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Broncos host first playoff game in a decade, face banged-up Bills in divisional round Saturday….. 01/17/26 10:43 AM
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DENVER -- — After the Buffalo Bills ended the Broncos' season with a 31-7 thrashing in the playoffs last year, Sean Payton resolved to return the postseason party to Denver with its mile-high air and thunderous, stadium-rattling crowd.
“We talk about earning seeds and trying to get all edges. It was the same way I felt in that first year in 2006 in New Orleans when we lost in Chicago in the championship game: ‘How do we get this game at home?’" recounted Payton, whose New Orleans Saints did just that three years later on their way to winning the Super Bowl following the 2009 season.
Now in his third season in Denver, Payton is trying to become the first head coach to win Lombardi Trophies with two franchises.
The well-rested Broncos (14-3) earned home-field advantage by securing the AFC's top seed and lone first-round bye. They'll host the banged-up, sixth-seeded Bills (13-5), who are coming off their first road playoff triumph since the 1992 AFC championship game, Saturday at Empower Field at Mile High.
It's the first playoff game in Denver in a decade, since Jan. 24, 2016, when the Broncos beat New England in the 17th and final matchup between superstars Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/preview/_/gameId/401772982
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