Tebow is the "Top QB" when camp starts. Big Deal!

I remember going to my first Broncos training camp when Tommy Maddux was just drafted in the first round as an eventual replacement for John Elway in 1992. Tim Tebow is a big boy and if he puts in the work he has to he’ll win the job. If he doesn’t he doesn’t and we move on. That’s the way it works.

….he is the only QB under contract besides Weber….so of course, he is the starter going into training camp. But this is hardly worth losing sleep over. He’ll get every chance and then some to the starting QB. It won’t be just based on practice.

If Tebow doesn’t improve going into next year then Elway and company have every right to look for competition at the position. Why would they show all of their cards at this juncture anyways? If the team which includes Tebow can’t improve we will not be in the playoffs next year. The schedule will likely be more difficult and the AFC West will likely not be as injury plagued. Lets just wait and see how a regular off-season works out for Tebow. I think and hope we will be pleasantly surprised and there will not be a QB controversy. At least I hope not, the one last year shook the fan base at its core. Calm down dude it’s mid January.

So much change can still happen, and that change can also affect what kind of quarterbacking we’ll even need.

I just looked through the final ratings of all our positions over at advancednflstats, compared to every other team, and it’s looking pretty dire still. So many holes.

We have one solid starter-level WR in Demaryius. We’re thin at RB, and TE.

On defense, our best position is the front line – our DE and DT basically rank as “average starter”, nothing special. All four (Doom, Ayers, Bunkley, Thomas) rank as starter level but while Doom close to top-ten, the others are on the medium-low end of starter level.

Our linebackers suck – Von Miller is top-ten or so, but Mays and DJ are the next highest-ranking backers, and they are around top 50 or 60, just barely holding on to starter level. Mays could make quality depth, while I expect DJ either stays on if our linebackers continue to suck, or moves to another sucky team if we get someone better than him. Either way, we need better than both of them.

Corners are hard to judge, because they won’t grade out well in that system if they don’t get challenged much, so I’ll skip them.

As for safeties, Dawkins was not pro-bowl quality, but he was a solid starter – top 10-20. After that there was a very long drop, and then you saw Moore, Carter, and Bruton in that order. Maybe they can improve, but we do need one more stud in there to take pressure off of them.

At any rate, I think Elway said all he can say, given how much change we’re likely going to see. We don’t even know what character of team we’ll have next season, and don’t know if we’ll have coordinators that can deal with Tebow’s style of offense.

I feel your pain. Havent watched the NFL for a long time before this season so I dont understand the whole, “Why show all your cards” aspect of it. I will leave it to those smarter than myself, which apparently is a lot of people on here. I will say I dont care much for it though

I have no doubt that Elway will “pull the trigger” and heaven help the kid he brings in.

you’re no friend of mine.

On the field now. Everyone has been able to see with their own eyes what Tebow can do. For anyone to say he deserves the full support of the team as starter next year wasn’t really watching the games. Tebow did a great job leading the Broncos this season. The team as a whole is not a great team, we have good players, some great. All our players play with fire and all deserve our praise but we are not anything other than a good team. Tebow was not great enough to take our average team and win a superbowl. That does not mean he won’t, but he didn’t. So while the problems we had during the season cannot be laid at his feet, he was not the reason we overcame them either. The kid showed tons of fire and attitude and sometimes that was a problem. Like running backwards for twenty yards and being sacked…. Sometimes it was great, like making the long throw after scrambling. No, he should not be crowned, he has the crown… He can keep the crown too, if he can beat whatever competition there is for the job. It is his to lose.
Now. Here is the really important part. We need a backup QB that can come in and run our gameplan. We need a good player to want to be in Denver and that means we need to be able to offer that person the starting job. I want someone good enough to challenge our starter for many reasons. Competition usually leads to better play is a biggie. Being able to win and make the playoffs despite injury to a key player is also a biggie.
So, while I understand wanting to have Tebow as our starter. I am also very tired of all the Tebow is the best ever and should be or franchise player talk. He was good, some things were amazing. Some things were amazingly bad. That is the reality. Tebow has flaws, they are serious enough that he may never be a great player. I believe he has shown he will be an NFL QB, now we need to find out just how good.

Elway saying he’s behind Tim and he has his back. I thought it was a great compliment to a job well done for Tebow this year and I think Tim did too.

What happens if and when it suddenly becomes apparent that John Fox was a loser in Carolina for a reason ?

I am not saying he was for sure, just saying it is hilarious how much abuse Tim is
allowing these guys to put him through.. What a stunning fail move it would be to get rid of him.. although if he is just going to be the management whipping boy, puleeze release the kid so he can find a team that wants to let him play..

The first thing that coaching did wrong was assume TT is a run first QB. That is so far from not real, it is laughable.

Look at any of his games from college and tell me that.. He needs open receivers and Denver has none. He can bullet the ball where it needs to be..OR he can, if he needs to..run. In the entire 22 game winning streak he put together with Harvin and Hernandez and Cooper and Nelson and Spikes.. no one ever thought of him as a run threat..not really.. It was the typical Florida Gators Fun n Gun with an option.

The Florida Gators did not beat the Sam Bradford led Oklahoma record breaking offense by running the ball..

The fans of the Denver Broncos have been duped by the coaching staff and half the NFL into thinking that somehow the dropped balls, and their inability to see what is in front of them and identify other problem areas, and appropriately assign responsibility leads to Tim Tebow not being a starting QB..

Belichik would argue the point..he is not blinded by his ego or fear of having his assessment called into question.