ENGLEWOOD — Sean Payton is not backing down from championship expectations.
The Broncos coach made that much clear in a recent interview with Yahoo Sports.
“The short-term goal is winning the division,” Payton told senior reporter Charles Robinson . “But this is a team capable of winning the Super Bowl. I’ve coached six teams that I thought could win the Super Bowl. Some went to championship games, some to the playoffs. This is my seventh team that I think has that.”
Payton added in the interview that quarterback Bo Nix is “going to be one of the top four or five quarterbacks in the league the next two years.”
Payton rarely makes such declarative statements when speaking with local media who cover the team on a daily basis at Broncos Park. On Monday, after training camp practice, he