Broncos Name John Fox Head Coach

The Broncos concluded their coaching search on Thursday. John Elway announced that John Fox will be the next head coach of the Denver Broncos. Fox, 55, spent nine seasons in Carolina as their head coach. He is 73-71 with a 5-3 playoff record. Fox led Carolina to Super Bowl XXXVIII following the 2003 season. Fox also led Carolina to the NFC Championship in 2005, and a division title in 2008. I like this move a lot because he was clearly the best option available. Jon Gruden and Bill Cowher weren't coming to Denver. Jim Harbaugh, the best college coach available, headed to San Francisco. Coaches like Leslie Frazier and Jason Garrett stayed with their respective teams. Instead of going with the hot assistant or the up and coming assistant, Denver went with experience and hired the right man. Fox is a solid choice and a good choice. His teams always seemed to play hard and overachieve. He can come in and fix that terrible Broncos defense, and perhaps get the Broncos back to running the ball consistently on offense. Already with the Fox hire, Denver has the best HC in the AFC West. That will certainly help regardless. Who knows what he will do with Tim Tebow, but there are some good signs for Tebow fans with the Fox hiring. Fox got to know Tebow very well before last year's draft, and there were some rumblings that the Panthers were going to take Tebow. Also, Denver's current OC, Mike McCoy, worked with Fox in Carolina as a QB coach for 6 seasons before joining Josh McDaniels in Denver. Perhaps McCoy stays on staff and continues to develop Tebow. There is plenty of time for those discussions all offseason, but for now let's give a mile high salute to John Elway and Pat Bowlen for getting the right guy in Denver. Will he be successful? Who knows, and there are a lot of factors that go into play, but overall as a Denver fan you have to be happy with this choice. Fox is the man in Denver now, and their is hope on the horizon. Welcome to Mile High, John Fox. Go Broncos!