are a playoff team in 2023... if you ask fans, anyway. In the survey we ran this week, 53% of fans said this team will make the playoffs.
However, this number isn’t as good as one might think. Because I’ve run this same poll two other teams this offseason. Back when Sean Payton was initially hired, 67% of fans believed this was a playoff team and then again in mid-June roughly the same (66%) of fans believed Denver was on track to compete for a playoff spot this season.