POLL: Name The 'Highly Knowledgable' Denver Broncos Source Regarding Tim Tebow

You can’t dangle an option like that Joe Ellis buffoon and not expect me to hit it… That’s not fair.

‘Another Player’, who do you think it is??

Not to sway the vote one way or the other, but curious to know who you think it is. I voted for Ellis. I don’t think Fox would say this, he’s pretty decisive about steering the boat away from the MSM mutiny. Elway, has said stuff in the past, but it was only verbiage taken out of context. This could also be seen as taken out of context, but just doesn’t sound like John Elway speaking to me.

Xanders won’t say anything unless told what to say. Ellis however, I could see saying stuff off the record from his eyes. While Tim does have his issues, he also has his strengths. We haven’t seen Weber at all except to take a knee other than the few of us who have seen him throw about 2 passes a practice, I for one am not one of those fortunate few.

EFX have no ties to Tebow, and could get rid of him if not for the fan onslaught if they wanted to. If they don’t want him, they will quietly let him slip away without ever giving him his chance – but they have no official ties to him. He was a McD player brought on, not a EFX player.

STOP IT! Your hurting your own cause.

Silver’s 20 years in the business and his propensity to drag out the “highly knowledgeable” sources is the problem here.

Silver has a long history of doing that. Any time you see "anonymous", "unnamed", "person very close the team", it should raise BIG red flags. His source is probably a senior janitorial engineer who happened to see a day of practice…. I usually don’t even read his articles because they are often factually lacking, and biased strongly just to get views (not just the Broncos btw). He’s like the worst offender in a sea of "hype reporters".

I’m sorry that his article is getting this much attention, but that’s why he does what he does…..

a) The guy’s on record in the same article saying about how well Webber throws the ball
b) If my memory serves me right he made a sarcastic comment about the organisation / Tebow when Orton was nearly being traded
c) His relationship with Orton is good and they seem to feed off each other so he has the most to lose if Orton wasn’t in Denver

But the other option is that its all just made up

or one that came after someone said they didn’t want to talk about it and Silver persisted in asking the same question over & over — kinda like what happened to Orton a while back when he was repeatedly asked what he thought about the fans wanting Tebow.

I voted player, btw.

I admit I didn’t know anything about Michael Silver prior to this morning. However, if he has indeed been “in the business” for 20 years and that tenure has lead him to… Yahoo Sports? That’s red flag #1.

This quote from the writer, which only requires a modicum of knowledge to actually get correct should be red flat #2:

“Trailing 17-0 at the half, Tebow went on a passing rampage, throwing for 308 yards, and scored on a 6-yard run with three minutes remaining to give Denver a 24-23 triumph, the Broncos’ third and final victory of a miserable season.”

I know last year was bad, but didn’t the Broncos win FOUR games last year?

To me this article has very, very little credibility. Just another internet writer trying to generate a name for himself…

just because I was thinking Xanders’ GM image basically got trampled in the dirt when McD was in town, so Xanders may not especially feel loyal to ANY of the draft choices during those two years – especially the high profile ones. Weber this year is a choice supported by Xanders, I’m assuming, since the process was quite different this year than in the past.

With a potential bias against the McD picks over the last couple of years I gave Xanders the nod. But reading some of the above arguments for a player, I might be leaning more in that direction, now. “Highly knowledgeable about the organization” could be anyone… anyone.

Hmmm… could it be Bena? LOL!

IT WAS ME!

This story should go away. Untill the team releases someone or makes an official announcement this is just speculation. Why feed the monster?

My point is who cares? Posted on another article basically calling out MHR for adding to the maddness, and now the leader of the site is speculating in a game of who said? Like I said before I enjoy the site and appreciate the work but this is ridiculous. When is this conversation gonna get back to football? This is getting worse than a gossip column. If the discussion is going to be quarterbacks, why not some actual gritty meat and potatoes analysis as opposed to this?

How come you didn’t create this same awesome poll when McDaniels was ratting out for the spying thing in London.

My guess on the rat – Prieffer. My second guess (close second) is Studs, since he retained his job as a protected whistle blower and got the promote to interim HC.

A gossipy receptionist with an associates degree…

“Flat out” and “guy” are coach speak or player speak… Merrill Hodge is also a fan of the “flat out” descriptor – look it up on line and you will see he uses this a lot. Xanders has too much invested in TT to say this. Elway is too smart although he is twitter pals with the yahoo reporter – if he said it then it was probably woth other things so it would likely be out of context. Sounds like Fox but he is also too smart. Probably a player like Loyd. Loyd has been going back and forth on TT and KO – started the season by saying let’s get this TT thing started and has been backtracking since. Seems like BL has a big mouth to me to go along with his big talents so I vote BL.

This whole thing is making me more jaded than ever.

I guess we have to remember that this is almost a 10 Billion dollar industry.

Yahoo wants CLICKs and Silver admitted so, otherwise he would have written the VonDoom story.

Elway has been preaching “open-ness” and has been a tweeting fool, now silent…..

Orton on the trading block and then NOT.

Coach-speak, Front office-speak, its all BS!

like chikndnnr say above, this subject is depressing

It probably is a player, the more I think about it. Most likely Brandon Lloyd. If not, if that info and the info that Mike Lombardi alleges has been leaking from EFX, then that is gross mismanagement and irresponsible in the extreme.

I also agree that the front office needs to make some sort of public statement and clear this crap up. I’m sick of it.

He’s the one who designs the offense and calls the plays. I would think his opinion of the QBs would be very important.

Tell us who your source is and we will decide if they are highly knowledgeable. At this point the highly knowledgeable source could be the janitor that cleans the locker room for all we know.

But the lack of that option and the gravitation to blame Joe Ellis sucked in my vote. I believe it was Studs though for a few reasons:

1) As the interim head coach he was surely propositioned, by all the bottom feeders, and could make connections with dbags like Silver all day.

2) Have you watched the replays of Tebow during the Texans game last year? He flat out demands the ball (the one time I have ever seen Tim lose composure and show his immaturity). If I were a coach that would have gotten lodged in my craw to this day.

3) Since Studs was for all practical purposes forced to play Tebow, he may have some resentment for Tim at having lost so many games in his big shot at the job. Then blames Tim for being stripped of the HC job.

4) Add a dash of being a highly knowledgeable source, who does not have any real experience evaluating QB’s.

We’ve had during training camp, Weber had very limited reps which conflicts with the premise of the column. If Weber was performing that much better than Tebow, wouldn’t we see an increase in his reps? We should ask our resident Camp Man, KaptainKirk if he noticed that increase? Much was made of Brady Quinn moving into the #2 spot last week, but Fox has been on record as saying it was for evaluation purposes. Training Camp has ended, and so has are insight to what is going on at camp. Anything we hear going forward that isn’t uttered directly by a representative of the team is merely speculative and should be taken accordingly.

This qoute seems like something that could have been plucked from a much larger context and then sensationalized. It’s not the first time that has happened.

they use “annonymous” sources or take what is being said out of context. Man I would really suck as a politician.

“one high-ranking member of the Broncos’ organization” saying "Sometimes the best things that happen to you in life are the things that don’t happen." (About the failed Orton trade, apparently)

“one executive” (in context, it’s suggested to be a Broncos executive) saying "Forget about how he delivers the ball, or how accurate it is. First he has to know where to go with it."

If all 3 unnamed sources are the same person (which isn’t necessarily true – the other 2 say nothing about Webber), then it wouldn’t be a player. However, those other 2 aren’t that striking – they say they are glad to still have Orton (which isn’t that controversial) and that Tebow needs to work on getting out from under center (which doesn’t mean he’s worse than Webber, it is just an area that needs work).
So, I guess I agree that it is some player – probably Lloyd, since he is talking so glowingly about Webber. It isn’t necessarily his absolute position, but what he was feeling after seeing Webber throw some particularly good passes. So, Silver got his quote (and padded it with some other less controversial anonymous quotes) to tell the story that would get people to look at it and talk about it.

I actually looked at the denver broncos staff page to think about this last night.

There are a lot of high-up people that aren’t on the football side. Like the entire “director’s advisory board”. Any one of those blow-hards would be considered high-up, and think of themselves as a football authority when they’re not.

But if we assume it’s someone on the football side, there are fewer options.

One other note, we’ve also heard that Fox is actually rather generous about saying things on background and unsourced – one of the reasons reporters love him.

He uses the phrase “All things being equal” frequently (in interviews) and he’s a well known advocate of Orton.

LenDale White? Someone who has been in camp