{"id":435235,"date":"2023-09-11T04:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T04:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=435235"},"modified":"2023-09-11T04:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T04:24:18","slug":"its-nfl-week-1-broncos-fans-are-already-disappointed-by-coach-sean-payton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/its-nfl-week-1-broncos-fans-are-already-disappointed-by-coach-sean-payton\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s NFL Week 1 &#038; Broncos Fans Are Already Disappointed By Coach Sean Payton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Broncos lost their seventh game in a row against the <a href=\"http:\/\/raiders.com\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> on Sunday, 17-16, snapping a seven-game winning streak for the home team. For the first time in years, professional football was back on the gridiron in the Mile High City, but it wasn&#8217;t nearly good enough. Fans Are blaming Coach Payton for that!<\/p>\n<h2>It&#8217;s NFL Week 1 &amp; Broncos Fans Are Already Disappointed By Coach Sean Payton<\/h2>\n<p>After losing on Thursday Night Football to the Kansas City Chiefs, the Denver Broncos (1-1) fell to the Oakland Raiders (1-1), their first divisional opponent in the 2023 season, as the Raiders (1-0) remain at the top of the AFC West after the first week of the season.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaredkirk_9\/status\/1701041580440744251?s=20<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Denver&#8217;s Week 1 opponent, the Las Vegas Raiders (1-2), welcomed back Pro Bowl kicker Tom Lutz for the first time in his career. Lutz missed both of his extra-point attempts, including a 55-yard attempt in the third quarter, leaving four points off the board. The Raiders won 17-16.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Final. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L9uctvNCQz\">pic.twitter.com\/L9uctvNCQz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Broncos (@Broncos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Broncos\/status\/1701012905104466195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lutz has been with the Denver team for approximately two weeks after being acquired in a trade from New Orleans. After the defeat to the Oakland Raiders, Denver&#8217;s head coach, Sean Payton, acknowledged that he was &#8220;surprised&#8221; when Lutz missed the extra point.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Broncos had big plans for their first game of the season, with Payton and quarterback Russell Wilson joining forces. But it didn&#8217;t go as planned, with the team losing to their division rival, the Las Vegas Raiders, 17-16.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After Sean Payton spent the offseason pompously talking trash, I&#39;m not sure which is funnier:<\/p>\n<p>That the Broncos lost to the lowly Raiders in Payton&#39;s first game&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Or <\/p>\n<p>That the reason they lost was that Payton arrogantly opened the game with a failed onside kick, giving the\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patrick Allen (@RPatrickAllen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RPatrickAllen\/status\/1701040909721157823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fans were not happy with the outcome, with some calling for Payton to be fired. It&#8217;s the same thing that happened in 2022 when the team went 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have a good angle to look at the missed extra point,&#8221; Payton said when asked about what he saw on Lutz&#8217;s first missed kick. &#8220;I was surprised a little bit [by] his first kick. He\u2019ll bounce back. He\u2019s had a good two weeks with us, hasn\u2019t had any issues. We attempted the longer field goal\u2014a 55-yard field goal. That one looked pretty close. That too, I think was missed right, though, so we\u2019ll work to get that cleaned up.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sean Payton is washed<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zach (@Emperiacolypse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Emperiacolypse\/status\/1701050217439859024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, Payton called onside kicks to start the game, and it was Lutz who kicked the first one. It was not a bad kick &#8211; Tremon Smith got his foot on it before it went over 10-yards. The Broncos recovered it, but they were flagged for illegal touch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can I put a Sean Payton-style bounty on Cris Collinsworth?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Kay (@Traumahawk94) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Traumahawk94\/status\/1701049172667879688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew season, same disappointment\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another football fan chimed in: \u201c\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f SEAN PAYTON IS A FRAAAAUUUUUUDDDDDD\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jasson Dominguez Injury Update: Torn UCL &amp; Possible Surgery\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/jasson-dominguez-injury-update-torn-ucl-possible-surgery\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jasson Dominguez Injury Update: Torn UCL &amp; Possible Surgery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Broncos lost their seventh game in a row against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, 17-16, snapping a seven-game winning streak for the home team. For the first time in years, professional football was back on the gridiron in the Mile High City, but it wasn&#8217;t nearly good enough. Fans Are blaming Coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":414148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,48],"tags":[9221,5187,2211,2409,15034,4327],"class_list":["post-435235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denver-broncos","category-nfl","tag-broncos-news","tag-nfl-2023","tag-nfl-news","tag-sean-payton","tag-sean-payton-fans-disappointed","tag-sean-payton-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}