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Speaker 1: What's the Bronchest 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: we'll hear from head coach Nathaniel Hackett, wide receiver Courtland Sutton,

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Speaker 1: and running back Latavious Murray as they spoke to the

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Speaker 1: media today. Plus we were back inside the locker room

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Speaker 1: in Phil Melani joins the show. All that and more

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Speaker 1: coming up as Thanksgiving is this Thursday. Head coach Nathaniel

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Speaker 1: Hackett changed the football schedule this week. The players were

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Speaker 1: back out on the field today for a walk through

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Speaker 1: in their day off will now be on Thursday. Coach

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Speaker 1: gets spoke to the media today as the team looks

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Speaker 1: to turn the page to week twelve here and talked

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Speaker 1: about the Carolina defense and the threat that they'll pose

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Speaker 1: this Sunday. I'll tell you they're good defense. Now, I

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Speaker 1: mean Burns, I mean he's been a very good player

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Speaker 1: throughout his time in the league. And um, they do

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Speaker 1: a lot of unique things from their pressure. They love

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Speaker 1: they'll bring it from all over and they'll definitely test Russell.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna have to follow his protection rules understand what

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be facing because they're gonna throw everything at him,

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Speaker 1: and there's gonna be some things that uh, they haven't

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Speaker 1: done before, but they're probably gonna throw at him. But um,

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Speaker 1: they're really good defense post with their pressure schemes and

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Speaker 1: just I mean they're stout front up. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 1: got a lot of good football players and looking at

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Speaker 1: this Broncos offense. Coach Hackett reflected on the rhythm they

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Speaker 1: found early in the game on Sunday and discussed it

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Speaker 1: being Russell Wilson's highest completion percentage of the season. I do.

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Speaker 1: I think he definitely was doing a really good job

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Speaker 1: in the beginning there. Even on the first play they

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Speaker 1: courtland Ston also discussed the positives they can take out

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Speaker 1: a Sunday's game and how they can build on those

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Speaker 1: Just gotta finish at the end of the day. Plus

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Speaker 1: running back Latavius Murray spoke today on where he hopes

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Speaker 1: this run game can improve. Yeah, you know, just continuing

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Speaker 1: I think we obviously you know, being able to you know,

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Speaker 1: I think we've been talking about it, right, but it's

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Speaker 1: it's kind of it's time to put it all together

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know and not come back and kind

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Speaker 1: of say the same song we were Russell Wilson's day

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Speaker 1: after the game on Sunday that this team can't lose

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Speaker 1: any more games this season, and Cortland Suton spoke on

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Speaker 1: urgency for weeks now. You know, losing, losing it's not

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Speaker 1: steals forward. Now, let's welcome fellow team reporter Phil Melani

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Speaker 1: today's news. Phil, how's it going, Thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me a little bit different. It's

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Speaker 1: Tuesday Day. I know we're all with it around here.

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Speaker 1: gonna be Thursday, though we could do yes, very true.

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Speaker 1: Well football and Thanksgiving together, but at least we'll be

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Speaker 1: at home now. Exactly Well, Phil, let's dive into today's

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Speaker 1: news for a bit. You know, we heard earlier in

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Speaker 1: moving forward. Well, I think that the whole reason why

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Speaker 1: Even the first play they had three tight ends out

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Speaker 1: It also frees up Nathaniel Hackett to do some other things. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We heard from him on Monday. He said that, you know,

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Speaker 1: just hasn't gone according to plan. And so uh big

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Speaker 1: interesting to see how they use Marlon Mack. I think

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Speaker 1: do think that Latavius Murray and Marlon Mack they're gonna

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, philm Well, Phil, always appreciate your

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