Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton didn't mince words when he explained what went wrong in 2022.
Payton, who became the Broncos head coach after a trade from the New Orleans Saints this offseason, blamed everyone for Denver's disastrous 5-12 season, but mostly focused on former head coach Nathaniel Hackett as well as the "the pomp and circumstance" of the offseason hype.
"It doesn’t happen often where an NFL team or organization gets embarrassed,” Payton told USA Today Sports. “And that happened here. ... It might have been one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL.