ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- In hiring Vic Fangio, the Denver Broncos are returning to a formula they trust.
From the time Pat Bowlen hired Mike Shanahan in 1995 the Broncos have had five head coaches.
The three that won AFC West titles at some point in their tenures -- Shanahan, John Fox and Gary Kubiak -- each had long NFL resumes, as in more than two decades as players or coaches, or both in Kubiak’s case, before the Broncos had hired them for the head coaching job. And the two that did not -- Josh McDaniels and Vance Joseph -- were fired in two or fewer seasons with three years of at least 10 losses combined in the four on job.