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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Broncos Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: and YouTube for the latest episode.

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Speaker 2: Of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: As always, I'm your host as Sidney Jones, and coming

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Speaker 1: up on today's episode, Hall of Fame Safety Steve Atwater

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Speaker 1: joins the show. We'll take a look back at a

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Speaker 1: Sunday's loss in Houston and look ahead as the Broncos

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Speaker 1: will look to turn the page.

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Speaker 2: All that more coming out.

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Speaker 1: Joining me here in the Broncos Podcast studio for today's

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Speaker 1: episode of Broncos Now is Hall of Fame Safety Steve Atwater. Steve,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining the show today per usual on our Tuesdays.

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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you, sir, thanks for having me us.

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Speaker 4: We're not as chippy as the last weeks have been,

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Speaker 4: but hey we're here nonetheless, and hey, I'm gonna break

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Speaker 4: this thing down of course.

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Speaker 2: How are you, Steve? First, how's your week going?

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Speaker 3: Doing well? Doing well? You know, it's always better when

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Speaker 3: we win, though it's.

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Speaker 4: Seems like everybody in Colorado's a little happier, a little

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Speaker 4: bit nicer when we win, but it's still good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good see if I know you weren't in Houston,

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Speaker 1: but overall, what did you just think about a Sunday's game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, uh, an unfortunate loss. It really came down

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Speaker 4: there to the wire. And I heard some of the

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Speaker 4: players said, and I agreed. You know, we did not

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Speaker 4: play that well offensively, our defensively, but to be right

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Speaker 4: in it up until the end there, I thought that.

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Speaker 3: I thought that was a good thing.

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Speaker 4: Now, you know, I wish we could have converted, obviously,

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Speaker 4: but you know, I thought the guy, the guys fought hard.

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Speaker 4: We do definitely have to clean some things up. We

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Speaker 4: got to make sure we're on the same page, make

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Speaker 4: sure everybody knows who's there, who they're who they're blocking.

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Speaker 4: You know, we got to know the past defending responsibilities.

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Speaker 4: Some guys were running wide open. I saw it on

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Speaker 4: a blitz play. Nobody covered the guy. So we've still

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Speaker 4: got a few things we can clean up. But we've

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Speaker 4: got to be ready to go for the rest of

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Speaker 4: these games year.

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Speaker 1: Definitely, yes, Steve, I feel like the slow start really

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Speaker 1: hurt the Broncos in this past game on Sunday, and

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Speaker 1: I felt like a lot of it came down to communication.

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Speaker 2: I know had coached on pain.

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Speaker 1: You said that and that, you know, it's troubling, especially

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Speaker 1: at this time in the year. So what's kind of

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Speaker 1: the key to cleaning communication up?

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Speaker 2: How do you fix that throughout the week?

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Speaker 4: It all comes back to practice, you know, and making

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Speaker 4: sure that everyone is in that playbook and understands all

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Speaker 4: of the adjustments that are being made. And from week

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Speaker 4: to week those change. And you know, sometimes people are

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Speaker 4: one hundredercent sure what they have to do and then

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Speaker 4: in some games they're probably eighty percent sure. But you

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Speaker 4: got to get to where everybody that's going to be

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Speaker 4: on that field is like one hundred percent sure of

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Speaker 4: all the adjustments that are made.

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Speaker 3: And you know.

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Speaker 4: All the different looks that you're going to get, how

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Speaker 3: But it's just as a matter of practice. Everything is

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Speaker 3: a matter of practice.

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Speaker 1: Steve, looking at you know, the first half versus second half,

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Speaker 1: both the offense and the defense were better in the

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Speaker 1: latter half of the game.

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Speaker 2: What did you see kind of change from both units?

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Speaker 4: Well, just toughness, physicality, and you know, we got back

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Speaker 4: to doing some of the things that we had been

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Speaker 4: doing well the previous games. Uh, you know, control the clock,

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Speaker 4: control the time possession, keep the defense off the field

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Speaker 4: a little bit.

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Speaker 3: But overall, like I said, it wasn't a terrible game.

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Speaker 4: It was definitely a game that was kind of out

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Speaker 4: of character for the way we've we've played the last

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Speaker 4: several weeks. But I don't think it will be difficult

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, we've seen so many takeaways from this

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Speaker 1: Denver defense the past several weeks. They didn't have any

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree with that, And we had some opportunities.

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Speaker 4: The ball was put in the air. But you got

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Speaker 4: to give those guys credit. They made some plays. They

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Speaker 4: they were fast, quick, they were playing with a lot

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Speaker 4: the teams that we've played, you know, we've kind of

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Speaker 4: and assert that dominance. But I think that once they

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Speaker 4: They completed some passes on us. We didn't come back

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Speaker 4: able to do that more effectively.

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Speaker 1: We see the last one about the Sunday's game for you,

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Speaker 1: I want to continue our players spotlight. So who was

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Speaker 1: one guy that just impressed you on Sunday that you

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Speaker 1: want to highlight today?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, from looking at film and also from watching

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Speaker 4: the game live, PJ a lot kind of kind of

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Speaker 4: stood out, you know, he you know, getting in there,

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Speaker 4: rushing the passer, on his tackles, just you know, making plays.

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Speaker 4: You know, I love his speed on the field and

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Speaker 4: as a safety. I think I kind of watched that

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Speaker 4: position a little more than others. Yeah, and you know,

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Speaker 4: Justin played a good game as well, but I thought

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Speaker 4: PJ Lock stood out.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Steve, now we're going to heead. We got another

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Speaker 1: road game in Los Angeles this weekend. What do you

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Speaker 1: think is just I guess the key to turning things

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Speaker 1: around this week and getting back on track there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean we got to realize that the

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Speaker 4: Chargers they're they're going, they're fired up. They got a

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Speaker 4: big win, you know, a close game with the New

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Speaker 4: England Patriots, and we're coming off of a tough loss,

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Speaker 4: so we got to be able to flip it. And

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Speaker 4: I think we match up really well with the Chargers,

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Speaker 4: and I think we'll be able to get back on track.

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Speaker 4: It's just a matter again, just just it's practicing right,

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Speaker 4: taking the coaching, not not not not being above coaching,

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Speaker 4: and just continue to believe, you know, don't don't don't

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Speaker 4: think that this one game stopped what the guys run

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Speaker 4: track for doing. And I think they'll come back with

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Speaker 4: the right mentality, will come out and before another great performance.

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Speaker 4: I have all the confidence in the world that they're going.

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Speaker 3: To do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know had coached on Pan he talked about

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Speaker 1: how the margin is slim now for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the season with just five games left, and you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the players on Monday, Steve, they talked

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Speaker 1: about just the resilience that this team has. You know,

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Speaker 1: after starting the season one five, making it now to

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Speaker 1: six and six, how do you think they'll be able

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Speaker 1: to use that mindset, that resilience that they've had to

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Speaker 1: five weeks of the season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Really to go on the streak like that, I mean,

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Speaker 4: it takes that resilience. Yeah, it takes guys working together

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Speaker 4: and believing in one another, and they've shown that they

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Speaker 4: can do it once and you know, to have a

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Speaker 4: small setback, and you know every game, they're going to

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Speaker 4: be some mistakes, they're going to be some errors, and

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Speaker 4: you got to be able to bounce back from it.

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Speaker 4: You came so close to winning that game, so many

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Speaker 4: small things that went wrong that could have changed the

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Speaker 4: outcome of that game. Got to just make sure that

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Speaker 4: we correct those things, don't make some of those those errors.

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Speaker 4: And I think we can get back on the winning

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. Looking forward to it, Steve.

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Speaker 1: You know. In other news, the team announced today that

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Speaker 1: tackle Garrett Bulls he was named this year's a nominee

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Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty three Walter Payne Man of the

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Speaker 1: Year Awards.

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Speaker 2: So congrats to Garett. That's awesome.

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Speaker 4: I congrats to Garrett. You know, he's a great person

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Speaker 4: and great leader, and I think people really look up

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Speaker 4: to him, not only on the football team but also

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Speaker 4: in the community with the types of things that he does.

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Speaker 4: So big, big, big, big props to him and congratulations

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Speaker 4: to him for that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, Well Steve, appreciate you coming on the show today.

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Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: That's going to do it for today's episode of Broncos

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Speaker 1: Now Broncos Country.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for tuning in. I'll meet you right

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Speaker 1: The Broncos Podcast Network in YouTube tomorrow for another episode.

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Speaker 2: I'll see you all then,