Ironically, right before Florio said that hiring McDaniels had set the Broncos back “fifteen years.”

Question: what would cutting Brandon Marshall, and receiving no return compensation, have done to the Broncos.

Oh, that’s right. We still would have had Cutler, and would have been just one player away …

I believe that Shanny did say this to Mort. What I don’t believe is that he would’ve actually gone through with it.

Shanahan is the head coach of the Chiefs.

but he wouldn’t have actually done it. More likely he would have looked for a Portis-for-Bailey-type trade.

…I think that Chris Mortensen’s info is usually reliable, I also think that this report doesn’t sound quite right. However, let’s assume that the report is true, then shouldn’t it also be at least wondered if Mike Shanahan is now using Brandon Marshall’s unpopularity in Denver to be the scapegoat for the Broncos monumental melt-down last year?

Did you see Mike say that he would have fired himself for not being able to get his team to win just one friggin’ game, especially the last game? It was that last game, was it not, where the Broncos had to absolutely beat the Chargers to take the division and advance to the playoffs, when we all saw precisely how poorly the Broncos were really coached, by getting their butts handed to them with a 52 to 21 loss, did we not?

Firing Brandon Marshall for last season’s debacle, when there were 52 other players on the team, makes about as much sense as firing John Elway for personally losing those three Super Bowls. So something about Mortensen’s report just doesn’t look right. I would like to think that Mike Shanahan is the type of head coach who takes full-responsibility for “his” losses, also.