ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos were missing something last year.
The buzz around town felt muted, the roar of the stadium not as ear piercing, the edge of the team lost.
“I had a bad feeling,” linebacker Brandon Marshall said Thursday. “I had a bad taste in my mouth all of last year.”
He wasn’t the only one. It seemed all around Denver there was a bad taste. It’s not as if the team was awful, finding themselves in the hunt for the playoffs for just about all of the season, even jumping out to a 4-0 start, but something was just off.