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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and happy Friday. Thanks for tuning in for

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Speaker 1: another edition of Broncos Now. I'm your host, Sidney Jones,

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Speaker 1: and as always, I'm coming to you from inside the

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Speaker 1: U See Hell Training Center. Following a day nine of

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Speaker 1: a training camp practice. Coming off in electric padded practice yesterday,

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Speaker 1: head coach Nathaniel Hackett had a jog through pace practice

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Speaker 1: today to allow all the players to recover. So coming

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Speaker 1: up on today's episode, we'll hear the latest from inside

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Speaker 1: linebacker Josie Jewel and guard Quinn Miners, plus love analysis

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Speaker 1: from Broncos lead writer Eric D. Lala, an injury update,

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Speaker 1: and more. Another great day of mental reps on this

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Speaker 1: Friday with another jog through type slower tempo practice. Head

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Speaker 1: coach Nathaniel Hackett says he gives the players a ton

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Speaker 1: of credit because these types of practices are new to them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this was, this is unbelievable. Another good day.

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Speaker 1: I give so much credit to those guys because it's

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Speaker 1: new for them. Um. But I mean it's when you

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Speaker 1: see the players start correcting or self correcting or communicating

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Speaker 1: and wanting another play, that that's what you're aiming for

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Speaker 1: as a coach. So we got a lot out of

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Speaker 1: to day, but just five practices left in training camp.

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Speaker 1: A lot of the players are getting really used to

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Speaker 1: this routine of having these really competitive, full padded practice

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Speaker 1: days followed by these jogs through type practices. An inside

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Speaker 1: linebacker Josie Jewel said, he's really enjoying the pace of it.

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Speaker 1: I think it's good so far. Um, Honestly, whatever coach

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Speaker 1: feels great. Um. I feel like we're getting some good working.

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Speaker 1: The defense has had a pretty great camp so far.

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Speaker 1: Josie Jewel went on to say that as a whole,

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Speaker 1: the defense is still working on tweaking the small things,

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Speaker 1: you know, working to understand the small ins and outs

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Speaker 1: of this defense. But going up against Russell Wilson every

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Speaker 1: day certainly helps. I think that's bringing everybody's level intensity

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Speaker 1: up and intelligence of the game to whether it be

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Speaker 1: the offensive guys the defensive guys, understanding the cadence that

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Speaker 1: he brings with him, um, and how much you know

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Speaker 1: you need to have some patience with that, especially the

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Speaker 1: lineman on third and five or less. Um name first down, honestly,

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Speaker 1: but just to be able to have that cadence and

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Speaker 1: single day. So definitely helping offense and helping the defense,

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Speaker 1: just to be able to get a great look every

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Speaker 1: single one. Guard Quinn Miners also spoke with the media

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Speaker 1: falling practice today and told us that he's lost about

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Speaker 1: ten pounds this offseason and it's feeling faster than ever.

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Speaker 1: I feel like my my first and second step off

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Speaker 1: ton um. I feel like the angles that I'm that

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Speaker 1: I'm able to create um social woman with base three

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Speaker 1: I feel like I can just sprint and go straight

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Speaker 1: ahead and I'll beat that linebacker nine times out of ten,

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Speaker 1: and even if he gets over the top, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: blocks like that, I can really feel feel the speed

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Speaker 1: lower tempo practice. That's a team up for a more

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Speaker 1: are intense and a longer padded practice tomorrow. And this

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Speaker 1: is what ed coach Nathaniel Hackett hopes to see from

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Speaker 1: the players before their day off on Sunday. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: you know, the defense was making good plays. Uh, there

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Speaker 1: was good runs. There was defense, you know, getting some

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Speaker 1: tackles for losses. Josie had a great tackle. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just just that reaction, fast, feeling fresh, feeling that pop

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Speaker 1: when you get past and that's why we do this.

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Speaker 1: We want to be sure that we get every single

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Speaker 1: thing we can out of these pad practice because they're

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Speaker 1: just they're they're just so few. Now joining me here

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Speaker 1: per usual in the podcast studio is Broncos lead writer

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Speaker 1: Eric de Lala. Eric, another week of Broncos now in

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Speaker 1: the books, I know we're done with another week of

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Speaker 1: good things. You've seen some standout players in Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 1: preparing them for another pretty intense padded practice that will

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Speaker 1: come tomorrow. Yeah. And on Saturday, Nathaniel Hackette just wants

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Speaker 1: He liked the work that the Broncos got in a

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Speaker 1: lot of big plays, a lot of you know, good

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Speaker 1: a coach if you're gonna kind of reward these players

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Speaker 1: of these mental focus days. If you're gonna reward them

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Speaker 1: with that, you want to see them go hard then

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Speaker 1: in those other days. And I think you were talking

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Speaker 1: And I think he said, you want to play that

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Speaker 1: That's something that must make Nathaniel Hackett and this team

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Speaker 1: you mentioned Javonte Williams. You know, we really haven't talked

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Speaker 1: And I think that's in training camp. What you're looking for,

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Speaker 1: closer than that, I think. Well. Coachacket give an update

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Speaker 1: on Randy Gregory and Billy Turner falling practice today, said

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Speaker 1: mean it's everything. Obviously. UM Seattle is not the toughest

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Speaker 1: So it's important for the Broncos to get off to

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