McDaniels beginning to attract believers in Denver

The lemmings will follow. What’s beautiful is that Wyche basically summed up basic ideas that have been talked about at MHR for weeks now. I guess its some good Kool Aid….

in 2009 he saved us from stagnation…

Winning comes from a philosophy that starts at the top. Isn’t it odd that certain teams continue to do poorly regardless of the players or coaches they bring in. It starts from the top and trickles down…

Regardless of the coach or QB, the Broncos are bred to win!

He seemed cautiously optimistic….shading toward 13-3 Baby!!!

If you’re a gambler, you should get your futures bet in soon.

And thought “Uh huh, here they come… you’d already know this if you’d been to MHR”.

Next thing we know, they’ll all be saying “We knew it all the time!”

and I thought it was Sam Wyche, and I thought, great one of the few nut job coaches thinks the Broncos are on the right track, but well written. Time will obviously tell how this team reacts once we have a loss or two, that will be when we learn what the makeup is andd how much the team really buys in or is paying lip service out of fear of losing a pay check.

Thanks, I am humbled by your generosity :-)

Its already starting…..you can’t argue against results and T. Dungy. MHR is gonna have the most fun early in the season as we get to see people start to change tunes…..love it!

13-3 Baby!!!

Nice article link. The firing of Shanhan and hiring McDaniels brought about a new era for the Broncos. It is a time of change that doesn’t always come easily. This will undoubtedly take time and we will all have to bear with it. McD is bringing in a new philosophy to Denver. We are getting players that will fit certain roles and not have character issues. This is a team sport and not one player can do it all by himself, so it is good to see the players understanding that. I mean we have all seen it and read it in the many interviews.

I think it’s been pretty clear from day one McDaniels had a plan. A lot of people were just upset because they couldn’t figure out what it WAS.

Now, how that’s different from any other team with a new coach I don’t know. It isn’t like they’re going to publish their whole approach complete with playbook on the team website.

“The main thing, as one of the leaders of this team, is to buy into what the coach is doing. That way, the others follow,” veteran Pro Bowl cornerback Champ Bailey said after an OTA practice on Monday at the Broncos’ practice facility. “You can’t talk negative. I don’t care if it is stuff that’s real or not. You’ve got to be positive. You keep things positive, guys will feed into it and want to win for this guy.”

I was reading this and in many ways think MHR is the leadership for the Broncos’ Fans.

I’ve been bemused at the fuss about how ‘McDaniels doesn’t have a plan". The first time that he sat down with the Broncos he set out, in detail, a plan for reviving this moribund franchise. He spoke from his notes and extemporaneously for over 6 hours on that plan just in the first meeting, including in it aspects of offense, defense and special teams. There were obviously still things that he (and later, Xanders) had to flesh out on specifics once all of the players had been reviewed and the free agents targeted, and that would take much more time. However – he had so much detail and so many specifics that both Pat and Joe Ellis (who met with him separately in the first meetings) would be amazed at how well he understood both where they were and what it was going to take to get them back to the championship.

The idea that he didn’t have a plan flew in the face of every fact that we have access to. I don’t know what the specifics were. I do know that he expanded on this plan in later meetings, including those with Jim Goodman who was favorably impressed at this time (later disagreements were mostly centered around differing personnel views between Xanders and Jeff Goodman, Jim’s son). Whether one chooses to like McDaniels or hate him, he is extremely detail oriented and organized. He has a plan, he’s always had one, and suggesting anything else just shows a lack of familiarity with the subject at hand.

When you think about it, the whole team-first “Patriot Way” plan must have been a major part of McDanials’ interview presentation and must have been very appealing to Bowlen. This plan is the very reason the whole Cutler thing made sense to me all along. Can you think of a better way for a young, 32 year old coach to come in and assert his will than to throw a little chin music at Jay Cutler?

Jay may be a kind, down-to-earth, team-first guy undeserving of any chin music from the new young coach for all I know. However, there is strong evidence that he may have been a good target for a little ego check. For one, he was the biggest target— the “franchise” QB, the face of the franchise. Moreover, you have the Fastis book portrayal, his arm-stregnth-Elway comments, repeatedly bashing Rivers publicly when he could have taken the high road, his teammates comments (Champ (paraphrasing) “he has a personality that may suprise some people”), his “no one called me” reaction to Shanny’s firing, and his overall handling of the Matt Cassel trade rumors, to name a few.

I don’t know how it went down, but I’m willing to bet that the Cassell rumor was the straw that broke the camel’s back, not the opening salvo. I have a feeling that something else happened immediately after McDanials was hired. Perhaps Cutler lobbied for Bates’ job directly and McDanials told him something along the lines of “I’ll hire whomever I damn well please and don’t need your input”, or maybe the coach told the player that in no uncertain terms he was the boss and fully expected the player to fall in line. Now, I’m not saying that McD wanted to ship him out of town, but I do think that he wanted to come in and buzz his tower a little bit— if not publicly, then definitely in the locker room.

Well, we all know how it turned out, and I feel the franchise will be better off in the long run. Especially if this whole mess helped our new coach implement his plan.