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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside the uc 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, we'll hear

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Speaker 1: from head coach Nathaniel Hackett as it takes a look

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Speaker 1: back at Sunday's loss in Baltimore. Plus I'll have an

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Speaker 1: injury update, and Broncos lead writer Eric Delala joins the

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Speaker 1: show for a game recap. All that more coming up

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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos dot com, Slash podcast, Slash Broncos Now, and

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Speaker 1: onto the news of the day. Head coach Nathaniel Hackett

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Speaker 1: spoke to the media this afternoon as the Broncos now

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Speaker 1: sit at three and nine. Denver loss ten to nine

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Speaker 1: in Baltimore on Sunday, and Coach Hackets spoke on losing

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Speaker 1: another close game and why they haven't been able to

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Speaker 1: finish these games. I mean, we we scored more points,

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Speaker 1: and we we had a couple of explosive days. I

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Speaker 1: thought we were backed up a couple of times. I

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Speaker 1: thought the offense did a great job getting it out.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to score from that long of a field,

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Speaker 1: but we got it to the fifty and then we

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Speaker 1: were an advantageous part of the field and we couldn't finished.

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Speaker 1: We got the turnover on the forty yard line. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we have to get at least a first down or

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Speaker 1: two to get some more points, and and we didn't.

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Speaker 1: And and that's across the board. That's the fundamentals. That's

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Speaker 1: all the different things that we keep continuing to talk

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Speaker 1: about on offense that we have to be better at.

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Speaker 1: Whether it's attacking our landmarks, whether it's running a better route,

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Speaker 1: all those different things to check. Had also talked about

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Speaker 1: the defense's performance on Sunday and what he saw on

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Speaker 1: the Ravens final drive of the game that led to

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Speaker 1: that game winning touchdown. Yeah, we have to score more points.

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Speaker 1: We can't put him in that position. That's what I

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Speaker 1: would say. First, I mean to not score a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: to only have nine points, that's us as a team.

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Speaker 1: We went and lose together, and we have to be

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Speaker 1: better from offensive standpoint special teams across the board. And

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Speaker 1: then for the defense in that situation, they had the

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Speaker 1: long field. I don't think it was necessarily that anybody

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Speaker 1: some things started not going our way, whether it be

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Speaker 1: we had a great third and one stop had a

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Speaker 1: a couple of gaps on the back side, and um,

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Speaker 1: they found a little scene there and got the couple

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Speaker 1: inches that they needed. And then we had two penalties

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Speaker 1: in those situations and uh, you know Patch trying to

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Speaker 1: and uh, and then we had the unnecessary roughness. So

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Speaker 1: those those I think accounted for about thirty eight yards.

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Speaker 1: And I mean that's that's the game of football. Unfortunately

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Speaker 1: it happened at the last drive instead of earlier and

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Speaker 1: last but not least, Coach I get touched on the

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Speaker 1: amount of injuries this team has seen this season and

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Speaker 1: discussed what the team's mindset is despite those. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's part of the game. I mean, people get injured.

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Speaker 1: For us, it happens that it's a lot more than usual,

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Speaker 1: to go out there. And play at a high level. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's what we have to do there. It's it's not

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Speaker 1: an excuse because you still have to win the game.

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Speaker 1: We all want to win the game. We all think

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Speaker 1: we can. We've been very close to winning a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys are getting some great experience and I give

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Speaker 1: those guys credit for getting themselves ready to go out

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Speaker 1: there and play. And as we wrap up the top

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Speaker 1: news of the day, Coachacket updated us on Courtland Sutton.

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Speaker 1: Wide receiver Courtland Sutton left Sunday's game with a hamstring injury,

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Speaker 1: and Coachacket said today that he will be a day

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Speaker 1: to day now. Joining me here inside the Broncos podcast

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Speaker 1: studio is Broncos lead writer Eric Dlala for a game recap. Eric,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you joining me again. Another tough one day here

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Speaker 1: at the team headquarters. Yeah, you're right, Sydney Aleric, I

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Speaker 1: But sdey, We've said it all year. The defense is

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Speaker 1: I appreciate Justin Simmons and DeShawn Williams and whoever else

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Speaker 1: this is the first time since where a team won

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Speaker 1: the force two turnovers, didn't have a turnover themselves, um

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Speaker 1: And it's happened hundreds of times where a team has

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Speaker 1: done that. Broncos are the first team to lose that

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Speaker 1: you how rare what happened yesterday is. But that's just

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Speaker 1: kind of where the Broncos are right now. They're finding, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: those two turnovers. It was really nice to see Justin

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Speaker 1: Simmons get those two interceptions. I know he's a guy

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Speaker 1: that really preaches on takeaways each week, but you know,

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Speaker 1: And this was another one like that, where if the

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Speaker 1: It just things aren't quite clicking still, especially on third down.

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Speaker 1: Broncos two of twelve on third down. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think Russell he probably had one

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Speaker 1: it's just what we're up to thirteen games now. It's

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