{"id":774186,"date":"2026-02-24T22:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774186\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:18:16","slug":"sean-payton-handing-off-play-calling-to-davis-webb-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774186\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Payton handing off play calling to Davis Webb for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\/would-broncos-have-given-seahawks-a-better-super-bowl-than-patriots-if-they-had-bo-nix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos came ever so close to reaching the Super Bowl<\/a> during the 2025 NFL season. For the 2026 campaign, Denver is making a big change. Head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/sean-payton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Payton<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AricDiLalla\/status\/2026416388902998325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">handing off play calling duties<\/a> to Davis Webb, per reporter Aric DiLalla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPayton said he\u2019ll still be involved with what they do offensively, but he said he\u2019s making the decision for what\u2019s best for the team,\u201d DiLalla posted to X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Denver took a major hit this past season when starting quarterback Bo Nix went down with an injury before the AFC Championship game. The Broncos lost that game in bad weather to the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Broncos came ever so close to reaching the Super Bowl during the 2025 NFL season. For&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,2426,7,6,927,1813],"class_list":{"0":"post-774186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denverbroncos","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-combine","15":"tag-sean-payton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116127931400319767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774186","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=774186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}