Broncos report card: Sean Payton, Bo Nix throw kitchen sink at Cowboys in blowout win

After clicking into rhythm in the fourth quarter a week ago Sean Payton s offense kept humming on Sunday against the Cowboys hanging a - win on a shoddy Cowboys defense as Denver improved to - Here s The Denver Post s record card from the day OFFENSE A The only leash that could stop the Broncos on Sunday was their own The Cowboys were down three members of an already-inept secondary in Denver and Payton responded with an onslaught of sucker punches that never let up The ideal version of this Broncos offense came to life on Sunday as fits and starts over seven weeks gave way to a largely clean end-to-end battle Yes Bo Nix had a head-scratching pick on Denver s first drive Yes Courtland Sutton dropped a touchdown in the third quarter But in sheer operation no messy personnel groupings no Payton timeouts to iron out a call Nix orchestrated affairs with cold precision finishing of for yards and four touchdowns in dicing up soft Cowboys coverages Payton refused to get cute with complicated red-zone concepts calling for three straight carries on one second-quarter goal-line sequence and the Broncos run championship responded with a collective yards An all-around beauty Broncos four downs Sean Payton ain t wearing your throwbacks but his Broncos are doing just fine This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e input if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i