If there was one player with the cachet and chutzpah to walk into Head Coach Mike Shanahan’s office and discuss exactly what ailed the offense in the early season, it was Rod Smith, the long-time team captain whose success in orange and blue closely parallels that of his coach in their 11 and a half seasons together.
With six games already complete and the Broncos averaging just 13.2 points an outing to that point, Smith knew he had to say some things to his teammates, to his coaches, to anyone who would listen. But first, he wanted to check things out with Shanahan, to make sure that taking such liberties would be protected by the Broncos’ figurative constitution, of which Shanahan would be its chief architect.
“We had a personal conversation, just what my thoughts were on some things that I can do down here (in the locker room) as well as making sure that I had the latitude to say certain things,” Smith said.
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