Vance Joseph is in his first season as a head coach in the National Football League. Despite his Denver Broncos clearly regressing this season, he's managed to escape a large portion of the accountability. Instead, as the Broncos fired him on Monday, it had been offensive coordinator Mike McCoy playing the role of scapegoat.

According to Vance Joseph, the reason for Mike McCoy being sent packing is far less nefarious than that.

“When we changed from Trevor to Brock, my goal was to stabilize the offense and not turn the ball over as much,’’ Joseph said, via KUSA. “It was more about the quarterback position and hoping to get a veteran guy in to stabilize the offense and not give the ball away as much. That hasn’t happened. Brock’s had three starts now and the same problems have occurred. And so I felt at this moment for our football team moving forward that a change was needed, going from Mike to Bill Musgrave, simply because I want to have a more efficient pass game. You have to have that. Our running game has been good. But our pass game has not been good in my opinion.”

I don't know how firing the OC helps Denver's quarterback debacle. The Broncos have nothing but awful options at the position. Firing McCoy to “fix” that is not actually going to fix it. It's not like, just because you fired him, all of a sudden prime Joe Montana joins the team or something.

Nevertheless, someone had to be the fall guy for this season.