After three seasons of sub-par offensive and special teams play, Broncos coach Vic Fangio was fired early Sunday morning.
There had been a considerable amount of talk about retaining Vic to run his defense that was, surprisingly enough, in the top half of the league, but it was deficiencies elsewhere that ultimately did him in.
The Broncos offense was dead-on-arrival all year. While people will spend considerable time this offseason continuing to debate Lock vs. Bridgewater, the true offensive deficiency sat in the coaches box. Pat Shurmur was obscenely awful at his job. When it became apparent that he wasn’t going to change anything to help the offense find their way, Fangio should have shown Shurmur the door weeks, if not months, ago.