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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country. Welcome back to the Broncos podcast

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Speaker 1: network in YouTube for the latest edition of Broncos Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Sidney Jones, And it was a monumentous

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Speaker 1: day here at the UC Health Training Center. Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: general manager George Payton that the goal was to sign

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson to a long term deal. In that goal

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Speaker 1: became a reality today the Broncos and Russell Wilson agreed

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Speaker 1: to terms on a five year contract extension that runs

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Speaker 1: through is an extension on a two year deal, which

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Speaker 1: means Russell Wilson will be with the Broncos for the

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Speaker 1: next seven seasons. Take a listen to his opening statement

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Speaker 1: in today's press conference. For me, uh, this has been

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Speaker 1: an amazing journey. I remember being up on the stage

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Speaker 1: the goals and the missions, and I think the best

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Speaker 1: part about it all is when you're around someone may

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Speaker 1: using people, amazing teammates that are so dedicated to the craft.

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Speaker 1: It makes this that much more enjoyable. It's really about

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Speaker 1: about them more anything else. It's not about really me

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Speaker 1: it's it's about it's being surrounded around guys who want

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Speaker 1: to put the work in every single day and the

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Speaker 1: dedication to it, and UM, you know that's why. UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, as you know I told Mark and George,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to be here for a long time. I

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Speaker 1: believe this is a marriage and you want to be

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Speaker 1: my my goal is to be able to finish my

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Speaker 1: best part about it all is just the people that

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Speaker 1: I get to be around. I think with Coach Hackett's

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Speaker 1: the guy's going, his focus, his attention to detail. Our

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Speaker 1: quarterback room with Coach Kubiak and uh, justin out and

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Speaker 1: and and just the rest of the guys, Brett and Josh,

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Speaker 1: I get to I get to go in a QB

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Speaker 1: room every single day and just push and push and

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Speaker 1: push and learn and learn. UM. But also George Peyton obviously, George,

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Speaker 1: I thank you for um, you know, believing in me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for um making all this happen, you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: just your hard work, your vision, the team that you've

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Speaker 1: wanted to be here for so long because I trust

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Speaker 1: I trust you, Coach Hackett, and how you're gonna go

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Speaker 1: about it, how you've gone about it every single day,

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Speaker 1: the work that you put in the late the late nights. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then you George two as well, you know your

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Speaker 1: vision and just how um, you're such an amazing communicator.

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Speaker 1: Just how we've communicated all three, you know, the three

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Speaker 1: of us, How you've communicated along this whole process, UM,

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Speaker 1: about details and about young guys, and about the vets

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Speaker 1: and about what you want to do next and everything else.

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Speaker 1: That means a lot to me because I love this game.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm wildly obsessed about this game, and I'm

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Speaker 1: it makes it that much more special. We also heard

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Speaker 1: and and certainly congratulations to them, um, but I think

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Speaker 1: for a football team. And you know, you've gotten to

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Speaker 1: know Russ a little bit. He's he's all about winning

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Speaker 1: just a short time here, Russ has made a tremendous

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Speaker 1: I truly believe we're building something special here and this

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Speaker 1: and uh now it's time to get this season going.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's been a lot of action, but now

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Speaker 1: Like I said, it's it's really more so about this

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Speaker 1: Wide receiver Courtland Sutton, safety Justin Simmons, running back Melvin Gordon,

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Speaker 1: discussed how deserving he is of it just happen for him.

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Speaker 1: studio is Broncos lead writer Eric Delilla. Eric, what a

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Speaker 1: week it has been. I mean there's so much to

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Speaker 1: break down today. Obviously, let's start with the Broncos and

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Speaker 1: just overall, what do you think this means for this

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Speaker 1: Broncos organization. Yeah, I mean it's a great thing, and

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Speaker 1: it uh for several reasons. When you traded for Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 1: But I think getting it done it just removes the

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Speaker 1: By getting it done now you avoid other quarterback contracts

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