Sean Payton says ‘the sky is not falling’ for Broncos

“This team has been resilient,” Broncos coach Sean Payton said. “The sky isn’t falling relative to our season and the schedule.”

The Denver Broncos suffered a heartbreaking loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday that dropped them to 5-5 on the season.

Despite the devastating loss and Denver’s .500 record, coach Sean Payton indicated this week that there’s no alarm at Broncos Park Powered by CommonSpirit.

“The sky is not falling,” Payton said during his Monday conference call with reporters. “There’s a lot ahead obviously. We have [seven] games left. I think this team has been resilient. The sky isn’t falling relative to our season and the schedule. We’re sitting here at 5-5. Obviously, we’d have loved to have been 6-4 with a win yesterday, but the focus [is] just quickly to the next game.”

The Broncos have to move on quickly as the 6-4 Atlanta Falcons are now set to come to town in Week 11. Payton believes the locker room has the right makeup of players to bounce back from Sunday’s loss.

“I like the leadership on this team — someone asked about that yesterday,” Payton said. “It’s an entirely different team than a year ago. It’s tough — it’s tough mentally and physically. We have to have a good week of practice here coming up for Atlanta. Overcoming a tough loss…listen, when you talk to the players about that, you tell them, ‘Hey, that’s going to happen periodically in your career.’ You hope that you have a few of those games that maybe you thought that you didn’t deserve to win that you did win. You have to bounce back either way.”

Denver remains in the playoff hunt with a lot of football left to play. The Broncos still control their own destiny, and there’s no reason to panic.

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