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

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Speaker 1: another episode of Broncos Now. As always, I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Sidney Jones, and coming up on today's episode, we'll hear

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Speaker 1: from head coach Sean Payon and a couple of players

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Speaker 1: as they take a look back at a Sunday's win

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Speaker 1: over the Kansas City Chiefs, plus Broncos lead writer Eric

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Speaker 1: Delala joins a show for a game recap, all that

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Speaker 1: more coming out.

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Speaker 2: The Bronco has.

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Speaker 1: Improved to three and five and snap, they're six eighteen

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Speaker 1: game losing streak to the Chiefs. With a twenty four

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Speaker 1: to nine win over Kansas City on a Sunday, and

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Speaker 1: following that win, Tago Mike McGlinchey talked about how we

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Speaker 1: win like this can make this team believers and a

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Speaker 1: win like this can change an organization, and today head

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Speaker 1: coach Sean Payon agreed with that sentiment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, Arry, I mean, I think that confidence

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Speaker 3: and all those things you can point to certain moments,

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Speaker 3: and I think I think it's I think it's extremely important.

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Speaker 3: I think, look, it's the quality opponent. And when you

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Speaker 3: beat a quality opponent, you begin to see yourself in

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Speaker 3: that same light and then.

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Speaker 4: I think that I think he's right.

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Speaker 1: Head coach Sean Payne also talked about how the offense

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Speaker 1: found success in the running game and how they're continuing

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Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be aesthetically pleasing to be effective,

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Speaker 3: and I think the key is winning. And now sometimes

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Speaker 3: that's going to require more balls thrown than others. You know,

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Speaker 3: when you get into the four minute, you get six

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Speaker 3: or seven extra runs that you get to see in

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Speaker 3: your stat line, which is fine, but ultimately the key

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Speaker 3: is winning, and it's the one way where you get

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Speaker 3: to control the game relative to the clock and how

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Speaker 3: it's played, whereas the other scenarios there's a little bit

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Speaker 3: less control incomplete clock stops or you know. But but

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Speaker 3: I'm pleased with with how that front's playing. We've got

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Speaker 3: And of course, you know, our third down numbers were

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Speaker 3: good rushing day if the third down numbers aren't good.

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Speaker 1: Running Back Javonte Williams also talked about running the ball

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Speaker 5: I just felt like we dominated that game. And when

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Speaker 5: you can run the bullet in the game, I mean

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Speaker 5: you're doing something good. Was we ain't throwing the ball

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Speaker 5: all that, I felt like it was. It was pretty

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Speaker 5: good my game yesterday, but I could have did better.

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Speaker 1: Sean Payon also went on to talk about the defensive

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Speaker 1: how quickly that units turn things around this season.

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Speaker 3: You get back to work, you go to work, and

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Speaker 3: I think it's it's never as rosie as we would

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Speaker 3: would like to leave. Now that doesn't sell in your world,

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Speaker 3: but that's just the truth. And so I think it

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Speaker 3: created the takeaways, the passing situations of all then gone

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Speaker 3: being better against the run, fitting the run better. I

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Speaker 1: Zach Allen also spoke to the media today and added

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Speaker 4: It really just comes down the execution, and you know,

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Speaker 4: I think yesterday was probably our best overall day of

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Speaker 1: And Sean Payne also discussed how he approaches the bye

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Speaker 3: I'm going to go back a little bit in my

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Speaker 3: sometimes I don't even have to come in Monday. And

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Speaker 3: I feel, what about the coaches? He said, I do

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Speaker 3: Everyone will be back in Monday. We'll have a prep

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Speaker 3: bonus prep day Tuesday because we're playing on Monday night,

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Speaker 3: and so the unusual part of next week for you

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Speaker 3: math going forward. But to your question, we looked at,

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Speaker 3: and Andy was the one that kind of really told

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Speaker 1: Now. Joining me here in the Broncos Podcast studio for

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Speaker 1: a game recap is Broncos lead writer Eric Dealala. Eric,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me today. Back to back victory.

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Speaker 2: Mondays here in the Broncos facility.

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Speaker 6: Yes, it's exciting and it's a streak going on. It's nice.

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Speaker 1: I know, it is nice. And the Broncos, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they finally did it. Eric, that streak is over versus Chiefs.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and it was definitive and not close. I know

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Speaker 6: that the Chiefs certainly had some possessions there in the

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Speaker 6: second half said where they were within one possession, one

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Speaker 6: big stop after big stop, forced turnovers, got takeaways, and

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Speaker 6: then the offense, you know, put the game away really

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Speaker 6: certainly wasn't perfect. By halftime, the Chiefs had turned the

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Speaker 6: And you know, if you've seen this streak, any of

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Speaker 6: the games in this streak, you know you're probably feeling

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Speaker 6: a little bit of a oh yeah, as Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 2: Lead here, And I was feeling nervous.

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Speaker 6: And in credit to Denver's defense, they in the offense,

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Speaker 6: they both rebounded, they responded the right way, the same

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Speaker 6: way we saw against the Packers, a little bit of adversity,

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Speaker 6: And so they just kind of physically dominated the Chiefs,

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Speaker 6: especially defensively. That's the way you've got to beat this

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Speaker 6: team with toughness by winning up front. Broncos did that

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Speaker 6: and it was no fluke that they snapped this streak.

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Speaker 6: They played better than Kansas City yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Definitely, Eric, I feel like this win was bigger than

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Speaker 1: just snapping the streak, and I really like to attackle

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Speaker 1: Mike mcglinch. She said following the game that a win

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Speaker 1: like this makes his team believers. I mean when like

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Speaker 1: this changes the organization, and I know head coach On

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Speaker 1: Payne he agreed with that sentiment earlier today as well.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that it changes your season. Certainly now

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Speaker 6: you're three and five rather than two and six, and

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Speaker 6: certainly you wish you would have been able to get

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Speaker 6: But you're now set up, I think, to make a

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Speaker 6: what happens. We heard Zach Allen say that the playoffs

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Speaker 6: that standpoint, it's big. I think you see, you prove

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Speaker 6: Kansas City Chiefs, that defending Super Bowl champions, and when

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Speaker 6: Wilson mentioned that yesterday, and I think all those things

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Speaker 6: I don't think we should minimize what this one means.

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Speaker 1: Right And it's you know, kind of unfortunate where the

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Speaker 1: bye week falls this year, Eric, you know, given the

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Speaker 1: two game win streak, I feel like, like Javonte said

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Speaker 1: earlier in the show, they're on a hot streak right now.

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Speaker 2: They kind of want to keep going out there and

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's true. I think it might have been

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Speaker 6: Baron Browning yesterday in the locker room he said, I'm

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Speaker 6: I think it'll be interesting to see how this team

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Speaker 6: we'll have a lot more to talk about as we

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Speaker 6: get closer to that Bills game. But le Broncos will

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Speaker 6: that momentum moving forward. Sean Payton did talk about it previously,

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Speaker 6: And after that the Saints adopted a new approach. They

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Speaker 6: be the same kind of half forward. The Broncos take

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Speaker 6: But give them some time away, give the coaches some

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: Eric, looking back at a Sunday's game, I know you

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Speaker 1: I know the trade deadline is tomorrow, that's at two

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see what happens. Eric, appreciate you joining the

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Speaker 1: Got it said, Well, then I'll do it for today's episode.

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Speaker 1: A Bronco is now Broncos Country. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: tuning in. Meet you right back here on the Broncos

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Speaker 2: I'll see you all then,