ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — As the Broncos cleared out their lockers on Monday and reflected on the 2024 season, it came with the acknowledgement that there is a new set of expectations for a team that defied everyone else’s this season.
And that’s what the Broncos plan to carry with them into the offseason.
“It stinks we didn’t accomplish everything we wanted to accomplish,” tackle Mike McGlinchey said Monday. “We wanted to make a run there. It’s a tough day in the NFL. … But fortunately, I think we’re headed in the right direction, and there’s going to be a lot of guys here that are going to be part of it.”
The 2024 season was filled with many significant milestones for the Broncos, as the team reached 10 wins for the first time since 2015 and ended an eight-season playoff drought by clinching the No. 7 seed in the AFC. Still, though, the Broncos had their sights set on bigger goals and put themselves in a position to go chase those.
And although the team fell short, Denver now looks ahead to a promising future, and guard Quinn Meinerz believes the team has laid the proper foundation to reach new levels of success.
“I think we created a new floor of new standards for this building, for the position groups and for this team moving forward,” guard Quinn Meinerz said Monday. “We’re looking to build off of what we did this year, and that is by setting the standard again of what we got to this year. Getting into OTAs [and] training camp, that’s what we need to build off of and we need to start from there.”
Head Coach Sean Payton also spoke about the importance of aiming higher on Sunday, noting the significance of having the opportunity to host playoff games in the future. For several players, including captain Alex Singleton, this is the next milestone for the Broncos — and one he believes the team is more than capable of reaching.
“It has to be that,” Singleton said of aiming to claim the…
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