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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside Central Hall Training Center for

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Speaker 1: another episode of Broncos Now. As I always your host

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Speaker 1: Sidney Jones, and coming up on today's episode, we'll hear

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Speaker 1: from all three coordinators as they spoke to the media.

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Speaker 1: Plus Buffalo Bill's reporter Matti glob joins the show to

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Speaker 1: take a look at this matchup.

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Speaker 2: From the Buffalo perspective. All that more coming up.

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Speaker 1: Broncos held another day of practice here at the team

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Speaker 1: headquarters as they continued to prepare to face the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills on Monday Night Football, and we heard from defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator Vance Joseph today as he talked about Bill's quarterback

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and how the look to game plan for him.

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Speaker 3: Obviously in the pocket, having a plan to tackle him

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Speaker 3: is going to be important. He's a big guy who

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Speaker 3: you know, small guys slow to get down, you know,

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Speaker 3: and he's a he's a vicious runner. So we'll see

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Speaker 3: how it turns out on Monday, but we have a

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Speaker 3: plan to tackle him and how we rush him obviously

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Speaker 3: is important. But it's a it's a top five offense

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Speaker 3: and a lot of areas points and yards and red

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Speaker 3: zone and third down, so you know, it's been a

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Speaker 3: three out a full weeks of playing special offenses, so

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Speaker 3: again it's a lovely challenge for us and we're looking

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Speaker 3: forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Plus, offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi talked about how they'll look

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Speaker 1: to be more efficient in the red zone on Monday night.

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Speaker 4: Running the football is at a premium. You know, there's

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Speaker 4: a space decreases down there, so throws are tighter and

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Speaker 4: it's a little more challenging. So running the ball well,

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Speaker 4: you know, having some good play action off your runs

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Speaker 4: and then you know, having a real good third down

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Speaker 4: plan so that if you do get there, you know,

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Speaker 4: having the right plan that that has answers for what

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Speaker 4: they're doing. So you know, you know, the simple answer,

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Speaker 4: the key to everything is execution and having the right

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Speaker 4: plays up. But you know, those things are mentioned are

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Speaker 4: at a premium down there.

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Speaker 1: Both Joe Lombardi and special teams coordinator Ben Kotweco, we're

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Speaker 1: asked about how they would evaluate their respective units performances

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Speaker 1: throughout the first half of the season.

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Speaker 4: Your goal on offense is to you know, be balanced

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Speaker 4: and and be able to do what you have to

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Speaker 4: do to win. There are some games where a defense

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Speaker 4: is selling out to stop the run and you better

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Speaker 4: be able to pass it if that's the case. And

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Speaker 4: so you know, our goal is always to be balanced.

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Speaker 4: I think if you look at Shawn's history, having a

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Speaker 4: good run game has always been you know, even when

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Speaker 4: we were at our best throwing the ball, it makes

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Speaker 4: it harder on a defense to be able to run it.

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Speaker 4: And I think that we've established that that you know,

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Speaker 4: we're a good running football team. And you know, I

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Speaker 4: think if you look at the passing game, you know,

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Speaker 4: I think if whatever the efficiency means, you know, Russ's

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Speaker 4: pass efficiency is good, but you know it's avoiding the sacks,

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Speaker 4: avoiding the negative plays, and you know, making the plays

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Speaker 4: when you need to. So but I think to answer

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Speaker 4: your question, we're, you know, happy with where our running

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Speaker 4: game's going, and you know, just feel like we can

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Speaker 4: get more consistent in the passing game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the first half of the season's been

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Speaker 5: very pertive for us. I mean, if you look at,

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Speaker 5: you know, the the numbers, we're number one on punt

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Speaker 5: that's that's checked. That's very very good. And also on

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Speaker 5: the coverage aspect, we're number three in punt coverage and

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Speaker 5: we're number three in kickoff coverage, so we've done done

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Speaker 5: a good job. We've The best thing is is that

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Speaker 5: we've made some plays that has helped us win games.

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Speaker 5: And when you can play that complimentary football, which is

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Speaker 5: what we're gonna need Monday night, it's pretty uh, pretty rewarding.

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Speaker 1: And Van STOs have also talked today about the defense

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Speaker 1: and what his approach was after they didn't start the

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Speaker 3: It was early still, you know, it wasn't it wasn't

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Speaker 3: good obviously, you know, but you can't panic it. Just

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Speaker 3: you know, So just taking our time and finding ways

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Speaker 1: And now it's time to take a look at today's

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Speaker 1: injury report. Both outside linebacker Baron Browning and guard Ben

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Speaker 1: Powers were full participants. Now joining me here on a

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Speaker 1: Broncos now to take a look at this a Monday

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Speaker 1: night matchup from the Bills perspective is a Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: team reporter Maddy Glad Mattie, thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 2: Yeah, happy to be on with you. Big Monday night,

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Speaker 2: Monday night game ahead of us. It should be a

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Speaker 2: really fun matchup. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy the Broncos are back in primetime. I know

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Speaker 1: the Bills have been in primetime for the past several

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Speaker 1: weeks here, so nothing new for you guys over there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm honestly ready for a break. We've gone three straight.

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Speaker 2: This is our last of the three, so I'm ready

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Speaker 2: to not be in the nighttime window because, as you know,

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Speaker 2: coming off those primetime games is tough. The next day

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Speaker 1: It is, especially for like a Monday night game, kind

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Speaker 1: of messes up your whole week leading up to it,

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Speaker 1: and then the whole week after is shorter too, So

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Speaker 1: I feel you on that well, Maddie. Of course I

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Speaker 1: want to start off this segment by talking about von Miller.

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Speaker 1: Of course, he's going to be playing his former team

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Speaker 1: for the first time on Monday Night. And of course,

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Speaker 1: as you know, the Broncos have met so much to

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Speaker 1: him and to his career. I know he talked about

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Speaker 1: them a lot during his press conference this week. What

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Speaker 1: did you really have to say about this matchup and facing.

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Speaker 2: His former team. Yeah, I think you know, media was

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Speaker 2: this is all love between the Broncos and myself. I'm

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Speaker 2: excited to play them. I'm excited to see what it's

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Speaker 2: going to be like to get to see guys that

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Speaker 2: Von Miller. He is such a special player in the NFL,

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Speaker 2: and to get to play against a team that you

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Speaker 2: really made a name for yourself. I think at his

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Speaker 2: and is excited to go up against you guys because

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Speaker 2: the team means so much to him.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I know, we're all looking forward to

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Speaker 2: A lot of the.

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Speaker 1: Players this week in the locker room talked about that

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Speaker 1: and getting to face him, of course for the first

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Speaker 1: time too. Mattie, you know, I know this isn't the

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Speaker 1: start that the Bill's organization or Bill's fan base had

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott since Josh Allen's rookie season. So you know

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Speaker 1: what's been the message of the tone there in the

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, this team has not seen a five

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Speaker 2: they know that the team is capable of that. In

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, this team was seven and six kind

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of familiar faces from that twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: So it's not like these guys haven't seen this before.

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Speaker 2: They've they've been through it, they've weathered those storms, so

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Speaker 2: he's still getting his legs underneath him, still trying to,

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Speaker 2: he's still getting back to the von Miller that we

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Speaker 2: that's been tough, and they've done a really great job

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Speaker 2: weeks two through four, this offense was averaging forty one

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Speaker 2: I think the good thing is that they're at home.

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Speaker 2: This team is undefeated at home. They're four to zero

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Speaker 2: looking at games in Orchard Park, they've been really great

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Speaker 2: on the stat sheet, averaging close to thirty points a game,

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Speaker 2: been scoring touchdowns in the red zone at like seventy

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping that being at home can kind of start

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's going to be a really fun,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I couldn't agree more. Yeah, it should be a

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Speaker 1: Broncos Country. Thanks so much for tuning in. Let meet

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Speaker 2: And YouTube tomorrow for a game preview.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you all then,