ORLANDO, Fla. — The last time Vance Joseph sat at a table with reporters and faced a wall of cameras and lights at the NFL’s owners meetings, he was a first-year head coach just two months into the job.
He laid out his grand plan for the Broncos, a team that had just finished 9-7 with a promising but beat-up quarterback in Trevor Siemian. He detailed his hopes as a new head coach in Colorado, where his college career began and his brief NFL tenure ended. The excitement was palpable, contagious even, as the Broncos envisioned a swift return to the playoffs after a failed bid to successfully defend their Super Bowl crown.