As Sean Payton threw off his headset and showed unusual emotion over a win, CBS announcer and former QB Tony Romo said this game had been a litmus test for the Broncos, who were asking themselves, ‘Are we for real?’

Romo answered that.

“Denver is for real.”

Jim Nantz added, “Everyone is going to look at them differently after today.”

But head coach Sean Payton wasn’t nearly as doubtful as possibly much of Broncos Country.

Down 10-3 at halftime, Payton gave a little pep talk.

“I said, ‘Man, we talked about the game we had to play coming in here and we’re not doing it,‘” Payton recalled, noting that they knew it wasn’t going to be easy to run the ball, but they had to keep doing it. “It’s a good run defense, but we’ve got to keep hitting that bag, and I thought we did. I thought we con

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