Josh McDaniel's drafts were so bad Al Davis was embarrassed.
Hates Shanatan and loves Tim Tebow, luckyseven is Jrwiz.
"Tuning ... into each other ... lift all higher”
“I’m just different!”
“ . . . Picture a cup in the middle of the sea”
Draft
1st round— Cooper Dejean CB
2nd round— Jack Sawyer OLB
3rd round— Will Shipley RB
4th round— Ricky Pearsall WR
5th round— Ladd McKonkey WR
6th round— Cash Jones RB
7th round— Carson Steele RB
Well, Rex Ryan was an option too, was my second choice behind Spagnuolo because I felt that the obvious choice was a defensive minded HC. I honestly couldn't think of a better HC for Cutler and that offense than Ryan because there wasn't any reason to scrap the offensive coaching staff and Ryan had the clout to handle Cutler and Marshall.
Schwartz was given a chance that year too.
"Tuning ... into each other ... lift all higher”
“I’m just different!”
“ . . . Picture a cup in the middle of the sea”
Draft
1st round— Cooper Dejean CB
2nd round— Jack Sawyer OLB
3rd round— Will Shipley RB
4th round— Ricky Pearsall WR
5th round— Ladd McKonkey WR
6th round— Cash Jones RB
7th round— Carson Steele RB
Denver never had a chance against that Chargers team. The two losses prior setting up the showdown ended that season.
Really the utterly gutless "win and get in" loss to a 49ers team with nothing to play for a year earlier was just as bad to me or worse.
Bowlen probably couldn't fire Shanahan after that even if he was considering it that season with the shooting thereafter. But that team had just zero heart and that was an inexcusable effort. I really hated that loss.
Last edited by tomjonesrocks; 04-13-2014 at 10:32 AM.
Someone on the South Stands Denver Fancast did an article about the Darrent Williams situation. He thinks that Shanahan would have been fired if no Bronco players died on the night of Dec. 31, 2006.
I don't know if that's true, but if it was, I wonder who would have been our coach.
Ken Whisehunt?
Mike Tomlin?
Mike Singletary?
It's hard to say.
I do know this: It was too late/early to fire Shanny by the end of 08. It was too late because he didn't fire him a year or two earlier, and that offense was starting to morph into a juggernaut, and it was too early because Mike started to draft higher character players in his last year there. He should have gotten one more year down this new path, playoffs or not.
I doubt that's true. There was one game left in the season and Denver stiill had a chance to make the playoffs. That would go against Bowlen's history. The other two head coaches that he fired got to finish out the season before they were fired. McDaniels is only the head coach fired under Bowlen's ownship before the season had ended.
Last edited by TXBRONC; 04-17-2014 at 05:34 PM.
Shanatan shoulda been fired in 04-05 or not at all, he really started to improve his personnel decisions towards the end. Legitimate OL, a franchise QB, actual WR's, all he needed to do was improve the defense.
To be honest, he should have been long before 05, or at least had personnel decisions taken away.
"Tuning ... into each other ... lift all higher”
“I’m just different!”
“ . . . Picture a cup in the middle of the sea”
Draft
1st round— Cooper Dejean CB
2nd round— Jack Sawyer OLB
3rd round— Will Shipley RB
4th round— Ricky Pearsall WR
5th round— Ladd McKonkey WR
6th round— Cash Jones RB
7th round— Carson Steele RB
I remember the guy who runs the Sports E-cyclopedia, and in his 05 picks, he said that the Broncos would do bad, and that Shanny would be canned at season's end.
They played terrible in Week 1 against Miami, and were down 14-3 at the half in Week 2 against San Diego.
Then, Champ makes a big INT return for a TD, and everything changes.
If they didn't win that game, though, and if they would had the season that they had in 06 in 05, Shanny may have gotten tossed.
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