Kiszla: Count on Broncos training camp to be less about hugs and more about kicking keister

New Broncos coach Sean Payton does not suffer fools or overpaid field-goal kickers. There hasn’t been a coach with so much power at team headquarters since Mike Shanahan. via markkiszla

Cuddly didn’t cut it for the Broncos.

The madness of the way the Broncos were doing business on the football field had to stop. A long-proud NFL franchise had become a league-wide laughingstock, with a too-easy acceptance of losing slowly ingrained in the culture of the locker room. Payton is more likely to kick keisters than offer hugs. While the new coach is quick with a quip and happy to spin a yarn when lauding soon-to-be Hall of Famer DeMarcus Ware, his cantankerous approach to football management has more in common with Bill Belichick than Hackett, whose personality is probably better suited to be a quarterback’s buddy than the hard-edged leader of an entire team.

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