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Denver Broncos: Crazy road led to Vic Fangio’s hiring, politics and all

Vic Fangio does his job better than just about everyone else in the NFL.

When John Elway said that the Denver Broncos were looking for a head coach with experience and expertise on one side of the football, there could have been perhaps no better candidate than Fangio, whose major criticism as a head coach candidate at this point is age.

At 60 years old, it’s incredible a coach with Fangio’s productivity has never been a head coach at any level.

He first broke into the NFL as a linebackers coach with the New Orleans Saints in the 80s where he coached up the “Dome Patrol”, a quartet of linebackers — Rickey Jackson, Vaughan Johnson, Pat Swilling, and the late Sam Mills — who combined for 20 Pro Bowl selections and 11 All-Pro selections.