More problems between Gase and the Broncos
We just couldn’t let this stuff go …
The Broncos picked up their first victory of the 2020 season on Thursday night, beating the Jets 37-28 at MetLife
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But Denver
Vic Fangio wasn’t
in a great mood when the game ended, pulling his team quarterback
Jets coach
John Elway
Pete
Kansas City Star off the field rather than take part in postgame handshakes.
As Pro Football Talk noted, the Jets had six personal fouls, and the Broncos accepted 11 penalties and picked up 118 yards.
So Fangio told his team to “head to the (expletive) locker room.”
“There was just a couple of personal fouls there at the end and our sideline was getting pissed off about it and I just wanted to avoid having any confrontation at the end of the game and having it get ugly there,” Fangio told reporters. “So, I tried to get our guys to leave quickly just to avoid anything happening there.
I thought it was the prudent thing to do.”
The NFL.com story noted Jets defensive
Quinnen Williams Brett Rypien’s away on fourth-and-13.”
Adam Gase grabbed Broncos facemask at one
point, while Jets nose tackle
Armando Salguero
Steve McLendon
“teed off on Rypien, who was throwing the ball
“I saw those guys start going off and I heard Vic yelling at his guys saying ‘Get in the locker room,’ so I saw what was going on,” said. “I think he was just trying to make sure we didn’t have any kind of melee. It was getting heated.”
There’s some previous bad blood between
Gase and the Broncos. He was the offensive coordinator there in 2013-14. of The Miami
Herald: “Gase was making the rounds interviewing as a possible head coach for several teams (in 2015). He got a second interview ... and per league sources, Gase was told he had the 49ers’ job all but sown up.
“Except that after San Francisco GM the job to defensive assistant
Trent left that second interview with Gase, he suddenly soured on the young coach and gave
Jim Tomsula.”
Gase apparently thought that Broncos GM bad-mouthed him to the 49ers.
When the Gase’s Dolphins played the
Broncos in 2018, there was some shenanigans. Gase’s team tried an onside kick up 33-9 in the fourth quarter. Gase also brought in his backup quarterback, and had him throw long.