“I would tell you, knowing him as long as I’ve known him, he really believes it more than he’s saying it,” Curtis Johnson told me Monday by phone after the Broncos wrapped up a shorts/shells practice at Broncos Park Powered by CommonSpirit.
“Because if he just kind of thought it could happen, he wouldn’t have said it like he said it.”
Payton said his Broncos had a Super Bowl look. Straight. No chaser. No apologies. No caveats.
He said it at least twice to longtime Yahoo Sports NFL writer Charles Robinson while Robinson’s tape was running.