INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton sounded content to let others debate Sunday’s leverage call against linebacker Dondrea Tillman.

Payton wanted no part of it. And neither did the rest of the Broncos.

Shortly after the Colts’ Spencer Shrader missed a 60-yard field-goal try that would have won the game — only to redeem himself with a second chance from 15 yards closer because of the penalty — Payton and his players blamed themselves, not the officials, for Denver’s 29-28 loss.

“You go from feeling like you’ve just escaped after our errors,” said Bo Nix, who threw three touchdown passes in the first half. “I always hate putting the game in the officials’ hands. We gave them an opportunity, and they called it at the end. Sometimes, it just doesn’t go your way.”

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