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Originally Posted by New World Order
Elway will be Buff's number 5 next week.
He could be number 1 by year's end!!!!
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I'll tell you the truth, I'm not even that big an Elway fan. I love him, but my eyes are wide open to his weaknesses. He could be frustratingly inaccurate for long stretches of games, usually first halfs.
Most amazing football things he ever did were his first 6 years as GM..... from literally out of the Josh McDaniels ashes, first he built the best offense of all time, then spun on a dime, rebuilt on the fly and created one of the three or four best defenses the past quarter century (manning didn't help). Freaking astonishing.
The next 4-5 years though ...
whiff whiff whiff whiff whiff, on QBs and head coaches. I think those whiffs really took the life out of him. It's theorized that high achievers in fields suffer greatly when they run into their first real failures. If that's true, he's the poster child.
I mentioned I worked in Broncos Media relations in 84 and 85 ... I'll tell you guys a story you might like - he was crazy irritated by Marino's numbers. I mean over-freaking-wraught. That was the core of his feuding and fighting with Reeves, his anger and insecurity at Marino's numbers. I actually grew some respect for Reeves and Shanahan not spilling the beans about his insecurity to the media....
And New World Order - why are you so dead certain i'm propping Elway like that ... If you read even one of my posts the last hour, you'd know it's Mahomes I'm propping now.