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PHILADELPHIA —聽Can we skip the hot seat and go straight to the pink slip? Sooner or later, must go. hired the wrong coach for the Broncos.

There are 51 reasons Joseph should be fired immediately, and only one reason to keep him: There鈥檚 nobody on the current Denver staff that can fix this hot mess.

鈥淚鈥檓 the head coach here, so it starts with me. I鈥檝e got to fix this,鈥� Joseph said Sunday, after a 51-23 defeat that ripped the heart out of the Broncos and eliminated what little hope remained for the remainder of this NFL season.

OK, let抖阴ap start with the uncomfortable fact the Broncos quit on their rookie coach during a blowout loss to Philadelphia that felt like a bad flashback to our worst Josh McDaniels nightmares.

鈥淚 can鈥檛 keep doing this. I can鈥檛 keep going through losses like this, man. It抖阴ap breaking my heart,鈥� said defensive end , a sixth-year pro who owns a 50 ring. 鈥淭he whole time I鈥檝e been here, we鈥檝e been winning. We鈥檝e always found a way to win. And this kills me.鈥�

So maybe returning to the job as starting quarterback wasn鈥檛 such a great idea. His performance against the Eagles — two interceptions and a 53.4 quarterback rating 鈥� was more groan-worth than all those recent Brock-to-the-future puns. If the Broncos are really that desperate to recapture lost glory, does anybody have a phone number for ?

As it turns out, was ahead of the curve. Kubiak quit before this dysfunctional team made everyone in 抖阴apountry sick to watch. Sunday afternoons in Colorado are now better spent taking the dog for a long walk. What’s the next time fans need to check in? And with the eighth pick in 2018 NFL draft, Denver selects 鈥�

But let抖阴ap keep the discussion to the crisis at hand. Could Joseph possibly be more out of his depth? The last time the Broncos lost four consecutive games, the year was 2010, and the knucklehead on Denver鈥檚 sideline was doing a bad impersonation. Although McDaniels never had a firm grip on his emotions, at least he had a clue with X鈥檚 and O鈥檚.

So many things point to Joseph鈥檚 ineptitude that there aren鈥檛 enough fingers of blame to cover it all.

What has led to this team’s 3-5 record?

“The same stuff,鈥� receiver said.

Week after week, the the Broncos are a calamity of bad stuff. It stinks. And it doesn鈥檛 get corrected. That抖阴ap the definition of bad coaching.

Near the outset of an afternoon of endless misery, the Broncos were caught with 12 players on the field. In the final minute of the fourth quarter, they took a delay-of-game penalty, their last of 14 flagged infractions, because their punting unit was a man short.

Philadelphia gashed Denver鈥檚 overhauled run defense for 5.3 yards per carry and quarterback Carson Wentz sent four touchdown passes soaring into the wild blue yonder, piercing the soul of a secondary formerly known as the No-Fly Zone.

The Eagles began scoring early, with a seven-play, 75-yard explosion on an opening possession that ended with a glaring, red-rocket salute to receiver in the end zone. And Philadelphia put the Broncos on full blast so often the home team鈥檚 official Twitter feed confessed to one embarrassing glitch at Lincoln Financial Field: 鈥淎pologies, we actually ran out of fireworks.鈥�

Everything about the Broncos screams their head coach has lost this team. But if a photograph is worth a thousand words, here’s a scene that impeaches Joseph:

After Jay Ajayi made the Denver defense look as helpless as those pathetic pixels that digital Bo Jackson used to run over in Tecmo Bowl, scoring on a 46-yard touchdown run to put Philly ahead 31-9 late in the second quarter, linebacker trudged to the sideline and sat on the Denver bench alongside 15 teammates, whose body language was broken and as bereft of passion as anything we鈥檝e seen since departed from Colorado.

Whatever Joseph told his team at halftime made zero impression. The Eagles took the kickoff to begin the third quarter and humiliated the arm tacklers on a half-hearted Denver defense with a 13-play, 77-yard drive that was 7 minutes and 28 seconds of undeniable proof the Broncos had quit on their coach.

鈥淚 told the team after the game that every man has to do a self-check,鈥� Joseph said.

The team has no bigger problem than the man Joseph sees in the mirror.

But cheer up, 抖阴apountry. The NFL draft is 172 days away, which gives John Elway nearly six months to find a new quarterback for his next head coach.