Although Broncos coach Sean Payton is too much of a prickly cactus to believe a snake would ever dare bite him, there’s a big, old anaconda slowly squeezing the hope out of his football team before this NFL season even begins.
No. 1 receiver Jerry Jeudy went down Thursday with a hamstring injury, and when he will be back, nobody knows for sure. But it’s nearly impossible to envision him taking the field to catch passes when Denver opens with a must-win game against Las Vegas in 16 days.
“I don’t believe in being snake-bitten,” Payton said.