Gruden to Return to ESPN

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Wow -- there's a lot of hate for Mike Shanahan apparently. I don't really see why, the man has a 138-86 record in Denver, a .615 winning percentage in the playoffs, and two shiney Lombardi trophies.

People will say that he couldn't win championships without Elway. But for a long time there were coaches that couldn't win with Elway. If you look at his record in Denver, he had two losing seasons; 6-10 in 1999, and 7-9 in 2007 which was sandwiched in between 9-7 in '06, and 8-8 in his final year there.

So at worst, the Broncos fell into mediocrity in his last three seasons.

I really don't get how Mike Shanahan takes such a big hit around here.