Broncos HC Sean Payton says no firings will occur following 50-point loss to Dolphins

In any sport, at any level, it's tough to wake up the day after losing by 50 points.

Plenty of questions linger. Everything seems a little less hopeful. But there's a strange bit of beauty in hitting rock bottom, which arrives with the realization things can't get much worse.

"Look, it was a tough day, and today's not gonna be fun, and it probably won't be fun anytime soon until we start winning some games," Broncos coach Sean Payton said on Monday, less than 24 hours after the Miami Dolphins dropped a 70-point performance on his team.

"We've got to have a better work week than last week. We've got to have a good plan in place for the team we're playing. We've got to be able to take the coaching, and then ourselves as coaches, say hey, where did we fail, where did we not do a good enough job? That has to happen quickly."

It must happen quickly, because Payton's Broncos are 0-3 and seem to be getting worse by the week, devolving from a team that lost by one and two points in Weeks 1 and 2 to, well, a whole lot more than that. Such a defeat is shocking, so much that it would be understandable if it cost some individuals their jobs. Payton said Monday no jobs are in jeopardy, and even if they were, he certainly wouldn't discuss it on a Monday morning conference call with reporters.

Fair enough. Just because the Broncos were buried beneath enough points to insulate a Cold War bunker, it doesn't mean Payton should clean house after three weeks, which already isn't an optimal time to do so.

The results, however, are going to have to change soon before it gets awkward with these Broncos. After spending an offseason claiming Payton was coming in to right Denver's ship and get its crew in line, the Broncos have provided zero evidence