Is it October yet?
The Broncos only officially open training camp on Friday morning and already first-year coach Sean Payton has thrown down the gauntlet.
In an interview with USA TODAY, the first-year coach said Nathaniel Hackett’s 2022 in Denver, “might have been one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL. It was that bad.”
He implied the New York Jets, where Hackett is now the offensive coordinator and Aaron Rodgers the quarterback, are ripe for disappointment in 2023. He said Russell Wilson still has “gas in the tank” and sharpened comments he made to the local media corps when he was first hired that a lot more people than just Wilson share blame for his career-worst 2022 season.