{"id":518206,"date":"2026-09-28T08:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=518206"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:05:14","slug":"payton-denver-cant-keep-relying-on-comebacks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/payton-denver-cant-keep-relying-on-comebacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Payton: Denver can\u2019t keep relying on comebacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Broncos manager Sean Payton looked relieved yesterday as his team rebounded from a dismal 1st half to score 30 points in the 2nd in a 30-26 triumph against the Los Angeles Rams at Empower Field at Mile High.<\/p>\n<p>Denver (2-1), who was an NFL-record 11-2 in one-score matches in the past campaign, is now 2-0 in one-score matches in the current campaign. QB Bo Nix was behind center for his 10th come-from-behind, 4th-quarter victory since the beginning of the 2024 campaign \u2013 the most in the league during that period.<\/p>\n<p>But Sean still doesn&#8217;t want such comebacks to happen so often.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy with the way we responded after the first half,\u201d the Broncos coach shared. \u201cBut we can\u2019t continue like that, as that will cost us in bigger matches. It will be something that will be a huge problem later in the season if we don\u2019t clean it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Denver had 67 net yards of offense in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half on SNF, compared to 273 from the Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Broncos quarterback was happy and claimed that a good team finish, and right now, these comebacks feel like Denver\u2019s DNA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;That&#39;s the $6M question&quot; \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>Even Sean Payton doesn&#39;t understand why Bo Nix starts so slow, but is so clutch almost every game \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OvjqOGRxbp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OvjqOGRxbp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DNVR Broncos (@DNVR_Broncos) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DNVR_Broncos\/status\/2104459178794516856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Broncos manager Sean Payton looked relieved yesterday as his team rebounded from a dismal 1st half to score 30 points in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":518207,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16777,17313],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[18128,18428],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The coach spoke after the Broncos\u2019 latest comeback.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518208,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518206\/revisions\/518208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518206"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=518206"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=518206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}