ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- It has not been a breeze of change gently passing through the Denver Broncos' complex this time around.

No, three weeks into their offseason, the big-boy winds of change have cut a wide swath through what had been a reunion tour and reshaped everything less than year after the team won a Super Bowl.

When Gary Kubiak looked in the mirror and didn’t see the picture of health he hoped to see, he stepped away from coaching, said it was time to do something else. Kubiak had been a Broncos player for nine years, had been Mike Shanahan’s offensive coordinator for 11 years and had been hired by John Elway to be Broncos head coach, a job he held for two seasons.

In all, Kubiak had been a part of the Broncos for 22 years.

John Elway's long-term vision for the Broncos was torn asunder when, for health reasons, Gary Kubiak abruptly left coaching. Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire

Last season's offensive coordinator, Rick Dennison, will now call plays for the Buffalo Bills next season. He had been a Broncos player for nine years and a Broncos assistant coach for 17 years.

In Wade Phillips’ extended coaching career, he had eight years with the Broncos on his resume. Special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis also spent eight years of his coaching career with the Broncos.

Brian Pariani had been a tight ends coach on Shanahan’s staff for 13 years and came back for two more with Kubiak, giving him 15 years with Denver in all. Clancy Barone had been a Broncos assistant on Josh McDaniels’, John Fox’s and Kubiak’s staffs -- a total of eight seasons.

They’re all gone, caught up in an organizational reset that was set in motion the moment Kubiak sat down with Elway on Christmas Eve at the team’s hotel in Kansas City to inform the general manager he was walking away from coaching. In all, 78 years of Broncos experience as players or coaches have left the building. It’s not a Plan B. That’s now how Elway does things.

But it is another plan, one that unfolded when Elway’s decision to have Kubiak -- a former teammate, road roommate and long-time friend -- return to the team in 2015 to start what the two believed would be an extended run to glory, reeling in a trophy or two along the way.

Kubiak did reel in a trophy with the Broncos’ win in Super Bowl 50 last February, but Elway and Kubiak had hoped it would be just the start. However, Kubiak decided he could no longer do the job the way he had done it in the past, while maintaining his health.

And with the hiring of Vance Joseph to replace Kubiak and with Joseph’s decisions about his coaching staff, the band is decidedly no longer back together.

For many of the team’s faithful, the Bronco is still in the middle of it all: Elway. But this is a new look for the Broncos, even with some holdovers from Kubiak's staff.

When Pat Bowlen, reeling from a 4-12 finish in 2010, persuaded Elway to return to resurrect what Bowlen viewed as the Broncos’ culture, the Broncos’ way of doing things, it was Bowlen’s 98-yard drive with no timeouts, in many ways. And the Broncos have flourished since, with six winnings seasons, five division titles, two Super Bowl appearances and last February’s Super Bowl win.

So Elway isn’t saving the franchise this time, but he is redirecting it, after his plan to have Kubiak oversee a long run didn’t come to be. And while some on the new staff may not know how the Broncos decision-makers carry out Bowlen’s football edicts, Elway left no doubt even as his good friend, Kubiak, stepped away from coaching.

“That’s how we adjust," Elway said. “Things are going to happen, good and bad. It’s all about adjusting. This game is about adjusting. We can continue to work hard, and so that’s what we’ll continue to do. Like I said, the goal and the plan have not changed. That’s how people win championships. We were there a year ago. There is no reason that we can’t get back there soon again."

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