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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country. Welcome back inside the UC Hall

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Speaker 1: Training Center for another episode 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, quarterback Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 1: in safety Justin Simmons as they spoke to the media today.

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Speaker 1: Plus I'll have the latest injury report and a Filmlanni

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Speaker 1: joins the show. All that more coming up this week

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Speaker 1: Broncos dot com, Slash podcast Slash Broncos Now Now onto

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Speaker 1: the top news of the day. The Broncos were back

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Speaker 1: at practice here at the UC Hell Training Center as

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Speaker 1: they look to turn the page to face the Baltimore

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Speaker 1: Ravens for their Week thirteen matchup this Sunday. Head coach

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett detailed his thoughts on the Ravens organization and

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Speaker 1: the success they've had. What coach Hardball has done there,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's an amazing man in uh from from

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Speaker 1: the starting point have gotten to talk with him just

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Speaker 1: just a couple of times, and um, so much respect

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Speaker 1: admiration for him. And then you just look at the

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Speaker 1: organization as a whole, how much success they've had continuously

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Speaker 1: with different players throughout that just their entire tenure there. Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean they're great organization. I mean, great coaching, great

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Speaker 1: organization they showed year in and year out, and um,

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Speaker 1: so much respect for all of them and safety. Justin

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Speaker 1: Simmons added the threat that Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson and

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Speaker 1: company will pose this Sunday. It's tough, you know, obviously,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's he does it at a high a high,

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Speaker 1: high high level weekend and week out. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I can remember preparing, you know, for that game last

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Speaker 1: year and looking at all the exotic runs that they

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Speaker 1: do and the personnels that they bring in. Um, you

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Speaker 1: know obviously with uh, you know, Mark Andrews at the

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Speaker 1: the league to do it. Um, you know, we have

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Speaker 1: You know, we gotta come in, we gotta stop the run.

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Speaker 1: And it makes it that much harder when you have

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Speaker 1: you know, guy's got to be locked in and gap sound,

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Speaker 1: if you're not, you know, it only takes those one

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Speaker 1: top of it. There's been a lot of talk today

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Speaker 1: and they all said that it's just gossip. That's just hilarious.

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Speaker 1: you know, and so you know, there's always noise, especially

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Speaker 1: So if us as an offensive line, those are things

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the injury report. Linebacker Dakota Allen,

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Speaker 1: three man roster. Now, let's dive a little bit deeper

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Speaker 1: into today's news. So joining me here inside the Broncos

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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure to have you on. Thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: me again this week. Thanks for having me on. It's

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Speaker 1: fil a lot of news to get to today, obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, the big news of the day was you know,

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Speaker 1: always a pleasure having you on. Thank you very much, Sidney.

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Speaker 1: I wish that we were talking about better things. Yeah,

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