{"id":895244,"date":"2026-10-26T13:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895244\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:02:18","slug":"sean-payton-reverse-that-led-to-jaylen-waddle-injury-was-an-awful-play-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895244\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Payton: Reverse that led to Jaylen Waddle injury was an &#8220;awful&#8221; play call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broncos wide receiver Jaylen Waddle left Sunday\u2019s game against the Cardinals after suffering a chest injury on a fourth quarter play that head coach Sean Payton would like to have back. <\/p>\n<p>Payton tried to get the ball to Waddle on a reverse that saw quarterback Bo Nix flip the ball to the wideout in the backfield. Waddle couldn\u2019t handle the flip and stayed down after jumping on the ball to avoid a turnover. Waddle did not return to the 30-16 win and Payton chastised himself for the call without being asked about it in his postgame press conference. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was awful,\u201d Payton said. <\/p>\n<p>Payton didn\u2019t offer a detailed update on Waddle\u2019s condition and it will be something to monitor as they move toward their Week 8 date with the Chiefs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos wide receiver Jaylen Waddle left Sunday\u2019s game against the Cardinals after suffering a chest injury on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-895244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}