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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: the Athletics, Nick Cosmighter joins the show. He'll give insight

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Speaker 1: an analysis surrounding the team as the Broncos look to

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Speaker 1: face the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday Night. All that

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Speaker 1: and more coming up. You're at the uc Hell Training Center.

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Speaker 1: There was no practice and no media press conferences today

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Speaker 1: as the players had the day off. So for today's

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Speaker 1: episode of Broncos Now the Athletics, Nick Cosmighter joins me

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Speaker 1: here inside the Broncos Podcast studio to give his thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the team. Nick, appreciate you joining me on the

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Speaker 1: show today. Yeah, thanks so much for having me. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Of course, week six of the season already kind of

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Speaker 1: hard to believe we're already in week six talking about

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Speaker 1: this Chargers game. Broncos did get them any by this

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Speaker 1: weekend because they have the Monday night game following that

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Speaker 1: Thursday game. Re able to get some time off to you, Nick, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just a little bit. You know. Nathaniel Hackett said that

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Speaker 1: spent a little bit of time with his family, and

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Speaker 1: so I went back and looked at it and we

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Speaker 1: were talking, but it was like five games in twenty

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Speaker 1: four days because of just how the schedule worked out.

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Speaker 1: He kept saying it was a weird schedule, and then

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Speaker 1: you look at it and you're like, wow, they really

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Speaker 1: have compiled a lot of games into a short amount

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Speaker 1: of times. I think for a lot of reasons that

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Speaker 1: that staff, because not only did they need that time

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Speaker 1: of the issues that have been slown this team down

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Speaker 1: a little. Yeah, well the team they said at two

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Speaker 1: in three, third in the a f C West. Is

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Speaker 1: this kind of where you thought the team would be

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Speaker 1: at in this point of the season, Nick, you know,

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Speaker 1: looking back to the beginning of the season, I think

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Speaker 1: I always thought that there were gonna be some um,

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Speaker 1: think with how much was new both in terms of

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Speaker 1: as well as being a head coach for the first time.

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson playing the first ten years of his career

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Speaker 1: that there was um it would have been naive to

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Speaker 1: think it would be to this extent? No, particularly because

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Speaker 1: of the red zone. You know, Nathaniel Hackett's time in

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packards were very good in that area the field.

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson historically in his career has been very good

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Speaker 1: in that area the field. Um, So, that struggle I

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Speaker 1: I know you asked coach hack It on Tuesday about

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Speaker 1: the offenses efficiency, specifically in the red zone. What did

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Speaker 1: talked about how a big issue for the Broncos kind

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Speaker 1: of in all parts of the field, but the red

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Speaker 1: negative plays and these are happening early. Um on downs.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Broncos uh that they have a high

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Speaker 1: explosive play rate right there, still showing that ability to

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Speaker 1: against the Colts. The problem is they are too often

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Speaker 1: So they're just creating themselves these situations, um that are

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Speaker 1: some simplifying of of plays that will work in those

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Speaker 1: bad sort of scenarios. Written Nick, I read your peace

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Speaker 1: on the Broncos offensive playmakers a little bit earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: As we know, you know Courtland Sutton, he's been the

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Speaker 1: we've heard time and time again from coach Hackett just

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Speaker 1: this rotation with Melvin Gordon and Mike Boone moving forward? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: There's some early thought that maybe he'd be able to

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Speaker 1: LaTavia is coming from London straight to Denver. I wonder

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Speaker 1: for him to look for, definitely. Like you mentioned some

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Speaker 1: And I think I think it's frustrating because you know,

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Speaker 1: But I think certainly frustrating that. You know, they applied

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Speaker 1: there because now we know offenses, Well, why are we

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Speaker 1: going to mess with passer tan when we know what

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Speaker 1: They've just been so dominant this season. But I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about the pass rush. Bradley Chub has looked

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Speaker 1: able to get after the quarterback. And to your point,

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Speaker 1: passer Tan said today, like they we all heard it

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Speaker 1: an anomaly for Bradley Chub. It was a frustrating year,

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Speaker 1: only played in seven games, never recorded a sack. To

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Speaker 1: They teammates saw that coming. But I think what has

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Speaker 1: impressed then the most, you know, like passer Tan said,

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Speaker 1: back here on the Broncos podcast network and YouTube tomorrow

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