They say you only really learn through trial and error, so Monday was an important step in the ownership tenure of the Penner group.
After a 51–14 blowout loss to the Rams Sunday that dropped Denver to 4–11, it fired coach Nathaniel Hackett and declared publicly that general manager George Paton would be swooped into the fold to help find his replacement. This was a move so expected, so painfully by the book when it comes to standard NFL operating procedure, that we barely batted an eye. The people closest to power, the ones who have the ability to shape the narrative, survive.