Monitoring the NFL trade deadline can be like trying to decipher Morse code at a rock concert. Last Friday, he seemed to knock down the idea of his team making a deadline acquisition when he said simply about his team, which would soon improve to 5-3: “I like where we’re at with this group.” Then came the aftermath of Sunday’s …
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — When the Denver Broncos were nearing the finish line in negotiations with the Seattle Seahawks in March of 2022 for a blockbuster trade of quarterback Russell Wilson, general manager George Paton went to new head coach Nathaniel Hackett and asked him to look at the veteran’s tape. But in hindsight, amid Tuesday’s news that the Broncos are …
Sean Payton is in control. “I do think at some point I’ll coach again,” Payton recently told The Athletic. But I was just ready to not coach season.” ‘You’re going to get tired of golf’ The coaching hiatus wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment decision for Payton. “You’re competitive in that you want to be good at whatever it is that you’re doing, …