Patrick Sean Payton just went all Ralph Waldo Emerson on the Broncos. Who knew he is emulating a 19th century-type essayist?

“We can write down our goals and dreams, and we can recite them, and then you have to live them,” Payton philosophized to the press. Sean has become more folksy, affable and cheerful this training camp – perhaps because his owners and general manager are signing veterans to big-ticket item contracts; a new headquarters is under construction, and the players are playing proficiently.

Livin’ the dream is the coach’s and the players’ objective this season. The carrot-and-stick motivation is Super Bowl LX. The Broncos last won Super Bowl L.

Denver, though, is provided just a puncher’s possibility at 30-1.

But the Broncos seek to prove themselves, and Payton craves to

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