George Paton and Sean Payton were foisted upon each other, but two years later, it appears to be a match ordained by the football gods.

After wandering the quarterback desert for nearly a decade, the Denver Broncos have finally found their guy in Bo Nix.

The Denver Broncos are heading into the offseason having ended two protracted streaks: an eight-year playoff drought and a nine-year search for a foundational quarterback.

Few will give these Broncos, led by rookie quarterback Bo Nix, a chance at upsetting a Bills squad making its sixth consecutive playoff appearance. Don't tell Sean Payton his upstart club has not shot.

Since 2016, the Broncos have had seven different Week 1 starters in nine seasons. Nix pulled the emergency brake on the carousel.

Through growing pains, bumps and bruises, Nix turned in quite an inaugural season, leading the Broncos to their first postseason appearance in nine seasons.

In his second year as Denver Broncos head coach, Sean Payton delivered the club's first winning season since 2016 and its first playoff berth since 2015. The Broncos went 10-7 in a season where the NFL at large and the oddsmakers predicted they'd be cellar-dwellers yet again.

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