Broncos owner and CEO Greg Penner hopes to have stability at the top of his football operation for years to come.
Penner expressed confidence in general manager George Paton and head coach Sean Payton on Wednesday as he wrapped up Denver’s season.
“We’d love to have both of them here long-term,” Penner told reporters. “I think the partnership they’ve created and how they work together is very complementary.”
That much, of course, is not a big surprise given the work the men have done together over the past three seasons.
Denver went from 5-12 in Nathaniel Hackett’s lone season to 8-9 in 2023, 10-7 last year and 14-3 this year, punching back into the playoffs the past two years and coming within four points of the Super Bowl last weekend.
The time to act on that sentiment, however, is starting to come into view. Paton signed a six-year contract when he arrived in Denver as general manager in 2021, meaning the 2026 season is the final on his original deal. Payton still has two years remaining on his original five-year deal, though some owners like to have their top leaders tied together in terms of contract length.
“In terms of the contracts, those are things that we’ll always deal with on a personal basis and in private,” Penner said. “We’ll take that as it comes.”
Penner said he’s seen the relationship between Payton and Paton continue to grow, a sentiment Paton outlined Tuesday, as well.
“We’ve got an open dialogue and I talk with those guys every day,” Penner said. “If we’ve got a critical decision we’re making, we’re going to talk about it. But if the two of them agree on something and recommend it, it’d be pretty unlikely that I would ever overrule that.
“The approach, I think, is working really well and it begins with the two of them having a lot of trust in each other. They each have a deep expertise and set of experiences and that enables us to draw on that.”
The work the three at the top of the organization have done put Denver in position to make a run to the AFC West title, the No. 1 seed in the conference and a home AFC Championship Game last weekend against New England.
That they came up short, Penner said, “was disappointing and not what we were expecting.”
“The finality of it is tough,” he said. “This is our fourth season, two going out in the playoffs and it hits you pretty hard. That being said, I thought it was a pretty unforgettable season to look back on. There’s a lot of successes. Carrie (Walton-Penner) and I and the rest of the ownership group couldn’t be more proud of each of the players, also our coaching staff, the front office, everything through gameday experience, the training room.
“Really a lot of hard work went into this season and making it what it was.”
All the same, Penner repeatedly said he wasn’t satisfied with coming close and that the team would start again from the beginning in building toward the 2026 season.
“I’ll leave the specifics of where we fell short to our coaching staff and front office because that’s their job and that’s what they do really well,” he said. “The process we’ll go through in the next couple weeks: We’ll start the evaluation of our roster, evaluating our coaching staff. You’ll have some natural attrition where coaches can have other opportunities and then we make some changes that we feel are in the best interest of the organization.
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Payton and Paton, on Tuesday, outlined a vision for an aggressive offseason but one that sticks to the club’s processes. Penner said the term “aggressive” alone sometimes concerns him because it can be conflated with recklessness, but affirmed the team will be, in his words, “opportunistically aggressive.”
“We’ve got some great folks in place, including the coach, GM and quarterback,” Penner said. “That gives you a chance every year to be successful. Obviously, you’ve got to build out the rest of the roster in a meaningful way and have the best players you can at every position.
“The way we look at it from an ownership perspective is we have to provide the resources and set the expectations really high and then we’re going to hold people accountable.”
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