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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country? Welcome back inside the uc Hell

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Speaker 1: Training Center for today's edition of Broncos Now. Team reporter

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Speaker 1: and host Sydney Jones here and coming up on this episode,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from quarterback Russell Wilson, head coach Nathaniel Hackett,

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Speaker 1: in safety Kareem Jackson as they spoke to the media today.

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Speaker 1: Plus I'll have an injury update, and Phil Melanni joins

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Speaker 1: the show to discuss some of the top storylines surrounding

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Speaker 1: the team. All that and more coming up. The Broncos

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Speaker 1: were back at practice today as a team starts to

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Speaker 1: prepare for their home opener VERSA Texans at in power

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Speaker 1: Field at Mile High this Sunday and Alsa Broncos turn

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Speaker 1: the page. Quarterback Russell Wilson spoke to the media and

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Speaker 1: discussed what the key is to being great. It's all

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Speaker 1: about how you respond well. I think, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I think confidence should never waver and think if you're

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Speaker 1: think also too, I think we have a great team.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody knows. I think a lot of people

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Speaker 1: got to see that. You know, on Monday night, just

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Speaker 1: you gotta finish, you know, these little things you can't

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Speaker 1: you can't, you can't give up the ball and all that.

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Speaker 1: That's that's just the name of the game in this game. Um,

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Speaker 1: but our confidence isn't waiver. And I think also too,

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Speaker 1: for example, and was telling the guys and our walk

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Speaker 1: through afterwards, after we broke it down, I was telling

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Speaker 1: him and I said, listen, the thing about great teams

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Speaker 1: is they always respond. If you want to be a

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Speaker 1: championship team, you gotta respond. So how are we gonna

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Speaker 1: respond today? And then we got it down the day

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Speaker 1: tomorrow hopefully, um, god wakes us up. We got another

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Speaker 1: day to do it again, and another day to do again.

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Speaker 1: And so it's all about response. It's all about attitude,

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Speaker 1: it's all about mentality, language, uh, staying focused on the task.

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Speaker 1: And the biggest news so surrounding the team today is

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Speaker 1: that safety Justin Simmons was placed on injured reserve and

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Speaker 1: will miss at least four weeks. Coachack had said that

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Speaker 1: He's a competitor. I mean, he's one of those guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean he played the whole game with it. I

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Speaker 1: guy like Justice Simmons. You know what he does for

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Speaker 1: for his team with his leadership, you know. Um, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's it's it's tough, you know. UM. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: everybody in in the community knows what type of guy

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Speaker 1: he is own and off the field, But it's um,

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Speaker 1: I mean for us, we kind of brought ourselves on

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Speaker 1: And Kayden Stearn has played a ton of ball in

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Speaker 1: So I think he's very I think he's very ready

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Speaker 1: a corresponding move, the Broncos promoted cornerback East Sang Bassie

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Speaker 1: to the practice squad Menonate's loss. Obviously, it wasn't the

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Speaker 1: I'm always encouraged. I'm never discouraged, UM, But I think that, Um,

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Speaker 1: you always always want to win. I mean that's that's

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Speaker 1: what I played the game for it to win. But UM,

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Speaker 1: I think that, UM, what I saw from our our

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Speaker 1: midst of adversity amidst of the game. You know, obviously

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Speaker 1: game that didn't go our way. UM, but with you know,

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Speaker 1: as we wrap up the top news of the day,

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Speaker 1: was a full participant. Now joining me here in the

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Speaker 1: Broncos podcast studio is a fellow team reporter, Phil Malani.

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Speaker 1: As we dive a little deeper into today's top storylines, Phil,

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining me. Thanks for having me. Said,

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Speaker 1: a lot of news to get to. I think the

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Speaker 1: biggest news today is of Justin Simmons. You know, he

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Speaker 1: unfortunate news. Coachak had also announced today that guard Quinn

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Speaker 1: that he suffered versus Seahawks. We did see Graham Glasgow

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Speaker 1: good sign. Uh. Courtland Sutton had a bunch of catches,

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson was trying to take what they were giving him.

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Speaker 1: much different ball game. Absolutely, it was nice to see

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