Denver Broncos’ John Elway Vows to Work With Tim Tebow in the Offseason

Published: 13th Dec 11 10:40 pm
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by Mark Stringer
Denver Broncos
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If you’re one of the many Denver Broncos fans unhappy with team president John Elway’s statements about Tim Tebow in recent weeks, you may now take a deep breath. According to Fox Sports’ Alex Marvez, Elway is not only more on board with Tebow’s future as the team’s quarterback than he’s let on at times.
“I know everybody wants to know, but our future’s right now,” Elway said earlier this week, in one of many version of the same remarks about Tebow’s future with the organization. The Broncos are ahead and the west and if they hang out for a few more victories they will be headed o the playoffs… and once you get there anything can happen!

When Elway was less than enthusiastic about Tebow’s future prospects in recent weeks, the greatest Broncos player of all time learned a valuable and unexpected lesson: It doesn’t matter what you did for the franchise over that Hall-of-Fame career. The fans want Tebow, and many of them were less than pleased with Elway’s qualifying remarks.

When talking about Tebow’s future the question came up about how high his ceiling would be and Elway stated… “Do I know where that ceiling is? I hope that ceiling is a mile high,” Elway told FOXSports.com on Thursday from inside his executive vice president’s office at team headquarters. “It’s just hard to predict. I don’t have that answer right now. But there’s nobody more supportive or wants him to be that guy than me.”

Elway has not been a huge part of  Tebow’s growth partly because it’s Elway’s first year and the lock out during the offseason didn’t allow the coaching staff to develop Tebow the way they needed too. There is also the fact that Tebow has a quarterback coach in Adam Gase and Elway I’m sure wants his staff to coach the team and doesn’t want to step on any toes. Elway’s remarks in recent weeks sounded less than enthusiastic about Tebow’s future.

“In my situation, I don’t talk a lot to Tim, but I try to help his coach out a lot,” Elway said. “I don’t want to step on toes, and everybody has a responsibility, especially during the season where there’s game-plan stuff going on. I get (Gase’s) evaluation. I talk to him about what I saw and what you could work on.”

Proof? Well, there’s this. Elway told Marvez that he will “spend a lot of time” with Tebow and quarterbacks coach Adam Gase once the season is over. Elway already talks with Gase about specific things Tebow might be able to do better, but he’s been careful about meddling.

If everyone can remember Elway’s career started a lot like Tebow’s in that they are both mobile quarter backs who struggled early in their careers. Elway also had to learn specific aspects of the position before he could become one of the greatest quaterbacks in league history. Elway if anyone knows that it takes a while to develop and when you don’t have organizations support its very hard to overcome, just in the way it was hard for him with head coach Dan Reeves. It must have finally hit Elway that not supporting the franchise quarterback just makes things bad for everyone.

My final thoughts and opinions are this… There were a lot of similar things between these two quarterbacks starting their careers. Let’s hope it finishes in a similar form 5 super bowls and 2 super bowl wins!

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2 Rants to “Denver Broncos’ John Elway Vows to Work With...”

  1. John says:

    “If everyone can remember Elway’s career started a lot like Tebow’s in that they are both mobile quarter backs who struggled early in their careers.”

    I did not realize Elway started of 7 and 1. And since when is 7 and 1 considered struggling? I think you need to rethink your commentary; it is not accurate and a poor reflection on your sports accumen.

    • Mark Stringer says:

      I am a Broncos fan. I also love Tebow and think if he improves on the passing aspect a little you can build a potent O around him. He has struggled with the small things, but I agree with his 4th Quarter heroics and great defensive play the Broncos have not struggled, but could improve on a few things. It’s hard to keep winning on last minute field goals, overtime, field goals, timely forced fumbles, onside kicks, etc..

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