{"id":701499,"date":"2026-01-24T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/701499\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:04:23","slug":"2026-nfl-playoffs-roundtable-why-are-you-confident-the-broncos-can-defeat-the-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/701499\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Playoffs Roundtable: Why are you confident the Broncos can defeat the Patriots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Each and every point made so far makes a lot of sense. For me, I just think there is a certain mental toughness and moxie this year\u2019s team has that\u2019s hard to quantify. I\u2019ve said it a few times\u2014they\u2019re just built different. As Ross mentioned, they\u2019re a battle-tested squad that has overcome a lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Coach Payton has talked about the shift in culture in the locker room over the past few seasons. A lot of the players have discussed being confident in the direction the team is headed and a supreme belief in themselves and what they\u2019re capable of as a group. That\u2019s a powerful thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">It will certainly go a long way toward making sure they are prepared to win Sunday\u2019s game against New England. Both these teams are well-coached. Though I think the Broncos are poised to be the victors and prove a lot of doubters wrong. They have the right mindset approaching this one and a chip on their shoulder. I\u2019m confident they will advance to Super Bowl 60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each and every point made so far makes a lot of sense. For me, I just think there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[1151,7,6,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-701499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-denver-broncos-news","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-nfl-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115950221010134436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}