Did the Broncos ‘fumble’ its way to upgraded coaching staff?
Jan 14, 2019, 6:36 PM | Updated: Jan 15, 2019, 3:39 am
On Monday, “Schlereth and Evans” co-host Mike Evans asked how the Denver Broncos didn’t foresee Gary Kubiak wanting to bring in his own assistants, thus creating one of the wedges that cause the two to break up on Friday.
“To get up so confidently and say Gary’s going to be part of this team and the overwhelming understanding that he was going to be your offensive coordinator to the point where you’re not letting him to interview with other teams, and then somehow it becomes a shock that he’s going to want to bring his guys with him?” Evans said. “That somehow sneaks up on you?”
But, with Kubiak moving on — with his assistants, including offensive line coach Rick Dennison, in tow — to the Minnesota Vikings on Monday afternoon and the Broncos instead hiring Mike Munchak for its o-line coaching role, did Denver luck into a better coaching situation?
“I do think this works out best for the Broncos,” Evans said.
Said “Stokley and Zach” co-host Zach Bye: “The process and how we got here was sloppy. It was fumbled. And it wasn’t the typical order of operations. But that being said, what we do have is an upgrade in coaches.”
Bye’s co-host, Brandon Stokley, compared it to a team who recovered its own fumble in the end zone, that “it worked out for us.”
“I think that might be the situation here with the whole Gary Kubiak situation and trying to fit him in here and it didn’t work out,” Stokley said. “It looked a little bit sloppy, like a mess, like somebody really dropped the ball in a big way. But it didn’t work out for whatever reason. And I think, in the end, it might be for the benefit and for the better of the Denver Broncos.”
Monday night, 104.3 The Fan’s Sandy Clough said that with the Broncos offensive line being the most consistently deficient group over the past five or six seasons, hiring Munchak, “by all accounts of the premier offensive line coaches in the sport,” was a real coup for Denver.
“That’s why I think it’s a net gain for the Broncos — losing Kubiak but getting Mike Munchak,” Clough said.
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