Retaining Vance Joseph
The decision to retain Vance Joseph was a shock to most of Broncos Country.
Throughout the 2017 season, Joseph was pretty consistently out-coached and there was even a point where we wrote about the Broncos being the worst-coached team in the NFL.
During the team’s regular season finale against the Chiefs, there were already fans speculating which coaches might be on Denver’s short list when Joseph was fired.
After the dust had settled and the Broncos’ front office had time to evaluate everything, the decision was made to retain Joseph.
Joseph inherited a very unique situation for a first-time head coach. Many of the key players on the roster had been part of the Super Bowl 50 win, and Joseph had to find a way to lead these players to a place they’d already been, while Joseph hadn’t.
It created a seemingly odd dynamic between the players and the coaching staff, at least from afar, and the Broncos were dysfunctional on gameday as a result.
Joseph has certainly taken a long look at what went wrong in 2017 to make corrections for 2018, and hopefully, he can take enough from 2017’s failures to be that much better in 2018.
Many feel like Joseph is on thin ice in 2018, so the team is going to need to see tangible results on the field if Joseph is going to earn the trust of the fan base.