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How To Lose An NFL Coaching Job In Nine Months

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In his nine months on the job as the Denver Broncos head coach, it seems Josh McDaniels has written a manual on how to get fired and never get another NFL head coaching job ever again.

First, his arrogant 'my way or the highway' attitude ran off his franchise quarterback Jay Cutler and replaced him with the incompetent juryman Kyle Orton. All Cutler did was come in during this preseason, in a game which had a regular season atmosphere, and go 15-21 for 144 yards and a touchdown for a cool 106.1 quarterback rating in the hostile Invesco field.

Strike one.

Now it seems McDaniels? arrogant attitude has alienated his Pro-Bowl receiver Brandon Marshall to the point that Marshall has requested a trade. All Marshall has done in the past two seasons is catch 206 balls for 2590 yards and 13 touchdowns. Clearly McDaniels and the Broncos don?t want to pay Marshall for what he has earned on film because of his penchant for off-field trouble. There is an easy solution to this problem. Give Marshall the extension that he wants that contains a morality clause that will allow the Broncos to recoup a portion of the paid out signing bonus if Marshall should run into any trouble. If Marshall is traded it will be the first time in NFL history a team has lost a Pro-bowl quarterback and a Pro-bowl receiver in the same off-season.

Strike Two.

Third, McDaniels? product on the field isn?t living up to the advanced billing. Thus far McDaniels? team has look unorganized and sloppy, in the process committing an abundance of imbecilic penalties. Last year, under Mike Shannahan, the Broncos ranked second in the league in total offense. Last year's high power offense has been replaced with McDaniels? deficient dink and dunk offense. In the Broncos new dink and dunk offense, which rarely throws the ball down-field, has been reduced from the once prolific passing game to a high school version of screen play right and screen play left. Not to mention that McDaniels' prize pupil, Orton, has struggled mightily. When Orton was acquired McDaniels claimed his new quarterback was an intelligent and accurate passer. Through three preseason games Orton?s 39-58, 197 yards, one touchdown and four interceptions have been everything but intelligent and accurate.

Foul tip.

Lastly, he traded the Broncos? 2010 first-round pick for a 2009 second-round pick. The pick, 37th overall, ended up being Alphonso Smith. Smith is a good young cornerback, with the potential to be a very good NFL cornerback. But with the pathetic display of quarterbacking Orton has shown thus far, the McDaniels lead Broncos are in the express lane towards a 4-12 season. A 4-12 season would have garnered the Broncos a top-five pick and a shot at either University Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford or University of Mississippi quarterback Jevan Snead. Either quarterback could have begun the healing process from the McDaniels inflicted Cutler quarterbacking wound.

Strike Three.

On the surface McDaniels will have you believe that he is a young football genius. But is McDaniels just another Patriots foot soldier that will have trouble winning battles without his gray-hooded general?

It seems McDaniels? mistakes have caused irrevocable damage to the Denver Broncos franchise, which have placed him on a searing hot seat before even coaching his first NFL game. Though he might not know it, his mistakes have dug a hole for which Broncos fans have long ago ordered a casket and embalming fluid for him and his Denver Broncos coaching career.

So it seems that the greatly hyped McDaniels isn?t the next great young NFL mind, but merely the next branch of the Belichick coaching tree that appears to be going lifeless.

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