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How much does Elway need to look into a coaching change? I like Fox but my original appeal with him was that he's a very by the books type of guy. He'd get our team from it's lowly losing state of the McDaniels era back to playing solid defense, not beating itself, and the offense would be efficient. Even better, it would be completely opposite of Josh McDaniels. My thoughts were he would bring us back to respectability. That definitately happened with Tebow at the helm, to a "T". When Elway signed Manning, obviously it accelerated our return to upper echelon status in the AFC.
Here we are on year 2 knocking on the door and my bigger fears about Fox have come true… it feels like we've leveled off. We're too conservative, borderline tight in big games. He brings no difference making capability to the table when the stakes are greatest. His straight lace mentality actually eliminates some of the advantage we have with #18 and talent we have. Combine that with the fact that Fox has never won it all as head coach. He's got close and never finished the deal. My fear is leaving him in place and failing to break through and wasting the twilight years of #18 in Denver when we could realistically get 1-2 super bowls with his production.
I think if we go one and out again or fail to make a big splash in the playoffs, Elway is going to be forced to make a decision from the safe choice, towards somebody who has the gumption to get this program/players to the next level as quickly as possible. I doubt we'd see a OC/DC hired, or a college coach but I would not be surprised to see some other names in play. Say Jon Gruden who has thrived with older QB's or maybe even a Bill Cowher type.
Thoughts?
Here we are on year 2 knocking on the door and my bigger fears about Fox have come true… it feels like we've leveled off. We're too conservative, borderline tight in big games. He brings no difference making capability to the table when the stakes are greatest. His straight lace mentality actually eliminates some of the advantage we have with #18 and talent we have. Combine that with the fact that Fox has never won it all as head coach. He's got close and never finished the deal. My fear is leaving him in place and failing to break through and wasting the twilight years of #18 in Denver when we could realistically get 1-2 super bowls with his production.
I think if we go one and out again or fail to make a big splash in the playoffs, Elway is going to be forced to make a decision from the safe choice, towards somebody who has the gumption to get this program/players to the next level as quickly as possible. I doubt we'd see a OC/DC hired, or a college coach but I would not be surprised to see some other names in play. Say Jon Gruden who has thrived with older QB's or maybe even a Bill Cowher type.
Thoughts?
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