Diss is getting ridiculous.
“Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills are going to the Super Bowl,” ESPN analyst and former NFL defensive back Ryan Clark declared on “First Take” on Monday. “Josh Allen showed us once again (against Jacksonville) that he’s Superman.
“Superman is a metahuman. There are no more metahumans in the AFC (bracket). Patrick Mahomes ain’t there. Lamar Jackson ain’t there. Joe Burrow is not there … What we saw from (Allen) in the fourth quarter (Sunday) is what the Buffalo Bills should be thinking every single game. ‘If it’s close and it’s late, we have the best player left playing.'”
They do. And if I’m Sean Payton, I’ve got that quote playing on a loop all week at Dove Valley. I’m plastering it on signs that get hung up all over Broncos Park Powered by CommonSpirit. Where everybody can read it. So everyone can feel it.
The best coaches play the underdog card the way Thelonious Monk tickled the ivories. Any sound bite is a potential weapon. Any pithy comment could be turned into a rallying cry or rocket fuel. Context? Ha. Doesn’t matter. It’s just gotta stick.
Michael Malone, during his Nuggets days, was a genius at creating enemies, of underlining slights that may or may not have ever been real. Liam Coen’s use of Payton’s “small market” comment about Jacksonville last month was a great example of crafting something completely innocuous into an aluminum bat — then handing it to your guys to go bash the speaker’s team in the ankles with it.
Payton should’ve known better, in hindsight. But now it’s his turn. See that rusty knife lying over there in the corner? Shouldn’t even be that hard to sharpen the blasted thing, let alone twist it.
The Broncos are the Jan Brady of AFC story arcs. Bills this. Bills that. Mafia, Mafia, Mafia!
As far as the national sports networks are concerned this week, Payton and his players might as well be extras in their own movie.
Remember the 2023 Nuggets postseason? Just replace “LeBron James” with “Josh Allen,” and you’ll have a pretty good idea of where the national noise is going. Which means, until Saturday, you might want to keep the earmuffs within arm’s reach. Earmuffs and a stiff drink.
By Monday, Broncos Country’s biggest week in 10 years had already jumped feet-first into ludicrous — especially on the respect front. Get this: The Bills opened the week as a 1.5-point favorite for Saturday’s Divisional Round game. On the road. Against the AFC’s top seed. In January. At altitude.
If that struck you as unusual, that’s because it is. According to YahooSports.com, Denver is just the third No. 1 seed since 1970 to be pegged as underdogs at home in the NFL’s Divisional round.
The 2017 Eagles were the last ‘1’ seed to make that list. They won their postseason home opener and rolled all the way to a Super Bowl title. The 1971 Vikings were the other team, and Minnesota wound up falling at home to Dallas in its initial playoff contest.
So the Broncos are the rubber game in NFL history. Precedent says Payton has Allen and the Bills right where he wants them.
The Broncos are 4-1, straight up, as a Vegas underdog this season. We remember the 2025 team as one that constantly seemed to play down to its competition. But we’re forgetting the team that, more often than not, met the moment.
Philly on the road. Dallas at home. Kansas City at home. The Packers at home. Before Monday night, the last team to beat the Texans was Denver, in Houston, all the way back on Nov. 2.
And did you notice how every one of those wacky wild-card games Saturday and Sunday felt so darn familiar? That’s because, for the most part, they looked exactly like the ones the Broncos have been playing all year long. And winning.
They’re built for this. They have been from Week 1.
Now? Now the Broncos are a No. 1 seed in name only, as far as the cognoscenti are concerned, a team of wallflowers standing in the way of the narrative. The coasts have decided it’s Josh Allen’s turn. It’s Broncos Country against the world. And the world’s favored by a safety.
“If Cam Newton and John Elways walked into that little machine they had (in the movie) ‘Weird Science’ and made (actress) Kelly LeBrock, it would come out as Josh Allen,” Clark continued Monday.
“When you are that talented, when you can run that way, when you are powerful that way, when you can throw the football and place it anywhere on the field — and there is no Kryptonite in the form of Patrick Mahomes, you have to go do it. And this is the year Josh Allen gets it done.”
You don’t have to be taking Bozempic to get fired up for this one after that. If Payton’s keeping receipts, Superman is about to enter a no-fly zone.
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