{"id":437809,"date":"2026-01-28T03:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437809\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:43:07","slug":"denver-broncos-fire-offensive-coordinator-joe-lombardi-and-2-other-assistants-after-afc-title-game-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437809\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Broncos fire offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi and 2 other assistants after AFC title game loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/denver-broncos\/314\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/denver-broncos\/314\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos<\/a> fired offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi on Tuesday in a shakeup of their coaching staff in the wake of their AFC championship game loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lombardi had been with coach Sean Payton since he took the Broncos job 2023. His tenure in Denver ended after backup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/jarrett-stidham\/353899\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/jarrett-stidham\/353899\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrett Stidham<\/a> filled in for an injured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/bo-nix\/1012522\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/bo-nix\/1012522\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Nix<\/a> on Sunday and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/new-england-patriots\/300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/new-england-patriots\/300\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> beat the Broncos 10-7 in a game where a snowstorm made it difficult for both offenses in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Denver also fired wide receivers coach Keary Colbert and cornerbacks coach Addison Lynch. Lombardi also was part of Payton\u2019s staff in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI want to thank these coaches for playing an important role in elevating our program over the last three seasons,\u201d Payton said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019ve been fortunate to work with Joe Lombardi for 15 years and am particularly grateful for his many contributions to our success as offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe sincerely appreciate Joe, Keary and Addison\u2019s hard work and wish them all the best in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nix led the Broncos (15-4) to a franchise record-tying 14 wins in the regular season and their first playoff victory since Super Bowl 50 a decade ago. He\u2019s won 25 games in two seasons and boasts an NFL-best 11 game-winning drives in the fourth quarter or overtime over that span. The Broncos\u2019 offense averaged 23.6 points per game during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Payton fell to 1-3 in conference championships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) \u2014 The Denver Broncos fired offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi on Tuesday in a shakeup of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-437809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}