BREAKING: John Fox named new Broncos Head Coach

He's likely to keep McCoy, yeah.

Playoffs???

Here is another way to look at this hire. Most pundits have railed that Elway has had no experience, and Xanders is weak in that department as well. When you bring in Fox, you get someone who knows how to do things on the head coaching level so Elway and Xanders can learn with the help of someone who has been around the block. This means that a grownup is working to coach and help as a team player in the front office, not someone who is trying to show that he is the top dog in the room.

What happens to Studesville?

I bet we snag Deangelo williams in free agency

I'm with you on that.

Oh man I hope so. I'd like to see Dennison come aboard, and I'm sure he'd like to come back, but I think McCoy is staying. What about bringing back Coyer as DC? He's an old hardnose s-o-b, Shanny should of never let him go.

Well, if every game is 14-10, it'll be better that giving up almost 30 a game, no?

i think fairley goes number one anyway. if we go back to a 4-3 i would be ok with a bowers pick at #2 . i wouldnt want to mess with him transitioning to a lb in a 3-4 though.

You have to wonder about hiring someone that just led a team to the worst record in the league. You can spin it anyway you want but “You are what your record says you are!”
Harbaugh would have gotten me excited. However, let's see who Fox hires for assistants and what players Xanders/Elway bring in to inject some talent into a team that is solely lacking in talent.
We are right down there with Carolina when it comes to being talentless!

i dont see why we would want to spend big money on a free agent rb who has health issues…. we have knomo, ball, buck, and white. they can put up decent numbers if we have a line that can block for them. thats our problem not the backs.

thumbs up for optimism!

yeah but the difference is the Carolina ownership is so tight about their money. so Fox couldnt get who he wanted and the Panthers refused to re-sign Peppers. Elway will wanna bring in good talent and draft well and wont pinch pennies in the process.

i dont put all that much stock into the last year in carolina. the problem wasnt fox, it was more the front office/owner- they did nothing to attempt to improve their team.

For those of you down on this hire keep this in mind

There will be a lockout. We won't see games until September, maybe October. The new coach will have no, nil, zero contact with any players after March 1st. Can you imagine hiring someone without HC experience (Dennison???) installing a playbook in perhaps 10-14 days in September? I can't. In fact, I expect Denver to have another down year next because of the shortened season. But I do expect with Fox in charge we will have a better D-line and will not get blown out +20 points at home.

are u speaking in parables cause i'm lost.. i meant 1000+ yard rusher

Hahaha i second moreno having a Mangina!

Im happy with the hire great things to come from fox since his DF of minded…should be a good draft defencively

Good DC choice, but who for OC? Someone young and good with QB's.

Never was a huge fan of Bill Williamson, but his blog post on espn.com is a good read.

http://espn.go.com/blog/afcwes…

Makes me feel better about the decision to hire Fox in the first place. Sounds like he just wants to coach football and not worry about GM duties- good deal…

Moreno manned up and ran mush tougher the last few games. His only issue now is staying on the field.

Doom wasn't a good fit at OLB either (as he couldn't cover as well as you'd expect with his small hips and he couldn't stuff the run either).

He only has one pass-rush move, so we need someone bulky and stout enough to do bull-rushes and/or spin-moves across from him (and that requires more lower-body strength than Ayers seems to have).

If Mora Jr. is the new D.C.– instead of my fave Rob Ryan… who can get more of out less and won't require switching to a 4-3 in a lockout-shortened year– we ought to trade Ayers to a team like Atlanta (that may view him as a potential John Abraham with enough coaching and experience).

Then sign LeMarr Woodley to play opposite Doom if we stay in a 3-4. I also think the run-stuffing and power-producing Cameron Heyward could switch to 3-4 or thrive in the 4-3 (especially if Carolina passes on AJ Green and snags Fairley away at #1 overall and we trade down).

With the added picks we could get for Ayers, Orton and maybe even D.J. and Kuper, we could end up with a top-ten selection and a top-15 selection in the first-round too plus multiple picks in rounds two and three to re-stock positions like TE and RB too).

Perhaps that second choice could be Prince Akanamura (sp?) at CB or even RG Mike Pouncey (to provide the power and pulling that the over-rated Chris “the marshmallow” Kuper never does).

Kuper could be attractive to a team looking for zone-blocking linemen like Houston or Washington and we could use the freedom from his re-signed salary and gain yet another third-rounder in exchange for him.

McD was forced to agree to re-sign Kuper, what with all the O-line turmoil around him going into 2010.

But Fox probably wants to get a strong Tony Jones-type veteran to immediately step in at right-tackle (so bringing Pouncey in could solidify the troubled right-side of the line to the left of Harris' replacement).

Fox was great five years ago when he had Rucker and Peppers surrounding Buckney and Jenkins. But, at least, he realizes that it wasn't any offensive play-calling genius that got him those laurels (as he saw what happened without them).

So I hope he loosens up the reins and lets a less blitz-averse Defensive-Coordinator light a fire under the defense (until we can supply that decades-long missing naturally-supplied pass-rush from the front four that immediately needs assembling).

If Doom is back, blitzing through the “B” gap besides him is especially called for considering the wide-stance offensive-tackles set up with opposite the solely speed-rushing Dumervil (and his mostly 4-seconds-plus “coverage sacks” that way-too-comfortable QB's surrendered while leisurely gazing through all their reads down-field).

Too bad, Fox won't begin outside his comfort-zone and let us stay at the 3-4 in this lockout-shortened year (especially so we can finally have it run by a non-puppet defensive-cooridnator who can fire up the home crowd by finally demonstrating the advantages of a more-easily disguised zone-blitz-reliant package). I had hoped McD would let us see these 3-4 zone-blitz advantages, but he was as conservative as Shanny in this regard (since both were play-callers who got too used to the few great QB's who could overcome extra pass-rushers).

McCoy staying for another campaign could especially help Tebow's development from getting sidetracked (like another slow-delivery QB Jason Campbell's was).

In a possible-lockout, we can't already have another arm tied behind our backs with a new staff and new play-calling system and language to learn. We need to assess how much Tebow can improve physically (as I assume he'll eventually learn the reads and mental part of the game in time).

Let McCoy have a season to show what he would call without McD looking to scapegoat him every time something goes wrong (and let Tebow show what he's capable of in the always-critical sophomore campaign).

Man I tell you what… The Broncos need to fire everyone in their front office and hire half of you guys…LMAO!!! You guys know so much more than they ever could.

When Fox and whom ever else they bring in as Coords turn this thing around I want some of you to come eat your crow… But of course you wont, none of you ever do!!!!!

You are correct. Read an article that was incorrect. hhhmmm..

good enough. i would have preferred to see them wait it out and try and get some one without such a long drout between playoff seasons. Fox hasn't done any thing with carolina in awhile. yes he took them to a super bowl but that was years ago. that tells me that once he turns the team around he'll go into a slunp and we'll be looking for another coach in a couple of years. i want some one there for the long haul and some one who makes us consistantly good for at least a decade. of course theres the excuse that he didn't have a good GM in carolina backing him, but i dont know if i would put everything on the GM. all and all im pretty happy with the pick. i agree with most of you about the OC situation though. if fox couldn't figure out how to utilize steve smith the whole time he was in carolina then what exactly is he gonna do dor our offence? but thats okay becaue Elway has final say and if Elway feels like the OC should take care of the offence for the most part then that willsew up any questions about how the Offence will work. Wink seriously needs to get gone. he is a horrible DC. We need a good more aggressive DC who has a history of rebuilding good defences. not some second year linebackers coach who failed miserably the first time around. I dont want McCoy to stay either but i underatnd the logic behind keeping him. They shouldn't disrupt Tebow's learning process any more then they have to. plus Mccoy is being considered by other teams for their OC positions. i do think we need to keep ben McD around. he seems to be doing very well with Tebow. but i really think elway should make a move for rob ryan as DC. that would keep the D consistant.