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Woody Paige did a Zoom call with our Broncos Quarterback Club group tonight. Some of Woody's comments:
Ownership:
There are 6 different groups as Woody has written.
there will be a bidding process - some say whoever pays the most money will get the franchise. not true. nfl will manipulate this. The nfl has a list of owners they want in their ownership group so they won't approve anybody (they didn't approve donald trump when trump wanted to buy the Bills even though trump offered more money than the current Buffalo owners)
There are reports john elway is searching for an ownership group to be a part of. Not true. John has a group - John wants to be with a winning group.
One of the groups is a denver based group fronted by a law firm
Another is a group of minority owners in two other sports (nhl and nba)
Head coach:
A search committee has been traveling cross country interviewing candidates. There are people back in denver that are part of the process (joe ellis and john elway). elway is on the zoom conference calls. John isn't asking questions but he's on the calls and will have input.
The coach could be named as soon as Monday. Woody thinks the coach will be named next week.
Woody's opinion on the different candidates:
Dan Quinn - google the podcast finding mastery with Dan Quinn, listen to this and you'll be impressed. The players like Quinn similar to the way broncos players liked gary kubiak. Kubiak gave best speeches. Quinn has picked good young coaches. He took the worst defense in the NFL in dallas to one of the top 2 or 3. he'll get one of these head coaching jobs. Denver is not the most attractive job out there in Woody's opinion.
Hackett - 1a to Quinn's 1, well respected, well admired
O'Connell - not getting a lot of play, has proven himself with 3 or 4 other franchises
Callahan- he's been on the bronco staff before, married his wife here, has great love for Denver, he has a really good chance, he comes from great coaching tree
little chance:
aaron glenn - exciting young man, gm of an indoor football team in the past, exceptional, broncos really impressed. but it's probably too early for him to get a head coaching job
getsy - sharp young man not a premier candidate. if hackett gets a head coaching job getsy will be the packer's offensive coordinator
gannon - philly defense bad the last couple of games. won't be the coach
mayo - maybe a future defensive coodinator . he is really co coordinator with patriots now, again too early for him to be a head coach
bieniemy - denver is not right situation, vikings are a better fit, eric calls more plays for kc than people know (he calls alot of the plays, andy reed can override Eric but often does not)
kellen moore - too young, too early
quarterback:
likes kenny pickett the best of the qb's coming out of the draft, but pickett is 25 years old. He'd be an old rookie. tough, great developmental qb. can't develop him for a long time given his age. matt corral has been hurt, not that great a passer reminds woody of drew lock
woody thinks the broncos should consider signing mitch trubisky. Mitch is a free agent, and has had a year under the Buffalo coaching staff that did a good job developing Josh Allen.
other stories:
When Woody first came to town he wrote a negative article about the Broncos. He got a call the next day from the Broncos. "Coach ralston wants to see you", Woody met Ralston and John told him "you can't write negative things about the broncos. you should go back to new york where you came from!"
Dan Reeves hated woody, though they had a good relationship outside of football (they would play golf together in the offseason) When Woody switched from the Rocky Mountain News to the Denver Post, Reeves called Woody to congratulate him and then said "My father has a subscription to the Post - I'm cancelling it."
Al Davis did not like Woody. When Al was in his last days and hobbled into the stadium for a Broncos/Raiders game Woody went up to Al to wish him well with his health. Al replied, ""you're still an asshole!"
There were other entertaining stories Woody told in his over 2 hour talk with the qb club. The qb club has in person meetings in the Denver area and occasional "members only" zoom meetings with former players and media where those living outside of Colorado (like me now) can participate. For more information visit the qb club website
Ownership:
There are 6 different groups as Woody has written.
there will be a bidding process - some say whoever pays the most money will get the franchise. not true. nfl will manipulate this. The nfl has a list of owners they want in their ownership group so they won't approve anybody (they didn't approve donald trump when trump wanted to buy the Bills even though trump offered more money than the current Buffalo owners)
There are reports john elway is searching for an ownership group to be a part of. Not true. John has a group - John wants to be with a winning group.
One of the groups is a denver based group fronted by a law firm
Another is a group of minority owners in two other sports (nhl and nba)
Head coach:
A search committee has been traveling cross country interviewing candidates. There are people back in denver that are part of the process (joe ellis and john elway). elway is on the zoom conference calls. John isn't asking questions but he's on the calls and will have input.
The coach could be named as soon as Monday. Woody thinks the coach will be named next week.
Woody's opinion on the different candidates:
Dan Quinn - google the podcast finding mastery with Dan Quinn, listen to this and you'll be impressed. The players like Quinn similar to the way broncos players liked gary kubiak. Kubiak gave best speeches. Quinn has picked good young coaches. He took the worst defense in the NFL in dallas to one of the top 2 or 3. he'll get one of these head coaching jobs. Denver is not the most attractive job out there in Woody's opinion.
Hackett - 1a to Quinn's 1, well respected, well admired
O'Connell - not getting a lot of play, has proven himself with 3 or 4 other franchises
Callahan- he's been on the bronco staff before, married his wife here, has great love for Denver, he has a really good chance, he comes from great coaching tree
little chance:
aaron glenn - exciting young man, gm of an indoor football team in the past, exceptional, broncos really impressed. but it's probably too early for him to get a head coaching job
getsy - sharp young man not a premier candidate. if hackett gets a head coaching job getsy will be the packer's offensive coordinator
gannon - philly defense bad the last couple of games. won't be the coach
mayo - maybe a future defensive coodinator . he is really co coordinator with patriots now, again too early for him to be a head coach
bieniemy - denver is not right situation, vikings are a better fit, eric calls more plays for kc than people know (he calls alot of the plays, andy reed can override Eric but often does not)
kellen moore - too young, too early
quarterback:
likes kenny pickett the best of the qb's coming out of the draft, but pickett is 25 years old. He'd be an old rookie. tough, great developmental qb. can't develop him for a long time given his age. matt corral has been hurt, not that great a passer reminds woody of drew lock
woody thinks the broncos should consider signing mitch trubisky. Mitch is a free agent, and has had a year under the Buffalo coaching staff that did a good job developing Josh Allen.
other stories:
When Woody first came to town he wrote a negative article about the Broncos. He got a call the next day from the Broncos. "Coach ralston wants to see you", Woody met Ralston and John told him "you can't write negative things about the broncos. you should go back to new york where you came from!"
Dan Reeves hated woody, though they had a good relationship outside of football (they would play golf together in the offseason) When Woody switched from the Rocky Mountain News to the Denver Post, Reeves called Woody to congratulate him and then said "My father has a subscription to the Post - I'm cancelling it."
Al Davis did not like Woody. When Al was in his last days and hobbled into the stadium for a Broncos/Raiders game Woody went up to Al to wish him well with his health. Al replied, ""you're still an asshole!"
There were other entertaining stories Woody told in his over 2 hour talk with the qb club. The qb club has in person meetings in the Denver area and occasional "members only" zoom meetings with former players and media where those living outside of Colorado (like me now) can participate. For more information visit the qb club website
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