Broncos’ Sean Payton admits ‘boneheaded mistake’ that led to Chiefs field goal in embarrassing loss

The 1-5 Broncos have made quite a few errors this season, and Sean Payton owned up to one in the primary part of Denver’s loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday evening. Payton had the Broncos punt with 22 seconds left to play in the primary part, however had referred to as a timeout prior to the punt.

The drawback? It will have to were the Chiefs calling timeout in order to forestall the clock. Payton stated he idea it used to be 3rd down, so he referred to as a timeout in order to get any other offensive play referred to as.

Instead, the Broncos helped out Kansas City.

“Yeah, listen. That’s a boneheaded mistake by me,” Payton instructed journalists after the sport, by the use of a crew transcript. “They were calling one as well. I’m off a down. That was stupid.”

The Chiefs had been ready to get the ball on the Broncos’ 42-yard line, which led to Harrison Butker hitting a 60-yard field goal prior to the part. The Broncos could not get the rest going offensively anyway, however they had been in a 13-0 hollow at halftime on account of Payton’s mistake. Denver in the long run misplaced, 19-8. 

Payton stated he saved the field goal conversions in his again pocket, particularly the aspect of the field the Chiefs had been kicking on in the second one quarter. He attempted to give an explanation for his idea procedure. 

“We know it’s a short week, but early reports — if you do enough studying — you know where the field goals are going to be tougher, you know where the kickoffs are going to be returned. All the stuff we had heard was dead on,” Payton stated. “The wind was blowing towards the tunnel, I don’t know what it got to tonight. Certainly, the kickers handled it well. 

“You knew it used to be going to be putting up there slightly longer with the punts and the kickoffs. It used to be roughly blowing in the path we idea, I do not understand how a lot. It’s a three-point swing there, however there are such a large amount of different issues that leap into my thoughts relative to alternatives ignored.”

The mistake by means of Payton did not excuse the crew of getting 197 yards of offense, nevertheless it additionally did not lend a hand their morale heading into halftime. Early returns on Payton in Denver have now not been excellent, with Thursday’s mistake as a microcosm of larger issues throughout the franchise.