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It’s a classic case of “be careful what you wish for”: Broncos fans had grown tired of Mike Shanahan… but at least that took 14 years. In about five months on the job, Josh McDaniels has Denver wishing for the old days of 2008. The NFL’s youngest head coach—and fifth-youngest ever, right after Lane Kiffin, Harland Svare, John Michelosen, and David Shula and right before John Madden and Don Shula—roared into town ready to create Patriots West. What owner Pat Bowlen may not have bargained for is that the new regime would result in the team’s Pro Bowl quarterback leaving town and their top wideout asking to follow suit.
Okay, so perhaps it’s not exactly the restart the Broncos were hoping for. But Bowlen certainly saw something—another Shanahan, perhaps?—in McDaniels, who zoomed past Jason Garrett as the hot young offensive mind. McDaniels put himself on the map as OC for the Patriots’ 2007 offensive fireworks, then solidified his cred by helping backup Matt Cassel direct the Pats to an 11-5 record after Tom Brady’s season-ending knee injury.
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