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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back inside Central Health Training Center for

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Speaker 1: another episode of Broncos Now. As always, you your host

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Speaker 1: Sidney Jones, and coming up on today's episode, Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame Safety Steve.

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Speaker 2: Atwater joins the show. We'll take a.

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Speaker 1: Look back at a Monday's win and look ahead to

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Speaker 1: another primetime game on Sunday Night.

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Speaker 2: All that more coming up.

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Speaker 1: Joining me here inside 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: how you doing?

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 3: Doing much better now, sid I know it's better now

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Speaker 3: you're doing great, doing great, Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Of course, three straight wins for the Denver Broncos and

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Speaker 1: wins over the Chiefs, now the Bills.

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Speaker 2: Steve, Yes, I mean.

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Speaker 1: Know the real deal.

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Speaker 2: Watch out world, The Broncos are coming.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're beating some quality teams and some primetime games,

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Speaker 3: and the guys that they're just stepping up to the plate.

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Speaker 3: And even after this next Sunday Night game, we still

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Speaker 3: got to bring the same intensity every game that we

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Speaker 3: play going forward.

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Speaker 2: Let's say the.

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Speaker 3: Cats out of the box, Cuts out of the bag,

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Speaker 3: Gus out of the bag, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That's right, guts out of bank. We know what you

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Speaker 3: So now you've got to be consistent and continue to

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Speaker 3: do it for the rest.

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Speaker 2: Of the season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And Steve, looking back at this last game

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Speaker 1: on Monday night versus the Bills, I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about the defense first. You know, another great game by them,

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Speaker 1: four takeaways. The Broncos now have two straight games with

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Speaker 1: this defense having four takeaways and that's the first time

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Speaker 1: since leave the end of the nineteen ninety one season

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's an amazing feed. And yeah, the guy.

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Speaker 3: They've been flying around and it's not surprising though, because

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Speaker 3: the more people you get around the ball, the more

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Speaker 3: chances you have of not only causing those turnovers, but

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Speaker 3: also recovering the turnovers. We had some turnovers in the past,

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Speaker 3: but that's true.

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Speaker 1: You weren't recovering them, yeah last year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And they're around the ball, they're recovering them and

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Speaker 3: got more guys there and it's it's a beautiful thing

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Speaker 3: and I'm just so happy for the guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yessee.

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Speaker 1: We heard on Tuesday after the game head coach on

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Speaker 1: pay and he talked about, you know, the turnover margin,

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Speaker 1: and you know how that's really contributed to the success

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Speaker 1: of this team. We saw that again versus Bills on

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Speaker 1: Monday night. I mean it was a critical part of

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Speaker 1: this team winning the game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if the defense doesn't cost turnovers, then

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Speaker 3: it's going to be a long game because, you know,

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Speaker 3: if the offense, if the opposing team's offense can just

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Speaker 3: even if they don't score, they're just taking up more

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Speaker 2: Offense thrives on that, and I think.

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Speaker 3: Defenses thrive on getting off the field quickly and being

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Speaker 2: Offense do their thing for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Steve, now looking at Bronco's offense, you know, what

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Speaker 1: did you like from Russell Wilson and company on Monday night?

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Speaker 3: Well, it was just an efficient ball game, and I

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Speaker 2: So that was an amazing throw. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: Have no idea how Colin was able to keep his

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Speaker 2: Fourth and two. Yes, incredible.

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Speaker 1: So you even want to continue our player focus here

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Speaker 1: where we have you, you know, select one guy that

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Speaker 3: Oh man, Right from the first first series of plays,

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Speaker 3: I've been a big Quinn Miners fan all along, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's has a low center of gravity.

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Speaker 3: He's under control and gets up close, puts his head

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Speaker 2: He had at least three or four.

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Speaker 3: Pancakes in the game, I would say pancakes, but you

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Speaker 1: See, I know we've talked a couple of times, you know,

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Speaker 1: what do you think has been just the biggest change?

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Speaker 1: You know, I think of the mindset and the mentality

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think that's certainly helped, just having the

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Speaker 3: you all got to believe. And you know, it took

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Speaker 3: got to give props to Sean Payton, offensive line coach

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Speaker 3: You got to give credit because this is a different

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it's a really good point, Steve. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the guys in the locker room following

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Speaker 1: you you really feel it now that they do believe

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Speaker 1: in themselves. They do believe in this team and that

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Speaker 1: this team can be successful.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's amazing because they practice well too, you know,

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Speaker 3: great weeks of practice, and that's what that carries.

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Speaker 2: Over to the games. You've talked about that.

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Speaker 3: A lot, that effort that you put in in practice,

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Speaker 3: it comes to game time, it's like, oh man, my

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Speaker 3: you know. I receivers are running around, so the defensive

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, Steve looking ahead you mentioned it earlier. Broncos

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Speaker 1: are back at a powerfield of mile height this Sunday,

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Speaker 1: another primetime game. They're hosting the Minnesota Vikings. But the

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Speaker 1: Now that they're on they're hot rolling into Denver here.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and their quarterback, what an amazing story. Incredible Josh Dobbs.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to have our work cutout for us.

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Speaker 3: But I would say after a few games, though, teams

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Speaker 1: put another game in those one calms, I.

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Speaker 3: Would say, continue to practice well, continue continue to put

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Speaker 3: what we're doing. And it's a beautiful thing. And I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well see you've finished off here. In other news,

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Speaker 1: what do you think is just going to mean to

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Speaker 3: To have him back with the way that everything is going,

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Speaker 3: I have so much respect for Kareem Jackson his style

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Speaker 3: Made some adjustments in his game to where he won't

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Speaker 3: he won't get those penalties. But uh, Kareem jack he's

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Speaker 3: him back. He's going to be a big big shot

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Speaker 1: The Captains back.

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Speaker 1: Well, Steeve, appreciate you joining the show today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you said awesome that We've got to keep it rolling.

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Speaker 1: I know we do.

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Speaker 2: Always a pleasure to have you on, Stephen. Thanks it.

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Speaker 1: Plus, let's take a look at today's injury report. This

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Speaker 1: is Justin has to mention as a Broncos did not

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Speaker 1: have practice today. Well that's going to do it for

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Speaker 1: today's episode of Broncos Now Broncos Country. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning in. I'll meet you right back here on

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

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Speaker 2: I'll see you all then,