Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton met with the media last week at the NFL Combine to discuss the state of where the team is at prior to NFL Free Agency and the NFL Draft. Even though Denver finished 10-7 and had a playoff appearance, Payton doesn’t believe that momentum carries over into the next season and that he and the team are hungry for more.
Denver Broncos ‘hungry for more’ in 2025
Sean Payton is a believer in many things, but he’s not a believer in last year’s momentum meaning anything for the next season. When the season ends, Payton says he flips the game board and all the pieces over and the process of starting again begins.
After a playoff appearance and a successful second season as the team’s head coach, Payton and the Denver Broncos made progress, but that’s not enough to remain happy with the status quo.
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“The one thing we have to avoid is this idea that we are going to pick up where we left off,” Payton said. “I don’t like that because our league has shown that the season ends, and you take the proverbial game board, you take all the pieces and dump them and you start again. Certainly you are more confident, the experience has helped a number of players, but the journey begins. We don’t shy away from it. Our expectations are high, and I am encouraged with some of the things that we did this past season and yet we are still hungry for more.”
Bo Nix took the reigns as a rookie and shined, while a handful of younger players got valuable playing time and experience in 2024 as the team embraced a youth movement. Payton called his team ‘young and hungry’ and maintained the belief that there is nothing more dangerous than a team like that.
Now, as the team heads into the offseason with flexibility in salary cap space and an array of draft picks in their back pocket, they have to capitalize on becoming more than just a young and hungry, dangerous team, they have to transform into a team people despise playing on their calendar.
The Broncos aren’t expected to have significant roster turnover in terms of there being an exodus of players leaving. Several players won’t likely be back in 2025, and Denver will add several new faces, but the core of this team is intact already, and that’s where Payton and the Broncos can continue to build.
