Horse Tracks - 1/9/09

by John Bena on Jan 9, 2009 5:29 AM MST in Horse Tracks

DENVER POST

Ultimately, it won't be Pat Bowlen who decides whether Josh McDaniels, at 32, is ready to become the Broncos' next head coach. It would be Champ Bailey and Casey Wiegmann. The decisions would come from the hearts, souls and minds of D.J. Williams, Jay Cutler and Ebenezer Ekuban. It's the Broncos players who would determine whether a kid like McDaniels would be worthy of their respect, and trust, to follow his lead.

More than a decade ago, when Doug Williams was putting together his first coaching staff at Morehouse College in Atlanta, he turned to a former NFL teammate to run the defense. It didn't matter that Todd Bowles had never been a coach before.

With nearly the entire game in front of him, and the outcome leading to either the playoffs or season's end, Champ Bailey must not have believed there was much choice.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

Bill Romanowski has the perfect coaching candidate in mind for the Broncos, a dark horse, somebody out of the blue who's on nobody's radar - himself.

In search of a turnaround, the Broncos turned to a coaching candidate Thursday who was part of the biggest season-to-season turnaround in league history.

OTHER

Team owner Pat Bowlen wrapped up his first round of interviews for the Denver Broncos' head coaching vacancy Thursday when he met with Miami Dolphins secondary coach Todd Bowles.

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Romanowski

I saw the blurb about Romanowski this morning and almost spit out my coffee. As far as I know the man hasn’t even coached PeeWee league ball anywhere. You probably should get a position coaching job first Bill.

by dpurvis on Jan 9, 2009 6:54 AM MST reply actions

ROMANOWSKI HIRED AS MANAGER ! ! !

of the shake machine.

Tactics without Strategy is the noise you hear before Defeat!

by monodono on Jan 10, 2009 5:49 AM MST up reply actions

Read all about it

Same reaction here…I was glad I didn’t have any coffee in mouth at the time. Romanowski is a joke as a coach. He says he has great “ideas” on what to do:

1) Get the team jumped up on “enhancement” supplements (ROIDS ROCK!)

2) Have a doc get the team prescriptions for mental health supplements (SPEED IS GOOD)

3) Bring in counselors to make sure the team knows how to frame their answers to any questions about their “training regimen”

Yeah….I think that power point presentation he made should be a winner…I wouldn’t be surprised if it went directly from Bowlens inbox to his trash can.

I don’t want breakaway speed. I want break-some-poor-fool-as-I-bowl-you-over power getting 6 yards off a play that should have been stopped for 2 at most.

by sadaraine on Jan 9, 2009 8:56 AM MST reply actions

I think his power point probably looked like this

This is what I will make Mike Prater into, he will kick the ball to Littleton.

"Me fail english, that unpossible" - Ralph Wiggum
"Duffman is thrusting in the direction of the problem" - Duffman

by Broncoman on Jan 9, 2009 2:39 PM MST up reply actions

LMAO

I’m still literally laughing…too funny.

I don’t want breakaway speed. I want break-some-poor-fool-as-I-bowl-you-over power getting 6 yards off a play that should have been stopped for 2 at most.

by sadaraine on Jan 9, 2009 4:56 PM MST up reply actions

He won't need to kick with his foot, just flex his calf muscle

"Me fail english, that unpossible" - Ralph Wiggum
"Duffman is thrusting in the direction of the problem" - Duffman

by Broncoman on Jan 10, 2009 1:39 AM MST up reply actions

It looks like the guy on the right is trying to take a dump......LOL

"It doesn't dissipate" ~ Mike Shanahan

Cutler's 4th qtr/OT game winning drives: 9

by weazel on Jan 9, 2009 6:18 PM MST up reply actions

The guy on the left must of finished.

"Me fail english, that unpossible" - Ralph Wiggum
"Duffman is thrusting in the direction of the problem" - Duffman

by Broncoman on Jan 10, 2009 1:36 AM MST up reply actions

So I guess he won. :-)

"It doesn't dissipate" ~ Mike Shanahan

Cutler's 4th qtr/OT game winning drives: 9

by weazel on Jan 10, 2009 8:27 PM MST up reply actions

Romo could be a good position coach to start out...but if he wants a HC position then go to Detroit.

This is my GAP, there are many like it but this one is mine. Without my GAP I am useless, without me, they will run through my GAP. I will protect my GAP and have my brothers back on his. I will not be moved from my GAP, I am a crazed dog that patrols this area and will defeat all who entire it. I own this GAP, it is mine. I bought it with blood and sweat. I will not be pushed. I will not be moved. This Sunday I will make a stand and a statement.

by Tim Lynch on Jan 9, 2009 10:03 AM MST reply actions

LOL

Nice

I don’t want breakaway speed. I want break-some-poor-fool-as-I-bowl-you-over power getting 6 yards off a play that should have been stopped for 2 at most.

by sadaraine on Jan 9, 2009 12:07 PM MST up reply actions

I was thinking raiders

He already has experience with ole Al. Also, they may be real thin on HC candidates.

Victor Frankl:

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

by wyoeng on Jan 9, 2009 12:14 PM MST up reply actions