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As a Bronco fan, I’ve learned that the off-season is almost just as exciting as the regular season….almost.

Take last year for instance - draft Maurice Clarett, trade Rueben Droughns for Cleveland defensive line, cut Maurice Clarett, sign Jerry Rice, watch Jerry Rice retire.

This year - lose Gary Kubiak (ouch), flirt with TO, and now hire Mike Heimerdinger as offensive coordinator.

Let the record show that (in my opinion) as genius as Shannahan is on the field, he is as “what the $%&! are you thinking” off of it. Granted it is hard to argue with how the Cleveland Broncos performed this year minus the Pittsburgh train wreck.

But let’s evaluate the moves/rumors so far…

Kubiak - huge loss but unavoidable. He was going to head coach somewhere in the league at some point in time. Miracle that he has stayed this long.

TO - aka The Trainwreck. Talk about not fitting? How is he going to hang out with Rod Smith? John Lynch? Donavan was/is an all-pro quarterback. Plummer is a good one. If TO had issues with Donavan, what’s he going to do with Plummer? Plummer is a hairy Jeff Garcia and we all know how well that relationship went.

Besides, TO belongs on the Raiders with all the other bonehead players with loads of talent but won’t listen to coaches. That’s why it doesn’t matter what coach the Raiders get. Nobody is going to listen to him. What a day to get the two players I loathe the most on the team I loathe the most….good night…I’m slobbering just thinking about it.

More questions about TO. Denver can handle a loudmouth - see Shannon Sharpe. BUT that loudmouth has to perform, has to put the team first, and can’t be outtalked by their agent. TO fails on two of three.

Heimerdinger…so the Bronco offense struggles to put up points in the offseason, loses their offensive coordinator, and the response is to hire the former offensive coordinator of the Jets and the Texans.

Okay, I reserve judgment for later but I gotta admit…this offseason is adding up to be just as bizarre as the last one.