After getting off to a stellar start in his first season at helm in Denver, Josh McDaniels has seen his team and head coaching career pushed to the brink of being pushed into the scrap heap.
The toughest blow came early last week with the revelation that the Broncos video director Steve Scarneccia filmed a portion of the 49ers practice prior to the two team’s playing each other in London, England. McDaniels was quick to deny his having used the video for strategic purposes, going so far as to say he said no thanks to Scarneccia when the video was offered to him, but the controversy still remains, and the NFL hastily slapped him and the Broncos as a whole with matching $50,000 fines.
Combined with his team’s dismal performance thus far, it was more a matter of when rather than if McDaniels would be fired, and many around the league openly speculated he would be finished by the season’s end.
Fortunately for McDaniels, the only opinion that matters is that of team owner Pat Bowlen and earlier this evening, he delivered a firm endorsement of his young head coach that all but guarantees McDaniels will be coaching the Broncos through next season at the very least.
Speaking in a telephone interview, Bowlen clearly indicated he was not interested in making a coaching change now or in the off-season. Obviously those sentiments could change if the other shoe drops in Spygate Part II or if his team completely gives up on him down the stretch, but for the time being it seems as though the fans in Denver will see McDaniels on the sideline next year.
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Written by Chris Kolb
Topics: AFC West, Denver Broncos