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Originally Posted by staylor26
Posts an bio from the Broncos official site to back up his opinion, instead of actually having a rebuttal to a very logical response.
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Doubt John Elway, and Broncos GM will keep proving you wrong
Jeff Diamond is the former president of the Titans and the former vice president/general manager of the Vikings. He was selected NFL Executive of the Year in 1998. Diamond is currently a business and sports consultant who also does broadcast and online media work. He is the former chairman and CEO of The Ingram Group. Follow Jeff on Twitter: @jeffdiamondNFL.
...For Elway, it was a winding road from Denver's two-time Super Bowl winning quarterback and nine-time Pro Bowler to the orchestrator of the team that won it all last season. Amid a successful post-football business career, he cut his teeth in team management when he owned the Colorado Crush of the Arena Football League from 2002-08. He joined the Broncos' front office in 2011 and took full control of the GM duties in 2012. In the following four years under his leadership, the Broncos won four division titles, two AFC titles and Super Bowl 50.
I have to admit that I, like many longtime NFL execs, had doubts that Elway the GM could achieve anywhere near the level of success he had as a player. He had not come up through the NFL front office ranks. I thought he would get bogged down with the nuances of managing the salary cap and following the minutiae of the collective bargaining agreement. I wasn't sure he'd be able to make sound moves overseeing coaching and scouting...
The Broncos under Elway have been among the more successful NFL teams in navigating the often-murky waters of free agency. The Manning signing in 2012 was Elway's best move, but he also signed key contributors in DeMarcus Ware, Aqib Talib and Emmanuel Sanders. He has shown his drafting prowess with picks such as Miller and a pair of fine defensive ends in Malik Jackson (recently signed by the Jaguars) and Derek Wolfe.
Elway made the bold move to part ways with coach John Fox after three consecutive division titles, and he opened himself up to criticism by hiring former teammate Gary Kubiak to lead the Broncos. That decision became a resounding success, too....
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