Sean Payton after Broncos Beat Vikings: 'We Were Fortunate to Win'

The Denver Broncos came from behind to defeat the Minnesota Vikings 21-20 on Sunday Night Football.

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00:00 Look, obviously a crazy game in a lot of ways.

00:06 Man, it was good for us to come out of there with a win.

00:10 This is one of those games, if you just looked at the stat line,

00:14 you would see Minnesota did a number of things better than us.

00:18 And we really struggled offensively, I thought, on third down.

00:23 When you have those numbers on third down,

00:24 you're not gonna have the rushing attempts or the rushing yards.

00:27 So, All of a sudden it's halftime,

00:32 because you're not having the snaps.

00:35 So our third down numbers were poor, but the one thing we did,

00:38 we took the ball away three times and we didn't turn it over.

00:42 So that kind of becomes a little bit of the trump card in a game like this.

00:45 Give credit to those guys though, they had a good plan coming in and

00:49 we were fortunate to win.

00:52 I'm proud of our fight.

00:54 There's still obviously a lot we have to clean up.

00:57 But the turnovers and the takeaways can kind of do that for

01:02 you when you're not playing just how you want to.

01:05 Defensively, I thought we, early on they were running the ball with some success,

01:09 but the way we played towards the end was significant.

01:14 It was a gutsy call by them on the fake punt, in their own end.

01:19 And again, it's a good win.

01:23 Questions?