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

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Speaker 1: today's episode of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 2: As always, from your host is Sidney Jones.

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Speaker 1: And coming up on today's episode, we'll hear from head

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Speaker 1: coach Sean Payan in all three coordinators as they look

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Speaker 1: ahead at to a Sunday night's matchup versus Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 1: Plus Broncos lead writer Eric Delala joins the show for

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Speaker 1: a game preview All that marm coming out.

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Speaker 2: The Denver Broncos are set to face.

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings on this Sunday night football stage in

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Speaker 1: just two days, and today we heard from head coach

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton an offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi about some of

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Speaker 1: the challenges on facing a team that blitzes as much

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Speaker 1: as the Vikings do.

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Speaker 3: Clearly, from a pressure standpoint, if you just looked at

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Speaker 3: any analytical study, there's more six man pressure. You know,

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Speaker 3: we chart if four man's the normal rush, a single

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Speaker 3: pressure would be five. There's more six to seven mac

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Speaker 3: blitz as they come out of them, they really they

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Speaker 3: really force your hand a little bit, and you've got

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Speaker 3: to you know, we talked about communication be important. You know,

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Speaker 3: I mentioned that man in this type of game. I'm

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Speaker 3: glad we're playing it at home, you know, because the

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Speaker 3: communication obviously becomes harder on the road with the silent

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Speaker 3: snap count and the gun. But you know our tempo

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Speaker 3: and then I d But what what you're seeing and

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Speaker 3: what you saw and what you're discussing is absolutely true.

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Speaker 3: So at first, blush, you know, call it the first

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Speaker 3: six hours. You go get another coffee and you start again.

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Speaker 3: And then and here we are on day two, and

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Speaker 3: it gets clearer and clearer and clear. But that being said,

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Speaker 3: you know, certainly when we go through keys to victory

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Speaker 3: one of them on offenses, you know, understanding communication, knowing

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Speaker 3: what we're getting out of their penny front, what we're

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Speaker 3: getting out of their nickel front, and identifying you know,

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Speaker 3: what kind of pressure it is. But it can be

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Speaker 3: busy and noisy when you first look at it.

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Speaker 4: It's hard first because to get the defense, the Sky

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Speaker 4: there just trying to get guys lined up the right

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Speaker 4: so uh. But to your point, you know, every play

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Speaker 4: you've got to be you know a little bit like

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Speaker 4: every play you have to be ready for six guys rushing,

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Speaker 4: seven guys rushing, and so it it it does limit

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Speaker 4: your playbook quite a bit, you know, because there's a

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Speaker 4: lot of plays that are just dead a large portion

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Speaker 4: some ways that makes it easier and that you have

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Speaker 4: less to select from. You know, you're not on Amazon

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Speaker 4: trying to figure out, you know, the whole world what

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Speaker 4: it is you want. There's there's a it limits it

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Speaker 4: and then you know the communication is key, like recognizing

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Speaker 4: the looks, what can happen? All right, how are we

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Speaker 4: going to pick it up when they do come? What's

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Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator Vance Joseph also talked about Vikings quarterback at

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Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs and what he's seen from him.

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Speaker 5: He's a veteran player and he's super super smart. I

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Speaker 5: think the offense that Minnesota runs is very quarterback friendly,

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Speaker 5: a quarterback. It's the boots, it's the play action stuff

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Speaker 5: he's very good at. He's also very good at finding

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Speaker 5: man taking his best matchup. He knows the concepts, he

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Speaker 5: won't be easy to play well against this guy because

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Speaker 5: he's he's an experienced guy. I mean he's been in

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Speaker 5: seven years. Sometimes we've seen it, you know, Gino in Seattle.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes when guys sit for a long time, they have

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Speaker 5: have been athletic. He can he can make the second act,

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Speaker 2: Looking at the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: Offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi talked today about the importance of

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Speaker 4: It helps with time of possession. And you know, we

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Speaker 4: those three and four yard gains add up. They keep

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Speaker 4: when you're running the ball, even if it's not you know,

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Speaker 4: the eight nine yard games, you're still not in third

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Speaker 6: It's huge.

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Speaker 4: It's huge to have you know, a really smart center.

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Speaker 4: You know he can recognize the majority of the looks

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Speaker 4: and then you know you have your quarterback clued into like, okay,

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Speaker 4: this is this is something he can't see because he's

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Speaker 4: then you have to recognize these outlier looks to help

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Speaker 4: us out. And you know, and so we got you know,

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Speaker 4: five smart guys in there, like you said, that have

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Speaker 6: So it's a huge help.

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Speaker 1: Plus head coach on Pan talked about Russell Wilson's level

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Speaker 3: I think he's I think he's kind of on pace.

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Speaker 3: He's doing well. You know, there's certain things he's learning.

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Speaker 3: I think we're evolving a little bit relative to what

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Speaker 3: like most quarterbacks have it by. I think it's a

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Speaker 3: it's not only just centered around the quarterback. It's also

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Speaker 3: And so I said yesterday at the podium, you know

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Speaker 3: There's still a number of things we got to clean up.

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Speaker 3: And that's you know, that's why we're going out again today,

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Speaker 1: Vans Joseph also reflected on a Monday night's win versus

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Speaker 5: After the game, it was it was obviously a good

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Speaker 5: win for the Broncos, but I had four or five

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Speaker 5: I was not satisfied. I was irritated, you know, with

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Speaker 5: say it was simply taking a taking a pass game away.

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Speaker 5: It was not. It was miss tackles. You know, we

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Speaker 5: were very aware at the running game was going to happen.

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Speaker 5: You know, that last that last drive, it was simply

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Speaker 5: miss tackles. You know, we miss one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 5: my my, my thing now, our guys, is we have

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Speaker 5: we can't go out there and have a great game, right,

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Speaker 5: I mean, it was fun to watch. We had a

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Speaker 5: great game, and now it's time to play our best

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Speaker 5: So you know, I was aggravated after that game, and

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Speaker 5: we had a great session Tuesday morning and talked about that.

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Speaker 5: But to a man in the locker room, coaches and

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Speaker 5: players alike, no one was happy about how we finished.

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Speaker 5: That's a good sign. That's a good sign because we

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Speaker 5: are chasing perfection and we can't finish like that. That

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Speaker 5: would have been a sad story to lose that game

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Speaker 5: after we played so well for you know, three and

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Speaker 5: going to happen, And it was addressed. The players felt that,

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Speaker 5: the coaches felt that. We had a great meeting on

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Speaker 1: And special teams coordinator Ben Kottweek detailed what he saw

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Speaker 1: from his unit on Monday night.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, there was a lot to unpacking that football game.

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Speaker 7: Let's go to the hurry up field goal we called

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Speaker 7: hurricane if you will. You can go a lifetime without

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Speaker 7: seeing those, and to get really two of those in

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Speaker 7: a game was unique. Really just proud of our guys

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Speaker 7: the way we execute. Compliment to coach Payton. I mean,

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Speaker 7: we've allocated enough time and resources, whether it's in the

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Speaker 7: really well and executed it. He spoke of the return

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Speaker 7: game Marvin AFC Special Teams Player of the Week well deserved,

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Speaker 7: So those are the things that we're just going to

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Speaker 1: Now it's time to take a look at this week's

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Speaker 1: final injury report.

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Speaker 2: Safety A PJ.

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Speaker 1: Lock did not participate in practice today and he was

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Speaker 1: ruled out of a Sunday's game. Tackle Garrett Bowles, running

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Speaker 1: were all limited at practice today but did not receive

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Speaker 1: a game status. Now joining me here inside the Broncos

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Speaker 1: podcast studio for a game preview is Broncos lead writer

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Speaker 1: Eric Dala.

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Speaker 2: Eric, thanks for joining me here today on this Friday.

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Speaker 6: You got it said. We're trying to keep it rolling here.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we are. I think it's gonna be a really

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Speaker 2: interesting matchup on Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: Eric. I feel like there's a lot of similarities between

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Speaker 1: these two teams. I mean, both had slow starts to

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Speaker 1: the season, but now we're on some a few game

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Speaker 1: win streaks.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, kind of the hottest teams in the league, so

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Speaker 8: to speak. The Vikings have won five in a row

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Speaker 8: of the Broncos have won three, which is tied with

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Speaker 8: the Eagles for the second longest in the league. And

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Speaker 8: you're right, so the way they're winning is somewhat similar.

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Speaker 8: The Vikings and Broncos have both seen their turnover differential

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Speaker 8: go way up. They're starting to win these close games

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Speaker 8: that they weren't winning earlier in the season. I mean,

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Speaker 8: you talked about the Broncos losing early in the year

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Speaker 8: to say, the Jets, the Commanders, the Raiders. Certainly those

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Speaker 8: same way. Their first three losses were all by one possession,

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Speaker 8: and then there are other losses also by one possession.

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Speaker 8: He's playing really good football right now, much better than

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Speaker 8: What we do know is that the Broncos are preparing

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Speaker 8: I think that's where Russell Wilson can help you sometimes

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Speaker 6: They were going through some struggles. It's always great.

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Speaker 8: Whereas against the Bills, the Broncos made a lot of mistakes.

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Speaker 8: We did hear Joel Lombardi on Friday said say that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, going off of that, Eric, you know, I know

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Speaker 1: You know, another prime time game for this Broncos team.

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Speaker 8: We've got to keep working and have that internal focus

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Speaker 6: But it's better to keep winning.

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Speaker 8: And if you don't have that internal focus on continued improvement,

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Speaker 8: you could really see this, you know. Sean Payton talked

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Speaker 8: be dialed in focused. Sean Payton talked about that they've

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Speaker 8: weeks and say, okay, well now we've won X meny

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Speaker 8: this at home primetime, I'm sure it'll be great energy

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Speaker 8: it hasn't. And it's a big game in terms of

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Speaker 6: Get a win.

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Speaker 1: Eric, I feel like you could feel the shift in

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Speaker 1: this team the past couple of weeks that you know,

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Speaker 1: the players in that locker room, they do believe in themselves,

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Speaker 1: they do believe that they can win, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's going off at your point there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 8: They believe and they're confident again, Mike, I like Mike

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Speaker 8: mcglinche cross he's got the pulse of the team. He

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Speaker 8: said this the confidence in here should be at an

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Speaker 8: good football teams, won three games in a row. It's

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Speaker 8: I think Russ said this week, we can't forget what

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Speaker 8: and you you you know, just kind of get lost

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Speaker 8: in the sauce a little bit. Yeah, you're gonna drop

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Speaker 8: a game and then you're going to be kicking yourself.

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Speaker 8: So yeah, it should be a great environment. Hopefully these

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Speaker 8: guys can keep things rolling. They're playing good football right now,

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Speaker 8: and another win would would erase that one in five.

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Speaker 2: Start start, Yeah, and the team will be in their

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Speaker 2: navy blue. I'm excited. I really like this uniform conversation.

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Speaker 6: I like him too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Eric, looking forward to it. Thanks for joining

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Speaker 2: the show today.

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Speaker 6: You got it said.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's going to do it for today's episode of

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

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Speaker 1: I'll meet you right back here after the game on

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Speaker 1: a Monday. Look forward to it.