 2: Definitely.

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Speaker 5: This isn't as early as a kick. It's at one

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Speaker 4: And then coming out of halftime.

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Speaker 5: We've heard Sean Payton, he just said on Friday, at

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Speaker 5: so good before the half and at end of games

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Speaker 5: Can they find that success there? Broncos are close to

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Speaker 5: to go play clean football. Could football get back to

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Speaker 1: Hopefully they'll take that next step this weekend. I feel

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Speaker 1: good about it, Eric, I'm excited for the game.

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Speaker 4: Should be a good one. I think it'll be close.

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Speaker 5: I think it'll be exciting and a win would be

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Speaker 2: Well, Eric, appreciate you coming on the show today.

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Speaker 1: I said, Well, that's going to do it for today's

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Speaker 1: episode of Broncos Now Broncos Country.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for tuning in.

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Speaker 1: Meat you right back here on the Broncos podcast network

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Speaker 1: and YouTube.

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Speaker 2: Monday following the game. I'll see you all then,