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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country? Welcome back to the Broncos Podcast

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Speaker 1: Network on YouTube for the latest edition of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: As always, I'm your host, Sidney Jones, and it was

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Speaker 1: another busy day here at the uc held Training Center.

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Speaker 1: With the team's initial fifty three man roster set, the

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Speaker 1: Broncos announced more transactions. The team did not claim anyone

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Speaker 1: off waivers, but added a thirteen players to their practice squad.

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Speaker 1: Denver signed defensive lineman mctalvina, game tackle Quinn Bailey, defensive

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Speaker 1: lineman Jonathan Harris, cornerback fay On Hicks, wide receiver Kendall Hinton,

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Speaker 1: quarterback Josh Johnson, outside linebacker Jonathan Coongbo insign linebacker Canai Maga,

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Speaker 1: cornerback Jakwon McMillian, guard Natani Muti, running back divine A Segbo,

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Speaker 1: Titan Dylan param and wide receiver Darius Shepard to the

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Speaker 1: practice squad. Each NFL team is eligible to have sixteen

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Speaker 1: players on its to squad, including six veteran players with

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Speaker 1: no experience limits, so Denver will be able to sign

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Speaker 1: three more players. Broncos also officially added two veterans back

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Speaker 1: to their roster. Defensive lineman Mike Purcell and Titan Eric Tomlinson,

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Speaker 1: and a corresponding move, the team plays Titan Greg Dulsich

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Speaker 1: and quarterback Michael Ojimudia on injured reserve. We heard from

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Speaker 1: general manager George Payton yesterday and he said this was

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Speaker 1: a procedural move. So Purcell and Tomlinson a big part

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Speaker 1: of what we're doing. Mike's one of our core guys.

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Speaker 1: You know, we didn't play him in the preseason, and

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna be here. They're doing a favor for

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Speaker 1: the team. They're taking one for the team. In other news,

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Speaker 1: the team was back at practice today and we'll have

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Speaker 1: another practice to tomorrow. We heard from head coach Nathaniel

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Speaker 1: Hackett as you discussed this team's initial fifty three man

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Speaker 1: roster and how nice it is to have these expanded

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Speaker 1: think that you know, the whole NFL schedule has changed

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Speaker 1: you know days you get to go home at all

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Speaker 1: those things. So I think the more guys you have

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Speaker 1: throughout the season to be able to develop them is

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Speaker 1: so huge because this is a game of health and

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Speaker 1: you always want to have people in the program that

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Speaker 1: have to go. I mean, even the activations is a

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Speaker 1: huge thing that I'm so happy that they kept going

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Speaker 1: because we can activate those practice squad guys, so those

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Speaker 1: guys have to still practice and play like their starters

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Speaker 1: just in case anything happens. They have to be ready

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Speaker 1: to go. So um, that helps, and it just gives

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Speaker 1: us more time to work with more more people and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna make our the whole league more quality. And

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Speaker 1: with just twelve days left until the Broncos season opener,

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Speaker 1: coach Hacket, it details what the schedule will look like

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Speaker 1: for the players over the next couple of days. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we kind of try to mix it up because we

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Speaker 1: be sure that we're getting good on good competition, so

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Speaker 1: they're playing at a high level. So we'll do that today. Um,

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Speaker 1: but we'll kind of mix some things in here and

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Speaker 1: a coach, you don't want to look at it too

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Speaker 1: long because you keep thinking of more and more things

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Speaker 1: the media before practice today. They discussed the potential of

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Speaker 1: Monday night game against Seattle. Quickly approaching had been tough,

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Speaker 1: another busy day here at the team headquarters. Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Still getting the roster I'll put together, yes, exactly. First

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Speaker 1: and well that's good for the Broncos. You also wonder,

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Speaker 1: more days until they get back into that game week, Eric,

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time and look forward to having you on

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Speaker 1: Quarterback Brett Rippon detailed how coach Hackett texted him and

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