Josh McDaniels = Emperor Palpatine
Countless people in the sports world have characterized Bill Belichick as the evil emperor (mostly because they both don scowls and hoodies), but in the Broncos universe it’s McDaniels who more closely resembles the ultimate bad guy.
As we learn in the prequels, Palpatine is a young, power hungry senator who exploits galactic instability and uses deception and manipulation to assume power of the newly forged “Empire.” If that doesn’t describe how McDaniels took the reins at Dove Valley, you can ship me off to the ice planet Hoth and feed me to a Wampa.
In the original trilogy, we know Palpatine as the despotic, overconfident leader of an Empire who spreads his reach too far and leads it to the brink of collapse, thus, it’s best to remember McDaniels after he’d been caught red-handed taping a 49ers walk-through and his team was a disappointing 2-6.
The charming young politician who once looked like a genius is all but gone and things around him are about to blow up, yet he resolutely believes his evil ways are not the cause of the problem. The only thing left to do is throw him down a reactor shaft and try to rebuild.
