Smile High, Denver. This Dusty Old Broncos Town has its most outstanding football team in 10 years.
With a Horse Force defense the Broncos will win at least 11 games and at least one playoff game for the first time since the 2015 season and Super Bowl 50. That’s a guarantee.
The Broncos are so good and so deep that six players who likely will be cut Tuesday would have been starters three seasons ago, and their third-best offensive play-caller in the preseason could have been head coach Sean Payton.
In three exhibitions the Broncos scored 85 points and surrendered only 35. They defeated the Cardinals 27-7, the 49ers 30-9 and the Saints Saturday 28-19. Those are Gary Kubiak, Wade Phillips, Peyton Manning kind of numbers on offense and defense. The 2025 defensive representatives are in the