{"id":706653,"date":"2026-01-26T15:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/706653\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:51:19","slug":"what-went-wrong-for-broncos-sunday-what-the-future-holds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/706653\/","title":{"rendered":"What went wrong for Broncos Sunday, what the future holds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 The Denver Broncos were beaten 10-7 by the New England Patriots in Sunday&#8217;s AFC Championship game. In this week&#8217;s Talk of the Town, the Denver7 Sports team had a conversation about what went wrong and what the future folds for the Broncos moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are 21 free agents coming up for the Broncos, but they have most of their high-impact players, high-skilled players, and important players locked up (under contract)&#8221;, Denver7 Sports Director Lionel Bienvenu said. &#8220;And the Russell Wilson contract is gone. So, bye Russ, you&#8217;re done. No more paying you not to play. &#8220;I think it really is only the beginning of a good run here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769442676_523_.jpeg\" alt=\"Lionel Bienvenu Talk of the Town 1-25-26.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Denver7 Sports<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We feel so disappointed right now, but I keep coming back to the idea that this team is ahead of schedule,&#8221; Denver7 Sports Reporter Rothschild said. &#8220;The goal was winning the AFC West, take another step in the playoffs, then prove you can win a playoff game. Which is all stuff that they accomplished, and then next year, you have the opportunity to even build a better team with more money,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769442677_702_.jpeg\" alt=\"Talk of the town nick rothschild 1-25-26.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Denver7 sports<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the best is yet to come for this team,&#8221; Denver7 Sports Reporter Bradey King said. &#8220;I think they got this far and this group&#8217;s young, and they&#8217;re only going to learn from this experience. So, I think a lot of positives to take from this experience.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769442677_51_.jpeg\" alt=\"Bradey King 1-25-26 talk of the town.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Denver7 Sports<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769442679_766_.png\" alt=\"lionel bienvenu.png\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"164\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Denver7<\/p>\n<p>Denver7 | Your Voice: Get in touch with Lionel Bienvenu<\/p>\n<p>Have a sports story idea you want shared from your community? Want to share a perspective with Denver7? Fill out the form below to get in touch with Denver7 sports anchor Lionel Bienvenu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 The Denver Broncos were beaten 10-7 by the New England Patriots in Sunday&#8217;s AFC Championship game.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[8868,8869,232,8870,8871,8872,8873,25600,231,258,2426,7,6,8865,8866],"class_list":["post-706653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-broncos","tag-bronco","tag-bronco-preseason","tag-broncos","tag-broncos-2022","tag-broncos-2023","tag-broncos-2024","tag-broncos-depth-chart","tag-broncos-football-latest","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-denverbroncos","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-scores","tag-russell-wilson-denver-broncos"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115962202799710277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}