Sean Payton’s Message to Denver Broncos Fans’ & Their Mile High Expectations | The Rich Eisen Show

Sean Payton’s Message to Denver Broncos Fans’ & Their Mile High Expectations | The Rich Eisen Show

What do you say to people that are so jacked up in Broncos country about Bo Knicks and the chances of this team, you know, being particularly special? You know, it was year four in New Orleans where you won it all and this is year three for you. Is this a realistic shot this team has to to go on a deep run, if not win it all, Sean? Well, I I think this I our fans today are smarter than they’ve ever been. And and look, last year, um, there’s a lot of unknowns when whenever you start a rookie quarterback and you’re in year two of a rebuild. Um, you’re 90ome million over the cap of dead money. Uh, so you’re operating with twothirds of a budget. I I think, um, I don’t I don’t know what the expectations were. I don’t think they were uh that of a playoff team. Um, but I can tell you in the building after another draft, another offseason, a free agency, I can tell you the expectations of this team. And and um our league’s never changed. It’s always been win the division first, um try to get the best possible seed, and then win a Super Bowl championship. And and and those are the goals uh of this team. Um, and we recognize and and how difficult that can be. We recognize, uh, man, how how good Kansas City has been. Um, where the Chargers have come with the hiring of Jim Harbaugh. Um, Pete Carroll just gets hired in Seattle. And I thank Pete because when he got hired, I became the youngest coach in the division. You’re the younger. Young guy. Okay. And when you look at when you look at those three teams, I’m just talking about the division, there’s there’s a lot there’s a lot of wins um amongst those coaches and there’s great respect uh for all of them. Um so I think the thing we we’ve always tried to do is internalize the focus and you know it’s it’s like running the race and this happens in training camp. Um, and you have horse blinders on and you know the other 31 teams are running as well. Um, but you don’t know exactly where they’re stacking up. Um, but you just have to prepare and and and do your best to make sure uh you’re maximizing your talent and so I think there are high expectations and and I think uh our players will embrace those. A couple minutes left before uh ESPN radio presented by a progressive insurance uh radio audience uh leaves us in the minute plus I have left. Bo Nicks, how special is he, Sean? Yeah, he’s he’s he’s a guy that um let me just start with this. His experience shows right away. You know, he had uh his time at Auburn um and had some adversity also and then transfers and gets to Oregon. I think the thing that maybe was most um undervalued or underd discussed with him is his athleticism. He’s a tremendous foot athlete, so he can he can throw from a lot of different uh a lot of different body angles. Um he can run and step up and get you a first down. um he’s got outstanding arm strength and I think oftent times we try to group quarterbacks based on the offenses they’re playing in college and and they can’t control that. So, you know, we try to eliminate all the quick throws, the bubbles, the smokes, uh and and really try to evaluate where a player can be projected uh in an NFL offense. And I would say the one thing that really was unexpected, we we knew he was extremely accurate. We had seen that the most accurate passer in the history of college football. We knew how he played on third down. We knew he threw from awkward positions. Um we knew he would had great leadership skills, but you know, he didn’t do the shuttles. He didn’t run the 40. He didn’t he didn’t do some of those drills because he had a turf toe at the combine. And I didn’t realize that because I thought he would have done those extremely well. And the the the foot athlete that we got that we get to see now daily. Um and and that’s let’s face it, that’s not new to our league. You know, Bill Walsh wanted quarterbacks that could move. he had Steve Young. Uh and and but when when you have a quarterback that has trouble with sacks and then you’re going to have trouble with consistency in drives and scoring and I would say um his his athleticism um he’s 6’2 and a half two 220 pounds and uh I I think it’s all ahead of him and and I think uh our fans And I and I think football fans in general will see

Broncos head coach Sean Payton and Rich Eisen discuss the mile high expectations for Denver this season and the year-two development of QB Bo Nix.

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