Shanahan firing as big as the Favre trade

In the last few days, circus that is firing coaches at the end of the year gave a great show. The Lions did not disappoint in firing Rod Marinelli, nothing personal but if you dont win a game then you should not be allowed to come back. 

BUT story of the day is the firing of Mike Shanahan, the head coach of the Denver Broncos. Shanahan had been with the organization for 21 years and had won two back-to-back Super Bowls in the mid-90s. This was not good enough because since John Elway (their HOF QB) retired Shanahan only has one playoff victory and its about results. Shanahan now has become the hottest Head Coach on the market, since Cowher recently withdrew his name from NY and because an organization like Detroit who doesnt even know what the Super Bowl is would love two have someone whose won it twice-whatever it is.

The Jets fired Eric "mangenuis" Manginni in a somewhat surprising move but not altogether that surprising considering how the epic of a failure the second half of their season was. 

Cleveland fired Romeo Crennel, understandably. Although Crennel had a rash of injuries at the QB position this year, I still have to say he handled the benching of Derek Anderson terribly.

Mike Holmgreen has now finished his last year in Seattle, I hate it for him that it ended like this. He is a great coach.

 Herm Edwards has one year left in Kansas City and with new management coming in, anything is possible. It does appear though that if he gets fired, they will allow him to resign, thats automatic respect points to me.

On a more positive note, Mike Singletary will stay in San Francisco and I am personally excited about this because i like his coaching style, smack-mouth football-reminds me of Del Rio. Marvin Lewis will get the last year on his contract in 2009.

Dick Jauron will get another year in Buffalo.

As of right now, Jim Zorn is still the head coach of the Washington Redskins, i just felt  like adding it in there.

Andy Reid is still in Philly, along with QB Donovan McNabb, I hope Donovan goes somewhere that fans appreciate having a dominant pro-bowler. Maybe Detroit so they can draft a lineman number 1, maybe Tampa Bay-does it really look like they appreciate Garcia at all, they want someone new. Or here is an interesting scenario--San Francisco. Be aware of it.

In Oakland, the Tom "Cable guy" looks to have a lead in the running for the head coach. this does not mean he will retain the job, just that he has a lead going into the interviewing process. Oakland won their final two games, including a win over the favorited Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in a game where their 3rd string HB Michael Bush rushed for 177 yards. WOW! was Monte Kiffin (D-Coordinator TB) that ready to go to TN with his son Lane. Go volunteers i guess.