2010 NFL Draft: Broncos Coach Josh McDaniels "Can Kiss Job Goodbye"

I watched the draft and Thomas wasn’t a bad pick at all but they started talking about hime being just like Brandon Marshall and how he was the complete opposite of him to me it’s a bit ironic.
  Then the Donkeys move up to get Tebow. I love the guy but you don’t pick him that far up in the draft. I really do believe that Mcdaniels is depleting his own roster and he’s hurting himself and the team which is fine by me honestly.

i agree mcdaniels is a psycho sometimes. seems like he is a 12-year old boy and the denver broncos is his madden franchise.

Did he make some questionable picks? Yes.
Does McDaniels have a huge ego? Yes.
Does he have a lot of guts? Yes.
Does he do thinks his own way? Yes.
Did everyone predict Jamarcus Russell was going to be a good QB coming out? Yes.
Did everyone predict Joe Montana was a dud coming out? Yes.
Does anyone know rather these players will fluke? Only if you believe in psychics.

He can sorta save alittle face if he releases Orton (which isnt a bad thing) and openly state the qb competetion between the young guys……either way the 1st round was the brainfart that should give him the pink slip.

McD – “Yeah, you should have seen Pat Bowlen’s face when we took Tebow! Face palm!”

All of McDaniels’ crazy moves may very well pay off and we will all eat crow and look stupid for criticizing him. But I don’t think thats the point of this whole thing. I think McD came out from under the shadow of Belichick and felt the need to prove himself where others had failed. As a result, he started making controversial move just for the sake of controversy. Its like he’s playing a giant adults only no-limit poker game with other peoples money, just so he can prove that he has balls. I not entirely convinced that McDaniels himself thinks his moves are going to pan out. He’s all in with Tebow… but I’m calling his bluff.

I think this guy is going to crater Denver for years to come.

Haley has the commands and is getting things in order to do so.
Haley has already used his mind numbing brain power stare to turn McDaniels mind into jello. The plan is working. The Donkeys are doing everything Haley programmed them
to do.

Pioli is Dr. Mindbender.

Next is Haley dragging Josh inside a UFC cage and locking the door….uh oh little Joshy!!

I thought he was gonna puke when they drafted Tebow. He was is a funk for the duration! LOL!

Chiefs all day!

I completely disagree with the article.

Every analysis I saw or heard last night said Demaryius Thomas is not only going to be as good a player as Marshall was in Denver, but that he’s doesn’t have the character problems that Marshall had.

The Tim Tebow thing? I get why they took him. He has every intangible. He’s a great football player (beyond just being a winning QB, even with wonky throwing mechanics). He’s a guy who works hard and does things the right way.

McDaniels is doing in Denver the same thing that we’re trying to do here: Build a team with ‘the right 53.’ It was easy to hate Denver when they had Marshall and Romanowski and whoever that running back was with 187 kids in 14 different state. But, if McDaniels keeps picking guys like these, I’m going have a lot harder time finding reasons to hate them.

And I still don’t. I hope that he becomes Elway-esque…. while Berry becomes DT-esque. Let Tebow develop into an elite NFL QB… and let Eric Berry be his bain, picking him off and laying the hammer on him every time they meet. Instant improvement to the rivalry, if you ask me.

But we’ll see.

nails into the coffins of either McDaniels or the Broncos just yet. Last year we all thought he had lost his mind sending Cutler to Chicago and getting Orton in Denver. Cutler sucked up a storm in Chicago and Orton played half decent football. When we start hammering the Donks on a consistent basis, then I may declare McDaniels history.

Or it WILL be a bad move by Denver. You don’t give up a 2nd, 3rd, and 4/5th (w/e it is) for a guy to ride the bench for 1-3 years. Sadly, that is what Tebow HAS to do, he doesnt have good enough NFL skills. Claussen would have made MUCH more sense for the Broncos to nab, and he just passes them by. Tebow was a project player, NOT a first round draft pick. Anyone who says “Oh, the Patriots were going to pick him in the first round” are probably wrong. If they would’ve got Tebow, It would have been with one of their 2nds.

Only thing that is good about all this is that the broncos just ripped apart there own orginazation IMO. They are lying to themselfs if they think that tebow is gonna be a star qb or even a star at all. I’ve watched him all year being down here in Florida an he is NOT a QB. Plus no one even mentions that he is left handed. So that means the entire offense will have to switch up when he is in. Right tackle becomes blind side WR have to switch up routes. What a mess.

but instead of random food cravings he just drafts crazily. Instead of craving Apples with Humus, he drafted Tim Tebow

Optimism is a good thing but winning the division? We haven’t even finished the draft yet. Look, Berry is an amazing pick and I’m EXTREMELY grateful but he doesn’t give us the AFC West yet. We need to get a NT, LB’s, and some offensive help before we start claiming the division. If we get those picks mentioned above then we can THEN start talking division champs as long as they are the “right” players.

They did a masterful job of trading back and picking up picks in a very deep draft. Then they use their first pick to replace the WR he got rid of a few weeks ago. Fine, best case scenario he gets an elite WR without the drama, on the field that is still a break even from last year in production (and that is a pretty BIG “if” for him to put up Marshall’s numbers). Then he traded away most of the picks they had racked up by trading back to move up and take Tebow. Again, they may have improved their locker room, but nothing to help them be better on the field next year. They had two first round picks in a very talent rich draft and on paper don’t look any better (if not worse) then they were last year and now they don’t have a bunch of extra picks anymore to fill their holes. The Donks are going to have to hit a HR with both their second round and third round pick to fill the holes they have on defense if they want to improve. I think McDaniels honestly thinks that they will win if he just has a locker room full of guys that will do what he says without arguing. It doesn’t appear he thinks they need to upgrade the talent from last year. That is whay I think is a mistake.

Thomas was by far the worst pick in the first round. Did anyone watch the Orange Bowl (you know the one where Amari Spievey, a guy who NFL draft experts have dubbed as having a big lack of speed, held Thomas out of the box score?) Thomas is a so-so athlete who benefitted from the attention teams payed to the triple option. A decent corner can shut him down pretty easily (to be fair Spievey shut down everyone but Thomas was supposedly the best receiver he faced in college). Mark my words, Thomas is may be the biggest bust of the first round.

…..that Tebow’s deep throws are suspect and his accuracy is a bit better than his deep throws (that’s not saying much and isn’t a compliment).

Can he improve this? It’s likely that he can with a good coaching staff around him, however the majority of winning QB’s have an inate ability to play the position and then have a coach hone their skills. He lacks that inate ability coming in.

Unfortunately for the Donk’s he was hyped as much as Quinn Brady was when the Browns drafted him…..and now they’re both stuck in Donkeyland.

Is he worth a #25…..no.
Is he worth all the draft picks….no

McD screwed up by getting rid of Cutler and the Donk’s will reap the consequences over the next decade.

Everyone says he is going to work so hard to succeed. Here’s the thing, a lot of people work very hard in the NFL. I would even venture to say most. So where does he diffierentiation himself?

Why is he not going to fall back on the technique he has possessed for most of his life, abandoning this newly formed stroke that is not battlefield tested?

Even at that point, how is his “New Swing” going to make him in the top half of quarterbacks in the CFL, i mean NFL?

Look, I like the kid. He’s a great guy. But do send the gut of your draft (2,3,4) to move up to get him, you feel like he is a special talent, one that will succeed over most all others.

it was a clear and strong message from pretty much every GM that “character counts” … call it the Big Ben Backlash Effect (did you know his lifesize likeness has been removed from the Pittsburgh Zoo?)

yes there was sarcasm by the truckload in that Prisco writeup, so what? I think you’re going to see more and more teams put a much higher emphasis on those “character issues” than ever before … it WILL happen

1 dont like the tebow pick best-case ser Tebow= cassel its denver owner faut for hireing him McD 2 even through i am not a fan of tebow i have to give the guy a change