Blaming Loren Landow for what ailed the post-PFM Broncos was, pun intended, always a bit of a stretch.
And, yeah, we saw the numbers. Denver led the NFL last fall with 23 players on injured reserve, according to Spotrac.com, while the Broncos’ $67.1 million in cap money on IR ranked third behind Tennessee ($104.7 million) and Arizona ($79.6 million). It was the third straight year in which the franchise ranked among the NFL’s top five squads in one, or both, negative superlatives.
The Walton-Penners unofficially put Landow, the Broncos’ head strength and conditioning coach since March 2018, on notice last December following the Christmas Day Massacre/Patrick Star Debacle.