One final thing regarding Denver that should say everything anyone would need to know about McDaniels. This is from an ESPN blog article.
After Sundquist was fired (as GM), Shanahan promoted the father-son team of Jim and Jeff Goodman. When Shanahan was gassed, the Goodmans stayed and were part of the group that hired McDaniels. They were abruptly fired less than two months after McDaniels was hired. This was a bad sign. McDaniels played a role in firing two people who were part of the decision-making team that just hired him. He had too much power for a 32-year-old first-time head coach.
How is something like this even possible? Bowlen had to be asleep at the wheel to go along with this.
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