Denver wins, Tebow runs, Management frets
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011Tim Tebow winning games for Denver is one of the worst things that could have happened to Elway, Fox and Broncos management. With the team near .500 the fans will have (shudder) hope of a possible playoff run. If Denver beats the jets this week they sit at 5-5. Of course, with games against the Patriots and Bills and Bears and a road game in San Diego there is no telling where the team goes from there.
Tebow, despite his leadership, seems to me to not be a quarterback of the future. In fact, he’s barely a quarterback of the present so all reference to Uncle Scrooge aside, the Bronco win streak put the front office in a bind.
If they started Tebow and the team went 0-6 under his command, they could have easily played Orton or Quinn to finish the season and looked for a free agent QB signing in the off-season. Instead, TT seems to be maintaining his fan support despite his arm. Let’s face it – he’s getting credit for the 60 yard bomb to clinch the game but fans are conveniently forgetting the 3 other times he had wide-open guys for touchdowns and either threw short or late. If Orton is QB on those plays Denver wins a laugher 38-10. Instead the balls hang like clay pigeons and the defensive backs yell ‘Pull!’ and close the gap.
As things stand Denver will likely finish 6-10 or 7-9 if they sneak up on someone. Not good enough to figure in the Luck stakes even if they wanted to and this isn’t the best year to draft a QB anyway. 7-9 would be just good enough to make people thing the TT experiment deserves another full season renewal. The TTE reminds me of most shows on NBC right now – not good enough to get good ratings or reviews but not bad enough to cancel immediately and nothing in the can to show from 8-9 pm in its place.
I am not rooting for Denver to lose, but I have for a long time been rooting for people to realize that no team in the NFL wins without something that vaguely resemebles a quarterback.
