LANDOVER, Md. — Sean Payton implored a look back at history.

Take any Super Bowl team, he said in the wee hours of Monday morning, and look through their schedule.

“The journey of a good team’s season involves games like this,” Payton said.

Games like this. Games like the Broncos’ wild, 27-26, skin-of-their-teeth overtime win against Washington .

His Super Bowl champion New Orleans team in 2009 had their share. The 2015 Broncos did, too.

There aren’t many cakewalks in the NFL. This certainly wasn’t one for Denver.

But Payton’s team has won nine straight, is 10-2 and polished off a perfect November literally as the calendar turned to December.

At 11:59 p.m. EST on Nov. 30, the Broncos were 2 yards from losing for the first time since Sept. 21.

By 12:01 a.m. Dec. 1, they’d run thei

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