ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- In his first official day on the job, newly minted Denver Broncos coach Vic Fangio quickly and decisively put his stamp on his expectations with a phrase that just may have gotten him, at age 60, the first head coaching job of his career.
When Broncos president of football operations and general manager John Elway was asked what made him put Fangio on his list of the team's interviews, he said: "Looking at kind of what we needed... when he said we're not going to kill ourselves by inches, it's not going to be death by inches, that was something that stood out to me right away.