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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to the Broncos podcast network and

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Speaker 1: YouTube for the latest episode of Broncos Now. As always,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host is Sidney Jones, and coming up on

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Speaker 1: today's episode, the Broncos held their final full practice of the.

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Speaker 2: Week ahead of Sunday's matchup.

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Speaker 1: We'll hear from head coach Sean Payton and look at

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Speaker 1: the final injury report. Plus Broncos lead writer Eric Delala

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Speaker 1: joins the show for a game preview.

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Speaker 2: All that morek coming up.

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Speaker 1: Broncos held their final full practice of the week as

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Speaker 1: they are set to face the Washington Commanders at empower

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Speaker 1: Field at Mile High this Sunday. Head coach Sean Payn

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Speaker 1: talk today about the team's work this week.

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Speaker 3: I just finished talking to him, you know, the first

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Speaker 3: four weeks. You know, we're we're in this urgent race

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Speaker 3: to improve. So hopefully that's the case. And you know,

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Speaker 3: I think it's critical, you know, and I don't keep

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Speaker 3: track of things. Mike filled me in yesterday, you know

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Speaker 3: three different times we started with the loss and then

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Speaker 3: when thirteen and three or thirteen and three and eleven

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Speaker 3: and so, but you are in this race to get better.

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Speaker 3: In the first quarter poll of the season.

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Speaker 1: Plus, coach Payton talked about his thoughts on Sunday's matchup.

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Speaker 3: And you hear that term go make a play, though

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Speaker 3: there's more to that. I mean, go make a play?

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Speaker 3: All right, how what's the play? So there's a combination

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Speaker 3: of a number of things. Look, there's like I said,

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Speaker 3: there's a number of things that I like what we did,

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Speaker 3: and and you know, we get back to work this

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Speaker 3: week and here we go, different defense, different structure, the

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Speaker 3: same way on the flip side, so you know, we

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Speaker 3: get ready to play this game.

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Speaker 1: Also gave an update on a wide receiver Jerry Judy's

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Speaker 1: game status for Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's been full all week.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, now it's time to take a look at

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Speaker 1: today's injury report. Now joining me here in the Broncos

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Speaker 1: podcast studio for a game preview is Broncos lead writer

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Speaker 1: Eric Delala. Eric, thanks for hopping on the show today,

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Speaker 1: per usual, You got it, said, Well, the Broncos will

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Speaker 1: look to grab their first one of the season as

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Speaker 1: they return back home to Empowerfield at Mile High on

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Speaker 1: a Sunday air.

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Speaker 2: Looking back at week one, you know, how do you

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Speaker 2: really hope.

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Speaker 1: To see Russell Wilson in this offense, just build off

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Speaker 1: of that performance.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think most of it is just do what you

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Speaker 5: did last week, right, which is take what the defense

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Speaker 5: gives you, be efficient, run the football well, protect the quarterback.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: The Broncos offense, I thought did a nice job. They

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Speaker 5: just didn't have a lot of opportunities against the Raiders,

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Speaker 5: which was kind of an odd game, as we've talked

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Speaker 5: about quite a bit here in terms of just six possessions.

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Speaker 5: But I mean, by and large, everything they did was

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Speaker 5: really good. I think the one thing you think about

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Speaker 5: in terms of improvement is those explosive plays, as we've noted,

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Speaker 5: and you've got to find a way to make a

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Speaker 5: few more of those. But listen, the Broncos made a

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Speaker 5: couple of chances to make more of them. You think

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Speaker 5: they do that, I think you're gonna like what you

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Speaker 2: Where Eric wide receiver Jury Judy.

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Speaker 1: He was a full participant at practice on Thursday and Friday,

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Speaker 1: so you know, looking at maybe those explosive plays are

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Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot, right, I mean, he's one of the

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Speaker 5: We saw toward the end of last year, over the

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Speaker 4: But to have Jerry Judy, it.

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Speaker 5: Just it opens up what you can do in terms

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Speaker 5: I certainly would expect Jerry Judy to have a nice

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Speaker 5: game in his return to the field. He's a dynamic

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Speaker 2: There, for sure.

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Speaker 1: Eric, we you know you mentioned it earlier, this commander's defense.

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Speaker 1: We heard Russell Wilson talk about it, and now it's

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Speaker 1: just going to be, you know, a challenge, a good

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they're they're physical and a lot of

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Speaker 6: About a big sack, right, It's it's also a tackle

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Speaker 6: they just provide pressure and it forces you get to

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Speaker 5: Those sorts of things impact an offense. Now, obviously, the

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Speaker 5: And I look at this game, I think of when

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Speaker 5: always just kind of like it's a it's a grinded

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Speaker 5: But but you've got to find a way to do

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Speaker 1: In that same regard, what are your expectations for running

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think that it'll be interesting to

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Speaker 5: Do you bring guys up? What's the plan there? That'll

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Speaker 5: impact how the running game looks for the Broncos certainly,

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Speaker 5: but across the league, you're kind of seeing this increase

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Speaker 5: And I thought Javonte Williams and some my JP Ryan

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Speaker 5: Those long drives kind of play into that as an offense, sure,

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Speaker 5: was an encouraging first performance. There was still quote unquote

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Speaker 5: these running backs I think are going to consistently be

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Speaker 1: Eric looking at the Broncos defense, I know, one of

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Speaker 1: the main storylines this week was just talking about getting

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they've got to get pressure on him.

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Speaker 5: And he's a young guy, right, I think third career start,

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Speaker 5: Last week, I think Ford Washington talked about decision making

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Speaker 5: on Howell's part, some offensive line breakdowns, sometimes a mix

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Speaker 5: stab that tell everything. We've heard a lot of guys

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Speaker 5: to see those things work in tandem. The Broncos certainly

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Speaker 2: Or just a few more for you here.

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Speaker 1: I know we've already kind of touched on a few

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Speaker 1: different things, but what do you think will be the

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Speaker 5: at a premium it could be a hard five game. Certainly,

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Speaker 5: we saw the offense have some really good drives against

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Speaker 1: Eric, I know a lot of players have talked this

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean listen, right, Like from a kind of

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Speaker 5: So there is urgency to win this week. But I

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Speaker 5: It feels like then maybe you don't give the same

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Speaker 5: So they're all important. I think that's what we've heard

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, is there urgency? Is there? You know?

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Speaker 5: To say pressure, but but but yeah, that urgency of

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, But I think that the attitude and the mindset

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Speaker 5: That's what championship football teams do, That's what good football

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Speaker 2: Well we'll see what happens on a Sunday. Eric, appreciate

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Speaker 4: Yeah, of course said you got it.

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