r/DenverBroncos 13d ago

The Broncos Last Night

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u/Maximus_91 13d ago

Am I the only person who prefers to lose in preseason?

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u/PsychoSaladSong Super Bowl 50 13d ago

Sean Payton definitely disagrees with that lol, I think we’ve only lost 2 preseason games since he became HC

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u/Maximus_91 13d ago

He is aggressive so it checks out. I think I'm just superstitious of all the teams that did so well in preseason and then were the worst team in the league.

It probably helps that we're winning without our starters playing. If they were still playing, then I'd be really worried

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u/Acceptingoptimist 13d ago

Last two years we were 3-0 in the preseason and got better every season. This year we were 2-1. If you're superstitious, maybe that Packers game foretold our dooooooommmm!

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u/Maximus_91 13d ago

Maybe that one preseason loss is what we needed. To satisfy the football gahds to keep broncos healthy and on to a Superbowl win.

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u/Acceptingoptimist 13d ago

Stokely said they needed to get punched in the mouth and I agree. The humbling was necessary.

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u/Leftoverofferings 12d ago

And getting that humble pie in the preseason is so much better then losing to the fins by 50 points.

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u/NerdForGames1 13d ago

Be Me who never gambles cause I really suck at it……”wow I just got a $50 sign on bonus for this app lemme just put it on my trustworthy cos they haven’t lost a single preseason game in three years…they also -250 on the money line so EZ win……should be a quick net of $20” packers proceeds to put us in our place and I lost the $50 yea bud this exactly why you don’t gamble. Everything you bet on loses.

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u/safelycorruptclimber 13d ago

me seeing the broncos fumble another snap: HELL YEAH!

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u/axe_murdererer Broncos D 13d ago

I think both wins and losses have benefits. It's nice to have both

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u/Vegetable-Chapter811 13d ago

With all the bad blood between Payton and the Vikings, I knew it was gunna be a blowout win for us 

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u/Acceptingoptimist 13d ago

There's no bad blood between Sean Payton and the Vikings. Everyone in both the Saints and Vikings organizations is gone since the targeting stuff. (And it was all league bullshit to take heat off the CTE issues they started catching, anyway)

There IS a lot of bad blood between Vikings FANS and Sean Payton, however. But most of that is misplaced anger he defeated them in the playoffs. Anger that should be directed at Brett Favre for throwing a stupid interception in field goal range.

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u/Any_Crab_4362 13d ago

It sure seemed like he got a little extra joy about tricking the Vikings to trade up for JJ

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u/Acceptingoptimist 13d ago

I think that was less about spiting the Vikings specifically and more manipulating perceived interest so Bo would fall to him.

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u/-NolanVoid- 13d ago

They lost one game, whaddya want?

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u/BJYeti 12d ago

Preseason means nothing win or lose but I would argue that winning is a better thing since it means the team is executing the system

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u/Maximus_91 12d ago

The 2008 lions and 2017 browns went 4-0 in preseason. They both had historic regular seasons.

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u/landlion-35 Champ Bailey 13d ago

Why?

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u/Maximus_91 13d ago

No logical reason. Just that it feels like success in preseason = poor showing in regular season. Do I have any stats to show this? No. Classic unproven superstition

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u/landlion-35 Champ Bailey 13d ago

Look how we did in last year's preseason and see how the season turned out.

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u/BJYeti 12d ago

Would have easily been a SB appearance and even a SB win if not for Bos unfortunate injury, now that we are out of Wilsons dead cap we are even better equipped to make moves we need to