SAN FRANCISCO -- John Elway learns quickly.
As a quarterback, he had the Denver Broncos in the playoffs by his second season and in the Super Bowl by his fourth. It took him only three years to get to the Super Bowl with the Broncos as the vice president of football operations. Elway attacks problems as a football executive the same way he would defenses as a QB. Study, think aggressively, fire.
In Super Bowl XLVIII, the Seattle Seahawks, who had assembled arguably the third or fourth best defense in NFL history, embarrassed the Broncos with a 43-8 victory.