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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to the Broncos podcast network and

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Speaker 1: YouTube for the latest episode of Broncos Now. As I

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Speaker 1: Always In. Your host is Sidney Jones and coming up

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Speaker 1: on today's episode, The Broncos were back at practice today

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Speaker 1: as they continued to prepare to face the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: this Sunday. We'll hear from ed coach Sean Payan, quarterback

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Speaker 1: of Russell Wilson in a safety Justin Simmons as they

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Speaker 1: all spoke to the media. All that and more coming up.

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Speaker 1: The Denver Broncos were back on the practice field today

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Speaker 1: as they set their sights on the Houston Texans. The

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Speaker 1: Broncos will travel to Texas this weekend for the start

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Speaker 1: of a three game road stretch, and head coach Chan

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Speaker 1: Payn and quarterback Russell Wilson talked today about how they

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Speaker 1: approach these road games.

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Speaker 2: You know, when the season comes out, I don't think

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Speaker 2: you look at I always say this, you look at

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Speaker 2: a number of home games and you're really just looking

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Speaker 2: at this week. You know. I do know that the

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Speaker 2: remaining six for the away are all inside, and then

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Speaker 2: the other two are here outside. But I don't think

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Speaker 2: there's anything different relative to playing on the road versus

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Speaker 3: I think rather than thinking of a challenge, I think

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Speaker 3: look at as a collection of moments. You know, it's

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Speaker 3: not any bigger game than any other. All the games

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Speaker 3: that you're just a collection of seventy five moments within

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Speaker 3: I think the best part that we can do is

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Speaker 1: And as they look ahead at to the Texans, both

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think CJ has been impressed. Man, he's been

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Speaker 3: You know, he's got a great you know, he's got

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Speaker 4: The number one thing that comes to mind is poise.

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Speaker 1: Wide receiver Jerry Judy did not participate in today's practice,

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Speaker 1: today's news is Philow. Team reporter Film Maloney. Phil, thanks

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Sain Ready to go in depth?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Phil, this is a high stakes AFC matchup

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Speaker 5: Uh yeah, it's going to be a big game. I think.

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Speaker 5: Excited to just see how you know every week that

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Speaker 1: Definitely. Well that was a good game last week first

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Speaker 5: Thank you very much, said always find out a Wednesday.

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