When the 2017 season ended and Broncos general manager John Elway addressed all the problems that needed fixing, he said the plan hadn’t changed and that after an offseason change to the roster and staff, he hoped to have them on a track to Super Bowl contention. Eventually.
But the path to get there wasn’t yet clear. Few things were at that point in early January.
“Let me say this: We can sit here and go back and talk about what happened, (but) I think I would rather turn the page and go forward, obviously,” he said at the time.