Parker joined The Denver Post in September 2022 after covering the Broncos for USA Today. Before that, he spent five years covering Nebraska football and athletics for the Lincoln Journal Star. He's a New Glarus, Wisconsin native and a University of Wisconsin graduate.
Bo Nix of the Denver Broncos talks across the huddle to Lucas Krull during the first quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. First, there are 13 games left in the season, starting with Denver’s Monday night matchup against Cincinnati at Empower Field.
That’s a lot of time for teams’ fortunes to change, identities to develop, strengths to show through or weaknesses to get exposed. Also, though, there are already three games in the rearview mirror, and the Broncos have lost two of them despite never trailing a second in the fourth quarter.“I think it’s just a mix of understanding what went wrong,” the Denver captain told The Denver Post last week. “Sometimes, winning can suffocate or hide your problems. So all losing does is add pressure to get it right. “It’s Week 4, we’ve got a lot of football left, and we’ve got a lot of time to clean this stuff up, but it has to be this week.” Broncos LT Garett Bolles off to hot start in pursuit of NFL’s inaugural ‘Protector of the Year’ trophy McGlinchey, like head coach Sean Payton and defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, repeatedly talked about the Broncos’ need to commit fewer penalties this week. The Denver offense has had 10 second-half drives this season with a chance to extend a one-score lead to two, but has scored just six points, failed each time to create a two-score lead and been penalized on six of those possessions. “The biggest thing for teams to start winning is to learn how to stop losing,” McGlinchey said. “The penalties, I keep harping on that. Those details, we can’t be harming ourselves and not putting ourselves in positions to win football games. The past two weeks -- in Indy, we did that well on offense, but there was still that lull for a quarter or a quarter and a half. Last week, we came out and didn’t do much well at all outside of three or four drives.Broncos WR Marvin Mims Jr. questionable for Week 4 vs. Bengals with hip injury Grading The Week: Rockies CEO Dick Monfort fears change. Is son Walker Monfort brave enough to change Dad’s mind?Powered by loss, ‘borderline psychopath’ work ethic, Brandon Jones is understated key to Broncos defense “It’s about allowing yourself to be in the opportunities we’ve worked on, the looks we’ve seen, the positions coaches have put us in to succeed, and being able to repeat that over and over and over throughout the game without putting yourself in situations.” Even with a high level of retention from last year’s roster to this year’s, McGlinchey thinks that’s a process each team has to conquer each year. Close games in general have been a sore spot for Payton’s team recently. The Broncos were 1-6 in one-score games last year and have played all three games within a score so far this year for a 2-8 mark since Denver drafted quarterback Bo Nix. The Broncos were 5–4 in one-score games in 2023, Payton’s first season in Denver. “Every team has its own identity,” McGlinchey said. “Every team has its own nucleus of guys that need to bring everybody else along, and I think we have that here.”Keeler: Deion Sanders needs clock management coach. His CU Buffs are running out of time to salvage 2025Trump rollback of rule for public lands -- including 13,000 square miles in Colorado -- would reduce conservation roleCU Boulder police shut down student groups' screening of Palestinian filmWhat role did a 2024 Colorado law play in the release of Ephraim Debisa from Weld County's jail?
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