Both individuals and organizations have personalities.
You know those people in your life that when you encounter them their take on the day or current events are going to be slanted towards the negative. They will complain about this and that and usually have themselves as the victim of circumstances.
We also all have those bright people in our lives that add a ray of sunshine to almost any event and are positive about what is to come.
National Football League teams have personalities. The Baltimore Ravens, under head coach John Harbaugh, were like bullies. They would blow away overmatched opponents by huge margins, then find themselves challenged by games against tough competition. The Denver Broncos were an interesting group this season. They played both down and up to their competition.
Consider this, the team that just missed playing in next week’s Super Bowl lost against the point spread to the Tennessee Titans, New York Jets, New York Giants, Washington Commanders and twice to the Las Vegas Raiders. Oh and six against those five bottom dwellers against the point spread, and yet, they won all six games straight-up.
Against the best competition they played, they excelled. Sean Payton’s team handed the defending Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles their first loss of the season in October, edged the Houston Texans on the road before C.J. Stroud and company when on a ten-game winning streak. The Broncos in 2025 beat the Kansas City Chiefs twice along with the Green Bay Packers and Los Angeles Chargers in late season games.