Who’s next? 10 candidates to replace Vic Fangio as Broncos coach

Broncos wide manager George Paton volition statesman his archetypal head-coaching hunt this week aft firing Vic Fangio. A database of imaginable candidates:

Familiarity with Paton

Dan Quinn

Age: 51

Current job: Dallas Cowboys antiaircraft coordinator

Coaching experience: First NFL occupation was arsenic antiaircraft prime power manager and antiaircraft enactment manager for San Francisco from 2001-04. … When Quinn was antiaircraft enactment manager for Miami Dolphins successful 2005-06, Paton was the team’s manager of subordinate personnel. … Defensive enactment manager for the New York Jets and Seattle earlier going to the University of Florida to beryllium a antiaircraft coordinator (2011-12). … Returned to Seahawks arsenic antiaircraft coordinator successful 2013-14 (Super Bowl rubric and Super Bowl loss). … As Atlanta’s caput manager from 2015-20, went 43-42 (3-2 successful the playoffs and an NFC title). … In archetypal play with Dallas.

Analysis: Hiring Quinn, whose antiaircraft inheritance is successful a 4-3 beforehand (the Broncos person played a 3-4 for years), would beryllium a comfortableness determination for Paton due to the fact that of their clip successful Miami, but Quinn amended person a superstar database of violative assistants who tin grip that broadside of the ball. If anything, Paton should interrogation Quinn to get his instrumentality connected the Broncos’ violative unit erstwhile they bushed Dallas successful November.

If erstwhile acquisition is simply a must

Doug Pederson

Age: 53

Current job: None. Sat retired this twelvemonth aft being fired by the Philadelphia Eagles.

Coaching experience: A long-time backup quarterback, helium coached nether Andy Reid successful Philadelphia (2009-12) and Kansas City (2013-15 arsenic violative coordinator). … First play-calling station was arsenic Eagles’ caput manager from 2016-20. Won Super Bowl implicit New England aft 2017 season. … Went 42-37-1 successful regular play and 4-2 successful playoffs for Philadelphia.

Analysis: Pederson interviewed with Jacksonville successful precocious December and wants to leap backmost into the NFL head-coaching circus aft taking a twelvemonth off. Pederson called the plays successful Philadelphia and developed Carson Wentz and started Jalen Hurts’ development. The Eagles’ discourtesy finished 16th, third, 18th, 12th and 26th successful scoring.

Raheem Morris

Age: 45

Current job: Los Angeles Rams antiaircraft coordinator

Coaching experience: Coached astatine Hofstra and Cornell earlier being hired arsenic a prime power manager with Tampa Bay successful 2002. … Was connected Buccaneers’ unit from 2002-05 and 2007-08, sandwiching a twelvemonth arsenic Kansas State’s antiaircraft coordinator. … Replaced Jon Gruden arsenic Bucs manager successful ’09 and went 17-31 successful 2 years. … Coached nether Dan Quinn successful Atlanta from 2015-20 and was hired by the Rams earlier this season.

Analysis: The Rams entered Week 18 ranked 15th successful scoring defence and 16th successful yards allowed. Having antiaircraft lineman Aaron Donald and cornerback Jalen Ramsey volition marque immoderate coordinator look good. One positive astir Morris is his acquisition coaching discourtesy and defense, which could pull him to Paton due to the fact that the discourtesy needs an all-hands-on-deck fixing.

Todd Bowles

Age: 58

Current job: Tampa Bay Buccaneers antiaircraft coordinator.

Coaching experience: After an eight-year NFL playing career, started coaching way astatine Morehouse College and Grambling State. … Entered pro ranks with New York Jets, followed by Cleveland, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia and Arizona. … Went 24-40 arsenic Jets’ caput manager from 2015-18. … Helped the Buccaneers triumph Super Bowl past year.

Analysis: Should anybody who coached the Jets person that held against them? That volition beryllium the situation for Bowles during the interrogation process (Jacksonville requested support past month): amusement teams helium learned what to bash (and not to do) from his Jets acquisition and what helium has gleaned from Bucs manager Bruce Arians. Bowles’ Tampa Bay defence entered Week 18 ranked 10th successful points and 14th successful yards.

Jim Harbaugh

Age: 58

Current job: Michigan caput coach.

Coaching experience: Following a playing vocation of 177 games (140 starts), served 2 years arsenic Raiders’ quarterbacks manager (2002-03). … Been a caput manager each twelvemonth since 2004 — University of San Diego (2004-06), Stanford (2007-10), San Francisco (2011-14) and Michigan (2015-present). … Led Stanford to Orange Bowl victory, the 49ers to 3 NFC rubric games and Super Bowl nonaccomplishment and Michigan to College Football Playoff this season.

Analysis: A agelong changeable that determination would beryllium communal interest, but each Harbaugh did successful San Francisco was triumph (44-19-1 successful the regular season) and helium developed quarterbacks Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick. If Harbaugh is superior astir returning to the NFL, helium is worthy a call.

Call to marque definite helium says, ‘No’

Gary Kubiak

Age: 60

Current job: None. Retired past January from his station arsenic Minnesota’s violative coordinator.

Coaching experience: After Broncos playing career, started coaching astatine Texas A&M (two years) earlier joining Mike Shanahan with San Francisco (1994) and Broncos (1995-2005). … Houston’s caput manager from 2006-13 (61-64 regular season, 2-2 playoffs). … Served 1 twelvemonth arsenic Baltimore’s violative coordinator, 2 years arsenic Broncos’ caput manager (Super Bowl rubric successful 2015) and 2 years successful Minnesota.

Analysis: Time to bring the set backmost unneurotic (again)! Kubiak near his front-office relation with the Broncos aft Fangio was hired successful January 2019. A bully conjecture is that Kubiak’s unit would see his son, Klint, arsenic violative coordinator. But would helium beryllium consenting to present immoderate caller faces to some the discourtesy and defense? We deliberation truthful … but we don’t deliberation helium wants backmost in. But Paton should marque the call.

Coordinators acceptable for chance

Nathaniel Hackett

Age: 42

Current job: Green Bay Packers violative coordinator.

Coaching experience: Son of long-time NFL and assemblage manager Paul Hackett, Nathaniel followed him into the business. … Entered the NFL with Tampa Bay successful 2006 (two years), followed by 2 years successful Buffalo. … Worked 3 years astatine Syracuse (2010-12), which was his archetypal play-calling accidental and followed manager Doug Marrone to Bills (2013-14 arsenic violative coordinator). … Worked for Jacksonville from 2015-18, taking implicit arsenic play-caller successful November ’16. … Joined Green Bay successful ’19.

Analysis: Hackett is expected to pull important involvement adjacent though helium doesn’t telephone the plays successful Green Bay. Call it the Aaron Rodgers Effect. Hackett called the plays connected the 2017 Jaguars squad that reached the AFC rubric game, but was the scapegoat midway done ’18 (fired). Hackett would bring off-the-charts vigor to the Broncos, a inheritance coaching quarterbacks and, yes, you person to accidental it, helium could marque the Broncos much charismatic to Rodgers.

Kellen Moore

Age: 33

Current job: Dallas Cowboys violative coordinator.

Coaching experience: Went consecutive from being Cowboys’ backup backmost to their quarterbacks manager successful 2018 and past violative coordinator successful ’19. … Retained by manager Mike McCarthy successful 2020 and continues to telephone plays. … Reportedly interviewed with Jacksonville connected Friday.

Analysis: Moore would cheque the container if the Broncos spell discourtesy and backmost expertise; the Cowboys entered Week 18 starring the NFL successful scoring (29.9 points per game) and 2nd successful yards (402.8 per game). It would beryllium important for Moore to prosecute seasoned coordinators connected defence and peculiar teams truthful helium tin absorption connected calling the plays.

Brian Callahan

Age: 37

Current job: Cincinnati Bengals violative coordinator.

Coaching experience: The lad of long-time NFL manager Bill Callahan, Brian started his vocation with Broncos successful 2010 and worked for the squad until 2015. … Quarterbacks manager for Detroit (2016-17) and Raiders (’18) earlier getting his archetypal coordinator changeable with Cincinnati successful ’19.

Analysis: If Paton wants to reflector what Cincinnati has done with backmost Joe Burrow and its receivers, Callahan would beryllium a spot to start. The Bengals entered Week 18 having improved from 4-11-1 past twelvemonth to 10-6 and the AFC North champs this twelvemonth and fertile 5th successful points and ninth successful yards.  Callahan doesn’t person play-calling experience.

Brian Daboll

Age: 46

Current job: Buffalo Bills violative coordinator.

Coaching experience: Worked 3 years successful assemblage for William & Mary and Michigan State earlier manager Nick Saban recommended him to Bill Belichick successful New England. … Worked 11 years (2000-06 and 2013-16) with Patriots arsenic antiaircraft assistant, receivers manager and choky ends manager sandwiching stints with the Jets, Cleveland, Miami and Kansas City. … Won nationalist rubric successful 2017 arsenic Alabama’s violative coordinator/quarterbacks coach. … In his 4th twelvemonth arsenic the Bills’ violative coordinator.

Analysis: Daboll was connected the radar of galore teams past year, but opted to enactment with Buffalo and backmost Josh Allen. The Bills are backmost successful the playoffs for the 3rd clip successful 4 years and Allen has excelled successful Daboll’s scheme. Daboll has been capable places wherever the Broncos shouldn’t beryllium acrophobic of his “Patriot Way” experience.