Sean Payton Discusses Navigating the Gauntlet of Broncos' Early Season Schedule
The Denver Broncos open up their season on the road against the Kansas City Chiefs before hosting the Jacksonville Jaguars and LA Rams. Then they go back out on the road to face the San Francisco 49ers and LA Chargers, before returning home to host the Seattle Seahawks.
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It's more the travel, um.
You know, you're looking at when the buy is, then, all right, what are the East Coast trips?
You know, you know you're gonna have the East Coast trips, right?
Like those aren't, it's like, when are you getting them?
Are they, you know, we were kind of hoping maybe two of them would be back to back that didn't happen.
Um, And I think As, as you get older, you, you don't focus on the things you can't control.
Like, you look at the schedule, like yesterday, we went through the exercise of, I wanted to see the two opponents that played our opponent.
Each week of the season.
You know, like, obviously, Kansas City, you start out, but by the time you get into your schedule, you're kind of seeing where they're at, who they played before they play you, where they're at, who they play before they play you.
I think we play one team that comes off a bye, uh, and that's it.
Um, that's not unusual, but it's, you know, a lot of times you, you know, the timing of when you play someone is important.
So that, that, that was more of just putting a list together, um, Yeah, a lot has been made about the first part of the schedule and That, that goes with playing the NFC West.
You know, it's a good division football.
It's strong.
And so we've got a lot of those teams early on in the schedule.
That's what's notable.
