Broncos Journal: NFL coaching carousel adds three more openings. What does that mean for Denver?

Ten things astir the NFL coaching chaos that includes the Broncos:

1. I asked a league root to fertile the six unfastened head-coaching jobs. Their archetypal effect was, “Make it five. The Raiders aren’t firing their feline aft past night.” In order, they ranked it Broncos, Miami, Chicago, Minnesota and Jacksonville. Why the Broncos astatine the top? The metropolis of Denver, the imaginable to commercialized for a franchise backmost and the accidental to enactment with/for wide manager George Paton.

2. Chicago (GM Ryan Pace/coach Matt Nagy), Minnesota (GM Rick Spielman/coach Mike Zimmer) and Miami (coach Brian Flores) made their moves aboriginal this morning. The Bears wasn’t a astonishment considering Pace went 0-for-2 successful coaching hires (John Fox and Nagy). The Vikings firing Zimmer wasn’t a astonishment (two consecutive years retired of the playoffs), but the wide-spread mentation was Spielman would descent into a shot operations relation and assistance successful the hiring of his replacement. But the Wilf household went the house-cleaning route.

3. There was a hue and outcry astir the Dolphins firing Flores. Why? They went 5-11, 10-6 and 9-8 nether his ticker (no playoff appearances) and finished fourth, 2nd and 3rd successful the AFC East. Did they marque progress? For sure. But helium had 3 violative coordinators and 2 antiaircraft coordinators during his tenure and who knows what was going connected down the scenes with the moving relationships betwixt Flores and wide manager Chris Grier?

4. Dolphins proprietor Stephen Ross told reporters: “I’ll instrumentality each responsibility. I americium of the proprietor of the squad and if it’s not working, it’s up to maine and this is wherefore we’re making a change.” Flores volition get interviews for the supra openings, but helium volition request to reply pugnacious questions astir what happened successful Miami.

5. It is simply a hazard hiring a caput manager who was conscionable fired? Among the existent coaches, lone Kansas City’s Andy Reid, who was fired by Philadelphia days before, has had sustained success. Dallas’ Mike McCarthy and Tampa Bay’s Bruce Arians each took a twelvemonth disconnected aft being fired and retiring, respectively. Washington’s Ron Rivera was fired by Carolina mid-season and won the NFC East successful his archetypal twelvemonth with WFT, but is 14-19 successful 2 years. When Adam Gase was fired by Miami and rapidly hired by the Jets, it didn’t work. That said, it did enactment for the Broncos with Fox, who went consecutive from Carolina to Denver.

6. Dan Quinn whitethorn beryllium a amended caput manager the 2nd clip astir aft moving arsenic a coordinator for 1 year, fixed clip to recalibrate what went incorrect successful Atlanta (and what worked) and reasoning astir the unit helium would enactment unneurotic alternatively of doing it connected the fly.

7. The league root ranked Minnesota down Chicago due to the fact that of the wage cap. The Bears person $40.9 cardinal of headdress abstraction and the Vikings are $7.3 cardinal implicit per Over The Cap. Plus, the Bears person backmost Justin Fields. Because of Kirk Cousins’ declaration ($45 cardinal headdress fig successful 2022), the Vikings request to interrogation candidates who are good with Cousins for astatine slightest 1 year.

8. That the Bears and Vikings person wide manager openings could payment the Broncos’ search. If Chicago and Minnesota take to spell the accepted way of hiring the GM, who past hires the coach, the Broncos could get a two-week caput start. As is usually the case, the anticipation is each squad volition privation to interrogation the aforesaid excavation of candidates. Maybe Paton breaks the mold and interviews a assemblage manager oregon possibly adjacent a presumption coach.

9. A chaotic paper is Jacksonville due to the fact that proprietor Shad Khan appears to beryllium a one-man hunt team. In January 2017, helium employed a hunt committee … and promoted interim manager Doug Marrone. The beingness of wide manager Trent Baalke is expected to destruct respective candidates adjacent with the beingness of backmost Trevor Lawrence. Baalke’s estimation isn’t large from his clip successful San Francisco and during his 2 years successful the Jaguars’ beforehand office, the squad is 3-29.

10. If I’m Doug Pederson, who is escaped to interrogation close away, I canvas the league to spot who other is funny too Jacksonville; helium interviewed with the Jaguars past week. Can helium person Minnesota oregon Chicago to prosecute him arsenic manager and spot him to pb a wide manager search? Does helium hold retired the Bears’ GM hunt due to the fact that helium wants to enactment with Fields?