Four plays. Three new Broncos. Two minutes. 97 yards.

Last week, Denver was in a San Jose hotel in which the smooth-ish sounds of jazz rattled the windows of their hotel room until midnight. This week, the Broncos scampered around for a couple of hours trying to contain Kyler Murray. They’d held two joint practices in the span of the week, and so head coach Sean Payton went against a traditional Payton doctrine: He rested most of his offensive starters against the Cardinals for Saturday’s preseason game.

It meant no Bo Nix. It meant Jarrett Stidham, and mostly the second-teamers, lighting up Empower on Saturday night. But Payton still had more he wanted to see from a few select new toys in Denver’s offense.

“I want to get Evan (Engram) a few touches in the game,” Payton said Tuesday. “H

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