Good morning, Broncos Country!
For the first time in a decade, the Denver Broncos are AFC West champs.
Somehow, it looks like 84 years since the franchise has been in this place. It was a tough and hard 10 years since Super Bowl 50 …. to say the least. But the Broncos are lastly out of the manure-laden doldrums and again atop the division. If that’s not sufficient, Denver is additionally in the driver’s seat for the No. 1 seed in the AFC Playoffs, which comes with home-field benefit and a bye.
It nearly doesn’t really feel actual, that’s how lengthy it’s been.
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Think of how a lot has modified.
Pat Bowlen was nonetheless alive. John Elway was the govt vp of soccer operations and common supervisor. Peyton Manning was the quarterback.
The Kansas City Chiefs had but to win the Lamar Hunt Trophy.
It was a sure middle’s rookie season for the Denver Nuggets.
You get the thought.
It’s been a minute, however the Broncos are again.
It begins and stops with Sean Payton. Since his arrival in Denver, he has utterly remodeled the group’s tradition and eradicated the rot introduced on by Joe Ellis. Then you add in the Walton Penner possession group, led by Greg Penner and Carrie Walton Penner. Throw on the whole supervisor George Paton, who has had some unimaginable NFL Drafts and made some nice strikes in free company to make up for the Russell Wilson and Nathaniel Hackett debacle. And final however not least, Bo Nix.
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The Broncos lastly have the head coach, possession, GM, and quarterback all aligned. It’s no surprise Denver is now the AFC West champs.
But let’s not neglect the two veterans who needed to play by way of most of the final shit decade and eventually have come out of all of it roses, Garett Bolles and Courtland Sutton. Mile High Salute to these two for the skilled method and the class they bring about to the group and neighborhood. It’s nice to see this occur for these two gamers.
For the first time in a decade, the Broncos are AFC West champs. It’s about rattling time.
And this is solely the starting.