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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country. Welcome back inside the UCL Training

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Speaker 1: Center for another episode of Broncos Now. Team reporter and

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Speaker 1: host Sidney Jones here and coming up on today's episode,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from quarterback Russell Wilson, head coach Nathaniel Hackett,

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Speaker 1: and safety Justin Simmons as I spoke to the media today.

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Speaker 1: Plus I'll have the latest injury report and Filmlanni it

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Speaker 1: joins the show all that on tonight's episode. The team

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Speaker 1: was back at practice today as they look to turn

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Speaker 1: the page to week eleven to face the Las Vegas

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Speaker 1: Raiders at home this Sunday. Head coach Nathaniel Hackett spoke

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Speaker 1: to the media today and detailed what he hopes his

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Speaker 1: team can improve on this week. You know, right now,

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Speaker 1: we want to be sure that we look at the

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Speaker 1: guys that we have that are out there. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of different faces potentially, so

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Speaker 1: we want to be sure we take advantage of the

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Speaker 1: things that they do and at the same time continually

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Speaker 1: build this thing around Russell. Russell Wilson also talked about

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Speaker 1: where he thinks his offense can improve and where he

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Speaker 1: feels this team can really hone in on for the

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Speaker 1: rest of the season. Well, I think it, Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: first of all, you know, I gotta play better. Starts

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Speaker 1: with me and I gotta find ways that makes some

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Speaker 1: more plays out there for us, um more touchdowns, um

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Speaker 1: you know. And uh, and it's something that you continue

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Speaker 1: to work for every day. You know, you focus on

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Speaker 1: the little things. The fundamental is the little things of

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Speaker 1: the game. And you know, I've been been down before.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that we can't come out on the other

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Speaker 1: end of it all. And what it takes is it

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Speaker 1: takes a lot of work ethic, and it takes a

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Speaker 1: lot of um, you know, appreciation for continue to give

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Speaker 1: everything you have every day and that's not going to

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Speaker 1: change no matter, um, you know, no matter what our

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Speaker 1: record was, you know. And I think and uh, I

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Speaker 1: think that we got a lot of football left, a

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Speaker 1: lot of football left, a lot of football left, you know,

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Speaker 1: and uh, we gotta we gotta play at the highest level. Um.

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Speaker 1: And we gott played the highest level just uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: each day in practice and what that does, that translates

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Speaker 1: to the game. And we got a great rivalry game obviously, UM,

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Speaker 1: of history there, um, and so we got to make

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Speaker 1: sure that we we step up to the plate and

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Speaker 1: play our best football. Co Chacket went on to discuss

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Speaker 1: what he hopes to see Russell Wilson specifically improve upon

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Speaker 1: over the next eight weeks. Just continually owning the system,

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Speaker 1: owning the system that you know, we want to build

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Speaker 1: thinking going out there and having fun and playing ball

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Speaker 1: and looking at this defense. We heard from a safety

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Speaker 1: Justin Simmons a little bit earlier today, and despite this

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Speaker 1: always looking to get better, and it starts with the

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Speaker 1: little details we could be I'm not I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to say a lot better, but you can be better. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, did we just use the last game as

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Speaker 1: one goal, you know, stop the run? Yeah? But um,

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Speaker 1: a result of trying to stop the run, right, but

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Speaker 1: you know the flee flicker touchdown. Um, you know is

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Speaker 1: that one deep crosser I think hit for like forty

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Speaker 1: You know, you go into halftime ten zero, you never

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Speaker 1: know what type of ball game that is, you know

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Speaker 1: after that, and our offense has the ball coming out

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Speaker 1: on the second half. So those are the things, right

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Speaker 1: Like you can talk about the offensive stuff and um

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Speaker 1: all that, but like those things on defense we can control.

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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, it's not like

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Speaker 1: And that's got to be our mindset. And there's been

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Speaker 1: But to see guys like Virgil step up, to see

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, UM, if we can you know,

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Speaker 1: today's injury report. A lot of guys are currently day

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Speaker 1: to day. Coach Ick has said that wide receiver Kendall

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Speaker 1: Cornerback Kawe Williams and wide receiver kJ Hamler will be

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Speaker 1: Justin Simmons, Jonas Griffith, Mike Purcell, and Kareem Jackson were

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Speaker 1: all limited at practice today. Now let's dive a little

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Speaker 1: fellow team reporter at Phil Melanni, joining me here inside

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Speaker 1: the Broncos podcast studio. Phil, Thanks for joining me. How's

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Speaker 1: it going today, said, Thanks for having me. It's always great.

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Speaker 1: It's always a great day when I'm here with you.

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Speaker 1: I agree are the best, Yes, but I wish that

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Speaker 1: I know, yeah, well, there's still a lot to talk

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Speaker 1: about today, Phil. You know, first things first, what I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about is, you know, coach Hackett, he

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Speaker 1: the team is, and you know we've heard it for

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Speaker 1: the past few weeks here. He says, a lot of

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Speaker 1: it is accountability. He says, you know, in the team room,

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Speaker 1: they put up the film, they sit down all together,

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Speaker 1: He said. It's it's really open dialogue there. And even

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Speaker 1: it's on him. Yeah. I think it's interesting. I think

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Speaker 1: the NFL, I think sometimes it can lead to it

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Speaker 1: uh negative atmosphere when like say, somebody like Russ is

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Speaker 1: doesn't sound like this Bronco's team is really there. It

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Speaker 1: sounds like when Hackey wants to address the team, it's about, hey,

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Speaker 1: I felt there's been so much talk about how this

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