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Denver Broncos head coach John Fox, front, listens as John Elway, the team’s executive vice president of football operations, responds to questions about the team’s loss to the Baltimore Raens in an AFC playoff game during a news conference at the team’s headquarters in Englewood, Colo., on Monday.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) – John Elway has been down this lonely road before.
The quarterback-turned-front office executive has now been a part of two playoff runs that ended not in the confetti-filled celebration expected of the AFC’s No. 1 seed but with a painful introspection about what all went wrong in a stunningly early exit from the postseason party.
Elway experienced it as a player in 1996, when the Denver Broncos were upset at home by the Jacksonville Jaguars, 30-27, then bounced back to win the next two Super Bowls.
“I know it didn’t take long,” to get over that loss, Elway said Monday,...
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