ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The Denver Broncos have finished the first round of interviews for the team's head-coaching job.
They covered four time zones -- five cities and seven interviews this past week alone -- and got almost all of them done face-to-face. Now they'll decide if any of the 10 people they've interviewed gets a callback as they move toward the selection of the kind of leader general manager George Paton has said he wants to replace Vic Fangio.
A couple of big-picture items to remember: Since Mike Shanahan was hired in 1995, the only Broncos head coaches to take the team to the playoffs had been head coaches before: Shanahan, John Fox and Gary Kubiak.