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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back Insite Center Health Training Center for

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Speaker 1: another episode of Broncos Now as Always and your host

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Speaker 1: Sidney Jones. And coming up on today's episode, head coach

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton spoke to the media discussing Sunday's loss to

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Speaker 1: the Jets, plus Broncos lead writer Eric Dealala joins the

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Speaker 1: show for a game recap.

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Speaker 2: All that more coming up.

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Speaker 1: The Broncos fell to one in four following a Sunday's

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Speaker 1: loss Adam Powerfeld at Mile High to the Jets, and

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Speaker 1: today we heard from head coach Sean Payon as he

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Speaker 1: detailed how we saw the game unfold and he also

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Speaker 1: talked about his play calling.

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Speaker 3: You know, how a game's unfolding, how you wanted to unfold.

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Speaker 3: We got a lot of coverage yesterday, you know, a

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Speaker 3: lot of too high. Look, it was hard to get

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Speaker 3: down the field with what they were doing defensively. And

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Speaker 3: yet I would have liked for us to have been

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Speaker 3: better running the ball yesterday. And part of that, a

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Speaker 3: good part part of that falls on me and being

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Speaker 3: more patient, you know, going back and looking at the

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Speaker 3: tape this morning. We had some good runs. Russell did

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Speaker 3: a real good job in the first half with with

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Speaker 3: plays that really came outside the framework of design, you know,

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Speaker 3: is off schedule either keeps or throws. But I think

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Speaker 3: that's something for us to be effective right now our

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Speaker 3: margin Foreyer, we're gonna have to be more patient and

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Speaker 3: better at running the football.

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Speaker 1: And opened up his conference call today talking about the

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Speaker 1: run defense and what he's all in film versus Jets.

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Speaker 3: Our gap integrity has been poor in all three games. Uh,

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Speaker 3: we got wide yesterday on the big run, and so

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Speaker 3: that's something that that was the first topic this morning.

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Speaker 3: You know. In other words, this has been Uh, it's

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Speaker 3: gonna be tough to win games if we can't stop

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Speaker 3: the run defensively, and we've got to get it cleaned up.

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Speaker 3: So i'd start with, you know, pitting the right gaps

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Speaker 3: how to restrict those holes and a lot of it

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Speaker 3: it's not communication, it's technique, but that has to get better.

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Speaker 1: An offensively coach talked about what the keys are to

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Speaker 1: being more efficient in the red zone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, we had we had two plays on first

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Speaker 3: obviously have to run the ball well in the red zone.

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Speaker 3: You're you're any good red zone offense at the end

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Speaker 3: well as throw it. But because your passing lanes in

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Speaker 3: your area to work is restricted, we have two decent

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Speaker 3: runs to start drives down there that really don't materialize,

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Speaker 3: and there's breakdowns in what we're doing in the running game.

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Speaker 3: But I think that's the thing that you know, and

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Speaker 3: to be an important number for us. So it was frustrating,

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Speaker 3: but nonetheless, generally speaking, to be to be good and

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Speaker 1: Plus, coach Peyton looked ahead and detailed how he is

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Speaker 1: going to approach this a Thursday night match up versus Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: They do a lot of things well, you know, and

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Speaker 3: quite honestly, they've found ways to win even when it

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Speaker 3: hasn't gone as well as they would have hoped, and

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Speaker 3: it's the sign of a real good football team, a

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Speaker 3: championship team. Offensively, they're multiple, you know. Obviously it starts

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Speaker 3: defend more than just you know, one or two players.

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Speaker 3: Kelsey's a big target. Obviously defensively, they're very multiple. Steve

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Speaker 3: But I would say they're pressure driven and so you've

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Speaker 1: Now it's time to take a look at today's injury report.

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Speaker 1: Reminder of the Broncos did not practice today, so this

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Speaker 1: is just an estimation. Defensive tackle DJ Jones did not participate.

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Speaker 1: Outside linebacker Baron Browning, center Lloyd Kushienberry, defensive tackle Mike Purcell,

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Speaker 1: listed as limited. Now joining me here inside the Broncos

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Speaker 1: Podcast studio for a game recap is Broncos lead writer

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Speaker 1: Eric Delali. Eric, thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 2: It's not to dive into per usual.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think Kareem Jackson he put it best

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Speaker 1: in the locker room fall on the game. He said,

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Speaker 1: this team has to find a way to put together,

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Speaker 1: you know, a full game, a full sickxteen minutes. You know,

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Speaker 1: we didn't see that again this Sunday. You know, we

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Speaker 1: saw the first half. You know, offense was pretty productive,

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Speaker 1: so was the defense in the first half. But then

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Speaker 1: they came out in the second half and looked like

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Speaker 1: a completely different team.

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Speaker 2: What did you see in that regard? Yeah, well two things.

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Speaker 4: First, I agree with Kareem and Champayne echoed that message

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Speaker 4: put four quarters of football together. That's that's critical if

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Speaker 4: this team is going to start winning football games. You know,

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Speaker 4: against the Jets, you had a really good defensive performance

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Speaker 4: in the first half. The offense played pretty well. You

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Speaker 4: look back to Chicago last week, the second half clearly

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Speaker 4: was the better half. First half against Washington, first half

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Speaker 4: I believe where you've led at halftime in three consecutive

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Speaker 4: home games, unfortunately haven't been able to pull those out.

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Speaker 4: So you've got to make those winning plays, those key plays.

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Speaker 4: And we heard Sean Payton say after the game, no

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Speaker 4: one's going to feel sorry for the Broncos. No one's

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Speaker 4: going to listen to what ails them or the woes

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Speaker 4: that this team has. But at some point you've got

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Speaker 4: to go out there and take it. And I think

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Speaker 4: part of the way you do that is you look

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Speaker 4: at the first half of this game against the Jets,

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Speaker 4: and Sean Payton mentioned this in both of his press conferences,

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Speaker 4: and you had a chance to really put a bigger

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Speaker 2: And you know, one of three in red.

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Speaker 4: Zone opportunities, we're unable to score touchdowns in two second

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Speaker 4: the Jets have the best red zone defense in the NFL,

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Speaker 4: and so it's not going to be easy, but you know,

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Speaker 4: I think it's critical that the Broncos find those ways

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Speaker 4: in the second half, hold on to those leads, make

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Speaker 4: how they played that they had that chance but got

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Speaker 4: to make more plays throughout the course of the game. Again,

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Speaker 4: like Kareem Jackson said, put together that four quarter effort

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Speaker 4: and if you do that, maybe you start seeing this

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Speaker 4: team win some football games. But it's critical that they

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Speaker 4: find a way to put a complete game together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric, it felt like it was going to be

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Speaker 1: another comeback, you know, after Patsertan's interception, But you know, really,

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Speaker 1: if you're looking at offense, these turnovers really hurt them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 4: Obviously the last one seals the game there, but you

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Speaker 4: momentum on your side and the defense did a nice

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Speaker 4: job there. Let's give them some credit there to hold

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Speaker 4: them to a field goal that could have been a

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Speaker 4: survive it. But that's a critical moment. Jets muff a

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Speaker 4: to find ways to play cleaner football. Can't turn the

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Speaker 4: that turnover battle. We've talked about that a lot, and

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Speaker 4: And I listen, the Broncos had some chances and some

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Speaker 4: bounces that just didn't go their way, which is unfortunate.

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Speaker 4: You had the strip sack is like Wilson by Nick

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Speaker 4: luck was not necessarily on the Broncos side on those

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Speaker 1: Eric, you mentioned Zach Allen and Nick Bonito. Let's look

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Speaker 1: at this pass rush. I feel like that was a

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Speaker 1: I know, Nicko he had two sacks, Zach Allen he

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Speaker 1: had a really nice game to a strip sack, a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, I gave I guess I gave Zach Allen's

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Speaker 4: credit to Nick Benitot Apologies. Okay, it was a nice

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Speaker 4: play by Zach Allen. Yeah, I mean the pass rush

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Speaker 4: like you mentioned, Nick Benito up to I believe five

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Speaker 4: and a half on the season. Last year, Draymond Jones

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Speaker 4: already reached that in five games.

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Speaker 2: But here's what I would say. The Broncos have to

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Speaker 4: To put themselves in position to get that pressure right.

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Speaker 4: And the way that teams are running the football right now,

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Speaker 4: it's hard to get teams into third and longs, hard

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Speaker 4: make that happen more frequent. You look at one drive

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Speaker 4: I think nine consecutive times, and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: they forced sack Wilson to throw it out of bounds.

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Speaker 4: And so that's closer to what you're looking for. But

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Speaker 4: in the second half, and Sean Payton talked a lot

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Speaker 4: of that goes back to stopping the run, and then

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric, you mentioned stopping the run. Obviously there was

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Speaker 2: You've got to play as all eleven.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Oric, you mentioned the mental focus. You know, given

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Speaker 4: It's got to be an internal focus on getting better,

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Speaker 1: Play last one for you, Eric, I know a lot

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Speaker 4: About when you play and more about how you go

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Speaker 1: I think Thursday well, we'll see what happens this Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Eric appreciate joining the show today.

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Speaker 2: You got it said, thanks, Well that.

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Speaker 1: I'll do it for today's episode of Broncos Now Broncos Country.

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