Should Josh McDaniels get anther head coaching job?
The Sports Show with Woody Paige and Les Shapiro
Les Shapiro and Mike Pritchard talk about former Broncos player Josh McDaniels and if he should get anther head coaching job on The Sports Show on Dec. 30, 2014.
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Les Shapiro is a local Denver sports reporter who covered the Broncos. Pritch played for Josh.
Some quotes:
Les - Should Josh get another chance?
Pritch - (makes a pained exhale and notices his gut reaction and explains it in an apologetic way) Oh that right there, that reaction. Would I consider it? For an X's and O's standpoint yes but it takes more than that... If I need a culture guy, a locker room guy, a guy my players can believe in? (pursing his lips in an avoidance manner as he is shaking his head no as he says) I just don't know if he's the guy.
.. I would have a structure in place where he wouldn't have the sort of power that he would think he would have. He cannot think that he has a lot of power. If he thinks that then you'll have the same thing happen that happened here...
Les - What people don't realize about Josh McDaniel. He was so disrespectful of everyone he dealt with... I know what happened when Josh met with people behind closed doors at Dove Valley. IT WAS NOT PRETTY EVER! ...When you are an NFL HC people look up to you for leadership. He couldn't handle it and handled it very-very badly... It (his behavior) was embarrassing, it destroyed morale. He was paranoid, he was VERY immature... He MAY have matured, MAY HAVE... My problem is he had so many problems of running people, an operation of 220 people... He was soo bad at it and so destructive. I don't know if he'll EVER become good at it... I ABSOLUTELY would not touch him as a head coach....
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For anyone wanting Josh McDaniels you have to listen to this clip, only 8 minutes but well worth it since Dee wants this guy.
It was worse than my memory and I had no clue about the things that went on behind closed doors or the fact he hated everything about being a head coach other than Xs and Os and was so nasty to everyone. The redemption story is great, yippee but he only says he has changed. We'd be betting he has completely changed and can deal with all aspects of being a HC but Pritchard says to keep a tight structure in place so he doesn't get MORE power. It sounds like he wants power to elevate himself above everyone so he doesn't have to deal with anyone or that power gives him the right to abuse them. The last thing we should give him is his own GM.
People can change but this has disaster written all over it.