You knew this was going to happen.



When the Broncos fell apart spectacularly against the Jaguars on Sunday and dropped to 0-4 on the season, the calls to fire John Elway and Vic Fangio and Joe Flacco and almost anyone with a connection to the franchise intensified.



Just blow it up. Get rid of everyone. Start over. Again.



The decline has been steep and swift for a team that, not too long ago, had a record-setting offense, transformed to boast one of the NFL’s best defenses ever and won Super Bowl 50. Few, including Elway, expected the drop to be this great and the climb back up to be this troublesome.



“It’s awful frustrating,” Elway said Tuesday on KOA radio. “… I think the most frustrating thing is that we’ve had chances to win games and we haven’t been able to do that. I think that where I’m still very positive about what we have going on is I really like our staff and I think we still have the...