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Published on 01/06/2012 at Fri Jan 06 11:56.
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Silver: Tim Tebow’s Broncos future at stake Sunday

Posted Fri Jan 6th by

Quarterback Tim Tebow #15 of the Denver Broncos warms up prior to facing the Kansas City Chiefs at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on January 1, 2012 in Denver, Colorado. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

Quarterback Tim Tebow #15 of the Denver Broncos warms up prior to facing the Kansas City Chiefs at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on January 1, 2012 in Denver, Colorado. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

Yahoo!‘s Mike Silver wrote one of the most controversial Tim Tebow columns earlier in the season, quoting a “highly knowledgeable” member of the organization as saying Tebow could be fairly evaluated to the be the fourth string quarterback on the team.

The column caused quite a stir; John Fox indirectly responded by saying something about the team chef being a team source, and the Broncos PR staff, in my opinion, threw a number of indirect barbs Silver’s way in social media in the following week.

Simply the fact that Silver continues to be given access in Broncos headquarters tells me two things: his history with John Elway runs deeper than one column’s controversy, and there was certainly truth in his words.

Now Silver is back with a new Tebow column, and, in my opinion, it’s fair, balanced, and pretty much sums up the situation with the Broncos and Tebow perfectly. They want him to be the guy, but they have their doubts.

It struck a chord with my opinion on the Broncos and Tebow, at least. Read:

As of right now, Broncos executive vice president John Elway and head coach John Fox regard Tebow as their presumed starter for 2012 and plan to proceed accordingly. Yet in the wake of last Sunday’s 7-3 defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs, they’re starting to get a little squeamish. And you can be sure that if Sunday’s season-defining performance against the NFL’s top-ranked defense is an unmitigated disaster, their first order of the offseason will be formulating a viable backup plan – whether it’s drafting a promising passer, acquiring a proven veteran or both.

Silver expounds on the idea of double standards for Tim Tebow, talks about his teammates’ decision to fine him for the billboards earlier in the season, and takes the pulse of Tebowmania in the column. A lot is riding on how Tim Tebow plays against the Pittsburgh Steelers this weekend. Go read Silver’s take.

Tebow playing for more than his playoff life Sunday [Yahoo! Sports]

  • Anonymous

    Man, people really need to lay off the Tebow stuff. They also need a little perspective as well.

    Tebow has started all of 14 games his entire career, and is now in his 1st playoff game in his 1st year as a starter. Does he look like Drew Breese, Tom Brady, and Aaron Rogers? NO! No he does not, but guess what? Neither does the 29 other QBs in the league. Neither does “unquestioned franchise QBs” such as Rivers, Cutler, Newton, Ryan, etc…

    Tebow should be given a full off-season of work as the starter, and the subsequent season as the starter before any decisions on his future are discussed. Geez people, he’s a young QB. He’s gonna  make mistakes! He’s also hopefully going to grow as a QB.

    Q: How many 1st year starters were given this short of a leash and been criticized this harshly whether deserved or not…. ever?
    A: None
    Q: How many 1st year starters were given their full rookie contract to show they can make it even though they looked worse than Tebow?
    A: A lot
    Q: Have we ever seen a 1st round bust of a QB who had all the physical abilities of a franchise QB, but lacked the mental strength and attitude to succeed?
    A: Yes, most busts have had the physical tools, but lacked maturity and proper attitudes.
    Q: How many 1st round bust QBs have lacked the physical mechanics, but excelled “in between the ears” so to say?
    A: I’m not so sure there has ever been any. Usually busts are because of their A) dedication B) attitude C) mental toughness or D) willingness to learn. Tebow has none of these qualities, so nobody has any history on a QB like Tebow being a bust.

    People need to take a giant step back, take a very deep breath, and stop knee jerk reacting to Tebow. Let the kid have 1 off season, training camp, preseason and full season as the starter before the “will he/won’t he; can he/can’t he; he’ll never/he always has” talks start up. Hell, even Ryan Leaf and Jamarcus Russel were given more respect and time to develop than Tebow has been given, and those 2 guys were clear cut mental midgets with “bust” practically tattooed on their forehead the second they stepped on the field, yet they were still given the opportunity to prove themselves for many more games than 14, and more seasons than 1.

    GO BRONCOS!!!

  • King

    Silver has always been a ‘shock jock’ and nothing more when it comes to reporting.  It keeps him fed. 

  • Anonymous

    A great column to get reads, nothing more. Even if they want Tebow as the starter in 2012 they SHOULD draft a QB later in the draft AND bring in a veteran AND give Weber some reps to evaluate his progression.

    Even if Tebow does work out as our franchise guy (and that is still TBD) we have all seen how badly it works out for teams that don’t have a solid backup in place when their #1 goes down!

  • Nisse

    whatever makes you sleep at night

  • Anonymous

    I agree completely, we should draft another QB cause Tebow is probably the biggest boom or bust QB in awhile. 

    As for all those who say he is still as rookie and that he hasn’t played a full season yet. While that is true, even though most rookies struggle, they can actually pass, and Tebow hasn’t shown to do that on a consistant basis.

  • virginiabronco

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  • Anonymous

    Tebow was never a 1st round pick.  McDaniels screwed the pooch moving up to draft Tebow in the 1st round.  1st round picks don’t get to be projects who may develop in 4 or 5 years and they don’t get a free pass.  Tebow does not get 4-5 years to maybe develop.  That is a fact.   
    Are you serious?  Leaf and Russell were laughingstocks after their rookie years.  The raiders were bringing in people off the street to play ahead of Russell and Leaf rode the pine his second season.

  • Anonymous

    Of course Elway and the coaching staff want Tebow to be the guy.  Anyone who has claimed otherwise is a fool and an idiot.

  • Anonymous

    That’s where you’re wrong. He WAS a 1st round pick. Agree or not, he was a 1st round pick. I can argue that Willie Middlebrooks and Ashlie Lelie weren’t “1st round picks” cause they SUCKED, but truth be told, they were picked in the 1st round, and anyone who is picked in the 1st round, deserved to be picked in the 1st round. This applies to Lelie, Middlebrooks, Leaf, Russel, etc…

    Aaron Rogers didn’t start till his 4th year in the league. Yes, he was behind Favre, but you would say that he was a 1st round pick, wouldn’t you? Well, when he started his 4th year in, he was a completely different QB than he was when he was drafted. He was most certainly a “project” or else he A) would have been drafted higher, B) wouldn’t have had the embarrassing slide down the draft board, and C) would have made the Favre drama easy to cut ties with.

    Remember, Favre was horrible for 2 of the 3 years that Rogers was on the bench. When I say horrible, I mean “he’s embarrassing himself by not retiring” type of bad… yet there was the shiny new 1st round QB, sitting on the pine… why? Because he wasn’t “complete”.

    No QB is complete until they get 3 or 4 years as a full time starting QB under their belt. Of course there are exceptions, as I think Rogers played really good in his 2nd year as a starter (year 5 in the league), and of course, Dan Marino played out of his mind from the get go, but they are exceptions, not the rule!

    Russel was given the starting job each year he was in the league. Yes, the Raiders kept bringing in “competition”, but that was only as a ploy to hopefully light a fire under his ass. Yes, he eventually played his way out of the league, but that wasn’t for 3 or 4 years. The same can be said for Leaf. And even after his miserable failure in San Diego, where he was only benched cause of his alienating himself from his teammates, not because the Chargers “gave up” on him as a QB, he still bounced around and was given the starting reigns in Dallas, until they figure out he couldn’t be saved. My point is that even monumental busts like them were given every chance to succeed in this league, yet a guy who has it together like Tebow is actively being forced out. It’s a pathetic display by pathetic people, and pathetic “fans”.

  • Dragonborn

    All these articles are so incredibly stupid and all these clown writers are trying to attract readers and nothing else.

    Let’s go back a few weeks: Our Broncos are 1-4 with a 7 year veteran pro-style “cement feet” QB and the fans are mad and screaming for everyone’s head. The team looks like they are going to finish 3-13 at that rate and let’s pretend that happens for a second. Elway looks like the biggest ignorant bust and needs to be replaced, Fox is facing the firing squad, McCoy cannot get a job at the local high school and Orton is looking at Canadian league options with McNabb. 

    Enter Tebow without ota’s and any first team training camp snaps, and after loosing his pro bowl receiver via a moronic trade, somehow finds a way with his “limited skills” to help inspire a team that was playing like going to a funeral to go to a 6 game winning streak, finish 8-8 and make the playoffs for the first time since 2005. Please notice that I said “help” the team and not “lead” it. Football is a team sport and everyone from the FO to the last player is responsible for the final outcome.

    Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t it really unfair that Tebow, after helping to save all the above clowns asses, is the one that media claims that is in danger of loosing his job? 

    Has Elway forgotten so fast that he really SUCKED his first year? The fans in Denver were not sure if he was the QB of the future and were thinking of drafting the next most NFL ready QB to come out of college according to Kiper, “Boomer Esiason”the following year. (If you are too young to remember or you do not believe me look it up)! Good Lord!

    Has Fox, a dinosaur of a coach, ever developed a decent QB in his career? Isn’t he the idiot who despite of having one of the best clutch kickers in the league bypassed a 48 yard FG in fear of losing field position with 60 seconds to go? Are you kidding me? Prater makes that field goal in his sleep and the Broncos only need a FG to win the game at the end.

    I am not going to talk about McCoy. The guy is horrible, has an one page playbook, he cannot create a decent matchup and should get the gigantic boot no matter what the team does in the playoffs.

    Last week Orton managed 7 points and Tebow managed 3. A 7 year veteran versus a first year starter! Yet one was decent and the other one horrible? Everyone conveniently forgot to mention that the Chiefs defense outplayed our defense and caused two turnovers where ours could not cause a meaningful turnover in 3 games? Yet Tebow sucked? Did you see how easy KC drove down the field in their scoring drive?

    The Broncos should definitely try to draft a young talent in the middle to later rounds to compete with Tebow next year or an experienced veteran to tutor him and compete with him to make him better no matter what happens in the playoffs. And Elway should get his behind down the field and help the kid in the off season. 

    Please remember my Broncomaniac brothers: Sunday’s match up is between the Steelers and the Broncos. When the season started the Steelers were a veteran team favored to win the AFC and the Broncos were a mediocre bunch favored to finish last in the division. Anything can happen in a single game and I have the “Any given Sunday” faith. I believe that we will kick some Steelers a$$ this Sunday and will surprise a lot of “experts”. But even if we lose, this season, this incredible ride, especially after the way the whole thing started was very entertaining and if it ends on Sunday so be it. But please do not put everything on Tebow’s shoulders, not after what he did for our team this year, not after what he did for all the coaches and players that were supposed to watch this Sunday from their couches.

    GO BRONCOS!

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  • Anonymous

    The only person in the NFL who thought Tebow was a 1st round pick was McDumbass.  Tebow lacked the skills then and he lacks the skills nice.  All of the intangibles he has are wonderful, but if you don’t have the rest of the package they’re meaningless.  There are thousands of men out there with superior dedication, attitude, mental toughness and a willingness to learn.  If that was the only requirement for playing football nobody would be getting million dollar salaries.
    Of course no QB is complete until they have 3-4 years in the league.  The reality is that 1st round picks more often than not do not get 3-4 years.
    The only reason players like Lelie, Middlebrooks and the rest maintain a roster spot is because of the salary cap.  Their hit on the cap is the only reason they have a roster spot.
    Since you brought up Favre and Rogers, you know that the Packers tried everything they could to get Favre to accept a back-up role.  In fact the situation in Green Bay was very similar to here, the exception being keeping Favre as the starter.  Letting Favre show what an asshole he really is to the fans and team was better in the long run.
    Russell played his way out of the league by his 2nd season.  He was worse his third year and got benched and was cut before he got a 4th season.  

  • Anonymous

    Funny how the defense never got any credit during the winning streak.  How many rushing yards did the Broncos hang on the chefs?  You do know that the Broncos lead the league in 3-&-out?  And you’re really going to hang this loss on the defense?  Go back to Florida. 

  • Anonymous

    It is truly sad is that Tebow will be labeled as a bust thanks to the sheer stupidity of McDumbass.  Then of course there are the worshipers who demanded Tebow start now.  Tebow should have stayed on the bench this year.

  • Anonymous

    What now? After Tebow threw for 316 and 2TDs and ran for 1TD. Whoever says he doesn’t look like someone you can win with and build a franchise around after this game is just plain “hating”

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  • Anonymous

    You worshipers keep throwing out the word hate and its derivatives in the hope that it will eventually stick because you have nothing else.
    Doug Williams and Trent Dilfer both won Super Bowls in otherwise dismal careers. 

  • Anonymous

    You worshipers keep throwing out the word hate and its derivatives in the hope that it will eventually stick because you have nothing else.
    Doug Williams and Trent Dilfer both won Super Bowls in otherwise dismal careers. 

  • Anonymous

    A) I never wanted us to draft Tebow and was really disappointed when we did.

    B) I try to objectively watch and evaluate football and players, so I “got past” my dislike of Tebow being on our team

    C) I love being a fan, and I try to make sure that me being a fan takes priority over anything else.

    D) The offseason is longer than the regular season, so believe me when I say this, “there is plenty of time for criticism, debate, and finger pointing IN THE OFFSEASON!!!” Now is the time to be a fan. Now is the time to enjoy the excitement of where this team has gone, especially from where we just were.

    Also, Trent Dilfer is and was a worse QB than Tebow. You can put up completion percentage and him winning the SuperBowl behind the 2nd best Defense to ever play in the game, but when the chips are down, who would you rather have on your team? Tebow or Dilfer? Tebow or Williams?

    Remember, NOBODY is complete after 15 starts… NOBODY! It took Drew Breese 8+ years to “develop into the QB he is now. San Diego gave up on him and drafted a QB in the 1st round because they didn’t think Breese could get it done. Well, talk about a mistake! Not that Rivers is bad, cause he’s really good, but Breese is better, and that #1 pick could have been used on someone else that would help them, causes their QB was just fine. They gave up on Breese. Remind me how that worked out for them?

    We can withstand Tebow not being a franchise QB if after an entire offseason as the #1, a full traiing camp as the #1, the full preseason as the #1, and next season as #1, he proves to not be “the answer at QB”. What we CAN NOT afford to let happen is a Brett Favre, Steve Young, Drew Breese type fiasco. They were all either traded away or let go because they “weren’t any good”, only to go on to have HALL OF FAME careers! We can not let that happen! We need to give this kid a shot to succeed and a shot to prove that he is or isn’t the answer.

    Remember, true growth happens in the offseason and camps. There is very little actual practice reps going on during the season. It’s mostly implementing plays, and not much running and repping those plays hundreds of times. Repping plays is what camp is for, and Tebow didn’t get those reps with the players he’s playing with right now. The timing isn’t there yet, which makes what he’s doing right now all that much more impressive.

    GO BRONCOS!!!

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