One of Sean Payton’s biggest scares occurred on an otherwise excellent Sunday night for the Denver Broncoswhich defeated the Green Bay Packers 27-2 in its first home game of the preseason.

“We have received enough penalties for three games and we need to fix a lot of them,” complained the experienced head coach.

That’s an estimate; the exact number of penalties the Broncos committed was 13. Not included were 120 yards and two notable non-plays, including a Bo Nix touchdown that was called back for an illegal forward pass.

The week before, Denver was penalized six times, negating 60 yards in a 34-30 win over the Indianapolis Colts.

“We have a 38-yard run that was called back for a penalty. I want to look at the tape,” Payton said in his postgame press conference. “Like I said at the beginning, (we had) way too many fouls. It sets you back. They take away yards, but more importantly, they take away field position.”

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After criticising Broncos predecessor Nathaniel Hackett for “one of the worst coaching jobs in history” partly due to rule violations, Payton’s team committed 99 penalties last season (15th-most in the NFL), 40 of which were pre-snap.

The situation remains ongoing.

“There’s going to be a number of things that we look at on tape and are happy with, and there’s going to be some things that we obviously need to clean up,” Payton said Sunday.

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