Sean Payton backtracked a little to make a point as he started answering a Monday morning question posed to him about his team’s dramatic turnaround this year that included a now common phrase: “Since Miami.”
“We’re going to be able to reference Miami in a bunch of different ways for the rest of our lives, it seems like,” he said.
The reference, of course, is to the historic, 70-20 loss against the Dolphins in September. The Broncos’ fortunes didn’t turn immediately after that game, but two months later Denver is indeed riding high.
Payton’s team has now won five straight and heads into its biggest game of the season so far Sunday at Houston.