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Speaker 1: What's the Broncos Country. Welcome back inside the uc Hell

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Speaker 1: Training Center for today's edition of Broncos Now. Team reporter

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Speaker 1: and host Sidney Jones here and coming up on today's episode,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from quarterback Russell Wilson and head coach Nathaniel

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Speaker 1: Hackett as they spoke to the media today. Plus I'll

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Speaker 1: have the latest injury report and Phil Malania joins the show.

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Speaker 1: All that and more coming up. The team was back

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Speaker 1: at practice today as they look to turn the page

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Speaker 1: and look ahead to Las Vegas. The Raiders are oh

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Speaker 1: in three to start the season, and the Broncos will

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Speaker 1: travel to Vegas in just three days for their first

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Speaker 1: a f C West matchup of the season. Both quarterback

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and head coach Nathaniel Hackett spoke to the

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Speaker 1: media today about this a f C West rivalry and

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Speaker 1: what this game really means this whole division. Obviously, we

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Speaker 1: know that it's it's a very very good division and

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Speaker 1: whenever you have a chance to play anybody in the West, um,

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Speaker 1: you know it's it's it's gonna be a heck of

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Speaker 1: a game. I mean, it's gonna be a battle's I mean,

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Speaker 1: this has been a rivalry for a long time. I mean,

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Speaker 1: anybody within this whether it's the Chiefs, the Raiders, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, now we're going to get the Raiders. I

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Speaker 1: mean they're very good football team, very talented team. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a great battle. You know. I always say

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Speaker 1: that to win the Super Bowl a lot of times,

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Speaker 1: it's on the road most of the time. And to

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Speaker 1: win to winning the whole thing too. To be successful,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be able to win on the road. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's gotta be able to win in the

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Speaker 1: road in division everything else. This is a this is

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Speaker 1: a really good football team. Um. The record may not

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Speaker 1: show exactly what their circumstances are. Um, it was a

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Speaker 1: really good football team. A lot of great players, a

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Speaker 1: lot of you know, all star type players. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: all thet great players on the defensive side. Um, but

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Speaker 1: mean it's some respectacular players renfro and then you think

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Speaker 1: you think about Chandler Jones, number fifty five man, he's

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Speaker 1: been killing guys for years. He's gotten me a couple

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Speaker 1: Just how ferocious those guys play the game. So you know, um,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great matchup. It's in a great

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Speaker 1: battle's great environment, been there before. It's just it's a special,

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Speaker 1: special location and it'll be great. Co Chacket went on

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Speaker 1: to discuss what he hopes to see from the team

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Speaker 1: this weekend, specifically this offense scoring a lot of points

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Speaker 1: I think it's about us as a group. It's about

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Speaker 1: me as a play caller first and foremost, and then

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Speaker 1: able to get explosive place. We've heard coachak A talk

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Speaker 1: detailed how he approaches it. I said to you guys

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Speaker 1: to look at the collective you know, moments and everything else.

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Speaker 1: I go back to each game, you know we had.

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Speaker 1: and last, but not least, punter Cordless Weightman was named

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Speaker 1: Hackett updated us on a few guys defensive tackle d J. Jones,

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Speaker 1: today's news. So joining me here inside the Broncos podcast

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Speaker 1: studio is fellow team reporter Phil Melanie. Phil, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining me today, said, it's an honor to

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Speaker 1: be here on a special episode. Of course, it's your birthday.

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Speaker 1: This is the birthday edition of the show. Happy Birthday.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Phil. It's an honor to have

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Speaker 1: a party. We are well, Phil. There's a lot to

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