It's not hard to lose your job when you lose every game on your schedule.It's not hard to lose your job when your team starts of 8-3, and tanks the rest of the way out of the playoffs.
It's not hard to lose your job when your team doesn't score an offensive TD in the final 6 weeks and fails to live up to expectations after the first good season in what seemed like centuries.
And, as Mike Shanahan found out today, it's apparently not that hard to lose your job when you're the first team since 1967 and divisional play to blow a three game lead with three to play.
I'd imagine most people finding this news out found it shocking. After all, Shanahan had been head man in Denver for 14 years and won two Super Bowls.
However, he's also gone 24-24 his last three seasons.
He's only won a single playoff game since Elway retired in '99.
And that vaunted Denver rushing game, known for mass producing 1,000 yard rushers like something from I, Robot? Tatum Bell, 2006, was the last guy to have over a G.
Other big name coaches, most notably Jon Gruden and Wade Phillips, could also be on the way out in the coming days.
To paraphrase an expression I've heard in today's tough economic times, it's a recession when the coaches in your division get fired, it's a depression when you get fired.
It's easy to be the Mastermind when you have John Elway. Clearly, it's not so easy without him.
ReplyDeleteI thought this firing was a bit unjustified. Sure he was a winner with Elway, but he hadn't had a respectable defense since John Lynch. He had 6 running backs go on injured reserve, and even made Peyton Hillis look like a bonafide back. His running back for the final game of the season was working in a mall kiosk only months before. I thought he deserved at least another season.
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