Broncos Hire Josh McDaniels

by Rated-R Superstar on Jan 11, 2009 6:57 PM PST Comment 10 comments

On Saturday night, the Denver Broncos announced that they have hired Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels as their head football coach.

It's interesting to see the Broncos go with an offensive head coach after they fired Mike Shanahan. Josh McDaniels had been previously with the New England Patriots since 2001. He is a pretty young guy and the Broncos decided he was the right man for the job. We'll see if anyone else makes some announcements in the coming days, particularly our Oakland Raiders.

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No GM in Denver

They have two “assistant GM’s” that are there from the Shanahan administration, but no real GM that is part of the on field football operations. The same goes for Cleveland too, as they hired Mangini without replacing GM Phil Savage first. This is just to say that the Raiders are not alone and it is not so odd that the Raiders will hire their coaching staff before they hire the GM.

Your team is your child...You love it no matter what.

by TheRaiderWay on Jan 12, 2009 5:35 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

I thought Al was the GM?

by Brendan Scolari on Jan 12, 2009 11:25 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Try to follow a long

he said he was hiring a GM this year.

Win, Lose, or Tie, Raiders til I die!

by mikesd1981 on Jan 12, 2009 4:24 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Didn't know.

Sorry.

by Brendan Scolari on Jan 12, 2009 5:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Al is and has been until he hires one.

by Raider76 on Jan 12, 2009 7:09 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

So how does that explain the above comment?

by Brendan Scolari on Jan 12, 2009 8:20 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

You asked a question and I

answered it

by Raider76 on Jan 12, 2009 9:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Ok I realize

My question is: Is Al hiring another GM or is he remaining as the GM?

by Brendan Scolari on Jan 13, 2009 12:30 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

In the press conference

in September when he fired Kiffin, he referred to hiring a “local” guy that would help out in various areas of the football operations. Al never used the word GM. Around here, we all have been referring to this person as a “GM type” person, as we all know that Al won’t hire a traditional or classic GM in the Raider organization.

What I believe will happen is that Al will hire a “GM type” that will probably be in the Bruce Allen mold that is primarily going to concentrate on the salary cap and on player contracts, in addition to the other NFL issues such as going into the uncapped year in 2010 as well as new stadium issues for Oakland.

Your team is your child...You love it no matter what.

by TheRaiderWay on Jan 13, 2009 12:47 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs