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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country. Welcome back to the Broncos podcast

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Speaker 1: network and YouTube for the latest episode.

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Speaker 2: Of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: As always, I'm your host to Sidney Jones, and coming

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Speaker 1: up on today's episode, we'll hear from head coach Sean

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Speaker 1: Payon and general manager George pain as they look ahead

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Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty three NFL Draft all that more

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Speaker 1: coming up with the twenty twenty three NFL Draft just

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Speaker 1: a week away. We heard from head coach Sean Payn

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Speaker 1: and general manager George Payin as they held their annual

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Speaker 1: pre draft press conference. George Payton opened up the press

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Speaker 1: conference by discussing how his team has been preparing for

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Speaker 1: next weekend.

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Speaker 3: We've been in a bubble for the last month, grinding,

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Speaker 3: you know, obviously on the draft process. You know, with

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Speaker 3: the draft of week away, there's excitement there. We just

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Speaker 3: finished our draft prep our meetings actually on Monday. Now

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Speaker 3: we're doing you know, special projects, clusters, you know, trying

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Speaker 3: to determine a consensus with the coaches and scouts. So

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Speaker 3: watching a lot of tape, actually doing some mocks. It's

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Speaker 3: hard to mock us round, but we're giving it a go.

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Speaker 3: So things are things are going good. We know, we

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Speaker 3: had a medical meeting Tuesday with Bo and Vince and

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Speaker 3: the docs. I can't thank the doctors enough, you know,

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Speaker 3: for all the time that they put in for the

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Speaker 3: past two months, going over all the medical Richard Toddo's

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Speaker 3: met with us yesterday on the post draft free agency process.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate rich and then just the analytics department. We'll beat

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Speaker 3: with them the rest of the week. But you know,

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Speaker 3: I feel our first my first two drafts here, I

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Speaker 3: thought the process was really good, and I think, you know,

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Speaker 3: with the addition of Sean and we've even enhanced it,

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Speaker 3: We've taken the next step. Sean, you know, he set

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Speaker 3: sits in all our meetings. He sounds like a scout.

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Speaker 3: He's been a lot of around a lot of really

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Speaker 3: good people throughout his career.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: He reminds me of coach Staban, you know, just sitting

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Speaker 3: in meetings at two years I was with coach Staban.

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Speaker 3: You know, they have a similar, uh you know, vision

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Speaker 3: have a clear vision on how they want to build

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Speaker 3: a team. I'm aligned with Sean in that.

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Speaker 1: Payon and George talked about what their mindset is heading

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Speaker 1: into the draft.

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Speaker 4: When we're watching these players, you know all the time,

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Speaker 4: you know, philosophically, you're looking at all, right, you know

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Speaker 4: who would be a target that if they fell, you

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Speaker 4: might move one one direction? And then what would be

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Speaker 4: the three or four scenarios where it presented with that

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Speaker 4: scenario would you would you gain equity and move back?

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Speaker 4: And I think look, ninety five of the discussions in

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Speaker 4: the sports world relative to the draft is on the

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Speaker 4: first round. Understandably so, and yet man, there's so many

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Speaker 4: other things that take place later that that are important.

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Speaker 4: So uh, George alluded to it already. You know, if

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Speaker 4: you're in the middle of the first round selecting your

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Speaker 4: your you've got to you've got to love fifteen players.

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Speaker 4: If you're picking fifteen, you've got to. And if you don't,

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Speaker 4: then you move in one. If you're targeting someone, you

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Speaker 4: move up. But when you're picking where we are in

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Speaker 4: the unique thing which I think we both really like

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Speaker 4: is that we have back to back picks there. You've

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Speaker 4: got to be able to be a little bit I

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Speaker 4: don't want to say reactionary, but the scenarios that fall

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Speaker 4: to you with with with every round and then every

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Speaker 4: pick they the spray is a little wider, if that

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Speaker 3: You want to have flexibility, you want to have an

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Speaker 3: open mind. You know, we shot we talked last night

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Speaker 3: about potential target players that we would go get. So

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Speaker 3: you just never want to be closed minded. We've traded

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Speaker 3: up where I've been, We've traded back a lot. It

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Speaker 3: kind of depends what's behind you as well. You know,

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Speaker 3: last year we felt we could trade back five or

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Speaker 3: six picks and still get Dulcets based on the teams

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Speaker 3: behind us. So you do a lot of these exercises,

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Speaker 3: I mean, and we'll continue to do them. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's not a lot of surprises because we'll talk through

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Speaker 1: Plus, coach Patin talked about the challenge that comes with

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Speaker 4: The whole preparation leading up to this draft was grading

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Speaker 4: these players that not only will serve you well in

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Speaker 4: the draft, but they'll be recall in free agency four

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Speaker 4: and five years from now. Each each draft is a

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Speaker 4: little different, and I say that meaning where the clumps

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Speaker 4: of players are. I've been involved in drafts where there

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Speaker 4: were we felt like twenty first round talents and then

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Speaker 4: as you big, the challenge always is to not remember

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Speaker 4: the prior draft, but what's your barometer for the value

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Speaker 4: of each player that you're trying to grade, and then

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Speaker 4: the strategy relative to how you can how you can

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Speaker 4: draft the the most amount of players that meet your

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Speaker 1: You really like and another news coach, Payton discussed how

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Speaker 1: the voluntary off season program has gone so far.

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Speaker 4: It's our first chance to meet, interact and be around

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Speaker 4: and so you know, it was kind of quiet crickets

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Speaker 4: beginning of it. The guys are lifting and running and

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Speaker 4: then you know, Phase one will gradually move into Phase two.

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Speaker 4: We haven't forgotten about you guys in the media. Uh,

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Speaker 4: I think you know, we understand that you want to

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Speaker 4: visit with those players and that's coming up from Phase two.

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Speaker 4: I think, but it's gone well, you know, putting names

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Speaker 4: I'll talk about our personnel and I'm getting the names down,

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Speaker 4: but they're they're like, you know, magnets on a great

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Speaker 4: So we're a little over a week and it's great

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Speaker 1: Now. Joining me here inside the Broncos Podcast studio is

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Speaker 1: Broncos lead.

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Speaker 2: Writer Eric Dlala.

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Speaker 1: Eric, appreciate you joining me on the show again today.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it was great to hear from coach Payton

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Speaker 1: and general manager George Payton today. With the draft now

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Speaker 1: just being a week away, it's kind of crazy, it's

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Speaker 1: already hear.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And it seemed like for a while there we're

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Speaker 5: going to talk right up to the time the draft.

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Speaker 5: Got a lengthy pre draft press conference, as Sean Payton

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Speaker 5: noted toward the end, but a lot of good stuff

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Speaker 2: Away, definitely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric, Going off of that, what were your main

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Speaker 5: I thought one from a draft standpoint, you talked so

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Speaker 5: much about the trade history of Sean Payton, Yeah, goes

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Speaker 5: up a lot. I did a piece the other day

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Speaker 5: thirteen drafts, the scene's made twenty two trades.

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Speaker 2: All of them were trading up.

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Speaker 5: And then you compare that to George Peyton moving back

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Speaker 5: in the draft more often than not, and you kind.

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Speaker 5: And it was interesting hearing Sean Payton and George Peyton

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Speaker 5: talk about that process of a we've identified a list

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Speaker 5: we've identified situations where, you know, maybe there's not a

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Speaker 5: when we'll move back. And they are I think in

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Speaker 5: sync about that. You know, it doesn't mean that one

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Speaker 5: think it's more about being on the same page. They

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Speaker 5: that way, which we heard on Thursday. They're going to

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Speaker 5: to figure out what's the approach we want to take,

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Speaker 5: and then on draft day you've already got your list

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Speaker 5: making those big decisions on draft day. So that stood

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Speaker 5: out from a draft standpoint. And then you know, additionally,

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Speaker 5: And then just from a from a non draft standpoint,

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Speaker 5: talked about, Hey, they're running and lifting, and Sean Payton

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Speaker 5: So it's very different than the approach. And Nathaniel Hackett

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Speaker 1: George Paynon and Sean Payton, because you know, Sean was

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think what helps there said is that

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Speaker 5: they both are grinders and they sit down and watch

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Speaker 5: you know, grinding the tape. I think he said that

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Speaker 5: talking about Wednesday, and they watched more than twelve hundred

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Speaker 5: of those guys up in their draft rankings based on

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Speaker 5: what they saw on tape, what they heard.

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Speaker 2: From a medical staff.

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Speaker 5: And I thought what Sean Payton said about, you know,

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Speaker 5: when we come up with our favorite players in the draft,

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Speaker 5: strengths and their weaknesses? We watched the highlights, and Sean said, no,

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Speaker 5: it's about more than fifteen to eighteen plays.

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Speaker 2: We're watching years and years of tape.

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Speaker 5: And so I think that shared love of football and

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Speaker 5: their ability to kind of you know, go forward in

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Speaker 5: same page and kind of figure out what are we

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Speaker 5: looking for from an approach and a philosophy standpoint.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Well, another topic that George talked about was Jerry Judy

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Speaker 1: at your option. You know, he kind of reaffirmed that

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Speaker 5: fifth year option. The deadline there, I believe is May second,

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Speaker 5: So it's right after the draft. If you look back

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Speaker 5: Everything they've said kind of suggests they want him here.

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Speaker 1: Well, one other thing I found that was really interesting.

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Speaker 1: Eric Head, coached on Payton, said he was really impressed

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Speaker 5: But it sounds like the processes that the Broncos are

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Speaker 5: Nathaniel Hackett was it was one of those two press

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Speaker 1: Well outside the press conference news, it was announced on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Eric that DeMarcus where through all Davis and Jake Plummer,

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Speaker 2: So that's kind of cool. Yeah, it's exciting.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, the Broncos don't have anything to announce in the

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Speaker 5: so DeMarcus will be doing that in Kansas City. He

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Speaker 5: And then you mentioned TD Jake Plumber. They're going down

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Speaker 5: cool integration there, But yeahs always great when you get

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Speaker 5: to see some of these guys, some of people's former

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Speaker 5: our friend Steve Atwater do that before, so it's a

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Speaker 2: It definitely is.

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Speaker 1: Well, only a couple more days until we'll be doing

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Speaker 1: the thing.

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Speaker 2: Ks right forward to it. We're getting closed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are well appreciate your time, Eric today.

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Speaker 2: You got it said, Well, then I'll do.

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Speaker 1: It for today's episode of Broncos Now Broncos Country. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for tuning in. Make sure to meet me

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Speaker 1: right back here on the Broncos podcast network and YouTube

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Speaker 1: next week for the NFL's Draft.

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Speaker 2: I'll see you all then.

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