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Originally Posted by Mile High Mania
During Elway's short tenure, the franchise has seen the extreme highs and lows... they've made a lot of mistakes lately and will likely move on from them at season's end.
Vance will be gone, barring an amazing recovery. 7-14 is terrible and if they continue the slide into the abyss, he'll be gone before season end.
The OL has been an issue for years. They have a lot of good pieces, but they've lost their identity and there are no leaders standing up and taking accountability.
You guys should certainly relish in all the ugliness and dysfunction... we would and have in the past. I'm in for the long-haul, always have been and still believe that it won't be ugly for as long as many here hope and predict.
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Firing an inept head coach is one thing. Replacing him with a good one is quite another.
Yes, firing the bad one is always the first step, but if you've got stink on you as a GM, it can be very difficult to remove it in the head coach hiring process.
Pioli was so putrid and awful to his head coaching candidates that nobody good wanted to apply. He also narrowed the field to just "his" Parcells/Patriot guys, or people who thought like them.
Elway seems to at least cast his net pretty wide and isn't married to one system or coaching tree over another. The problem is establishing that culture every time you hire a new guy.
If he hires another first time head coach like he did with Joseph, he better damn well be sure about his choice. Those kinds of candidates seems really sexy on the surface because they're new, fresh, and unknown, but there are far more Vance Josephs lurking about than there are Sean McVays.