SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — It's hard to know who took the bigger risk.
Was it the team, the Denver Broncos, who were hiring a coach with recent health problems and a penchant for not maxing out talent?
Or was it the coach, Gary Kubiak, who signed on with a team that had just fired a coach with a winning record because he came short of the only goal that mattered — capturing the Super Bowl?
Turns out, it wasn't such a risk.
The coach, hired by his loyal friend John Elway, changed his ways, in part because he couldn't keep up the pace that caused him to have a mini-stroke while he was coaching the Houston Texans.