Barely 12 hours after they returned to Denver, Broncos players convened in the auditorium of their Dove Valley training facility early Monday for the usual address from their head coach. This one was bound to be uncomfortable. The sting of their 34-16 loss to the New York Jets was still fresh, along with the aired frustrations of some. So the discussion that followed centered on change.



“He came in and said, ‘If anybody wants to talk or say something that will help us coach you guys and to help you guys play better, let me know,’ ” safety Will Parks recalled Vance Joseph saying in the meeting. “And a couple guys said things that everybody needed to hear. Another guy said things that was from his perspective. But as a team, you can take things a certain way so I think we got a lot accomplished today.”



The tone was different from Joseph, Parks said. The message was too.



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