Shanahan was only effective with Elway, Davis, and Sharpe. Most of the talent was already in place from the Dan reaves years. Ever since Shanahan started making vp decisions the team has been on a decline. Even though there were some years where we were winning games, we were never truly competing for a Super Bowl since the Elway years; the team was mediocre and never put fear in to the oppositions heart, never.

The one playoff when in ten years was a game against the Patriots, which if any die hard fan remembers was a game Denver probably should not have won (Vert fluky win). We did not belong in that AFC Championship game in 2005, we were embarrassed at home by the steelers; the “D” was herrendous in that game.

Bottom line, Shanahan had to go! I appreciate him for being a peice to the puzzle that won 2 Super Bowls. Thank you ! The bad decisions started early going with Griese, then Gus Ferrotte, and then the Plumber experiment and the constant horrific moves made on defense.

In the end I believe Shanahan was nothing more than a really, really good offensive coordinator who won 2 Super Bowls with the GREATES QB to ever play the game and talent brought in by a coach reeves. Shanahan rode those Super Bowls for 10 years and we as fans allowed it because we had stars in our eyes, but we have come back to reality; reality said we were in trouble if Shanny stayed!!!!!!!!!

Please comment if any one believes they can refute this arguement!

on shanny being fired….
well i was really shocked and sad…… you got to suck it up and move on…he was a good coach.. and thanks to his drafting skills over the past 3 years we should have a good team.. i always was frustrated that mike didnt get good free agents in defense he always got special teamers like niko to prove themselves in the team.. well that was crap.. we need good quality free agents in our team if we want to improve our defense for next year… we need to spend sum money for our defense… the only players who i think deserve to be starters for next season in our D is champ, and D.J williams.. even though both of them had injuries.. the rest of the players will have to compete for their jobs … cuz i smell competition this offseason with the broncos Defense. no ones job is really safe though….

but enough said our offense is exellent we dont need any other players.. we just need to focuse on bringing defensive players to out team…
for the draft here our my picks..

i hope that we get either rey maualuga or that hard hitting safety both from USC. Im from southern cali and a USC fan also and i know wat they can do i had the priveledge to meet with both of them at the university in practice.. with sum of my friends.. they are really good players. and we need maualuga at middle to be the heart and stop the run and make tackles not like webster …. ohh webster was very dissapointing this season for me.. he does not know how to tackle . in the chargers game when the chargers where at the goal line. he tried tackling L.T. but it was more like a arm tackle moving away from him.. that was pathetic .thats why i think we need mmaualuga i know he wont do that. if it was woodyard in there he would of made the stop 4 sure…
we need to get a DT and i read on here that sumone said hayesworth is in the market. the broncos should try everything is their power to get him no matter wat it takes. if we get him and another good DE or abraham from the falcons .OMG!!!! wat an improvement this defense we will have. and dre and champ will have more picks cuz the QB will make stupid throws.lol
i just hope we make good moves this off-season and in the draft..
thanks for all of you who actually read all of this … this is actually my first time writing a comment cuz i just became a member… plez give me feed back in wat you think i wrote. i wanna know wat all of you think..

I wish Bowlen had asked him to give up the GM position and kept the offense.

Oh well, we’ll see what next year brings.