McDaniels is on my poop list for sure.

That has been my point all along, the defense is the major problem with our team, if McD is a “guru” then he should be able to make a great offense better with the talent it has and maybe bring in some minor pieces. But McD just strikes me as someone who is insecure in his ability and wants to cover it up by getting “his guys” in place.

McD hasn’t really made any significant motions to show that he’s trying to get “his guys” in place over “our guys”.

I understand he’s signed a lot of free agents so far, but understand that if something wasn’t working last year, you need to change that. As far as everyone else in the league goes, I could care less. I don’t care what Panther fan or Cowboy fan or even Colt fan has to say about our situation, they don’t know anything more than we do…I welcome all points of view, but the fact remains the same, I don’t let other peoples opinions influence my personal views on things.

I had thought and maybe I am wrong about this. I thought Coach McD was brought in because he is a QB guy and could do wonders with Jay. So why and try and get Cassel when you already have a great Qb like Jay. I am really worried that he is not the guy Bowlen thought he was getting. The way this is being handled is really scary. I really hope next year proves me wrong. They way this is handled seems to me he doesn’t have clue on how to work with Qb’s or a team for that matter. I like a lot of what he is doing,except this whole Jay thing is crazy, even if Jay is being a little biatch.. His job is to not let this get this bad. First Coach Shanny then Jay ,man as this been the most stressful off season ever.

But I was told that Tomlin had a lot more pieces in place. I agree, and the biggest piece was Lebeau, but I don’t see why you revamp an offense that was for the most part efficient (except in the RZ). I think the pieces on our 2008 offense were comparable to the pieces on the Steelers D in 07 when Tomlin took over. Man up, tweak the offense, and fix the defense. That’s what I was expecting McD to do from jump street.

When Shanny was fired, people were looking to get a defensive-minded coach (I wanted Steve Spagnuolo or Leslie Frazier), but they kept going back to McD. Bowlen must have seen something special in him, going back all those times to make sure (or whatever other reason) and then hiring him knowing full well about the defensive problems.
Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt, the Broncos haven’t even played a single game, and people want him gone. What if he does get fired now? Then what? And what if he ends up taking whatever team he ends up coaching to the playoffs? Just because we didn’t have a little patience.

Sure, he’s bringing in some of his own guys, but so what? If Gaffney knows the system, he can help the other players get up to speed; and if he trusts McD, he can reassure the other players that he’s not some dumb kid playing with the wrong toy gun he found in the closet.
If this offense was great but not quite there yet, maybe it needs someone like McD to come in and just give it the nudge it needs. If switching a couple players is what it takes, then so be it, let’s see what happens come Week 1.

And, geez, I’d like to how ya’ll feel when McD gets fired, and some defensive coach comes in and decides to hear offers about trading Bailey and DJ. I mean, it’s not like they’re the franchise QB, right (don’t answer that)?

He says: “It is really, really hard to respect someone who thinks Matt Cassel is better than Jay Cutler. It is even harder to respect someone when they would rather stock the team with "their guys” rather than try to work with the talent available."

When and where did McDaniels say that he thinks Matt Cassel is better than Jay Cutler? These two are having enough trouble communicating without others adding things that weren’t said just to muddy the waters. As for shaking up the rest of the team… isn’t that what the Broncos were hoping for? Of course McDaniels was going to bring in his own guys. He’s going to do whatever it takes to build a winning team.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/statistics?stat=pass&season=2&year=2008

1. We don’t know (and I don’t believe) that Josh McDaniels thinks Matt Cassel is a better QB than Jay Cutler. If he did, we would have gone after him and gotten him and made the trade – think about it, you get a better quarterback AND draft picks? You’d have to be stupid to pass that up. BBS’s ‘logic’ doesn’t make any sense.

2. Our offense was just “OK” last year, sure we racked up a lot of yards, but our red zone scoring was a mere 16th in the league, aka average. We could stand to get better, McDaniels said he would try to improve all aspects of our team. He’s the guy who took Brady from really good to elite and took Cassel from almost cut scrub to decent starter in one year. I am still hoping to see what he can do with Cutler.

3. The trade was not going to be Cutler for Cassel. It was going to be Cassel plus a few picks for Cutler, and if Josh McDaniels thought it would make our team overall better, then that’s what he should do, ultimately they decided that keeping Cutler over those other options would be best.