The Denver Broncos season might not have ended with the ultimate triumph of hoisting the Lombardi Trophy, but someone tell that to the team brass. As Broncos CEO Greg Penner, GM George Paton, and head coach Sean Payton held court on Wednesday for their respective end-of-season pressers, to a man, each looked like the cat who caught the canary.
It wasn’t the typically strained visage and demeanor of men whose ambitions had just fizzled into naught. The Broncos won 10 games and made the playoffs for the first time since 2015. That’s enough to be happy about, but that tonality of satisfaction and excitement the Broncos triumvirate shared may have been rooted in the emergence of Bo Nix.
These men can afford to be jovial about a one-and-done playoff appearance because with Nix in the fold, the Broncos know they’ll be back in the dance. After years of wandering the quarterback desert, the Broncos are confident they’ve found their guy…