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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country, and Happy Monday. Thanks for tuning

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Speaker 1: in for another episode of Broncos Now. Believe it or not.

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Speaker 1: A training camp is almost over. Today marked day eleven,

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Speaker 1: and there's only three training camp practices left and the

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Speaker 1: team is just a five days away from their first

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Speaker 1: preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys at in Power Field

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Speaker 1: at Mile High this Saturday. So coming up on today's

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Speaker 1: episode of Broncos Now, we'll hear from head coach Nathaniel

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Speaker 1: Hackett in all three coordinators as they prepare for this

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Speaker 1: week's joint practice and game. Plus will have analysis from

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Speaker 1: today's practice, an injury update, and more. Following a day

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Speaker 1: off yesterday, the Broncos were back at practice in shoulder

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Speaker 1: pads this morning. It was a solid day of work

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Speaker 1: for both the offense and the defense. Coach Packets said

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Speaker 1: the team responded much better this week coming off their

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Speaker 1: thought the defense really did some good things and the

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Speaker 1: offense needs to match that. And this is the second time.

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Speaker 1: The offense was better from what they were last week,

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Speaker 1: it's still not good enough. The offense finished their installs

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Speaker 1: on it Saturday and won't be learning anything new from

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Speaker 1: An offensive coordinator Justin nowt And said, the offense is

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Speaker 1: looking more comfortable every day. The offense is hitting their

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Speaker 1: the concepts that we're putting in um And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's important for us to rotate and put guys in

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Speaker 1: different spots. And that's the great thing about this system

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Speaker 1: receiver or back. Just knowing every position on the field,

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Speaker 1: that way, we can put places people in places to

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Speaker 1: bit more of that and that's pretty proven successful with it.

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Speaker 1: Another full padded practice is planned for tomorrow as the

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Speaker 1: team prepares for the Cowboys to visit on Thor's Day.

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Speaker 1: Go check at details what he hopes to see from

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Speaker 1: best thing about going against a team like Dallas is,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's always just going against different people is

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Speaker 1: always great, but it's also a completely different scheme than

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Speaker 1: what we face. I think that's something we're always looking

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Speaker 1: for is you know, you go against UM this defense

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Speaker 1: how to beat it. But now you're facing a completely

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Speaker 1: So one, it's about being able to adjust on all

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Speaker 1: point and now completely different front structure. And then at

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Speaker 1: looking forward to evaluating their guys. We're looking for guys

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Speaker 1: I want to compete um. You know, the lights are

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Speaker 1: so that's what we're looking for. Obviously, we based our

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Speaker 1: Joining me here in the podcast studio is Broncos lead

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Speaker 1: writer Eric de Lala. Eric, nice little break this weekend,

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett, he kind of joked, he said, Tyrone Wheeley,

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