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Back on November 8, 2007, we passed along a rumor that G.M. Ted Sundquist could end up being the scapegoat in Denver.
In an unrelated development, Sundquist is out as the G.M. of the Denver Broncos.
The team announced the move on Wednesday night, saying that he is “no longer with the team, effective immediately.”
Said coach/de facto G.M. Mike Shanahan in a statement released by the Broncos: “I am grateful to Ted for all his hard work and efforts on behalf of the Broncos for the past 16 years. Now is the time for our organization to move forward and look at new directions. We are prepared to do so, starting with our ongoing draft planning, and along with continuing preparations for our mini camps and training camp.”
The back end of the rumor that we heard back in November was that Mike Lombardi, who worked for the Broncos as a volunteer in 2007, would take over the job.
Our guess? Given that the Broncos dumped Sundquist before the draft, the Raiders might quickly come calling, if for no reason other than to find out what Denver is planning for the rookie selection weekend.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Partially correct, yet partially wrong. Mike Lombardi was not retained by the Broncos see http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/feb/02/broncos-raise-prices/
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March 13th, 2008 at 7:06 am
I winder who is responsible for the last two to three drafts, and who is responsible for the miserable ones we had before that.THis coming one will tell us alot about if Ted really is the scapegoat or not.
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March 13th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Mike Shanahan has as much, if not more, to do with the shortcomings of the Broncos as Sundquist did.
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March 13th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Ahhh, the smell of napalm in the morning…….smells like victory.
Hey Ted, hows that Clarett pick workin out for ya ?
In all seriousness, the move was unexpected, but not un warranted.
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March 13th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I follow pro football pretty closely, and to be honest I’d never heard of Ted Sundquist - I was always under the impression that Denver was a total Shanahan operation.
However, perhaps the sacrifice of the unknown Sundquist signals a change in the attitude in Denver, i.e., it’s finally time to be accountable for some post-Elway era results……
Thanks to PFT for being one of the few football sources who look past the Shanahan-as-genious myth and note that he’s accomplished less with more resources than almost any coach in pro football over the past ten years…Kudos to him for having the skill to avoid accountability, but I’m just tired of some many football ‘experts’ failing to their knees in praise of the guy when some of his moves (resurrection of the Browns d-line, Clarett, blowing off a playoff spot to play Cutler) would have had most coaches canned long ago….the Coach Kevlar tag could not be more accurate !
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