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Speaker 1: What's a Broncos Country.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Broncos podcast network and YouTube for

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Speaker 2: the latest episode of Broncos Now. As I always are,

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Speaker 2: our host of Sidney Jones, and for today's episode, I'm

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Speaker 2: coming to you from Indianapolis at the NFL Scouting Combine.

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Speaker 2: We'll take a look at the top storyline surrounding head

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Speaker 2: coach Sean Payton and a general manager George Peyton's.

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Speaker 1: Prescomferenses, all that more coming up. We're taking Broncos Now

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Speaker 1: on the road this week.

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Speaker 2: As I'm here in Indianapolis at the NFL Scouting Combine,

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Speaker 2: we heard today from head coach Sean Payon and a

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Speaker 2: general manager George Payton, as the addressed the media and

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Speaker 2: detailed where the team is at at this point in

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Speaker 2: the off season and what they're looking forward to most

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Speaker 2: this week at the combine.

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Speaker 3: It's always good to be down in Indie and it's

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Speaker 3: another important step in the process. Obviously, you know, we

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Speaker 3: just finished a busy two weeks. We had our scouts

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Speaker 3: in two weeks ago, we had you know, eight days

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Speaker 3: of draft meetings, and then before we came we had

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Speaker 3: free agent meetings. Do feel like we're ahead of the

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Speaker 3: game this year. You know, last year at this time,

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Speaker 3: we're still you know, finalizing our coaching staff. You know,

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Speaker 3: we didn't have free agent meetings still after the combine.

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Speaker 3: You know, Sean wasn't able to sit in the draft meetings.

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Speaker 3: So feel good with where we're at. Look forward to

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Speaker 3: a productive off season.

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Speaker 4: You know, we're looking for goal driven players, athletes that

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Speaker 4: are unselfish to some degree. And and then I would

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Speaker 4: say that one trait is that we use that term

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Speaker 4: grid a lot, but that you know that that ability

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Speaker 4: to get up time and time again overcome adversity. It's

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Speaker 4: a little bit more challenging now with the portal. Like

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Speaker 4: I started thinking to myself, how many times when I

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Speaker 4: was in school that I would have loved to jump

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Speaker 4: into a portal, you know, upset or disappointed or mad

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Speaker 4: or whatever had a bad practice. And but those traits

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Speaker 4: still exist, and I think those are important traits when

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Speaker 4: we're visiting with young athletes.

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Speaker 2: Both Shawn and George also talked about what they're looking

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Speaker 2: for specifically when evaluating quarterbacks this week.

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Speaker 4: The first thing is getting to put a name with

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Speaker 4: where you're like a nice to meet you, and then

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Speaker 4: you know, you'll spend time with questions and they'll be

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Speaker 4: football related, and they'll be follow up meetings, you know,

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Speaker 4: pro day visits, private workout visits, and so these are

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Speaker 4: all like pieces of the equation that I think are necessary.

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Speaker 4: And uh, you know, obviously, the look the the beginning

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Speaker 4: of this event was to combine medical information, you know,

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Speaker 4: hence the term combine, and then pretty soon let's run

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Speaker 4: a forty and let's run a few of these cone drills.

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Speaker 4: Let's have these meetings. But the interactions in the in

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Speaker 4: the meetings are important because it is the for a

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Speaker 4: lot of us, the scouts maybe not so much, but

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Speaker 4: for a lot of us, it's the first time we're

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Speaker 4: getting to we're getting introduced to a prospect and so

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Speaker 4: not just a quarterback, but the other positions, and I

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Speaker 3: You just want to get around them as much as

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Speaker 3: a lot of these quarterbacks during the fall, and then

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Speaker 3: that's one step of the process. And then you have

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Speaker 3: the All Star Games, and then you have the combine,

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Speaker 3: and then you have pro days and maybe private workouts

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Speaker 3: so as much as you can get around them and

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Speaker 3: Sean talked about leadership, what's the day to day like

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Speaker 3: evaluate the arm strength, the accuracy, the athleticism. You know,

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Speaker 3: being able to process is a little more difficult, But

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Speaker 3: I think the more you can get around them, the

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Speaker 3: better decisions you know you'll make.

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Speaker 2: Sean Payton went on to talk about how that evaluation

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Speaker 4: I think the receiver position is difficult, there are a

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Speaker 4: lot of misses there, and the quarterback positions is difficult

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Speaker 4: harder to find good inside linebackers anymore. It used to

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Speaker 4: It's one thing like you can visit with someone and

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Speaker 4: get through the progression? Are they accurate? There's some fundamental

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Speaker 4: so sometimes it's not as difficult as we make it

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Speaker 4: And so I think, I think we'll be really good

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Speaker 2: Plus, George Payton discussed how the Roncos planned to approach

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Speaker 3: We're going to be very Mike, like we said, we're

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Speaker 2: Now, joining me here on Broncos Now for today's episode

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Speaker 2: from Indianapolis is Broncos lead writer Eric Dalala.

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Speaker 1: Eric, thanks for joining me today. Great to be here

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Speaker 1: at the combine.

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Speaker 5: Got it said we hit the road for this one.

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Speaker 1: I know we did. It's been fun so far.

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Speaker 2: Eric. We heard early in the show from head coach

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Speaker 2: Sean Payton and a general manager George Payton. To start

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Speaker 2: with Sean's press conference. What was your biggest takeaway?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it was all about the quarterback position, right.

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Speaker 6: I think the biggest news is that within the next

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Speaker 6: decision on Russell Wilson's future his status. But I was

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Speaker 6: also interested hearing all about the quarterback evaluation process and

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Speaker 6: what's so important to Sean Payton when he looks for

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Speaker 6: a quarterback, especially a young quarterback in the draft, and

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Speaker 6: he mentioned there's a lot of things accuracy, leadership, you know,

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Speaker 6: kind of is maybe harder to measure, less tangible in

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Speaker 6: terms of being a little process and you know, take

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Speaker 6: harder to figure out. Yeah, and so that's what this

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Speaker 6: idea of what that's all about, how these guys do.

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Speaker 6: And Sean said, Listen, it can be really difficult to

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Speaker 6: figure that out. But I think we're good at it,

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Speaker 6: and I think we're happy that some other teams are

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And it was interesting Eric to hear both

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Speaker 2: Shawn and George also talk about how the evaluation process

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Speaker 2: of a quarterback has really changed over the past couple

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, offenses are different, and what guys are

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Speaker 6: the end of the day, he said, a lot of

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Speaker 6: things still stay the same for as much as they've changed.

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Speaker 6: You still want a guy that's accurate. You still want

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Speaker 6: a guy that can maybe move a little bit outside

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Speaker 5: You to do that.

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Speaker 6: You still got a process, he said, once it was

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Speaker 6: to be when you hear him talk about the quarterback position,

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Speaker 6: that the processing element is clearly the number one thing

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Speaker 2: Yeah, h Eric, Now onto George's press conference. What was

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Speaker 6: I think two things from George. Won the salary cap.

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Speaker 6: You know, it took a big jump from where people

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Speaker 6: think the key there from George was it gives us

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Speaker 6: here's a projected salary cap. Here's what we think we're

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Speaker 6: But every team gets helped the same amount, right because

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Speaker 6: this salary cap goes up, but for the Broncos it

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Speaker 6: does feel particularly beneficial given where they sit with the

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Speaker 6: It's not going to be like last year when Le

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Speaker 5: They're going to be strategic.

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Speaker 6: They're still going to film needs it and that doesn't

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Speaker 6: mean they're not going to be active in free agency,

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Speaker 6: but signing four big ticket guys day one probably not

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Speaker 6: the path this year. So you know, where a few

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Speaker 6: but George kind of re emphasized that that's still the

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Speaker 1: Just a couple of weeks. It's come of before we

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Speaker 1: know it. Eric, I know.

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Speaker 2: George also talked about how beneficial it's going to be

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Speaker 2: this year having the same coaching staff for two years

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Speaker 2: in a row. You know, we haven't seen that in

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, gosh, I can only imagine how difficult

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Speaker 6: it is. George comes in, you got Vic Fangio, make

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Speaker 6: and so you're drafting player for different coaches. It's like

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Speaker 6: that can only help. And plus it's not just the

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Speaker 5: Those are big.

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Speaker 6: Things as you're trying to build a team. And we've

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Speaker 6: just that that line through it of hey, George has

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Speaker 6: looking for. We're going to go find those players. That's

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Speaker 6: another thing Sean said was Marvin Mims we think has

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Speaker 6: Mims can get better. Drew Sanders, you know, those are

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Speaker 6: so it's not just about this year's draft class, said,

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Speaker 5: Taking a step forward.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or as we know, you know, the draft road

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Speaker 2: to the draft really starts here at the combine.

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Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about the quarterback position.

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Speaker 2: But what other positions do you think George and his

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of areas where you

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Speaker 6: that be a linebacker, an edge guy. You know, certainly

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Speaker 6: So kind of a hedge there said, but I think, yeah,

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Speaker 6: lot of different directions and still make a big impact,

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Speaker 6: a big upgrade on this football team. And so maybe

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Speaker 6: we'll get a little more clarity after free agency.

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Speaker 5: But right now. I think there's a lot of paths

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Speaker 5: that the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: Could travel YEP, which is exciting.

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Speaker 2: And I know George said that he feels good about

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Speaker 2: the draft this year and the talent in the early round.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see what they do here in a few weeks. Eric,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you joining the show today.

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Speaker 5: Got it said, Well, that's going to do it for.

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Speaker 2: This week's episode of Broncos Now Broncos Country. Thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for tuning in. I'll meet you right back here

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