The Denver Broncos have many problems but the two leading problems are Mike Shanahan and Jay Cutler.

First we will start with Mike Shanahan. We will get to Jay Cutler and his punk attitude later, but to start with we will focus on the Lil Dictator and why he needs to go.

These are the facts concerning Mike Shanahan. He has won two Super Bowls. He has won ONE playoff game in 10 years. He has signed so many bad players it is hard to name them all. He has drafted so many bad players it is hard to name them all. 

Mike Shanahan is the head of the Denver Broncos. For the last 10 years they have been mostly mediocre. Is it completely Mike Shanahan’s fault? Well it is not exactly all his fault… but most of his fault. Why? Because in Denver it is the Lil Dictator that makes 99.9% of all decisions and that is where the problem lies.

There is no real oversight with Lil Mikey. He fires coaches when he wants to. He drafts the players HE wants (remember Maurice Clarett?). He signs the free agents he wants. His record in both areas, drafting and signing free agents, has been HORRIBLE.

The problem with Lil Mikey is not that he can’t coach…he can. Give him the talent and he can get the job done. The problem with Lil Mikey is that he has far too much control. The Bronco’s have very little talent on defense…and whose fault is that? It is Mike Shanahan’s.

The Bronco’s have more talent on offense but are led by a QB that spends more time on yapping, and thinking that he is already great, than actually being great. Jay Cutler is the second problem with the Denver Bronco’s. The QB position must be a position where leadership comes from. The Bronco’s simply do not get that with Jay "I have a great arm" Cutler. Instead they get a guy that pouts, a guy that sits on the bench and looks like he would rather be sleeping, and a guy that obviously cannot read defense.

Cutler is young and still has room to improve…at least that is the hope. So for now we will give Cutler a bit of a pass, but no more passes to Lil Mikey. For far too long Mikey has run off coaches because THEY did not produce results. Well Mikey, what about YOUR results?

You are the one that hires the coaches. You are the one that drafts the players. You are the one that signs the free agents. You are the one that fired the general manager. The buck stops with YOU Mikey.

Unless Pat "Mikey is my coach for life" Bowlen wakes up, Denver will NEVER get back to the promised land. Mike Shanahan has far too much control and apparently does NOT have to produce results.

Take a look at the drafts from 2000 until now. Almost all of them have been a disaster. The 2006 draft looks like a real good one if Cutler pulls his head out of his ass and starts to play like HE thinks he should. If not it will go down as a good draft because of Brandon Marshall and Tony Scheffler.

Almost every other draft has produced NOTHING. The 2008 draft shows some promise but we will not know for sure until a few years from now. The issue with Lil Mikey is that he can do whatever he wants and apparently doesn’t have to show results.

Most coaches get fired if they only produce one playoff win in 10 years. Not Lil Mikey. Jake Plummer must be laughing all the way to the handball court. Greg Robinson must chuckle when he sees another defensive coordinator hired and fired.

Larry Coyer must also get a smile on his face when he sees the Broncos defense play so horribly bad. Jim Bates must be somewhere smiling because of the Broncos defensive problems. He, like all the rest, was a scapegoat for the Bronco’s problems last year.

The biggest issue with Denver is LACK OF TALENT and that begins and ends with Lil Mikey Shanahan. 

If the Bronco’s do not seriously improve over the last nine games of the season Pat Bowlen MUST seriously consider firing Shanahan. How many more years of this mediocrity is he going to put up with?

Bill Cowher is out there. Mike Holmgren is going to be out there. Those two guys would probably be a much better fit in Denver than Lil Mikey. And what the Bronco’s really need is a general manager that has some real control.

Right now Shanahan makes all the decisions in Denver. He has the final say. No one gets drafted or signed unlese he says so….and that is the problem in Denver.

Mikey, YOU NEED TO GET THE JOB DONE NOW!