Three storylines to watch as playoff race gets interesting; mail
sportsillustrated.cnn.com
“As a Tennessee Titans fan, I remember this exact story playing out with Vince Young when he was made the starter in 2006. The Titans started the season with five straight losses before making an improbable playoff push behind the heroics of Young despite ugly stat lines and split public opinion about whether he was a just “winner” or getting lucky and not being the long term answer. We know how this turned out in Tennessee. It’s fun while it lasts but it doesn’t last long in the NFL. Do you see a similar scenario playing out in Denver?’‘
King: Tebow didn’t have that 2-4 start Young had. He walked in and has gone 6-1, with the interesting comebacks to boot.
One would think PK could come up with a better argument than going scoreboard, right? Like, Tebow drinks the same Peppermint Mocha Frappuccino® Light that he himself prefers?
Tim Tebow Nike Ad: Be The Hammer Or The Nail
network.yardbarker.com
Tim Tebow isn’t your prototypical NFL Quarterback…Actually he resembles more of a rugby player than a football player…Here’s Tebow’s new Nike ad — Be the Hammer or the Nail –I know there’s a Jesus joke somewhere in here.
I was heartened to see Tebow has other things going on besides religion and football--namely, making some straight cash money.
For a few weeks, I was starting to buy into the notion that he really was Mother Teresa in cleats. Evangelicals--especially in the employment of Nike--don't take vows of poverty, however.
Looks like the boys over at Nike did their own version of banning Bible verses from Tebow's eye black. They've swooshed him.
Tebow probably hasn't made the connection between the sweatshops in the Philippines and Nike's ever-improving gross margins. I doubt it would matter.
Corporations > Tebow.
NBC, CBS fighting over Tim Tebow vs. Tom Brady
www.denverpost.com
Tim Tebow and the Broncos may be headed to prime time again, but not if CBS gets its way. The NFL and NBC want to switch the Broncos’ Dec. 18 game vs. New England at Denver to its Sunday Night Football broadcast at 6:20 p.m. Kickoff currently is scheduled for 2:15 p.m., but NBC wants to show the game in favor of a Baltimore-San Diego matchup that had previously been scheduled that night.
Can't blame CBS for not wanting this game moved. Ratings, baby!
Captain Comeback Week 13: Ready for the Fourth Quarter
www.coldhardfootballfacts.com
Denver continues to win by the slimmest of margins, and always with 10 pass completions or less. Every week you think it’d be harder to document Tebow’s rise (for He has risen), but it’s actually not. There are plenty more nuggets to dig out of this odyssey of success…This is only the 3rd time the Broncos have had 3 consecutive fourth quarter comeback wins in their team’s history…This current third streak [is] the only time Denver has done it in the same season and with the same QB (Tebow).
How did Tebow beat the Vikings Cover 2?
www.nationalfootballpost.com
Today, let’s talk Denver vs. Minnesota from this past Sunday, take a look at the Broncos’ “4 Verticals” route shceme and break down why this coverage was a bust that led to Tim Tebow’s TD pass to Demaryius Thomas…We talk about matchups all of the time and this route scheme is no different. With Thomas (X) getting a free release vs. a rolled-up CB to the open side of the formation, the Broncos have created a 2-on-1 situation vs. the FS in the deep half. Test his discipline to stay square in his backpedal to play over the top of two vertical routes…What do we have now? A busted coverage due to the route concept. With the FS driving to the middle of the field, the open side deep half (highlighted in white) is wide open. Too easy for Tebow and Thomas. Can’t let that happen in the NFL.
Tracking Tebow, Week 13: The Tebolution continues
eye-on-football.blogs.cbssports.com
We can chuckle all we want about Tim Tebow, glorified H-back, but the Chiefs and Bears would love to have him right now. Nothing he does on the football field is pretty but there’s no denying that he’s efficient. No one—not even Tom Brady, former 199th pick who cries when he’s reminded of his draft-day free fall—gets more out of their abilities. Because, realistically, Tebow should be a blocking back. He should be playing on the coverage and return units. He should be on the roster bubble every preseason. And yet here he is, doing what he’s done since high school: winning.
I was expecting to see more talk of wide open receivers, but perhaps that'll come later in the week...
Through grief, former Broncos quarterback creates a home
www.9news.com
Judi Griese died when Brian was 12 years old. He remembers his mom as someone who was always finding a way to help others. Brian Griese had a hard time accepting her death.
“The thing that I don’t think people realize is when you lose somebody it impacts you in a way that is so powerful, that it doesn’t leave, ever,” he said.
Unable to properly grieve his mother’s death as a child, Griese says he became introverted as an adult. When faced with criticism on the football field, he isolated himself even more.
He explained it like this: “I didn’t have anywhere to turn, so I had to figure out a way on my own. And that became my survival mechanism, and unfortunately, kind of painted the career that I had for the Broncos.”
I still consider Brian Griese a Denver Bronco. I always will. The same goes with Jake Plummer. In fact, any quarterback that leads the Broncos to the playoffs makes my list of great Broncos quarterbacks (I've got my eyes on you, Tebow). Thankfully, I don't have to claim Jay Cutler.
Griese once suffered a third-degree separated shoulder in the first quarter of a game against the Raiders in 2000. He remained in the game and led the Broncos to a comeback victory. It was so freaking epic, I remember getting goosebumps watching him play with that much pain.
Throughout his five seasons as a Bronco, Griese fought the "aloof" moniker. Here's the thing--it was true. Griese has spoken about his time in Denver before, but in this piece, he comes right out and admits his introverted nature--as a result of his mother's death--came to define his time in Denver.
Most of the article talks about Griese's work with his foundation, but I continue to love Griese's honesty and the insight into his career as a Bronco.
Tebow might be a true revelation
msn.foxsports.com
At this moment, no one knows whether the Tebow experiment Elway and Fox have been pressured into undertaking will result in anything more sustainable than Tennessee’s Vince Young experience or Atlanta’s Michael Vick roller coaster. What should be dawning on us — especially those of us who greeted Tebow’s Broncos career with skepticism — is that, thanks to a rock-solid, two-parent upbringing, Tebow is quite different from Young and Vick in terms of mental and emotional makeup. Those differences raise the real possibility that Tebow is the athletic-freak quarterback an NFL franchise should embrace with a revolutionary offensive approach.
Five championships? Sign me up.
Can Anyone Out There Talk About Tim Tebow Without Turning Into A Moron?
deadspin.com
“But does God really care who prevails on the playing field? Ordinarily, we’d say no. Then again, how to explain QB Tim Tebow, who wears his devout Christianity on his sleeve and who led the Denver Broncos to yet another improbable comeback win Sunday?”
I’ve said all along that the backlash against Tebow is really a backlash against the way Tebow gets covered in the media. This smarmy little paragraph is as good an example as you’ll find. I mean, who needs St. Thomas Aquinas when you have the Broncos’ five-game winning streak, right?
