List of Denver Broncos head coaches

The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver, Colorado. They are members of the West Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team began playing in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL), and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger. The team has played their home games at the Invesco Field at Mile High since 2001.[1] The Broncos are currently owned by Pat Bowlen.[2]

There have been 13 head coaches for the Broncos franchise. The franchise's first head coach was Frank Filchock, who coached until 1961.^[3] Mike Shanahan is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular season games coached (208), the most regular season game wins (130), and the most playoff game wins (8).^[4] Shanahan and Dan Reeves, are tied for the most playoffs games coached (13).^[4][5] Shanahan is also the only Broncos head coach to win a Super Bowl, with two.^[4] Jack Faulkner, John Ralston, Red Miller, and Reeves have been named the United Press International (UPI) NFL Coach of the Year, at least once with the Broncos.^[6] Filchock, Faulkner, Mac Speedie, Jerry Smith, Ralston, and Miller spent their entire coaching careers with the Broncos.^{[3][7][8][9][10][11]} Speedie, Ray Malavasi, Miller, and Shanahan have been assistant coaches with the Broncos before they became head coaches with the Broncos.^[12] Josh McDaniels was the Broncos head coach in 2009 and most of 2010 before being relieved of his duties by Broncos owner Pat Bowlen. Eric Studesville replaced McDaniels as interim coach for the rest of 2010.

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Head Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2010 NFL season.

Notes

• ^a A running total of the number of coaches of the Broncos. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
• ^b Each year is linked to an article about that particular NFL season.

References

General

• "All-Time Coaches Roster" (PDF). Denver Broncos. NFL Enterprises LLC. http://www.denverbroncos.com/resources/custom/PDF/RecordBook/2008/AllTimeCoaches.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-11. 
• "Denver Broncos Franchise Encyclopedia". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/den/. Retrieved 2008-11-11. 

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