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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 today's episode,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from head coach Nathaniel Hackett and take a

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Speaker 1: look at this week's final injury report. Plus Broncos lead

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Speaker 1: writer Eric Delala joins the show for a game preview.

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Speaker 1: All that more coming up the Broncos at the road

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Speaker 1: to head to Los Angeles tomorrow. The Broncos are set

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Speaker 1: to face the Chargers at Sophi Stadium in primetime on

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Speaker 1: Monday and night. Head coach Nathaniel Hackett spoke to the

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Speaker 1: media for the final time today ahead of Monday nights

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Speaker 1: game and gave an update on Russell Wilson's shoulder. Oh

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Speaker 1: he's great. I mean, he's doing Grady through the ball

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Speaker 1: really well today. I think that the good thing about

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Speaker 1: russ is even when it feels good, he's still going

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Speaker 1: to keep working on it. You know, his whole body,

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Speaker 1: it's it's everything. He knows that it's hard to get

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Speaker 1: through an entire season without Nixon bruises and different things happening.

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Speaker 1: So he's he's a constant pro and it comes to

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Speaker 1: keeping his body right. Co Chackett went on to discuss

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Speaker 1: how the team will look to find a balance between

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Speaker 1: being aggressive on offense while not putting too much pressure

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Speaker 1: on Russell's shoulder. I think that's kind of one of

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Speaker 1: those things. It's a fine line. You want to be

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Speaker 1: sure that we're continually gaining and getting better every day,

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Speaker 1: but you want to make sure you're taking care of

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Speaker 1: him his body, but you want to get them all

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Speaker 1: into a rhythm. So we try to do it as

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Speaker 1: well as we can from how many throws he takes

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Speaker 1: and everything, but up to this week he was pretty unlimited.

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Speaker 1: Now let's take a look at this week's a final

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Speaker 1: injury report. Broncos will be without inside linebacker Josie Jewel

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Speaker 1: in a safety at Keaton Sterns Monday night, as co

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Speaker 1: check It ruled them out today. Guard Dalon Reisner, titan

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Speaker 1: Eric Sobert, running back Melvin Gordon, offensive lineman Billy Turner,

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Speaker 1: quarterback to Mari Mathis, outside linebacker Jonathan Cooper and Guarden.

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Speaker 1: Center Quinn Miners were listed as questionable. Coachack It does

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Speaker 1: believe that Justin Simmons will play on Monday. Now, joining

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Speaker 1: me here inside the Broncos podcast studio is Bronco's lead

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Speaker 1: writer Eric Dlala for eight game preview. Eric, just one

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Speaker 1: more day now until we hit the road to head

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Speaker 1: to Los Angeles. How you feeling. I'm I'm cautiously optimistics

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Speaker 1: and yeah, I think the Broncos have gotten some time

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Speaker 1: We've heard all week guys talk about the must win.

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Speaker 1: Justin Simmons of course, said that the other day. I

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Speaker 1: I'm cautiously optimistic about what could happen on Monday against

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. Eric, we just looked at the final injury

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Speaker 1: report heading into Monday night. Are you concerned with some

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Speaker 1: of the guys who are listening as questionable heading into

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Speaker 1: I think Quinn Miners being a full participant on Saturday

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Speaker 1: to me, that suggests maybe he's going to be able

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Speaker 1: to go. Um and and throughout the season. The Broncos

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Speaker 1: So just because there's a lot of guys that are

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Speaker 1: Is obviously are gonna be okay without Keaton Stearns, I think,

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Speaker 1: I think Alex Singleton played well in place of Josie Jewel,

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Speaker 1: But I do think that this weekend we could see

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Speaker 1: a much more efficient Bronco's offense than we have. Coachaka

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Speaker 1: that's something that Nathaniel Hacketts gonna have to figure out

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Speaker 1: You know, the Bronco's offense obviously needs to to find

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Speaker 1: sure without a Joey Bosa available, Berwin James at safety,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna take their shots down the field. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: Pats or Tank can play the way he did against

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Speaker 1: Devanta Adams, the Broncos are going to have a lot

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be tested. You might give up a catch

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Speaker 1: and you saw the impact that had. Well, Pat Certain

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Speaker 1: So if Certain can have a similar impact against Mike Williams,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna go a really long way toward kind of

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Speaker 1: a good chance to win. Definitely be another tough matchup

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Speaker 1: in the a f C West, you know, Eric, like

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Speaker 1: your game prediction. Yeah, I do think the Broncos find

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Speaker 1: a way to get this done. They've played, you know,

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Speaker 1: in terms of the FCUS, they have not been very good.

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Speaker 1: But they've had some success against the Chargers, They've had

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Speaker 1: some success a little bit against Justin Herbert. Um. The Broncos,

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Speaker 1: it's at stake, and I think Russell, you know, he

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Speaker 1: mentioned I'm not motivated by criticism, but I do think

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me if the Broncos take a step

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Speaker 1: forward their play the same type of defense I'm shutting

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Speaker 1: down Austin Ekeler is important and I think the Broncos

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Speaker 1: come out of there with a I like it all right. Well, Eric,

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Speaker 1: appreciate your insight. A lot to watch for on Monday night,

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Speaker 1: I will see you in Los Angeles. It well, that'll

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Speaker 1: do it for today's episode of Broncos Now Broncos Country.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in to day and every day.

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Speaker 1: I hope you meet me right back here on the

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Speaker 1: Broncos Podcast Network in YouTube on a Tuesday of following

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Speaker 1: the game. I'll see you all then