As it should be. The head coach decides who plays on Sundays. GM's have some input, but most coaches wouldn't work in a relationship where the GM decides who plays in the games. The idea that Vance (or any head coach) is a "yes man" to Elway is nonsense, but it does light up the lines for the local talk radio station. 

I don't think that's the kind of relationship Elway wants with his coach either. He's smarter than that. The head coach owns the win-loss record at the end of the season, his job security depends on it. First-year coach or not, Vance has to make those calls, and make the right ones. I think McCoy and Bill Musgrave will have a strong voice in that decision as well. They all have some skin in the game, whether Siemian or Lynch plays, it's their careers on the line. That's the way you want it.