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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside Center a Hell training center

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Speaker 1: for another episode of Broncos Now. As always, I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Sydney Jones, and coming up on today's episode, the Broncos

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Speaker 1: welcome the Los Angeles Rams to town for their first

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Speaker 1: joint practice. So we'll hear from head coach Sean Payn,

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Speaker 1: quarterback of Russell Wilson, and a cornerback passer Tan as

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Speaker 1: they discussed the day went all that more. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: The Broncos welcome the Los Angeles Rams to town today

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Speaker 1: for their first joint practice, and head coach Sean pay

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Speaker 1: In detailed what he thought about today's work.

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Speaker 2: Well, have a lot of film to cover, obviously, I

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Speaker 2: thought overall, just again, I'm on half the field. We

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Speaker 2: got two real good special team periods done and then

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Speaker 2: quite a bit of team work with a seven on

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Speaker 2: seven finished with a two minute drill. I would say,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to guess how many plays, but a

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Speaker 2: I thought both teams handled it really well.

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Speaker 1: We also heard from quarterback Russell Wilson today as he

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Speaker 1: discussed what he likes about these joint practices.

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Speaker 3: It's great to you know, go against another great team.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's for them to come out here and

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Speaker 3: let's get that work. You know, we always go against

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Speaker 3: each other and we make it competitive as possible, but

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Speaker 3: to go against another team, you know, obviously, you know

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Speaker 3: I've played the Rams a bunch and just been around

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Speaker 3: coaches and players and everything else. But you know, it's

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Speaker 3: also great for us players to just wake up in

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Speaker 3: the morning and know that we got we got a

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Speaker 3: little competition today, let's get after it.

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Speaker 1: So that was great, and according to Sean Payton, these

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Speaker 1: joint practices are so valuable for players that are competing

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Speaker 1: for roster spots.

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Speaker 2: You get different looks, so you get used to your

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Speaker 2: get a whole new set of formations defensive fronts obviously,

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Speaker 2: you get a whole new set of players that do

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Speaker 2: things differently. So you know, in a game, you're gonna

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Speaker 2: get things that maybe haven't covered in you know, today,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we're gonna look at plays both sides of

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Speaker 2: but I think the that variety is important. And then

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Speaker 2: and then it also allows you. I mean, these are

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Speaker 2: huge reps for so many players that are competing for

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Speaker 2: roster spots, so these practice snaps are invaluable. You know,

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Speaker 2: this this would be like a preseason game really when

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Speaker 1: Plus cornerback passer ten also talked about the joint practice

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Speaker 1: today and the challenges that the Rams offense presented.

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Speaker 4: It's pretty cool going against another team instead of hurting

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Speaker 4: each other, you know, joking, but yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 4: just good work, good competition, you know, just seeing different

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Speaker 4: things schematically against different teams. Yeah, a lot of shifts,

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Speaker 4: a lot of emotions, a lot of pre snap emotions,

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Speaker 4: you know, and us as a defense, you know, we

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Speaker 4: like that that does a lot of those things. So

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Speaker 4: you know, that's the main thing we got to work on,

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Speaker 1: So Russell Wilson also detailed whether he thinks the team

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Speaker 1: gets more out of these joint practices than preseason games.

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Speaker 3: I think both matter. I think any time you step

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Speaker 3: between the white lines, whether it's a walk through, practice

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Speaker 3: a game, you should have the same mentality, you know,

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Speaker 3: and that's to get better every day. And we're looking

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Speaker 3: for incremental gains every day, you know. And so you know,

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Speaker 3: just having having gratitude to play the game that we love,

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Speaker 5: And and get better.

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Speaker 3: And we know, we all we're all fighting for one thing,

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Speaker 3: and uh, you know, we want to be able to win,

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Speaker 5: That's our mentality. But it takes a lot of hard work.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: It takes a lot of practice, It takes a lot

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Speaker 1: And last, but certainly least, Randy Gratishar was named as

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Speaker 1: a senior finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's

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Speaker 1: Class of twenty twenty four. Randy Gratishar was here at

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Speaker 1: a falling practice. He also discussed what this honor means

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Speaker 6: It's like, Wow, where do I start?

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Speaker 5: Where do I begin?

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Speaker 6: And this is just a great, great honor. And first

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Speaker 6: I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

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Speaker 6: for giving me this opportunity for the amazing honor of

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Speaker 6: going into the NFL Hall of Fame, and the possibility

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Speaker 6: of getting there was always about God's timing in my mind,

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Speaker 6: and so it took a little while, but I'm just

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Speaker 6: very very glad and very happy in order to have

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Speaker 6: Crush Denver Bronco name and being part of that for sure,

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Speaker 6: and that, as you everybody knows, that started back in

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Speaker 6: to Joe Collier, a defensive coordinator coach Forting, for creating

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Speaker 1: Both head coach Sean Payton and quarterback Patser Tan congratulated

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Speaker 2: I think the first item of business would be, you know,

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Speaker 2: congratulating Randy Gratishaw becoming a finalist for the Pro Football

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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. That we just had a chance to

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Speaker 2: introduce him to our team and kind of read through

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Speaker 2: his statistics years played, never missing a game. It's pretty remarkable.

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Speaker 2: So congratulations to him and his family and those teammates

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Speaker 4: You know, just to understand a coach of the Broncos history,

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Speaker 4: but also, you know, give props to a dude you

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Speaker 4: said non Pro Ball Pro Bowls, one of the defensive

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Speaker 4: out to him, you know, and that's a huge thing

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Speaker 4: congrats to him.

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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 Delala. Eric the first joint practice

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Speaker 1: with the Rams in the books. Now overall, would you

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Speaker 1: just think of today's practice, Yeah, I said, some up

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Speaker 7: I think, you know, obviously, when you're going against another team,

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Speaker 7: And I think those things when are along in practice,

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Speaker 7: the Broncos got better there. Listen, it's a group that's

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Speaker 7: worked together in the rams for a long time, so

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Speaker 7: you've got kind of a polished offense with Matt Stafford

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Speaker 7: piloting that group. Cooper Cup out there. Patzertan talked a

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Speaker 7: little bit about how maybe it wasn't perfect in the

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Speaker 7: early going with the Broncos defense responded a little bit,

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Speaker 7: saw some good pressure by some guys, Nick Bonito one

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Speaker 7: wasn't wasn't one sided. I don't think in either direction.

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Speaker 7: The biggest thing will be how do you respond the

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Speaker 7: next day, which is what Sean Payton talked about and

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Speaker 7: said he was over on the offensive field and said, hey,

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Speaker 7: I did see too many pre snap penalties, too many

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Speaker 7: the film, it's all about how does Thursday compare to

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Speaker 7: Wednesday's work. But there were there were some highlights that

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Speaker 7: Courtland Sutton kind a nice touchdown pass during seven on seven.

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Speaker 1: Eric you mentioned, you know, albert O kueban On. We

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Speaker 1: haven't really talked a lot about him this training camp,

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Speaker 1: you know, I know head coached On Payn said he's

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Speaker 1: had a really good week. You just seen from him,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's a guy that obviously has the talent right

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Speaker 7: guy that that's going into a pivotal role or excuse me,

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Speaker 7: pivotal year in his career, and the way the depth

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Speaker 7: It's about taking advantage of this week and these opportunities

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Speaker 7: contribute to this football team. Sean Payton talked about that

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Speaker 7: in general, that guys know what's at stake. You don't

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Speaker 7: have to say a whole lot when you get to

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Speaker 7: within a week of roster cutdowns. But Alberto is certainly

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Speaker 7: a guy that we know has talent, and now it's just,

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Speaker 7: and where do they view him within that tight end group.

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Speaker 7: But right, Sean Payton did say he's had a nice

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Eric, when you look at these joint practices,

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Speaker 1: how beneficial do you think they are in comparison to

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Speaker 7: I mean, you just get way more reps and it's

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Speaker 7: even far more beneficial than any normal practice because you

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Speaker 7: because you've got the Rams offense and the Broncos defense

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Speaker 7: and so you're just getting a lot more work. You

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Speaker 7: more work. And Sean Payton even said, hey, we saw

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Speaker 7: it's more plays than you would play in a normal game, right,

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Speaker 7: But it just kind of gives you another way to evaluate.

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Speaker 7: And it's no one practice or one game, I don't

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Speaker 7: who does And it's about the whole body of work.

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Speaker 7: And this is just another example of a way that

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Speaker 7: the Broncos can get some information on these guys.

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Speaker 1: Or you kind of touched on this earlier, but looking

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Speaker 1: you know, for this offense, for this defense.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's about how you respond from today's practice.

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Speaker 7: And again it's not like the Broncos were demolished out

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Speaker 5: Was it about the same, and this is kind of

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Speaker 1: Definitely well, Eric. And other news, you know, we heard

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Speaker 7: But yeah, a really good football player in his own right.

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Speaker 1: Certainly exciting for him for the Denver Broncos organization as well.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations to him and Eric. Really appreciate you joining the

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Speaker 1: show today. You got it said, Well, that'll do it

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Speaker 1: for today's episode of Broncos Now Broncos Country. I'll meet

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Speaker 1: YouTube for another episode tomorrow. I'll see you all then,