Pat Swilling knows what’s coming next. He knows Sean Payton has found the Frank James to his Jesse, the Bonnie to his Clyde. He knows that when he sees Bo Nix, he sees a young man who’ll tear the heart from your chest while wishing you a Merry Christmas.
He knows the AFC is in trouble.
“Let me tell you something: You’re fortunate (in Denver). You’re fortunate,” Swilling, the ex-New Orleans Saints linebacker and five-time Pro Bowler, told me by phone Monday, laughing like a wise uncle.
“Just you wait.