John Elway should start anew, keep Adam Gase and Jack Del Rio away

It’s been two days since the Denver Broncos fell to the Indianapolis Colts at Sports Authority Field. John Elway was fed up. Elway and then head coach John Fox agreed to mutually part ways despite Fox owning a career regular season record of 46-18 over four years. The problem wasn’t his record season record, it was his postseason record. Under Fox, the Broncos made the Super Bowl just once (hard to do) but it wasn’t enough for a team that has the desire and passion to win every year, especially with Peyton Manning under center.

Elway and Fox reportedly didn’t see eye-to-eye in terms of running the team and control moving forward, so they felt like it was the best time to part ways. Not only will Denver be looking for a new head coach, but they will possibly be in the market for an offensive and defensive coordinator. Adam Gase and Jack Del Rio have been linked to head coaching interviews while Denver will likely have a staff overall.

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In John Elway’s press conference Tuesday afternoon, he said that Gase and Del Rio are candidates for Denver’s head coaching vacancy. This shouldn’t happen. Elway should do everything in his power to steer clear of both Gase and Del Rio for the sake of the team moving forward. What have either of them proven? Gase elected to run simply conservative 2-3 yard crossing patterns which ran Denver’s offensive into the ground. Del Rio on the other hand can’t manage a defense to save his life, even with the names of Chris Harris, Aqib Talib, T.J. Ward, Terrence Knighton, Von Miller, DeMarcus Ware, and the list goes on.

I’m definitely not sold on bringing back the familiar faces in Mike Shanahan or Gary Kubiak, unless Denver is deciding to move on from Peyton Manning, especially with the zone blocking scheme they love to run, which is suited for a bootleg quarterback such as Brock Osweiler (reminiscing on the Jake Plummer days). If anything, Elway’s top options to replace Fox should be defensive coordinators Todd Bowles (Arizona) and Dan Quinn (Seattle). Both possess an elite defense which could use a little motivation and a hell of a lot better schemes.