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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside the uc Hell Training Center

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Speaker 1: for another episode of Broncos Now. He reporter and host

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

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Speaker 1: take a look at how the Broncos opened up free

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Speaker 1: agency and we'll hear from several of the players that

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Speaker 1: they've signed, all done more coming up. Broncos opened up

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Speaker 1: free agency with a bang, signing it's ten players within

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Speaker 1: the first three days. On Wednesday, the team announced that

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Speaker 1: they signed defensive end Zach Allen, tight end Chris Maynards,

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Speaker 1: tackle Mike Laguinchi, and a quarterback Jared Stidham. We got

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Speaker 1: up with all four of them to get their thoughts

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Speaker 1: on why Denver was the best fit for them. Take

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Speaker 1: a listen to what Alan, Maynards, McGlinchey and Stidham had

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Speaker 1: to say. Really checked all my boxes, you know, not

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Speaker 1: just you know, the football side, it's perfect, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just this is the perfect spot to be in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. And then also, I mean the city of Denver,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't get better than this, So you know, really

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Speaker 1: blast and you know, thankful to you know, get it

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Speaker 1: done here. Having a head coach like Sean Payton and

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Speaker 1: the success he'd had in the past, and the history

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Speaker 1: of teams she's been with and building a culture, and

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Speaker 1: the icing on top for me is just a familiarity

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Speaker 1: with him. He was one of my first coaches, one

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Speaker 1: of the first coaches to give me a shot. So

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Speaker 1: it's very exciting. It's the right fit for a lot

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Speaker 1: of reasons. Obviously, in a historic franchise and an organization

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Speaker 1: um a wonderful ownership group, a great general manager and

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Speaker 1: miss Peyton, and then obviously the Hall of Fame head

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Speaker 1: coach and Sean Payton and the step that he's put

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Speaker 1: together here and obviously you know, you look at the

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Speaker 1: roster from top to bottom, and it's a roster that's

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Speaker 1: ready to compete. And I'm happy to be a part

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Speaker 1: of it. I hope I can, you know, be a

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Speaker 1: huge piece of this franchise and in the years moving

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Speaker 1: forward and hopefully bring it back a couple a couple

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Speaker 1: of big time wins. I think the main thing was,

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Speaker 1: you know, Coach Peyton obviously been a huge fan of him,

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Speaker 1: you know, coaching Drew Brees throughout the years, So really

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Speaker 1: that was probably the main reason, just you know, getting

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Speaker 1: every day. I'm very, very excited about that. The Runkers

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Speaker 1: then signed guard Ben Powers, running backs some MOJ. P Ryan,

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Speaker 1: and a resigned inside linebacker Alex Singleton, and a safety

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Speaker 1: discussed their excitement to come to Denver. Denver was right

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Speaker 1: fit as close to home. It's a program that's ready

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Speaker 1: coach Payton's passed and he's a great coach, and I

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Speaker 1: And Singleton and Locke both talked about why coming back

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Speaker 1: to Denver was the right move for them. This is home.

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Speaker 1: You know, I love it here and I know we're building,

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Speaker 1: And you know it's a lot of wins, a lot

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Speaker 1: all the great players that play, it's just exciting to

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Speaker 1: sign and especially with Sara Pagan Puma, just an opportunity

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Speaker 1: the team's free agent signings. Is Broncos lead writer Eric Dalila. Eric,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you joining me. It's been a busy couple days

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Speaker 1: here at the team headquarters. It has been, yeah, a

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Speaker 1: lot of moves. It's been exciting, certainly some exciting moves, yea,

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Speaker 1: the past couple of days, Eric, you said it. Let's

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Speaker 1: start by looking at some of the additions on offense.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think two guys at Broncos Country it

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Speaker 1: Mike McGlinchey, because right tackle has just been a revolving

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Speaker 1: again really really good, especially in pass protection. Gave up

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Speaker 1: you know, Sidney, people coming off these first contracts that

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Speaker 1: and Eric, they are big dudes. Yeah, great to see. Yeah, well, Eric,

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