Time for the Broncos to get rid of Shanahan?
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The Broncos have been nothing but a disappointment since Elway retired, how much time should two super bowls buy a coach?
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He seems wrong about every QB and for all the talk of the vaunted running "system" he can't keep a decent RB on the field. OL is getting older too.
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Sad thought: Clarett was the last pick of the third round in 2005. Marion Barber and Brandon Jacobs were both taken in the fourth round...
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In the 60's and most of the 70's the Broncos were a laughing stock. Just terrible teams. Success started a little at a time in the mid 1970s, capped by the Bronco's beating the Raiders in the AFC Championship game and making to the 1978 Super Bowl (where they were trounced by the Cowboys).
In the early 1980's John Elway arrived and Denver began to experience consistent success that it had never known. Denver made it to 3 more Super Bowls, where again they lost (to the Giants, Skins and Niners). However, Denver was great to watch and had lots of success, again to the great satisfaction of long suffering Denver fans.
As Elway's years at the helm wound down, Denver finally put it all together under Mike Shanahan and won two Super Bowls in 1998 and 1999 against the Packers and the Falcons. As for me, I was finally happy with the Broncos since they won the big one.
Since Elway retired, Denver still has had lots of success under Shanahan. Great running backs and multiple playoff appearances. Absent Pittsburg's roll through the playoffs to a Super Bowl win two years ago, Denver would have been in Super Bowl #7. Prior to the loss to Pittsburg in the AFC Championship game two years ago, Denver had lost only one other AFC Championship game (to the Bills in the early 90's). Since 1977 Denver has been to 8 AFC Championship games and 6 Super Bowls.
Denver is stinking up the league this year and last year the Niners knocked them out of the playoffs on the last day of the regular season.
It is all relative however. Denver has been one of the more successful franchises in the NFL over the past 25 years as far as wins and losses go. Denver's recent troubles are nothing for this Donkey fan to worry about since I remember when Denver was so bad that years/decades would go by without any remote hope for a winning team.
Should Shanahan get the boot? I have no clue, but he has taken Denver on a great ride during his tenure. The best thing about his tenure (besides the Super Bowl wins) is the way Denver has stomped on the Raiders
Go Donkeys.