Scattered throughout the Broncos’ training facility at Dove Valley are clusters of highlights from recent seasons, blown-up images of Von Miller‘s signature strip-sack in Super Bowl 50, of John Elway hoisting the team’s first and second Lombardi Trophies, of Peyton Manning standing atop a podium at Levi’s Stadium as confetti rained down in celebration.

Not far from the locker room is a collage of images from the Broncos’ Week 4 victory over the Raiders in Denver this season. For the players who pass by daily, the images have become more lowlights than highlights. That was the last time the Broncos experienced the thrill of winning. And for now, it hangs as a daily reminder to those who filter in and out of the team’s facility, searching for the feeling again.

“That’s something that we see every day,” running back C.J. Anderson said. “No disrespect to you guys or anybody else out there, but we lose, everybody is mad and then you move on with your life. We have to come in here and see this every day. Hopefully, we can put up a new collage of pictures with a winning score against the Dolphins.” Related Articles Tim Patrick ready to step up alongside Jerry Jeudy, KJ Hamler and other Broncos wideouts in wake of Courtland Sutton’s injury

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The Broncos are not oblivious to the jeers and the calls for their head coach to be fired. But over the last seven weeks, as the Broncos have plummeted from a 3-1 team to a 3-8 mess, pressure is building and its effect is noticeable on the sidelines and felt throughout the team’s headquarters.

Vance Joseph has experienced it many times before in his 12 years as an NFL assistant, including, most recently, as a defensive coordinator on Adam Gase’s staff in Miami in 2016. In Gase’s first season as a head coach, the Dolphins opened their 2016 season 1-4, but turned it around to finish 10-6 and clinch their first playoff berth in eight years.

“We had adversity and no one blinked,” Joseph said. “(Gase) kept pushing, the team kept pushing and the coaches (kept pushing), and we made it out of it. When you go through those things with a person, it makes you close because it was hard last year. We lost four, five in a row and ended up winning nine straight, so I get it.”

But never, until now, has Joseph experienced it as a head coach.

In his first season, Joseph has learned what Gase did in 2016, that the gig comes with more than most on the outside really understand — more pressure, more responsibilities.

“I think the thing you never anticipate is how much time, really, you lose to prepare for games compared to being a coordinator, because of multiple things that you have to deal with,” Gase said. “Really, the whole job becomes time management. You just have to be very efficient with what you’re doing. Your staff has to take a lot off your plate, whether it be game planning certain areas of the game plan in meetings. You always feel like you’re doing something. There’s never a time where you’re just sitting there, just relaxing. It’s just constant movement throughout the entire day.”

Joseph has often told of the lessons and mantras he’s picked up along his various coaching stops, with Gary Kubiak in Houston, Marvin Lewis in Cincinnati, and Gase in Miami. Throughout the Broncos’ slide, he’s told his players what Gase told his in 2016: Trust the process.

“I mean trust coaches that we’re coaching the right stuff and trust the practice habits because guys are working hard,” Joseph said. “But again, the results are Sunday only. We can practice well and we can coach them hard all week, but we have to execute on Sundays and not give the ball away. That’s when you’re judged, only on Sundays.”

The rest will come at season’s end, but all options will be on the table.

“Once we look back on the year and get 16 weeks or 17 weeks under the belt, we’ll look back and reflect and write down the positives and write down the negatives and see where we are,” Elway, the team’s general manager, said on local radio. “And that will all be the process of, once we get there, saying, ‘OK, how are we going to get this thing fixed and what are those things going to be and putting the plan together for next year. Until we get there, you can say we need to do this, we need to do that but there’s only so much we can do right now. That’s why we got to continue to play hard — the guys are playing hard, which is good — and try to figure out how to get a win out of it.”

Shaq Barrett, Broncos OLB

The skinny: With Shane Ray opening the season on injured reserve, Barrett was asked to step up. Through 11 games this season (seven starts), he’s answered the call with four sacks (second most on the Broncos), two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery and 27 tackles. Pro Football Focus ranks Barrett fifth in run-stop percentage, higher than Von Miller, who sits at No. 6

The background: Barrett signed with the Broncos as an undrafted free agent out of Colorado State in 2014, when John Fox was coach. When Gary Kubiak took over in 2015, Barrett earned his way onto the starting roster and morphed into a key piece of the Broncos’ defense. After this season, the Broncos will have to make a tough decision on Barrett’s future: He will be a restricted free agent and could garner a hefty contract from teams coveting an elite edge rusher.

Quotable: “I’ll tell you, Shaq’s played well the last two weeks,” coach Vance Joseph. “Shaq had a tough injury in the offseason. He came back a little slow, but now he’s playing at a high level and it’s huge for us. Having Von opposite of him and having Shane Ray with the bad hand, Shaq has to be a real guy for us and he has been on special teams and on our defense. I’ve been proud of how Shaq’s played the last couple of weeks.”

Numbers to Know

8: Times in Broncos history they will have rotated through three different starting quarterbacks in three consecutive games. It’s the first time this has happened in the Pat Bowlen era (since 1984).

100th: Career regular-season game for Von Miller on Sunday.

-16: Turnover differential for the Broncos, which ranks 31st in the NFL.

289.1: Total yards allowed per game by the Broncos’ defense, ranking third in the NFL.

2-12: The Broncos’ and Dolphins’ combined record over the last seven weeks