Tag: super bowl
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Mark Kiszla: How John Elway knows way Bo Nix can win his first NFL ring
With quarterback Bo Nix and the boys in Super Bowl-or-bust mode, this team is setting up Broncomanics to lose their ever-lovin’ minds. We’re talking about a full-scale, orange-and-blue meltdown. Can you say freak out? I’m not saying the Broncos can’t win the Super Bowl. In fact, I was crazy enough to have predicted more than…
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Mark Kiszla: How Bo Nix and Davis Webb can laugh all the way to a Super Bowl
In pursuit of a championship, Broncos coach Sean Payton has plucked an idea from the brain of the Mastermind. What does every great artist say? Steal from the best. Payton is an obsessive student of football history with an encyclopedic knowledge of plays that have altered the outcome of big games over the past 30…
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Mark Kiszla: A star is born as Davis Webb leads Broncos offense in preseason rout
ATLANTA – The Broncos have everything they need for a Super Bowl run except a BarcaLounger. On game days from now through February, the team’s equipment crew can set up a recliner on the Denver sideline for Granpappy Sean Payton to let him take a load off his aching feet. Davis Webb has got this.…
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Is Bo Nix guaranteed to become a $50 million man for the Broncos? | Friday Faceoff
Mark Kiszla, sports columnist Answer: No There’s a $50 million question hovering over this Broncos’ season. Is Bo Nix a quarterback who can win the Super Bowl for Denver and punch coach Sean Payton’s ticket to the Pro Football Hall of Fame? I hope the answers are: Yes! But $50 million is a whole lotta…
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Mark Kiszla: The 200-day countdown to Broncos’ next championship has begun
ENGLEWOOD — Let the countdown begin. The Broncos hit the field on a steamy summer morning to ramp up for training camp, exactly 200 days from when quarterback Bo Nix will hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy. That’s my story. And I’m sticking to it, even if coach Sean Payton isn’t ready to go there. Yet.…
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Mark Kiszla: Can Broncos do hard work of winning championship in cushy 5-star resort?
ENGLEWOOD — Broncos stars Bo Nix and Pat Surtain got their Taj Mahal before winning their first Lombardi. Is that putting the cart before the horse? These Broncos have moved into their trophy house before doing what matters most: hoisting that championship trophy. On the eve of the team’s most-anticipated training camp in more than…
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Mark Kiszla: Has Sean Payton finally realized it’s better to win the Super Bowl than the argument?
After 62 years on Earth, has Broncos coach Sean Payton finally learned how to get out of his own way? “When you get older, you just want to win,” Payton said Wednesday after releasing his players to summer vacation at the conclusion of the team’s offseason program. “You always want to win, but you recognize…
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Mark Kiszla: Best way to judge Broncos’ bold trade for Jaylen Waddle? Super Bowl. Or bust.
The last time the Broncos were so desperate to get in the Super Bowl conversation they traded for Russell Wilson. And how did that turn out? Waddle, Waddle. If it looks like desperation, swims like a reach for a No. 1 receiver and quacks like extravagance, then I’ve got to ask: After sitting on the…
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2027 Super Bowl odds: How Broncos stack up against NFL favorites
The Broncos are not betting favorites to win a Super Bowl in 2027. Oddsmakers still like their chances after a breakout year ending in the AFC Championship Game. The Seahawks beat the Patriots, 29-13, on Sunday night to claim Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. But which NFL team will hoist…
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Seattle ride their ‘Dark Side’ defense to a Super Bowl title, pounding the Patriots 29-13
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The “Dark Side” defense carried Sam Darnold and the Seattle Seahawks to a Lombardi Trophy. Devon Witherspoon, Derick Hall, Byron Murphy and the rest of Mike Macdonald’s ferocious unit pummeled Drake Maye, and the Seahawks beat the New England Patriots 29-13 on Sunday to win the franchise’s second Super Bowl.…