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

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Speaker 1: network and YouTube for the latest episode of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: As always, I'm your hostess, Sidney Jones, and coming up

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Speaker 1: on today's episode, we went inside the locker room and

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Speaker 1: it spoke with the players for the final time of

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Speaker 1: this season. We'll hear from them as they reflected on

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Speaker 1: the year, and Broncos lead writer Eric Delala will join

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Speaker 1: the show to take a look at the teams of

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Speaker 1: mindset heading into the off season. All that more coming

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Speaker 1: out number Broncos finish the season within eight and nine record,

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Speaker 1: not the winning season they had hoped for, but their

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Speaker 1: best record since twenty sixteen. Following the loss in Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas to the Raiders on Sunday, head coach Sean Payton

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Speaker 1: told the team to remember how they were feeling in

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Speaker 1: cornerback patser Ten, inside linebacker Alex Singleton, and tackle Mike

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Speaker 1: McGlinchey all spoke on that feeling today.

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Speaker 2: Ozzity, Yesterday was an outcome we wanted. Ozzie wanted to

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Speaker 2: finish off with that winning record, But I think the

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Speaker 2: main thing is just understanding the guys we have in

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Speaker 2: the locker room and how can we build off.

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Speaker 3: You know, guys were pissed off yesterday. I know a

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Speaker 3: lot of people, you know, however you look at it

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Speaker 3: want to say those games don't matter or whatever, but

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Speaker 3: you know it did matter, and guys, guys weren't happy

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Speaker 3: to you know, go out there and play that way

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Speaker 3: and just have the you know, it kind of accumulates

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Speaker 3: kind of just how you feel in the whole season,

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Speaker 3: and so to you know, take that in and yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think we'll be able to build off it. I think,

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Speaker 3: you know, this is the first time in my last

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Speaker 3: four years that I won't have a new head coach.

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Speaker 3: So it's it's just nice not to have, you know,

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Speaker 3: all that change, new position coaches, so to just kind

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Speaker 3: of be able to build something for the first time.

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Speaker 3: And I know it's the first time in a long time,

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Speaker 3: you know here it's able to build something and not

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Speaker 3: kind of have question marks all over the place. So,

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Speaker 3: you know, to be able to do that as a group.

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Speaker 3: You know the guys are going to be here. You know,

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Speaker 3: we're already a close team, so to you know, keep

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Speaker 3: those guys closer and whoever you know comes in because

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Speaker 3: you know, with the turnover, people are going to come

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Speaker 3: in and bring them in and grow the culture and

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Speaker 3: get going again.

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Speaker 4: Hardships and struggle and the grind, you know, makes it

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Speaker 4: that much better when you do come out on top.

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Speaker 4: I know, my first year as a rookie went four

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Speaker 4: and twelve, didn't have a season that anybody wanted to have.

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Speaker 4: And then that following year, you know, we went to

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl, and the feeling of that accomplishment and

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Speaker 4: overcoming you know, all the bs that goes with losing

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Speaker 4: and and getting to be becoming a winning franchise and

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Speaker 4: expecting to win each week, and that feeling and that

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Speaker 4: confidence that comes with that is truly one of the

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Speaker 4: best feelings in the world. And I can't wait till

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Speaker 4: till we can accomplish that.

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Speaker 1: Alex singletona wide receiver, Marvin Mims junior, and pastor Tana

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Speaker 1: also spoke about the philosophy and culture that head coach

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Speaker 1: Sean Pan instilled in the team this year.

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Speaker 2: I've just seen a lot of confidence, you know, through

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Speaker 2: the adversity. He always stayed calm, you know, always trusted

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Speaker 2: us in the team. That's what I've seen from him,

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Speaker 2: and it showed, you know, his proven ability to keep

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Speaker 2: guys you know at a high level, playing at high

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Speaker 2: is going to be the biggest thing.

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Speaker 5: I think is just really his culture, you know, the

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Speaker 5: way he wants things done, his way, the way he

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Speaker 5: I mean, just talking to the guys from the past,

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Speaker 5: of just going into the NFL life and getting adjusted

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Speaker 3: I would say something that's grown so much in this

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Speaker 3: it surprises me every single day. It's just how many

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Speaker 3: single week, and it is it's not you're not forced

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Speaker 3: And I think that's what has kind of led us

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Speaker 3: I said, it's just going to continue because we have

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Speaker 4: And so that's been the biggest thing is here.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback jared's Dinham also spoke to the media today inside

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Speaker 6: I felt like I definitely, you know, in those two weeks,

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Speaker 6: it's it's one thing to practice certain things, but once

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Speaker 6: the line and and and doing certain things and getting

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Speaker 6: like I definitely grew and looking forward to.

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Speaker 1: Uh, you know, the spring, plus, Jared said, I'm and

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Speaker 1: Marvin Mims also went on to talk about how much

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Speaker 1: it will mean to be in the same offensive system

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's it's huge, you know, be be

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Speaker 6: like some of us were talking, whenever we come back

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Speaker 6: in the spring, nothing's going to be new. You know,

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Speaker 6: it's all gonna be stuff that we've heard before, stuff

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Speaker 6: you know, half the time that's that's the battle. So, uh,

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Speaker 6: it's good to kind of have that.

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Speaker 4: Under your belt.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it'll be huge, you know, especially this

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Speaker 5: off season studying, just kind of knowing what the coaches want,

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Speaker 5: when OTAs come, training camp comes, I mean all the

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Speaker 5: guys will pretty much be close to the same page

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Speaker 5: because we've been through it for a year. So I

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Speaker 5: think it will help tremendously.

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Speaker 1: But certainly not, he says. The players that leave for

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Speaker 1: the offseason, Alex Singleton and Mike McGlinchey detailed their belief

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Speaker 1: in this team moving forward and how they can build

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Speaker 3: Now, like I said, I think a lot of it

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Speaker 3: early with new coaches and everything is just kind of

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Speaker 3: seeing what works, what doesn't work. You know, what players

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Speaker 3: you know, have everybody, you know, coaches back and you know,

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Speaker 3: a lot of the key guys back it, Day one

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Speaker 3: of OTAs is going to be more smooth than we

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Speaker 3: it's going to be huge for us. And you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm just excited to be able to start the season

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Speaker 4: Well, I think we took great strides to be honest,

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Speaker 4: of turning this thing around into believing that we can

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Speaker 4: win games and and you know, the great disappointment that

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Speaker 4: you feel after a season like this and games like

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Speaker 4: it doesn't come without that disappointment doesn't come without the

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Speaker 4: expectation of being great. And I think that expectation of

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Speaker 4: do this is why it hurts so much. And you know,

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Speaker 4: I think the belief that this team has moving forward

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Speaker 4: to accomplish what we can, what we set out to

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Speaker 4: accomplish from you know, starting in April is an exciting opportunity.

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Speaker 4: I think we've grown a lot, We've we've improved a lot,

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Speaker 4: but the biggest stride is you've got to maintain that

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Speaker 4: consistency all the way through and offensively, certainly, we don't

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Speaker 4: where we got to start moving forward in April.

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Speaker 1: Now, joining me here in the Broncos Podcast studio is

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Speaker 1: Broncos lead writer Eric Delalai. Eric, thanks for joining me.

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Speaker 1: Season has officially come to an end.

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Speaker 7: It asks ad a disappointing result yesterday in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 7: but I still think some good things to move forward

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Speaker 7: from the season with and head into twenty twenty four

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Speaker 7: hopefully finding some better results and capitalizing and building on

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Speaker 7: the momentum that the Broncos found at times this season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, ericn It. You know, we went inside the

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Speaker 1: them earlier in the show. It seems like everyone's pretty

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Speaker 1: optimistic cutting into the off season here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I mean, at the end of the season is always tough,

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Speaker 7: right because you know the business of the NFL, the

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Speaker 7: locker room's ever going to be exactly the same as

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Speaker 7: it was the previous year. Some guys are going to

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Speaker 7: move on. But I do think there's this sense among

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Speaker 7: the guys that you've got to remember how it felt

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Speaker 7: it felt when you won five in a row and

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Speaker 7: the difference between those two stretches and what it takes

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Speaker 7: to win football games and put yourself in position to

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Speaker 7: get to the playoffs. And I think several guys talked

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Speaker 7: about that fine line. We heard Sean Payton say that

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Speaker 7: all year, the fine line between a groove and a rut.

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Speaker 7: And I think guys are motivated for the twenty twenty

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Speaker 7: Jared Stidham said, you've got to have that burning desire

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Speaker 7: this offseason and fuel yourself, motivate yourself and come back

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Speaker 7: ready to work. I did, like Sean Payton said post game,

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Speaker 7: which is nobody said that this was going to be easy,

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Speaker 7: and it is going to require some work, and there's

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Speaker 7: going to be some stumbles, some difficulties, some roadblocks along

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Speaker 7: the way. But as Michael McGlinchey said said, that makes

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Speaker 7: it feel a whole lot sweeter if and when you

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Speaker 7: do get to kind of that ultimate goal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. And Eric, you know, as we look back

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Speaker 1: at the season here, what progress do you really just

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Speaker 1: feel like the team made this year? Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I do think it's a tougher, like more mentally tough team,

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Speaker 7: a team that found ways to win close games at times.

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Speaker 7: I do think even though you know the Broncos ended

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Speaker 7: there was still I think progress made from that Packers

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Speaker 7: game forward and finishing the season seven and four. Moving

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Speaker 7: forward from that one in five start it felt like

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Speaker 7: a different group, a group that maybe grew up a

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Speaker 7: As Mike mcglinchy said last week said, and you know,

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Speaker 7: you're not going to win every close game. I think

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Speaker 7: the Broncos were five and four and one score games

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Speaker 7: this year. But if you can improve that a little bit,

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Speaker 7: as Justin Simmons talked about on Sunday Night, that can

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Speaker 7: be the difference, right, if you're able to make that

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Speaker 7: six and three, you know, is that enough to turn

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Speaker 7: things in your favor. But I thought the Broncos, you know,

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Speaker 7: at times did what they were supposed to do and

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Speaker 7: took care of business against certain teams, and rode the

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Speaker 7: momentum during the win streak and found some guys, some

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Speaker 7: un heralded guys who can really play football. And you know,

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Speaker 7: you got to start all over and do it again

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Speaker 7: each season. It's its own identity and its own deal.

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Speaker 7: But it did feel, especially for a stretch there, like

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Speaker 7: a different team, a more mature team than we've seen

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Speaker 7: kind of the past several years.

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Speaker 1: Definitely, Yeah, Eric, you mentioned that kind of final stretch

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Speaker 1: What do you think just changed for this team kind

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Speaker 7: Well, I mean part of it was the turnovers, right,

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Speaker 7: have made it even if they finished ten and seven

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Speaker 7: and won those last three. Now, obviously I think you

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Speaker 7: feel a bit better if you're ten and seven and

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Speaker 7: there were critical. In Detroit, that was just a good

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Speaker 7: Lions team that I think, at the end of a

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Speaker 7: again a tough game where turnovers made the difference, and

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Speaker 7: then yesterday said I just think, you know, early the

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Speaker 7: Roncas had some chances they weren't able to capitalize maybe,

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Speaker 7: and then things just got a little bit out of hand.

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Speaker 7: And Sean Payton mentioned upfront and you know, in the

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Speaker 7: you know, defensively, just it wasn't quite where he expected

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Speaker 7: still lose that game in Detroit, that's a tough game,

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Speaker 7: and maybe against the Raiders you're still not you know,

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Speaker 7: maybe the Raiders just on that day win upfront, You're

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Speaker 7: gonna lose football games. I mean, it's the NFL. You're

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Speaker 7: not going to go undefeated. But if you are better

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Speaker 7: I think that was the biggest change. And then you

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Speaker 7: know it just you've got to be able to have

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Speaker 7: more consistency, I think offensively and defensively on both sides

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Speaker 7: think this offseason have to get better in both those areas,

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Speaker 7: which obviously, right, you got to just get better. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: but when you didn't have those takeaways and the turnover

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Speaker 3: I think sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric, Another topic of conversation in the locker room

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Speaker 1: and I know last offseason we talked a lot about that,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think it's all about building a

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Speaker 7: And I think you know, you heard that from the

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Speaker 7: it wasn't what they wanted or aspired to do this year.

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Speaker 7: And Michael Eglinchy was asked about, Oh, you've got all

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Speaker 7: he was like, I don't want to get used to that.

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Speaker 7: And so I think it takes that mentality that that

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Speaker 7: Sean Payton has definitely helped bring here himself, and then

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Speaker 7: And I think there's all sorts of small things in

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Speaker 1: Eric, last one for you here. You know, as the

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he'l up. You know, take some time and rest

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Speaker 7: if you're these guys or hear some guys talk about that,

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Speaker 7: But if I think one of the things you learn

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Speaker 7: You've got to be ready to go. And so you know,

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Speaker 7: if you want to have twenty four be the year

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Speaker 7: the work's got to start. And so I'm sure these

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Speaker 7: And again, I think it goes back to Sean Payton

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Speaker 7: saying it's gonna take hard work. No one said this

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Speaker 1: Now, starts now. Yep, Eric, appreciate you joining the show today.

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Speaker 7: You got it, said that's going to do it.

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Speaker 1: For today's episode of Broncos Now Broncos Country, Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for tuning in. Let meet you right back here

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Speaker 1: on the Broncos Podcast Network in YouTube tomorrow for another episode.

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Speaker 1: I will see you all then