Don’t stop now, Sean Payton. There’s only one way you can win back Broncos Country with a straight face.
And that’s by losing.
A lot.
If 2023 was salvageable, you’d have fired defensive coordinator Vance Joseph before he could board the bus at Miami Gardens.
You didn’t.
It isn’t.
NFL rosters — paid, proud professionals with contracts — do not capitulate by 50 unless they’ve quit. They don’t give up 70 unless they’ve quit.
There’s too much talent in every pro locker room, even the goofy ones, for a team to get rolled like it’s an SEC-Sun Belt game in early September.