Many People Feel The Broncos Record Isn’t Reflective Of Team

Nearly a quarter of the way through the 2025 NFL season, and the Denver Broncos - who were widely believed to be among the elite teams in the league this year - sit at 2-2 and tied with Kansas City for second place in the AFC West behind the Los Angeles Chargers.

The latter part of that - that KC would be 2-2 - is more surprising than the Broncos sitting at 2-2, in theory.

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But across the league and the media that covers it, opinions are split on whether or not Denver is better or worse than their 2-2 record would suggest.

The "better" camp points out their two losses were each literally on the last play of the game, both of which the Broncos essentially had won but gave away either with dumb mistakes, penalties or a combo of both.

The "worse" camp points out that Head Coach Sean Payton and quarterback Bo Nix have a 1-10 record against teams with winning records. Which sounds not too good, and in fact, isn't.

They beat the Titans this year, then lost on dumb mistakes to Indianapolis and the previously unbeaten Chargers (who have now lost to ... the Giants? Really?) before handily defeating the Joe Burrow-less Bengals on Monday Night Football this week.

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Denver travels to Philadelphia this weekend to take on the 4-0 Eagles, who many expect will dispatch the Broncos as mere gnats on an elephant's... well... trunk.

Here's my controversial hot take: Denver has exactly the record they should have. They start out slow. They did last year and they have this year. Mistakes and miscues have cost them two games they could have won, but shouldn't have. And they won the two games they should have.

2-2 sounds about right. What happens the remaining 3/4 of the season remains to be seen.