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Published on 11/18/2011 at Fri Nov 18 09:50.
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Tim Tebow is Pat Bowlen’s man

Posted Fri Nov 18th by

Tim Tebow

Tim Tebow #15 of the Denver Broncos prays during the final minute of the game against the New York Jets at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on November 17, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. (Garrett W. Ellwood/Getty Images)

A vote of confidence can often be the virtual death sentence for a struggling coach or quarterback in the NFL. If the person in charge has to use words to emphasize what isn’t clear on the field, someone is in trouble.

This is not one of those cases.

The Denver Broncos have found their quarterback of the future, and his name is Tim Tebow. Just ask Pat Bowlen.

From a phenomenal piece by Ian O’Connor on ESPNNewYork.com:

As Elway all but sprinted through the winning locker room, his chest bursting through his suit jacket, he said, “Just give him a chance to win the game.” Asked what it was like to watch Tebow perform an endgame act he himself had mastered, Elway said, “It was great. Awesome.”

Broncos owner Pat Bowlen was heading for a different exit door when he stopped long enough to declare that Tebow would be his man for many moons to come.

“He’s a quarterback, and believe me he’s going to learn,” Bowlen said. “I believe he’ll be a great one. Better keep him around.”

Just like that, the direction in which this franchise is moving is clear. The Broncos will rise or fall with Tebow. They will put up with 55 minutes of terrible stat lines and erratic passes now to capitalize on the magic he produces in a game’s final minutes. They believe those 55 terrible minutes won’t always be part of the equation; they believe that Tim Tebow will get better. They will let him learn, they will mold an offense to his strengths, and they believe he will flourish.

Last night was a pivotal moment for this franchise. If Tebow’s 95-yard comeback truly changed the course of Broncos history, it is indeed worthy of Broncos lore. We just witnessed The Drive 2. The Experiment is over. The Investment has begun.

The Broncos of today are different from the Broncos of yesterday.

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  • Anonymous

    I agree, I didn’t see anything but WTF!?!?! from Elways expression

  • Anonymous

    I totally agree, Decker had his mind on his girlfriend singing at halftime.  Thomas should have been targeted more too.

  • Anonymous

    I thought there were four sure-fire first rounders?  Who’s the guy out in your scenario?   

    Personally, I’d be happy w/ Griffin, Barkley or Landry Jones.  

  • virginiabronco

    and the “subset” says Halleluiah!  I am going back to find Monty’s cant win with Tebow article and take a nap.

  • http://www.upcomingautographsignings.com/ Dan

    All Tebow does is win, win and win some more. He’s a real deal, hard nosed, never give up football player. I love it! I think the players have rallied around him and have adopted that same attitude.

  • Glingram1

    It’s a shame you thought he was talking to you about being an idiot. But….one knows himself.

  • areferee

    Au contraire, Spelunker-Boy!  I know them ALL:

    Benny, Dempsey, Daniels, Flash, Lemmon, Nicholson, Nicklaus, Sprat, Captain Sparrow, O-Lantern and OFF…

  • Anonymous

    While I do think they need to get someone in here to work with him every livng and breathing moment of the off season, I am not so sure it’s Elway.

    That’s not his role and I don’t think he would be much of a coach.  Most people that are that great just have God given talent that’s just better than everyone else.  Elway was blessed with a cannon on his right shoulder, eyes behind his head and instincts to know when to scramble.  Teaching someone else how to it is very different and in some cases impossible.

    They need someone that can look at him and give him the right coaching that will fix two of three things that can make a sustainable difference.  He can get better with his reads and his accuracy.  Those are teachable if someone knows how to do it. The dude flat out has everything else you could ask for.

  • Anonymous

    hell yeah!!

  • Bill Jones

    It was a nice win & a nice comeback, but let’s not get carried away. This was NOT “The Drive 2”! For goodness sakes, that was in an AFC Championship game in front of a hostile crowd in Cleveland on a cold, blustery January day. And “The Duke” was in his 4th year and had already proven himself as a multi-skilled pro QB. Tebow still has A LOT to prove! Any Bronco fan who calls this “The Drive 2” and compares Tebow to Elway is committing the worst kind of sacrilege.

  • Anonymous

    lmao!

  • crazykid

    There’s no way I’m reading all that haha

  • Anonymous

    I don’t blame you one bit. I didn’t realize that my straight forward, clear and concise 1 paragraph post got so out of control until I hit “post” lol

  • Anonymous

    I’ll give you both of your points. This was no “The Drive 2” and Tebow certainly isn’t Elway when you look at Elway through his body of work.

    What I will disagree with you on is that Tebow is better than Elway was 8 games into their career. SACRILEGE most will say! WRONG! Elway without the benefit of “revisionist history” was a worse QB than Tebow is 8 games into his career. Tebow has thrown for more yards, run for more yards, has thrown over 3 times the TD’s and less than half the INTs than Elway did through 8 starts.

    It is only because we know Elway to be the 5 time super bowl starting QB, NFL MVP, Pro Bowler, and 2 time SB champ that we say it’s ridiculous to judge Tebow vs Elway. BUT, if you take away revisionist history, and Elway’s body of work, and just focus in on the first 8 starts, you will see that Tebow is better than Elway at his point in his career. Does that mean that Tebow will ever accomplish what the greatest QB to ever play the game has accomplished? Absolutely not, but it is a fair indicator that Tebow needs time to grow and mature. It is also fair to say that he’s getting a bad rap because people are expecting instant results when instant results are impossible to come by (just look at every great QB or HOF QB. They never had instant success due to their play with exception of Marino).

    I want to see more out of Tebow though, as he needs to improve on his passing. Is his poor numbers all his fault? I don’t think so. I think that not allowing him to get in a rhythm has something to do with it. I think the lack of WR talent is another thing (Lloyd bailed out Orton and Tebow on all the passes that are now getting dropped).

    Give Tebow a decent supporting cast, and continue building the defense up through the draft, and I’m sure we’ll all see a worthy “Drive 2” take place. Hell, we might even have revisionist history showing Tebow as being the 2nd best QB to play for us.

  • http://broncotalk.net Monty

    Thanks very much ref.

  • Bry

    Tebow ran once and completed one pass. Regardless of who did or didn’t do what, its still a fail by the offensive players and coaches to not convert great field position into points.

    I agree with your aggressive comment tho and hope you’re right. The fumble recovery on the KO after Goodman’s pick 6, Big Mo on your side, ball on the NYJ 42..that’s the time to be super aggressive.

  • Harkness Sean

    I just wanted to say that our family has become a fan of Tim Tebow…not because of his talent or potential, but because of the deep faith that he has in God & the glory & honor he shows Him.  We pray for him often & pray that he stays strong in the Faith & that God does great & mighty things through him. 

  • Bry

    Elway looked stoked for the score. I think he looked irritated at all the celebrating.

  • Bry

    LOL!

  • Anonymous

    When he brings a consistent passing game to the table.

  • Anonymous

    BINGO!  I think you’ve summed up the concerns of rational Bronco fans everywhere.

  • Anonymous

    The problem with your analysis is that every team with rookie or new starting QB’s faced the same problems, timing with the offense.  Furthermore the stats don’t back you up as Tebow has droped from a 50% to a 44% completion percentage with the same group of receivers.  And claiming a lack of reps with the #1 offense is an extremely lame excuse.

  • Anonymous

    So in other words what your really saying is that you have nothing of any value to say so you let your ass do the talking.

  • Anonymous

    He had the same as everybody else.  Didn’t Brady Quinn go out and find a QB coach to work on his game in the off-season?  The opportunity to work on his game was there.  If he did not take advantage of it whose fault is that?

  • Anonymous

    When you’re capable of a rational thought please feel free to contribute.

  • Anonymous

    He had the opportunity to work on his game.  The same as every other player.  If you’re going to make the excuse that not having a complete off-season to work has set you back then there had better not be rookie QB’s outplaying you at your position.  Tebow could have found somebody to work on his passing game without the coaching staff and he did not.  It was his responsibility and no one else’s.

  • Anonymous

    You mean like the cultists who find a new and improved excuse everyday?

  • Anonymous

    Catch-22  The coaching staff won’t let him throw because frankly he does not throw the ball well and he won’t get better unless he starts throwing more.
    That being said.  On the pre-game show Tebow looked really sharp throwing.  I would guess that he really has not or is not adjusting well to the NFL level passing game. 

  • Anonymous

    I would start by teaching him how to be calm in the pocket.  I would bet that alone would add 3-4 completions per game.

  • Jretwel

    Why worry about technique, style, and statistics, who cares? TEBOW JUST WINS

    There will be lots of QBs in the ’12 draft who throw tight, accurate spirals – some maybe as good as Orton.

  • Jretwel

    Why worry about technique, style, and statistics, who cares? TEBOW JUST WINS

    There will be lots of QBs in the ’12 draft who throw tight, accurate spirals – some maybe as good as Kyle Orton.

  • King

    lmao.  Pot, kettle, black.

  • Anonymous

    Umm… they are most definitely NOT the same group of receivers, or have you forgotten about Brandon Lloyd?
    You know how during the Miami game, we all would say “C’mon Tebow, you HAVE to throw better than that!!!” Well, Lloyd caught a minimum of half of those poorly thrown balls (both for Tebow and Orton).
    Now, when you see Tebow play, he’s throwing the ball really really well in my opinion, and the receivers are just dropping them. This is where Lloyd would change Tebow’s 45% completion rate to probably around 70%, and that isn’t even a stretch. In the KC game, Tebow threw 8 passes. Of those 8 passes, 6 count them, 6 hit receivers in the hands. They only caught 2 of those 6. Had Lloyd been here, it’s debatable to say that all 6 would have been caught. All of a sudden, instead of being 2 for 8 passing (25%) he would have been 6 for 8 (75%) or at a minimum 5 for 8 (62 1/2%) As you can see, the lack of that 1 WR can very easily drop someone down from a 75% passer to a 25% passer.

    Now, the other thing is definitely timing. Things take time believe it or not. If things didn’t, as you claim, then there would be no point in having mini camps, training camps, preseason games, and hell, might as well scrap practices during the regular season as well. I mean, everyone has a playbook, if they have questions, they can call the coach and ask him a question. After all, by your logic, timing isn’t an issue, so there is absolutely zero reason to not just show up on gameday, play the game, and then not see each other until the next Sunday! Practice is for pussies, so is gelling as a group (which happens when they learn to play together and develop timing). I mean, throwing an out pattern to a slow TE is surely the same exact thing as throwing that same pass to Eddie Royal…. All Tebow has to do is throw the same exact pass at the same exact time with the exact same velocity, and surely both of those players will get to the same spot on the field at the same exact time… The fact that they run at different speeds has NOTHING to do with timing, nothing at all.

    Geez you show how little you really know about football each and every time you open your mouth, don’t you? My goodness, it’s like trying to explain ABC’s to a 1 year old. I’d say it’s like trying to teach Algebra to a 1 year old, but your football IQ is clearly at the ABC (Kindergarten) level.

  • Anonymous

    You are obviously a mental midget. There’s no use trying to explain even the most basic Pop-Warner level concepts to you, as clearly they fly so far over your head that it must look like a shooting star in the sky to you!

  • Anonymous

    Umm… Quinn couldn’t find a QB coach that had any affiliation to the NFL. That’s why this offseason was so big of a deal. Who could Quinn have hired as a coach to work with him? His QB coach from Notre Dame? What good would that do him? That coach doesn’t know the Broncos offense from the menu at Sizzler. How would hiring someone to work out with him be any different than what Tebow did? Because of the circumstances this offseason, there was no “advantage” to be had by hiring anybody! The teams like the Saints, who held team workouts even though they had no affiliation to the NFL were the only ones who really did anything besides conditioning, and the only reason they were able to accomplish any sort of “real” practice is because they had the same coaching staff for years, so they could pretty much coach themselves.
    The Dawkins workouts were conditioning workouts, of which Quinn was a regular attendee. If you want to say that Quinn took advantage of conditioning with Dawkins and Tebow didn’t, that’s fine, I’ll give you that; however, the conditioning of Tebow can’t ever be questioned, so whatever “advantage” Quinn had, was just window dressing as Tebow is clearly the best conditioned player on our team, so whatever Tebow did in the offseason worked every bit as good if not better than what Quinn did.

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely agree. I think that our coaching staff needs to treat “free possessions” (from turnovers) into lets-go-for-the-juggular opportunities. I remember in the Elway days, when we got either a turnover, or got defense to jump offsides, he’d always air it out and go for broke. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but on free drives, you really have nothing to lose by being hyper aggressive.

    Tebow throws a great long ball, so I think when we get free drives, the very next play should be a 50+ yard bomb.

  • Anonymous

    Troll

  • Anonymous

    Where do you see anything about technique or style? Or stats for that matter.  It is absolutely silly to think for one pico-second that it is remotely acceptable to not have a decent passing game.  So far “just wins” has been against thoroughly crappy teams, stupid and undisciplined teams, and teams with over-rated QB’s and crappy offenses.  You cannot continually leave it up to the defense to keep you in the game and you cannot win a shoot-out if you cannot throw the ball consistently.  Had Tebow been a better passer the Broncos would not have been 1 for 11 on 3rd downs for the better part of 55 minutes.

  • Anonymous

    Royal, Willis, Decker and Thomas.  Same group of receivers.  Are you really going to claim that Tebow is throwing the ball really well when half his passes are in the dirt or in the next county?  Then claim other people are stupid.
    You’re seriously fantasizing or just plain lying if you saw 6 passes hit receivers in the hands in the chefs game.
    Furthermore genius I stated timing was an issue for Tebow, which you also astoundingly claimed showed an ignorance of football.  What has not changed are the facts which even a 2 year old can understand.  Tebow had every opportunity to work on his technique in the off season.  That is a fact you don’t have to like it or believe but it is a fact. 
    Please continue to make yourself look stupid by making moronic assumptions.

  • Anonymous

    So you’re really going to say that at no time Tebow could have found any human being on earth that would work with him on his technique and improve his ability as a passer.  Then claim anyone who claims otherwise is an idiot.  You really believe that the only place to work on football skills is in an NFL officially sanctioned  OTA or training camp and then claim I’m the one who is stupid. 
    You ahead and try and teach algebra genius.  I’ll be busy with calculus and differential equations.

  • Anonymous

    So what?  The fact is that Quinn found somebody to work with.  Tebow could have joined in or found someone else to work with.  Again your ignorantly playing the absurd “strike” card as an excuse.  You must be a serious mental midget to not be able to grasp the concept of personal responsibility.

  • Anonymous

    Coward

  • Anonymous

    Coming from the same turd who claims there is a difference between snorting coke and shooting steroids that means a lot.

  • Anonymous

    You don’t remember the Elway years then.  Even winning didn’t stop the criticism.  Elway couldn’t take a dump without a critical analysis of the wipe. 
    The only real problem with your comparison is that Elway’s first 8 starts were as a rookie and they were the first 8 games of the season.
    The other problem is that Tebow was a 1st round draft pick so he does not have the luxury of getting better with time.  So what if McDaniels screwed Tebow by drafting him in the 1st round.  That is the hand he was dealt.

  • King

    Life lesson chem:  When you insult someone, you lose all credibility. 

  • Anonymous

    How far from the receiver does the ball have to be before you’ll hold Tebow accountable?

  • Anonymous

    Are you saying the North Koreans are betting on Tebow and the Broncos?

  • Anonymous

    And the hero of the 1st ~54 minutes as well.

  • Anonymous

    Try taking your own advice then.  If you don’t like insults then don’t do it.  It really is that simple.  What is really pathetic is hurling insults then whining when it comes back at you.  Really a life lesson about insults and credibility coming from a tool who calls anyone who does not worship Tebow a hater. 

  • Anonymous

    Is it really bashing Tebow to point out that he does not throw the ball well?
    Not being sold on Tebow as anything but the QB of right now does not make you a hater or a non-fan.  If that is the case then anyone who thought signing Dale Carter was a bad idea must have been a hater and non-fan as well.

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