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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside the UC Hell Training Center

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Speaker 1: for another episode of Broncos Now Tame. Reporter and host

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Speaker 1: Sydney Jones here and coming up. On today's episode, we'll

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Speaker 1: hear from hteram head coach Jerry Rossberg, quarterback Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: in a safety adjustin Simmons as they spoke to the

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Speaker 1: media today. Plus I'll have the latest injury poor Anna

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Speaker 1: Interim head coach Jerry Rossberg opened up his press conference

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Speaker 1: today by giving a heartfelt statement about Bill's safety Damar Hamlin,

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Speaker 1: who suffered a cardiac arress during Monday night's game. Take

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Speaker 1: a listen. So today tomorrow we honor you. Today we'll

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Speaker 1: strive to do be better two, be better in the

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Speaker 1: areas of our lives that you were so good at,

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Speaker 1: and you will, with all due course and prayers, return

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Speaker 1: to We'll strive not to exalt ourselves, but rather raise

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Speaker 1: others up like you did, especially those are laid low

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Speaker 1: like you did. So for now, while you're recovering, Uh,

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Speaker 1: We're here to raise you up. Man. We we support you,

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Speaker 1: and even those of us that don't know you, we

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Speaker 1: offer our love you were. One of our football brothers,

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Speaker 1: quarterback Russell Wilson and a safety Justin Simmons, also spoke

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Speaker 1: on tomorrow and both are continuing to pray for him

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Speaker 1: and his family. I pray that everybody continues to pray

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Speaker 1: for Tamar and his family and everything else. And just

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Speaker 1: to see that hit the other night and just see him,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, dropped to the ground. It was

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Speaker 1: devastating to watch because that could be any of us.

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Speaker 1: You know, I know, Um, we've played this game since

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Speaker 1: we were young. I know we've and we've played a

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Speaker 1: lot of college ball, high school ball, and no fans

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Speaker 1: watch us every week and cheer us on. They have

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Speaker 1: their fantasy football and they have all their you know,

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Speaker 1: and us as players, we watch every week, every every

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Speaker 1: game as much as we can, and watch film and

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Speaker 1: everything else. But you never really think about it, never

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Speaker 1: really imagine one hit could possibly take your life away.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, um, you know, watching the guys

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Speaker 1: on the field and how they um, how they all

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Speaker 1: it shows you, um, one, we can't take this life

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Speaker 1: for granted, in this game for granted, in these moments

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Speaker 1: and I'm glad his family was there as teammates and

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Speaker 1: everything else. But it was also good to see that

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Speaker 1: all the players came together, you know, both teams, you know,

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Speaker 1: from UM the quarterbacks in Burrow and Allen to all

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Speaker 1: the other players across the board and UM and just

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Speaker 1: see just see how community and how our country and

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Speaker 1: want to start off by UM sending out thoughts and

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Speaker 1: prayers to Tomar Hamlin and the Hamblin family and obviously

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Speaker 1: Buffalo and H You know, I can only imagine you know,

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Speaker 1: what the team is going through. UM. You know, watching

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Speaker 1: you know it was it was heartbreaking to see. UM

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Speaker 1: it really puts life into perspective. And you know, really

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Speaker 1: praying hard for DeMar right now. And uh, I know

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Speaker 1: there's been some positive signs since, but just praying for

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Speaker 1: him heavy. I know it's a you know, not a

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Speaker 1: dMar into the Hamlin family. UM, I know coach Jerry

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Speaker 1: you know, positively for you guys. Ruth went on to

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Speaker 1: I think in this game, we all know that injuries

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Speaker 1: But um, you know, I think people always say that,

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Speaker 1: but when it's really life on the line, like we

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Speaker 1: it changes your your perspective even that much more. And um,

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Speaker 1: Me personally, you know, I've I've had a lot of

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Speaker 1: you have your rivalries, but um, you know, at the

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Speaker 1: so you know, for me getting ready for Sunday, UM,

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Speaker 1: I think it's just going to continue to being open

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Speaker 1: And uh, just continually having that open conversation. And as

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Speaker 1: I look ahead to this weekend's game, Rossberg announced that

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Justin Ellen will be the play caller again

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Speaker 1: this weekend and detailed what'll look to change with a

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Speaker 1: from a different context. And so to your question about change,

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Speaker 1: week ago of fitting the pieces together. Now, let's take

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Speaker 1: a look at today's injury report, a pretty lengthy one today.

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Speaker 1: Tackle Calvin Anderson a wide receiver, Kendall Hint, safety Kareem Jackson,

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Speaker 1: team reporter at Phil Melani. Phil, thanks for joining me

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Speaker 1: again two days in a row. Yes, people love you,

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Speaker 1: Phil to have you as my personality and no, I'm

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Speaker 1: just I agree well felt. You know, we heard from

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Speaker 1: interim head coach Jerry Rossberg, Russell Wilson, and Justin Simmons

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Speaker 1: know how devastating it was to watch Bill safety tomar

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