Funviralpark 1. If the 25 minutes spent by Penner and Payton talking and answering questions is any indication, it’s that Penner will be heavily involved in the future of football. He is leading the search for coaching. He confirmed that the incoming head coach will report directly to him, not Patton. said to do.
“I have to fix this,” he said.
2. Penner said he was confident in Patton, but the second-year general manager took responsibility for Denver’s 4-11 start to the season on his shoulders. A good football coach and he’s an even better person. We brought in the coaches, we brought in most of the players.”
3. Penner said he and the owner’s group originally wanted to make a decision on Hackett’s future until the end of the regular season, but Sunday’s 51-14 loss to the Rams changed the schedule. rice field.
“We didn’t think it was time to make changes this week, but after seeing the effort we made on Sunday, some of what was happening off the field, we just felt it was time to make a decision. It’s coming,” Penner said. “Once I made the decision, I felt I needed to be fair to the organization and Nathaniel to move forward and make a change.”
4. Both said the search for a new coach began in earnest today, but did not provide details about the search committee. Rice recently served on Stanford’s search committee and has a deep background in football.
5. Among the qualifications for new coaches, Paton said experience is a plus but not a requirement. None of Joseph did well.
6. Payton wants the franchise to interview defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero for the head coaching job.
7. Payton and Penner praised the identity and consistency of the defense, but neither was seen from the Broncos’ offense throughout the season.
“We haven’t seen that consistency this year,” Penner said of the offense.
“On offense, it just changes from week to week,” Payton added. “A lot of it came from injuries and we didn’t really have that foundation or identity. We didn’t have that identity, we didn’t have that identity and we didn’t have that identity and we had some games that we could run and some that we couldn’t do consistently. The special team didn’t even have an identity, so we have to create one.”
8. Penner began his opening statement by apologizing to Denver fans. … I would like to personally apologize to our fans and everyone in Broncos Country because we know we need to do better. I will and will.”
