ROMO WANTS TO COACH THE BRONCOS

Maybe it’s the lingering effects of the steroids. Or maybe he’s just not very bright. Regardless, former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski wants to be the next head coach of the Broncos. And unlike other former NFL players such as Deion Sanders and Marshall Faulk, who have merely talked about their desires, Romo has rolled up his sleeves and gone high-tech, preparing a Power Point presentation that makes his case. Slide No. 7: “If a player gets out of line, I will break his face.” Romo, we hope this is just a way to inject your name back into the NFL consciousness, given that you’ve pretty much dropped off the face of the earth -- and would have remained out of view until the time comes for Hollywood to cast the next movie featuring former football players showing tremendous range by playing, um, football players. Regardless, he sounds serious about it. “I can’t stop thinking about this,” Romanowski told the Associated Press. “This may be a complete fantasy and that’s all right. . . . At the end of the day, nothing may happen from it.” Well, at least he’s not completely delusional. Then again, anyone who thinks that he can become an NFL head coach with no prior coaching experience is mostly delusional. And that’s the reality -- Romanowski has no experience, apart from helping with his son’s team. So if he wants to become an NFL head coach, he needs to rekindle a relationship with a former teammate whose face he didn’t break or position coach whose authority he didn’t undermine by breaking teammates’ faces and become an assistant coach, and then work his way up. “For Pat [Bowlen] to do something like this, it would take him being a visionary, thinking outside the box,” Romanowski said. Visionary? No. Inebriated? Yes. But Romanowski doesn’t simply want to coach the team. He wants to revamp the front office, specifically as it relates to draft preparations. “I’d take the top 60 colleges in the country that produce pro prospects and I would treat those 60 like they were their own league and start looking at freshmen when they come in,” Romanowski said. “When 80 percent of your talent comes from 20 percent of the colleges, I think you ought to have a pretty strong focus on those colleges.” Great. Fine. We like it when people have ideas. But, again, there’s a way to go about getting in position to be able to share those ideas. Publicly grandstanding for a high profile job despite having no experience and an admitted history of steroids use and confirmed erratic behavior (probably from the steroids) isn’t the way to make it happen. Think of it this way. How many of the other candidates for any of the current NFL head-coaching jobs are publicly lobbying for the positions? Exactly. Romo, you’ve gotten your name on television and in the papers again. Congratulations. Now, please let the Broncos focus on their efforts to hire a coach. A qualified one.