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Every fan base has an ideal — the image of what its team should look like. It has been a long time since Broncos fans saw this vision in anything but a fever dream. It almost always involves a star quarterback when they close their eyes, whether it is John Elway mocking the clock with a two-minute drive or Peyton Manning dissecting defenses like a frog in high school biology class. Fans have warmed to Bo Nix, seeing him as the future of the franchise.

The Broncos have been called many things since the last time Monday Night Football televised a game on the Front Range in front of a full house back in 2018. They’ve been bad. They’ve been boring. They’ve been bad and boring. Take Our Poll (function(d,c,j){if(!d.getElementById(j)){var pd=d.createElement(c),s;pd.id=j;pd.src='https://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/plugins/polldaddy/js/polldaddy-shortcode.js';s=d.getElementsByTagName(c)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(pd,s);} else if(typeof jQuery !=='undefined')jQuery(d.body).trigger('pd-script-load');}(document,'script','pd-polldaddy-loader')); If the nation didn’t know anything about Sean Payton’s team before tuning in to see rookie quarterback Bo Nix and Denver against Jameis Winston and Cleveland, perhaps it expected more of the same. Instead, they and the capacity crowd at Empower Field were treated to a Loony Toons, fully out-of-pocket rager. The bottom line is what matters: The Broncos polished off a 41-32 victory, moved to 8-5 and in the process solidified their position as real playoff contenders as they go into their Week 14 bye. The back-and-forth haymakers and the Jerry Jeudy Revenge Game are what made it memorable. Broncos outside linebacker Nik Bonitto?

Instant analysis after the Broncos’ 41-32 victory over the Browns: 1. Come back soon, Riley Moss: Seriously, man. Like, as soon as possible. Nobody ever said the Browns didn’t have viable weapons. Or that they didn’t have a lot of them. But to see a Broncos secondary get gashed this much by Jameis Winston and Jerry Jeudy?

A look at how the Broncos’ rookies played in their 41-32 win over the Cleveland Browns on Monday Night Football. Highlight: In the third quarter, quarterback Bo Nix delivered his best throw of the season. The Broncos were pinned at their own 7-yard line when Nix rifled a pass to midfield where wide receiver Marvin Mims Jr.

NIX. MIMS. 93 YARDS TO THE CRIB.

By RANDALL CHASE DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has reaffirmed her ruling that Tesla must revoke Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick on Monday denied a request by attorneys for Musk and Tesla’s corporate directors to vacate her ruling earlier this year requiring the company to rescind the unprecedented pay package. McCormick also rejected an equally unprecedented and massive fee request by plaintiff attorneys, who argued that they were entitled to legal fees in the form of Tesla stock valued at more than $5 billion.