Broncos Fire Shanahan

I’m shocked and if anyone tells you they saw this coming – they are lying to you.

I expected Pat to say to Mike – “You can keep coaching, but you can’t GM” or another coordinator fired. But not show him the door.

On the other hand, you can see the chips lining up last year. The GM gets fired, another Defensive Coordinator gets fired. The last few weeks, Denver was not ready to play and squandered a 3 game lead in the division. After every game, Mike said it was his fault not getting his team ready to play.

Will the Broncos be a better team without Shanahan? Hard to say. Shanahan had an outstanding draft this year but the three years prior to this – not so great. In terms of game plans – he’s one of the best. Maybe he had a hard time relating to the new type of player, maybe he had a horrible sense of who would be a good defensive coordinator. It’s obvious he never figured out the defensive side of the ball.

But any other coach in Denver this year with the injuries and the horrific defense – the Broncos would be 1-15. So he can coach.

Here’s the irony of ironies…if I were the Kansas City Chiefs, I’d be calling the 303 area code right now.