Josh McDaniels Relieved of Coaching Duties: What It Means For The Denver Broncos

December 7, 2010   ·   Rich Kurtzman   ·   Jump to comments

Just in at 4:20 p.m. MT on this Monday afternoon, Josh McDaniels has been "relieved of head coaching duties," a nice way to say, "We fired our head coach because he couldn't win."
After starting his head coaching tenure 6-0 in 2009, McDaniels' Broncos lost 17 of the last 22 games, and in the process have lost respect and credibility--especially in the wake of "Spygate 2."
And whether or not McDaniels looked at the taped walkthrough of the 49ers practice in London, it was only the last in a long line of incidents that were isolated events, but the magnitude of all of them combined snowballed quicker than an avalanche rumbling down the Rocky Mountains.
To begin his coaching tenure, people were divided immediately.
Partly because so many were in shock that Mike Shanahan was fired and longed for him to still be the coach.
And while he was undoubtedly compared to his successor, arguably the most successful head coach in Broncos history in Shanahan, the real dividing...

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