My guess is that this poll will be a landslide, but I guess I'd just never thought about it until now. Even though we all despise Herm, he came into the team in a really rough position and, though we didn't make much progress, he didn't really "hurt" the team so much as delay its development. We also pulled a handful of decent players out of his tenure, though one could argue we had our fair share of clunkers as well.
McDaniels, on the other hand, came into the team when it was really in pretty decent shape. But in two years, he managed to pretty much dismantle all of the strengths the team had and waste numerous draft picks in the process. It's really pretty impressive when you think about it.
In some ways, it's just oddly comforting to realize that, no matter how bad Herm was, the Broncos had it worse.
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