John Fox wasn’t ready to announce Tim Tebow as his starting quarterback for Week Nine on Sunday night.
With a night to think about it, Fox decided Tebow will stay in the starting lineup. Fox made it clear Tebow needs to improve as a pocket passer to keep his starting job.
Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports hears Tebow is on a short leash.
“A source familiar with the Broncos’ thinking said he expected Tebow to last another couple of games until – barring a dramatic improvement on the left-hander’s part – the team turns to current third-stringer Brady Quinn,”Silver wrote.
Brady Quinn has been inactive the last few weeks. Despite that, we’d be surprised if the former Notre Dame quarterback doesn’t wind up getting some starts in December this year.
(We would now like to announce a moratorium on Tebow posts for the rest of the day so that we all stay sane. Thank you.)
Man, that guy sucks.
Broncos aren’t going anywhere this year…..Fox might as well let Tebow shoot himself in BOTH feet and thoroughly convince everyone he doesn’t belong in the NFL PERIOD!
What is Yo, Yo, Silver! flapping about now? Tebow has a 50% winning record so far this season, which is better than about half the starting QBs in the league. His passer rating is around mid point among starters, and he probably has as many rushing yards as anyone, in just a couple of starts.
Ouch….twisting the knife in his own fanbase for turning against him when he knew Tebow wasn’t ready.
i think that the broncos can flip flop qbs for the rest of the season and it is not going to matter much. they are a bad team with little talent in the cupboard. it will be a long hard road to respectability for them
Smart move yessss…….Go Raiders!!!
Is Fox aware that they have already won too many games to get Andrew Luck?
It’s obvious they are trying to improve their draft status with McDaniel’s taking the bullet..cause that would be the only thing that makes this move make sense.
Tebow’s passes yesterday looked like
OnSide Kicks
Brady Quinn must just be beyond horrible.
so, who will be Denver’s next coach in 2 years?
Yes!! Great news for Raider Nation. If the game against the Lions was Good vs. Evil, then what will it be with Teblow entering the Black Hole?
Or sales are so good that this is based on a financial stand-point! !!!!!
I’ll bet a lot less people will be “Tebowing” this week.
I looked at that picture of Fox and couldn’t help but imagine that he’s saying, “Pays the doctors, boyeeeee!!!!”
Leave Tebow in so you’ll have a chance at Luck next season. Makes perfect sense.
Nuru massage.
…and on the 7th day Tebow started and Oakland rejoiced.
This is from Bowlen and Elway, not Fox.
Fox wants to win games, Bowlen and Elway want to get rid of Tebow.
What better way to do it than to give him starts when he’s not ready?
All they’re doing is greasing the skids for Tebow’s dismissal.
Gotta leave him in there to shut up the praying tomatoes.
We all need to calm down. This was what, Tebow’s 5th NFL start of his career? Let him play out the season. If he shows no improvement between now and the end of the year, then it’s time to look for a new QB. But give the kid some time.
This just in…The Broncos have decided to throw their season away….
Tebow isn’t an NFL Quarterback…Plain and simple. He misses his targets so bad that I am really surprised that he doesn’t have more INT’s. If he keeps working on his accuracy and could complete 60% of his passes he would be a threat, but the fact is he doesn’t keep his eyes down field at all and looks to run all the time. Tebow, switch to HB if you don’t want to throw the ball….
Evil Tebow, played just well enough for 5 minutes to pull the Broncos out of the suck for luck sweepstakes.
This is not so unexpected.
Let’s be honest here the Broncos are arguably the worst team in the league. The hiring of John Fox was a huge mistake. Mark my words, John Elway is the next Matt Millen.
Even on a good team, Tebow is two years away from starting. If he’s lucky, they’ll cut him and he’ll sign on to be a #2 somewhere else.
I predict Adam Weber starts a game sometime this season. And he will do better than Tebow or Quinn.
John Fox blew it when he decided to continue trying to make Tebow an NFL quarterback.
They should have converted him to a halfback, Dallas Clark type.
The Patriots drafted Kent State QB Julian Edeleman and immediately converted him to WR/Punt Returner and Tebow is a far better athlete.
Have fun in Oakland Teblow.
Too late for Luck and too early to completely pack it in-this team is S-C-R-E-W-E-D!
I can’t understand why the media is wasting so much time and attention to a Quarterback like him. Don’t they have anything better to write about?
When your QB throws a football like a pitcher throws a breaking ball, it’s time to move on.
As this game evolves, it is being built on timing and precision- Tebow fails miserably at both.
Is he a football player, absolutely. A QB? Not at all.
I’m not going hate on Tebow but Broncos fans better stick with this guy until the end. You made enough noise about it.
Solid human being and just an all around good person. NFL QB?? His body of work to date says no, but I think it is still to early to tell. Let the guy play and see how things play out. Besides, Denver really does not have a more sound option at this point.
“Fox will stick with Tebow for now.”
WHY? Is it the 14 sacks? or the horrible passing? maybe the turnovers for TD’s? Or the way he single-handedly provided a “spark” to the team yesterday while magically “willing” them to victory?
Maybe it was those three TD’s he scored – the one for Denver and the two for Detroit.
What a joke this once proud organization has become.
If a team draft it the top 5 a good QB could be found.
And the price is right.
Te-BLOWS!
Quinn is going to destroy when he gets his shot.
Just goes to show you that you shouldn’t make roster decisions based what the fans want. Clearly he wasn’t ready and it’s on the Broncos for not going about it correctly.
Not that I know much about or care much about this guy. But, wasn’t this his second career start? Have fans/the press ever been this critical of a player with only 2 career starts under their belt before?
People seem to be ready to induct players in the hall after 2 starts (Newton) or call them a complete bust after 2 starts (Tebow). The information age is making ‘News’ a little bit ridiculous anymore…
so is matt barkley or robert griffin 3rd
going to start next year?
Culter > Orton> Quinn> Tebow.
That team got a ton of valuable draft picks for Cutler, but they still don’t have a QB and Orton is way better than Tebow
Not a Tebow fan by any stretch, but yanking the guy after 2 games would be ridiculous. He will play a team with a strong d-line but questionable secondary this week. If they can get him to make his throws a little sooner there is a chance he might do a little something this week. Stanford Routt and Demarcus Van Dyke don’t strike fear in any opponents. With a new starting QB for Oaktown, this looks like a trap game to this Raiders fan.
Best of luck “Tebow Lovers”!!!
I used to be turned off by Tebow’s out going preaching and Bible verse reciting because it made me think this guy thinks he’s better than me. I think this guy is legitimately and genuinely a nice guy. I’m rooting for the guy even though he’s left handed.
You say stick with him..but what do you think the other employees whose brand does not sell as well think about this decision and how it effects their families future’s
Curtis Painter > Tebow
This Luck thing is simply out of control. Shut up about this noob quarterback already. Even if he is Elway, you’re still looking at 2-3 years before he catches up to the speed and complexity of the game.
Fast forward to October 2013….
“We all need to calm down. This was what, Tebow’s 25th NFL start of his career? Let him play out the season. If he shows no improvement between now and the end of the year, then it’s time to look for a new QB. But give the kid some time.”
If I’m Quinn – I do not want to “get a shot” at the starting job. The supporting cast of this team is terrible. If I can fly under the radar I may be able to collect an NFL check next year. If I play with this group, it will only make me look worse than I am, rather than better.
I don’t think this team would have a winning record if Tom Brady was the starting QB. With Peyton in his prime – 8-8.
I live in AZ and witnessed the QB debacle that was Derek Anderson/Max Hall/John Skelton last year. It was one of the most painful things I’ve ever seen over the course of an entire season.
My heart goes out to the fans of Denver.
Tebow will never be a good NFL quarterback, he’s nothing more than a college option quarterback
Good luck Brady.
Thank you Fox for starting him next week! Silver & Black…Seymour gets at least 2.5 sacks…Raiders win!
Tebowmania came and went with the quickness.
All I have to say to the title of this post is, WHY?
Remember, Denver, this is the guy who used Claussen, Moore, and Delhomme. Good luck with your QB situation.
Ok…but the question is if broncos will stick with fox. I never thought I would say this….ortan is a great QB.
Brady Quinn can hold a clipboard as well as any QB in the league.
notdemfalcons is right. Fox wants to win and the fans want Tebow. Playing Tebow has to be coming from ownership/FO.
Upheaval is the last thing the Broncos need right now but the McDaniels gift keeps on giving.
So much hate in so few comments. Yeesh.
Anyone ever stop and think that there’s more that needs to be fixed in Denver besides their QB? Send Tebow to a team with a solid O-Line and he’ll be golden.
I hope they activate Adam Weber!!! Then we’ll see how disgraceful the Tebow lovers are!!!
I say this because likability or image should not determine how able one is!!!! The only people who’ve gotten screwed so far are the ones that actually tell the honest, but somewhat devastating truth!!!
I am a Redskins fan, But holy cow. I have never heard so much bashing from the media on one guy since Ryan Leaf.
I did get to watch him play Sunday.
You get rid of receivers, have a line as good as the bears and a defense that sucks. You put Tebow onto the Colts and I promise you he does well. Period!! I am ready to shut off the media for the remaining year and just watch football. For all you haters and lovers out there of this guy, just remember, it takes 2 or 3 years to develop a QB in the NFL, with or without Great Receivers.
Let the kid have a few games to make some mistakes!!
To many people are throwing stones when they should put their rocks down and just walk away!!
He’s a talented kid. Just give him some room and some time and watch the good that happens! Or is Tebow the only person in this world who doesn’t deserve that chance??
Doesn’t matter how good he is on this bad team. Let’s face it, he’s still basically a rookie. It’s not like he expected to be a first rounder. Besides, how many wins is Cam getting right now on a bad team?
Although I’m not Tewbow fan, I’ll say he’s not all to blame. Their line is horrible. Orton struggled with no protection earlier this season and happy feet is just to new to know how to handle it.
He’ll get better though and a few this year.
Perhaps Tebow isn’t ready to be a big time QB as all the media and armchair QB’s contend….however, one of the best QB’s to play the game is in their front office, so why isn’t he mentoring Tebow? Granted, its not in his contract, but if they think the boy needs help why isn’t Elway doing everything in his power to see the team succeed?
On a side note, the 5 sacks in Sunday’s game cannot all be blamed on Tebow hanging onto the ball too long. The rest of the team needs to take some responsibility for not protecting their QB.
Tim tebow will be a good NFL quarterback.
Any other person who played like Tebow has played the last two weeks would be benched. He stinks!!!
I have no idea if Tebow can be an NFL quarterback. I suspect not. But still, this guy brings out the most irrational hate I’ve ever seen put on an NFL player. I can’t even think of another 1st round QB with five starts that would bring out this kind of hate. Anyone else and it would be “he needs more time, at least a full season”. But not this guy, apparently.
Let’s be frank, it’s not like Joe Montana is wasting away on the bench. You can win some games with Orton, but he’s not going to be there when the rest of the team is good. Quinn hasn’t shown any more than Tebow when given a chance – try to make a case for Quinn and you wind up inadvertently making the same case for Tebow. Quinn’s just the savior because you haven’t seen him suck in a while and Tebow’s suck is fresher in your brain.
The team has come this far with Tebow and invested too much in him not to see how this plays out. The irrational fans who want him yanked after two starts this year shouldn’t be listened to any more than the irrational fans who think there’s nothing wrong with him.
luck won’t go anywhere but denver. he’ll refuse to.
As much as it hurts to say this, I finally figured out what this is all about.
Fox and Elway are in Denver to finish the job of destroying the franchise started by Josh (The Franchise Killer) McDaniels.
Wrong coach, wrong philosophy, no talent and no hope. This team won’t even begin to be a factor for at least 5 years if not more.
Think things are bad now? Wait until the secondary falls apart completely. The motto of the Denver efense (No “D”) is:
RESERVATIONS FOR 6 – RIGHT THIS WAY !!!
I seem to remember seeing a video bio of John Elway’s early years in which his lackluster performances in Denver caused fans to wear paper bags over their heads in shame. We all know how that turned out . If anyone can relate to Tebow it should be Elway. I am not saying Tebow is an Elway by any means . I am just saying that both men were drafted as dual-threat quarterbacks and at least one took more than one season to develop into a Hall of Fame player. It remains to be seen wht will happen with the other.
You’re right fmwarner.
Just look at Blaine Gabbert. He has had as many career starts as Tebow and in my opinion Gabbert has looked PATHETIC. Much, much worse than Tebow. But there is absolutely no hate ever directed at him. It’s always “let’s give him some time to develop”. I don’t understand why Tebow doesn’t get the same courtesy.
Starting Tebow is all about marketing.
I love this not ready stuff. He will NEVER be ready. He is not a QB and never will be. On a side note I surely hope he keeps playing I want his complete failure not a few games so these loser Tebow fans feel he didn’t get a chance.
How about letting play from the shotgun and actually creating plays he can execute? He won’t be great, but I think we might at least see the player we did at the end of last year.
And that Lions player who mocked himin the endzone; classless. The Lions are now now my most favorite team to hate.
To the conspiracy theorists,
Why would Elway, John Fox, Pat Bowlen, the guys in the black helicopters, and the WTA not want Tebow to succeed?
If Tebow was a legitimate starting QB, Denver would be selling tickets and merchandise all over the place. A successful would bring money into the franchise, make Fox and Elway look like they are a good coach and NFL president respectively. There is no downside to a successful Tebow, except other teams in the division.
Can either the conspiracy theorists or the Tebow fangirls explain this to me?
To all Tebow fans out there……give it a break! A good person does not make a good QB! This is coming from a hard core Bronco fan! There is nothing I want more than for my team to succeed but it will not happen with Tebow under center. Pleas stop comparing him to Elway, Blaine Gabbert, before the season started Cam Newton….the one thing all these guys have that Tebow does not is a foundation of how a QB should throw a football..
If I remember right Peyton sucked at first, give Tebow time to figure this out. He has no help so it isn’t all on him, jeeezzzz get off his back. The fans wanted him to start so shut up.
@sterilizecromartie- Gabbert is a true rookie, without the benefit of an offseason… Probably not a fair comparison…having said that, the difference is that Tebow gets adulation for 3 minutes of good play against the Dolphins. BOTH need lots of work, but Tebow gets all the hype.
I see the majority of these people on here are haters!
I never thought I would say this, but Denver fans are showing what a serious lack of knowledge they have of football. I have been watching this team since the mid 1970′s when John Ralston was here. As Tom Jackson pointed out in an interview about their first Super Bowl year, they won in 1977 with Ralston’s team. The other side of the coin is that they are now losing with the remnants of Shanahan’s last team and the train wreck that McDaniels put in place.
You really have to stretch things to believe that Elway wants to further decimate this team along with John Fox. Most of us wanted to give McD a chance and we were all sold a bill of goods by him. That smirk on his face was probably the ” I can’t believe they gave me the job to coach this team!” look for all of his friends. He is gone now and is weaving his special magic in St.Louis where hopes were high after last years near miss at a playoff spot.
The Broncos are in the midst of a major re-build. It will not shock me if 1/3 to 1/2 of this team is gone by the beginning of the next regular season. All of that being painfully obvious, how do so many fans go from Tim Tebow being the next Elway after last week to “Tebow Sucks” this week? Either the guy can play or he can’t. They sucked just as much with Kyle Orton who plays just good enough to lose you the game at some point. Why not see what he can do for the rest of the year
By Fox starting him and letting him prove what he can do it should silence people on both sides of the issue. Saying that he has .500 winning percentage after 2 games is like saying that if you, me and Bill Gates combine our incomes and divide by 3, that on average the 3 of us are billionaires. Right?
If Denver has plans of trading Tebow this off season, other teams have to at least know what Tebow is capable of. And the only way they know is by seeing him in real games.
And for those lamenting the firing of Shanahan, lets look at how good the Redskins have been the last few weeks. Shanahan had some bad drafts, awful free agent signings and had way too much power in Denver. How many defensive coordinators did he go through? Again it was never his fault and he had an owner that was more than happy to let him run things. It really went south for him in 2006 when he benched Jake Plummer and just got worse from there.
The reality is that this team has been on a steady decline since the end of the 2006 season. And since the decline was almost imperceptible(9-7,7-9,8-8) over his last 3 years, it makes the 8-8 that happened in 2009 seem not so bad. The 4-12 in 2010 was all the bad trades, drafts and free agent signings “come a calling” all at once.
So all of the Denver faithful may have to get used to some lean years while Elway and Company re-make the team.
People like to tear down others who have been hyped up too much or think of themselves as being better than everyone else. The Gator fans and the media have irrationally hyped Tebow after success in college where he ran a gimmick offense. Then there are the religious fanatics who worship the ground he walks on because of his extremist religious views and now infest talkboards to talk him up. People don’t even know the guy and they’ve built him up as a “Great leader” and a “great person”. The backlash is necessarily against Tebow but the hype of Tebow by irrational Gator and now Bronco fans.
Tebow can’t possibly live up to the messiah status his supporters built him up to be.
I was sick and tired of Tebow-mania long ago. Now I feel sorry for the kid. Drafted way too high, expectations way too high (or at least too soon). Hell, let the kid breathe a minute. Better yet, let him go. He’s not ready, let him find a team that can afford to teach him a bit.
vikesandravens78 says:
Oct 31, 2011 5:08 PM
So much hate in so few comments. Yeesh.
Anyone ever stop and think that there’s more that needs to be fixed in Denver besides their QB? Send Tebow to a team with a solid O-Line and he’ll be golden.
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No line can protect a QB that takes 8 seconds to get rid of the ball constantly.
This season, I have watched Matt Moore. I have watched Blaine Gabbert, Christian Ponder, Rex Grossman, even Kyle Boller. None of them has looked remotely as bad as Tebow. Tebow simply looks like someone playing at being a QB out there.
Pretend it’s just “hate”, pretend it’s not his fault, that the team is so bad and the front office wants him to fail. Believe whatever you want; it will not change the fact he will never be a successful NFL QB.
Way to go McDaniels. A one man wrecking machine. Tool!
Living here in Denver, talk radio is still all a buzz on how Tebow is the still the savior of the Bronco’s. It is every one else’s fault, from the coach down to the O-line and bad receivers. Most of the city is delusional. But Quinn and Orton will not be in Denver next year. So let Tebow start a few more games, they won’t make the playoffs no matter who is taking the snaps. But the fans need to be honest and realize Tebow, right now, is a crappy QB.
As for Elway, it’s way too early to compare him to Matt Millen. Ol’ Horseface inherited a team that wasn’t his, so for now we can cut him a bit of slack. Only time will tell if he’s really a good judge of personnel.
Lets say Tebow is Tebow at Oakland, then I can see EFX making a decision about the last eight games, utilizing Brady Quinn and Adam Weber.
Both have strong arms and pocket presence but do they have accuracy and leadership? If they ‘show-up’ then I can see Quinn, Weber, and a draft pick at camp.