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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to the Broncos podcast network and

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Speaker 1: YouTube for the latest episode of Broncos Now. As always,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Sidney Jones and coming up on today's episode.

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Speaker 1: Today was day two of training camp for the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: The team held another acclamation practice and we heard from

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Speaker 1: running back Javante Williams and defensive tackle DJ Jones all

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Speaker 1: that more coming out. The Denver Broncos held another acclamation

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Speaker 1: practice here at the Centuri Health Training Center for day

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Speaker 1: two of training camp. Friday will be the team's first

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Speaker 1: open practice to the fans. Today, we heard from running

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Speaker 1: back Javonte Williams for the first time since he suffered

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Speaker 1: his knee injury back in October.

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Speaker 2: He detailed his return.

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Speaker 3: I just believe in the Higher Power. I believe in God,

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Speaker 3: and I was just praying the whole time, trusting him,

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Speaker 3: believing in him. And I feel like the biggest part

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Speaker 3: is just being mentally focused and strong, having confidence, and

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Speaker 3: every day that I'll come out in practice and I'm planning.

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Speaker 3: Once I start practices is like I just forget about it.

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Speaker 3: I'm just out there running again. So I mean that's

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Speaker 3: a huge confidence for me. Confidence boosts for me. And

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Speaker 3: just every every day. I'm gonna just keep on every

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Speaker 3: day changing plus.

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Speaker 1: Davonte discussed with the hardest part of his rehab was.

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Speaker 3: I say, like the first two months when I couldn't

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Speaker 3: really move my knee at all. I had to learn

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Speaker 3: how to bend it again, learn how to walk, things

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Speaker 3: like that, having people do everything for me. Because I'm

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Speaker 3: really independent, like I like doing everything on my own.

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Speaker 3: My parents had to come out here and stay with

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Speaker 1: Davonte has been cleared for contact and said his confidence

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Speaker 1: as an all time high.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait. I'm ready. I'm ready to see what

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Speaker 1: Defensive jackle DJ Jones also spoke to the media today.

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Speaker 1: He said he's excited and feels blessed to be back

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Speaker 1: out on the field with his teammates. He was asked

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Speaker 4: I think what we're doing is working every day, uh,

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Speaker 4: stacking bricks, chopping wood, whatever you want to say, and

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Speaker 4: and let the chips fall what they may. I think

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Speaker 4: I think the work's gonna speak for itself.

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Speaker 1: Relentless is the word he used to describe the defense's

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Speaker 1: attitude this season, and DJ talked about what it's been

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Speaker 1: like working.

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Speaker 2: With head coach Sean Payton's exciting.

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Speaker 4: I've always been a fan of his from a distance,

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Speaker 4: just knowing he's a players coach, just playing him over

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Speaker 4: the years, seeing how they how the Saints thrived, how

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Speaker 4: they played, and I'm excited now.

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Speaker 1: Joining me here inside the Broncos podcast studio is Broncos

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Speaker 1: lead writer Eric Delala. Eric, day two of practices are

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Speaker 1: over overall, would you think today.

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Speaker 5: A good day? Another good day? Another acclamation ramp up

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Speaker 5: type practice? Said? The real thing starts here on Friday,

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Speaker 5: so excited to see kind of the change there. But

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Speaker 5: the tempo was still good, good pace. You know, it

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Speaker 5: was about ninety minutes worth of work. I think you

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Speaker 5: saw some good things from the guys. You know, Patsartan,

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Speaker 5: he's always going to make plays, he was doing that

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Speaker 5: some encouraging sign is really early, so I don't want

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Speaker 5: to get too far into that, but yeah, it seems

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Speaker 5: like they're working hard. It seems like the focus is

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Speaker 1: Eric, it seemed like the big news coming out of

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Speaker 1: today was Javonte Williams. You know, it was the first

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he's going to play in the

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Speaker 2: Thought it'll be up to the coaches. But it was

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Speaker 2: so good to hear from him.

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Speaker 1: You can tell how much he really missed this game

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he missed it. He wants to hit people again.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 5: You're used to a running back trying to avoid getting hit.

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Speaker 5: We know Javonte is the type of guy that's going

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Speaker 5: Big smile on his face. Like you said, we don't

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Speaker 5: He said after practice that he's running at the same

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Speaker 5: And so the fact that he, you know, as training

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Speaker 5: that's a great sign. Obviously, a long way to go.

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Speaker 5: They're going to manage him, but yeah, he's he's very

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Speaker 5: kind of the mental I don't want to call it fear,

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Speaker 5: He's just playing football again. It sometimes takes guys a

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Speaker 5: I can't wait to see him back out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, Eric, I mean that mental hurdle is probably

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Speaker 1: it was great to hear, you know, Javonte's say, you

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Speaker 1: It's only been what nine ten months, and you know

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Speaker 1: he's already cleared. And he thanked a lot of his

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, And having Tim kind of be that leader

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Speaker 5: there for Javonte obviously an older guy that can show

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Speaker 5: I said, that's unfortunate that Broncas have had a lot

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Speaker 5: Jamonte talks about his parents coming out here and helping

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Speaker 5: through what can, I'm sure be a really isolating and

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Speaker 1: Definitely, another thing I thought that was interesting today, Eric,

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Speaker 1: same thing with Alvin Kamara, and he went back and

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I wonder if is this player driven,

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Speaker 5: we've now seen, like you mentioned said, at least three

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Speaker 5: see how Sean Payton used these guys and his offense.

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Speaker 5: Let me study those players. Alvin Kamara obviously a heck

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Speaker 5: he doesn't have that physical element, but Javonte watching him

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Speaker 5: So any little you know element helps here, right, I mean,

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Speaker 5: find a little something by studying Alvin Kamara, it helps

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it definitely has you know.

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Speaker 1: Another thing, I think when you look at training camp,

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Speaker 2: And I know, you know, we haven't had a padded

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Speaker 1: It'll probably be a few days until we see that

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Speaker 5: Yeah should be you know, knock on wood here that

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Speaker 5: they stay healthy. There's some good depth. I think certainly

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Speaker 5: you got to always work to develop that. But on paper,

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Speaker 5: said than done, but you're right. We heard DJ Jones

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Speaker 5: to look like this year? The offensive line is a

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, One thing to note Mike Wilgin, she was

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Speaker 2: He was out for a personal reason. Yep, not injury really,

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Speaker 1: Austin Ali's Eric In other news, linebacker Randy gratishar In,

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Speaker 2: They're advancing onto you know in the next.

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Speaker 5: We know DeMarcus is going here into the Class of

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Speaker 5: I mean a number of different reasons that they deserve

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Speaker 5: certainly Mike Shanahan right in the Ring of Fame recently.

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Speaker 5: He's a guy that I think the momentum has started

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll wait and see. Well, Eric, appreciate you joining

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Speaker 2: on the show today. I'll see you right back here tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: See you tomorrow, said, well.

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Speaker 1: That'll do it for today's episode of Broncos 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 2: back here on.

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Speaker 1: The Broncos Podcast Network in YouTube tomorrow for the teams

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Speaker 1: of first Open Practice.

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Speaker 2: See you all then,