The Denver Broncos got completely dismantled by the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, giving up 70 points a week after blowing a big lead and losing to the Washington Commanders at home. Broncos head coach Sean Payton clearly wasn’t in the mood to deal with many questions from the media afterwards, lashing out at a local reporter who tried to get Payton to expound on the historical significance of the loss.

On Stokely & Josh on 104.3 The Fan on Monday, hosts Brandon Stokely and Josh Dover took issue with Payton’s handling of questions from local media.

“You can be upset, and I understand why you would be upset,” Dover said. “I want you to stand up there and be angry. You should’ve been angry after that game.”

Dover called Payton’s interaction with the reporter childish, which echoed ESPN’s Ryan Clark on Get Up that same morning. Josh felt like Payton owed more to himself, the team and the press corps to not be so harsh.

“You’re the adult in the room. You got to stand up there and take it,” Dover said. “You kept Russell Wilson in the game to take it for four full quarters, right? So why don’t you do the same thing you’re asking your 22 starters to do? You stand up there, you take it like a man, and you tell everybody what went wrong and you answer all the crappy questions that you don’t think you should have to answer.”

Stokely agreed that Payton needed to show some maturity in that situation. But he thought it was further evidence that Payton views the local media covering the team as a lower class compared to national writers and team reporters.

“He’s treated the local media differently,” Stokely said. “You don’t get passes when you come in and you try to change everything and you treat the local media one way but the national media another way. You’re their best friend. They can have full access, whatever they want, whatever they need they got. Local media now, we’ve been relegated and all of a sudden everything looks different than in the past. And the performance was awful.”

Stokely added that Payton has held local media in a different regard ever since he was hired to be the Broncos head coach. He felt like had it not been a local reporter asking that same question, Payton would have acted differently.

“You don’t need to fire back at the reporter like that,” he said. “It’s uncalled for, it’s unnecessary, but I can promise you this. If that was a national reporter, if that was Seth Wickersham or Jarrett Bell, he wouldn’t have answered it like that. I can promise you that. And that’s what pisses me off. And I’m still a Sean Payton fan, but he’s pissing me off a little bit with this stuff. He is.”

The sports and entertainment world was buzzing on Sunday as music superstar Taylor Swift was at the Kansas City Chiefs game supporting Travis Kelce.

Kelce and Swift are presumed to be dating or in the dating phase of their relationship. Taylor was with Kelce’s mother, friends and family in a private suite at Arrowhead Stadium and the two were seen leaving the stadium together that evening.

Rich Eisen talked about it on The Rich Eisen Show on Monday. He found it interesting that the Swift story completely overshadowed the league announcing that Usher would be the halftime performer at the Super Bowl in February.

Eisen said the last thing the league employees tasked with putting together the Super Bowl halftime show together probably wanted was arguably the most popular musician in the world showing up at a game the same day you announce the halftime performer.

“The only group of people who were actually upset about this yesterday have to be those in the NFL front office who are in charge of making the announcement of who’s performing at the Super Bowl halftime show,” Eisen said. “Because Usher was announced yesterday, and that wasn’t even on anybody’s radar screen about big time musical performing acts and the NFL. It was all about what was going on in Arrowhead.”

“It’s even filtered into Bill Belichick’s world!” he added.

The Patriots coach was asked in his weekly appearance on WEEI on Monday about Kelce and Swift as a couple. Belichick has admitted he’s a Swiftie, and he said of Kelce that if he managed to date Taylor it would be his biggest catch yet.

Conversations about Deshaun Watson are very rarely just about the Browns’ quarterback’s performance. Last week, Mina Kimes said on Pablo Torre Finds Out that it would be hard to talk about him if he were playing better because of the sexual misconduct allegations against him. On 92.3 The Fan on Monday morning, Ken Carman added a subject that Watson makes it easier to avoid when he plays well.

“I don’t like saying $230 million quarterback and I’m doing my damndest not to,” the morning show host said.

The Cleveland Browns traded five draft picks to the Houston Texans for Deshaun Watson, including three first-rounders. Then, the team signed its new quarterback to a fully-guaranteed contract worth over $230 million.

Carman says any coverage of Watson that mentions his contract tends to happen only when he and the team play poorly. It feels unfair, because the Browns’ problems are about more than just a quarterback.

“If this contract and the salary is such a storyline, why can’t we know what the coaches make?” he said. “Could you imagine the criticism of Kevin Stefanski last year if we knew he made X amount of millions of dollars? Like if we turn it on and they go, ‘Whoa! Kevin Stefanski is making $10 million a year. Wait a minute. You’re getting paid $10 million a year to go seven and ten? So you got paid $1,000,000 a loss?’ Like, that’s the type of thing that we would say.”

The hit that the Browns are taking to their salary cap is often cited as why Watson’s contract is worth scrutiny. Carman disagrees. Whether or not the contract limits the team’s ability to compete, it isn’t the biggest cost.

“You got the boots put to you anyway because you don’t have the draft picks,” he said. “It’s the three first-round picks that the investment is. That’s what’s real in my world. The money does not matter.”