Comments on: The secret life of Josh McDaniels

By: Tom in San Diego

Tom in San Diego — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:43:13 +0000

McDaniels has alienated a lot of very talented players on the Broncos team. Talent wins in the NFL not average players that are easily compliant. It is McDaniel’s job to mentor and guide the players that may have issues. Not sacrifice them in the media and drop them like a hot potato . This guy is clearly in over his head and doesn’t know what he is doing. Josh time to pull your head out of your ass.

By: MileHighXL71

MileHighXL71 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:17:38 +0000

In response to SJR, & Civil Sense: GOLLY maybe you should take your foot out of your mouth. Better yet maybe you should share the same binky as Jay Cutler. Forget about the kool aid! Pass me the AFC West Champions punch!! Whose the dummy now?
The Bears thats who
Jay Cutler sucks
I wonder how well he likes his offensive line in Chicago

By: Steverino

Steverino — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:00:33 +0000

None of this “kumbaya” nonsense changes the fact that McDaniels has lied, straight-faced, twice. Once regarding the attempt to trade Cutler to Tampa. And again when he said he “met with Marshall” in June after Marshall had met with Bowlen and requested to be traded. McDaniels never met with Marshall. Whoops. So tell me, Hunter, does this new “character” and “team” philosophy we’re so lucky to have here in Denver involve lying repeatedly to your players and fans?

By: billj

billj — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:38:37 +0000

I seem to remember another coach who based his recruiting on character first, then talent. Nick Saban. I think he won several bowl games and a national championship after he got rid of the druggies, rapists, and outlaws on the LSU team. Maybe you’ve got something here.

By: bruce

bruce — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:23:49 +0000

Has anyone, ever, in the history of man, considered Dre Bly to be one of the best players? Never. Oh, ok, I thought so.

By: da1rob

da1rob — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:11:18 +0000

I saw a story on NFL live about Cutler and how he’s going to adjust to the Bears system, This is off the heels of Coach Tony Dungy being critical of Cutlers maturity.
What I found to be funny was how the NFL live guys said that in order for him to succeed he would have to take care of the ball (turnovers), be efficient on 3rd down, and score in the RED ZONE and correct me if I’m wrong but did’nt McD say that those were the biggest problems our offense had? I’ve heard him state that a few times.Anyone who is still cryin over Cutlers trade move on and get over it this team is built on character and the fact that each individual is a TEAM 1st player!! Which crybaby Jay clearly was’nt.

By: jibbons

jibbons — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:02:38 +0000

Add to your argument Cutler’s statistics, and there is a compelling argument to trade Cutler regardless of his immaturity. He had a ton of yards and a pretty good TD count but with over 20 give aways, the value of both diminished greatly.

Of course stats are never the whole story. No doubt some poster will remind us of his ability to escape pressure and make a play. What people who take this line won’t tell you is that you could equally count on him bypassing the outlet pass to superman a ball into clear triple coverage.

I feel that Jay could have and maybe still will learn to overcome his Achilles heal, but there should be no doubt that while he was the Broncos starting qb, it was the teams weakness. Cutler and his fanbase may want to blame the D, but if one individual has given the ball back to the other team with a short field I’ve twenty times, a share of the responsibility goes to that individual.

To sum up my overly wordy post;
No player who turns the ball over 20 times in a season can be called great.

By: JBH

JBH — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:47:38 +0000

Thanks for the well-reasoned article, Hunter. Funny how those who have never held a job coaching, at any level, anywhere, know more about coaching than McDainels “the idiot”. Far too many “fans” seem to WANT the “orange and blue titanic”. I can only assume this is because they want to be right about McDaniels “the idiot”, more than they want to see “their team” succeed.

But then again, I don’t consider those people real fans anyway.

Will these same folks still be throwing eggs at McDaniels, should the team be much better than they assume?

I doubt it. No, those folks will jump on the bandwagon, shouting “I knew it all the time!!” at the top of their lungs.

By: LarryB

LarryB — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:54:12 +0000

Thanks, Hunter. Your article was well written, and it really honed into what McDaniels is trying to do. Anytime you try to make sense of it, people are going to jump on you. I don’t know . . . human nature, I guess. But I see what the coach is trying to do, as well as you. Thanks for the insight.

By: Civil Sense

Civil Sense — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:14:01 +0000

Wow, pass the Kool-aid. I’ll have what you’re having.

Seriously, I understand that what you say is the “plan”; however, no Patriots assistant has been able to match Bill Belichick’s success. In addition, the Jay Cutler situation was mishandled from the get-go. I suspect that Broncos Owner Pat Bowlen was out of the loop (as usual) when the notorious trade conversations began. In any event, Kyle Orton is a band-aid (at best), not a permanent solution. At least we didn’t trade for Rex Grossman…

Long story short, if the Broncos win more than they lose, fans will jump aboard the McDaniels train. If Coach McDaniels brings Denver a championship, then he will be a hero. If not, he will be gone. End of story.

Personally, I want the Broncos to win. Realistically, I think a 4-12 record is the best we can expect this year. I predict that the 2010 season will be similarly poor (though perhaps with a better record), and the Josh McDaniels era will be over at the end of 2010.