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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 another episode of Broncos Now to a

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Speaker 1: reporter and host Sydney Jones. Here and coming up on

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Speaker 1: today's episode, Denver Seven's Broncos insider Troy Rank joins the

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Speaker 1: show to give insight and analysis surrounding the team as

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Speaker 1: we take a look back at a Sunday's win verse

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, and look ahead to the Broncos matchup

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. All that more coming up here at

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Speaker 1: the uc Hell Training Center. There was no practice or

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Speaker 1: media press conferences today as the players had the day off,

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Speaker 1: So for today's episode of Broncos Now, I caught up

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Speaker 1: with Denver Seven's Broncos insider Troy Rank. Take a listen, Troy,

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you joining me. Thanks for hopping on today. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: it's coming up a win victory week, so hey, I

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Speaker 1: know it's been a while since we've been able to

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Speaker 1: talk about a win as you know, how are things

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Speaker 1: going over there for you? Everything's great. Season is always similar.

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Speaker 1: I mean this root for the story and unfortunately the

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Speaker 1: best stories have been because it's been such an odd

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Speaker 1: year and unable to meet my expectations, but that never

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Speaker 1: broncoists are never not interesting, That's true. I know every year,

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Speaker 1: I'm always like, it's such a long season, kind of

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Speaker 1: hard to believe you're already in week sixteen, three more

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Speaker 1: games left, But as you know, the season's always seemed

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Speaker 1: to fly by. Yeah. I mean the NFL is so

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Speaker 1: you just get into that rhythm of work six days

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Speaker 1: a week, sometimes seven once you get through training cap.

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Speaker 1: I always tell people that training cap is the hardest

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Speaker 1: part because you can work every day. But I'm essentially

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Speaker 1: work every day. I mean, I'm not complaining. I just

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Speaker 1: that's the hardest part, especially because I'm driving every day

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Speaker 1: from long that's my choice. But yeah, the season itself

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Speaker 1: has a rhythm to it. Well, Troy, you know, like

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, we're coming off a win here. You know,

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Speaker 1: Brett Rippon in company they were able to find a

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Speaker 1: way to snap this five game losing streak that the

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Speaker 1: Broncos were on. So just to star Troy, what did

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Speaker 1: you really like about Brett Rippon and what this offense

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Speaker 1: was able to do the past weekend versus the Cardinals. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it was a difficult first top City. As

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Speaker 1: thousand twelve. But they figured out at halftime, as coach

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett said, gotta make a choice. Down nine to three. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there's not a lot to play for in terms of

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Speaker 1: playoffs and winning record. But guys came out and played

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Speaker 1: And that became their identity. And talking to Latavia's Murray

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Speaker 1: not really taking many chances outside of the one player.

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Speaker 1: But it was a really efficient passing game, a lot

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Speaker 1: thing I saw was the offenses MO we know is

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Right. Yeah, it has been really nice to

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Speaker 1: see this offense commit to the run. You mentioned it.

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Speaker 1: Olatavius Murray's coming off a career game for him, hundred

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Speaker 1: It just wasn't just like oh a fluke thing. The

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Speaker 1: Brett Rippon is a little different because he's not going

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Speaker 1: to have found some rhythm the past couple of weeks. Well,

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Speaker 1: nice to see him rewarded with those interceptions, for sure.

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Speaker 1: But listen, Simmons is a great player. Before this year,

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Speaker 1: dealing with injuries and miss time. I think Popster Tan

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Speaker 1: Justin saved it, and that's who he is. I've wanted

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