Mile High Report
Let’s not repeat this experiment next week, please.
It wasn’t 70 points, but it felt like it.
It wasn’t a 50-point loss, but it felt like it.
It was a blowout, and it was painful. And Sean Payton was feeling all of it — as he should have.
“It’s not making any excuses,” he said. “We got whooped today.”
Quarterback Bo Nix said about the same.
“[There were] a lot of what-ifs in this game, and the fact of the matter is we had our butts kicked.”
But it took defensive lineman D.J. Jones to make it clear.
“We got our asses whooped,” Jones said.
Indeed they did.
In a span of 30 minutes, the Broncos ran just four plays compared to the Ravens’ three scores.
The first came just before half on a 53-yard touchdown pass to Zay Flowers, made possible by safety Devon Key slipping and botching the coverage.
Ravens got the ball to start the third quarter and marched down the field into the end zone with very little resistance. The Broncos’ three-and-out to follow led to another mentally defeating touchdown drive from the Ravens.
“They beat us, pretty much in all three phases,” Payton said in his presser’s opening remarks. “We didn’t do a good enough job coaching.”
Amen to that assessment.
Toss plays eight yards behind the line of scrimmage on 4th-and-inches? Terrible idea.
Drive-killing runs drawn up for the fullback...twice? C’mon.
Putting a backup safety on a team’s top wideout all day? Criminal.
But in the end, execution is still the ultimate blame. Broncos, I can save you some film room time on Monday...
Because otherwise next week at the Chiefs in Arrowhead could be deja vu — and no one wants to relive this game twice.
“You have to take it like it is and learn from it, grow from it, because you don’t want to be back in this situation,” Nix said. “You kind of accept the pain and the reality that we didn’t get it done today. As a young team, you have to find ways to not let this happen again.”
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“We had [opportunities] that I think could’ve changed the momentum of the game,” wide receiver Courtland Sutton said. “You just have to learn from it.”
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