When Broncos owner Pat Bowlen fired an old, experienced coach in Mike Shanahan, he decided to shake things up by hiring the 32-year-old Josh McDaniels to replace him.
Bowlen says that was a mistake he wouldn’t make twice.
It’s no coincidence that when the Broncos fired McDaniels and Bowlen had to pick another coach, he went with a guy who was the polar opposite of McDaniels: John Fox is 56 years old and has nine years of experience as an NFL head coach, and Bowlen says that makes Fox the right fit for what Denver needs, which McDaniels never was.
“I don’t want to say Josh was a bad coach,” Bowlen told the Denver Post. “He just didn’t have the level of experience that made me comfortable. John does.”
That raises the question of why Bowlen ever hired McDaniels in the first place. It seems to be a question Bowlen is asking himself.
