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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. 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: Denver Gazettes George Stoya joins the show. He'll give insight

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Speaker 1: in analysis surrounding the team as the Broncos are back

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Speaker 1: from there bye week and look ahead to face the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans on a Sunday. All that more on tonight's

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Speaker 1: episode here at the uc Hell Training Center. The players

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Speaker 1: had the day off, so there was no practice today,

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Speaker 1: but we heard from head coach Nathaniel Hackett in a

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Speaker 1: safety justin Simmons yesterday as a team returned from their

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Speaker 1: bye week. Coach Hackett discussed his message to the team

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Speaker 1: following that week nine by it's a new season, nine games.

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Speaker 1: Everything's ahead of us. Uh in this league. To be

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Speaker 1: able to get to where you want to go, you

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Speaker 1: have to win a bunch of games in a row,

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Speaker 1: whether it's in the beginning, whether it's in the end.

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Speaker 1: To put yourself in position to get to the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You gotta win, and you gotta win a bunch of them.

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Speaker 1: In um we have nine games available to us. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's about what can you do individually to

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Speaker 1: make yourself better to get us those one or two

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Speaker 1: plays because we've been in so many games and it

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Speaker 1: was a great start this past game verus Jacksonville. You know,

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Speaker 1: we had a couple of opportunities. Guys made some big

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Speaker 1: plays and we need to build off that, both offense

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Speaker 1: about what we can do as a as an individual

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Speaker 1: got nine games left, big season, long season ahead and

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Speaker 1: after reflecting on the first half of the Broncos season,

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Speaker 1: this coaching staff is excited for the second half and

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Speaker 1: having a normal schedule. We were talking about that as

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Speaker 1: a staff today. I mean just even this week, to

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Speaker 1: be able to have a normal week is going to

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Speaker 1: be something we're very grateful for. UH. To get into

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Speaker 1: that rhythm these last nine games, all Sunday games, UH

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Speaker 1: of of a bye week is you do have to

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Speaker 1: re energize yourself. We've got a nine game push ahead

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Speaker 1: of us. You know, all the guys are a lot

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Speaker 1: of them are fathers, and UM, husbands, and it was

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Speaker 1: great for me to be able to get to know

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Speaker 1: my kids again after being away, especially with this unique,

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Speaker 1: unique schedule. But yeah, we got a way for a

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Speaker 1: little bit, got to go up in the mountains, which

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Speaker 1: was amazing staying here in Colorado, and I absolutely loved it.

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Speaker 1: The kids had a great time, and now we're back

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Speaker 1: and then all right, I'm gone see in nine weeks.

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Speaker 1: Just by entering the second half of the season sitting

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Speaker 1: in this team in details how they can be better,

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Speaker 1: specifically on defense. Yeah, yeah, no, believe you know you can.

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Speaker 1: We can be better for sure. Um, I know there's

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Speaker 1: the field goal is a difference maker. UM into the game.

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Speaker 1: You look at little things like that, UM. From from

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Speaker 1: writer George Stoya. George, appreciate you joining me on the

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Speaker 1: podcast today, Sydney. I'm honored. I know I wasn't the

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Speaker 1: you mentioned the week nine by were able to enjoy

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Speaker 1: It always falls. It seems like the bye week always

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Speaker 1: greatly was really cool. It was it was amazing. Like

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Speaker 1: the week was really cool. I mean, the Broncos practicing.

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Speaker 1: it was kind of a busy bye week here at

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Speaker 1: Like the Miami clearly needed some pass rushers, they had

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Speaker 1: And then Chase Edmonds just a weird running back room, right,

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Speaker 1: the team's heading into Week ten, three and five coming

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Speaker 1: off there by George, how would you really assess the

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Speaker 1: the first half of the season. They said they did

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Speaker 1: a lot of self scouting over the bye week and

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Speaker 1: said one thing on offense they've specifically looked at and

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Speaker 1: want to improve on, it's just on third down. George,

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Speaker 1: Broncos fans, Well, George, appreciate your time so much on

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me Sidney, it was a blast. I

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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 a two day and every day.

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Speaker 1: The team will be back at practice tomorrow, so make

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Speaker 1: Podcast Network on YouTube for another episode. I'll see you

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