Broncos Should've Hired Spagnuolo

the Giants win came down to the fact that Spagnuolo outcoached Josh McDaniels

The same Spags who got out coached by McDaniels just a few weeks prior? The same Spags whose defense gave up 38 points to those same Patriots?

You’re telling me that Eli Manning’s great escape and subsequent Tyree helmet catch, and Assante Samuel’s inability to catch a ball thrown right at him is on McDaniels?

Games like this make me laugh at the ridiculousness of the fans.

When I heard McDaniels was tapped to be the guy, I had an odd feeling about what was going to come next. And I wasn’t particularly pleased with it, either. The subsequent situations with Cutler, Marshall and Scheffler didn’t exactly help things on that front, either.

You’ll look at my signature and see that, yes, I’m a St. Louis area native. Which means I get to see the Rams just about every week, whether I like it or not (and from about the last few years up until the last month or so, that team had been an unmitigated disaster to watch on both sides of the ball).

It didn’t hurt that the team had already in their possession a few playmakers on both sides of the ball (and when I say that, I look at the likes of Oshiomogho Atogwe on defense and Steven Jackson on offense). But what was missing was a system, and Spagnuolo has implemented a system on defense and allowed Pat Shurmur to do the same on offense, along the way giving him a stud quarterback in Sam Bradford to complement a young stable of receivers and one of the best all-purpose running backs in the game in Jackson. The best thing I’ve seen out of that team is a lack of egos, which considering Jackson’s past craziness is quite an accomplishment. Plus, quotes coming out of their devastating one-point loss to the Bucs yesterday show that they really were stung by that loss, a game they for all intents and purposes dominated in every phase except the scoreboard.

So yeah, I also wanted Spagnuolo as the coach in Denver. Perhaps with him, Elvis Dumervil would’ve never been moved to Outside Linebacker and become a dominant force on the pass rush last season. That said, would Jamaal Charles have run for eleventy-billion yards (or however many it was) in Week 17 last year? I’d like to hope not. He would’ve had some pieces to work with, and Shurmur would’ve had a pretty stout offensive line and a few skill guys to work with as well.

Yesterday’s game was a disaster, and something that should never happen on Raider Week. NEVER. EVER. But it happened, and we have to deal with it. Hindsight is always 20-20, and if somehow, someway the Broncos are able to turn it around, I’ll be one of the first to congratulate McDaniels and his staff for the job they did in helping turn it around. Until then, it looks like there were some bad decisions made in that 2009 offseason. And it’s never easy to correct one bad decision, much less several.

Yeah, I had a bad feeling about him because he’d just come from guiding a completely stacked offense. I think I could win a few games if I had Tom Brady in the pocket with plenty of time to find Randy Moss and Wes Welker.

Now that he’s here and I get a look at his ego, I’m even ore nervous. Hopefully, his bullheadedness will get him succesful or fired.

What if, Bowlen hired Spag and we kept developing Cutler/Hillis/Marshall/Sheffler, etc.? We build a strong Defense and let Shanny’s Offense be? What if, we kept Shanny and let him develop his high powered offense and continue to piece-meal together a defense? Well, neither happened, neither would have guaranteed success and I believe Pat Bowlen knew that. He knew McD was young & lacked valuable experience, but all choices in this business are filled with risks. In the end, I think McD will become who Bowlen thinks he will, the “kid” has shown spark & moxy in the midst of this learning process. It has been painful for fans, but I think Bowlen was prepared for it, hence his lack of comment over the season. Let’s hope he was right and a new golden era awaits us around the corner! GO BRONCOS!