Denver’s head coaching search has been - in a word - aggravating.
There were early rumors that major candidates like Jim Harbaugh and Sean Payton were prime targets - and that there was mutual interest in coaching the Broncos.
But then Harbaugh decided to stay at Michigan (we think?) and the Broncos didn’t schedule any second interviews.
So we all watched the Twitter video where Payton got into a car to leave the Arizona Cardinals facility with owner Michael Bidwell after a day-long interview - and we all thought for sure that Payton would sign the dotted line for Arizona.