Keeler: Jim Harbaugh might be too wacky to work in Broncos Country. But handing Broncos, Russell Wilson to another first-time coach would be complete insanity.

If the Broncos rent one other first-time head coach, I’ll shave my head. Or no matter’s left after it’s accomplished exploding.

Yeah, certain, Jim Harbaugh is a little bit …daffy. OK, lots daffy. Dude’s daffy with sprinkles on prime.

However you recognize what’s daffier? Doing the identical factor, over (Vance Joseph) and over (Vic Fangio) and over (Nathaniel Hackett) once more, then anticipating a unique end result.

Each time the Broncos go digging for the second coming of Dan Reeves, they flip up one other Josh McDaniels.

What’s the purpose of being Rob Walton in case you can’t purchase your troubles away? Cease making an attempt to be cute. Cease making an attempt to be intelligent. Cease sitting on that fats pockets and begin waving it in individuals’s faces.

Would you like followers in different markets to concern you, or to maintain pointing and laughing on the dumpster hearth on Bryant Road? For Broncos Nation, holding the heavy bag for the remainder of the NFL is getting awfully outdated, awfully fast.

Plant a flag, Greg Penner. Put down a marker, Carrie Walton Penner. Give any person good, any person confirmed — one of the best somebodies on the market being Harbaugh or Sean Payton — fully silly cash. As in, a lot cash, they’d be fully silly to not take it.

As a result of nothing actually adjustments round right here, nothing will get severe — not the tradition, not the locker room, not the expectation of successful, not the idea — till the teaching facet of the equation will get severe first.

The franchise quarterback, the one you’re caught with, wants a voice he doesn’t simply respect, however perhaps even fears a little bit.

Neglect whispering. I need a quarterback shouter. If the Broncos’ subsequent coach is afraid to bench Russell Wilson, if he’s too scared to offer Massive Russ a style of what Mike Purcell did on the sidelines in Charlotte, you’ve acquired the unsuitable man.

Give me the grown-up within the room. Somebody who received’t freeze in the midst of the highway as soon as they see the headlights closing in.

This isn’t a “starter” market, OK? This isn’t a “starter” franchise. Once you deal with teaching the Broncos like an entry-level job, is it any marvel why this franchise retains getting entry-level outcomes?

It’s a league of revenue margins off the sphere and superb margins on it. Denver is 3-9 in one-score video games this fall. The Orange & Blue are 9-20 (.310) over their final 29 one-score regular-season matchups. The Orange & Blue are 9-20 (.310) over their final 29 one-score regular-season matchups and 8-20 since beating the Raiders, 16-15, in a crazy season finale to shut out the 2019 marketing campaign. They’re 18-34 (.346) in one-score tilts courting again to 2017, Joseph’s first season on the helm.

Andy Reid, in the meantime, is 22-7 (.759) over his final 29 one-score common season matchups with the Chiefs, and 7-3 this season.

In his final 29 video games with the Niners determined by eight factors or fewer, Harbaugh posted a file of 20-8-1 (.714). In his final 29 tilts with the Saints below those self same circumstances, Payton went 19-10 (.655).

So, yeah, Payton can be tetchy and superb. Harbaugh can be bizarre and superb. Dan Quinn can be uninspired and superb.

However no extra newbies. No extra heaving and hoping with the following, sizzling factor. Or the following low cost, sizzling factor. The AFC has too many switchbacks — and too many good quarterbacks — for inexperienced palms to navigate by way of the darkness of December and January.

If overpaying for Massive Russ means you need to overpay for the coach tasked with “fixing” him, so be it. Penner and firm have to choose: Can we need to be the headlights closing in from the gap? Or the deer freezing earlier than the inevitable?

Hey, solid as broad of a internet as you want. Embrace a various area of candidates and concepts.

Simply watch out to not fall too head over heels in love with shiny objects throughout the search. Or to be wooed by the siren name of new-age professional soccer ontology. If a candidate sounds too darn good to be true, he most likely is.

A 12 months in the past presently, by all accounts, Hackett completely aced his interview. The person seemingly had a plan for all the pieces. Besides, because it seems, what to do as soon as his staff acquired punched within the mouth.