Most Heisman winners fail in the NFL.
Many college champions fail in the NFL.
Many college record holders fail in the NFL.
Many first round draft picks fail in the NFL....
All that I know.
But if Tebow was just taking advantage of a great team backing him up, how come they were 1-4 when he took over and then he took them to the playoffs and won over the Steelers.
If the Broncos were so great anyway, why did they need Tebow to make the playoffs? Couldn’t they have just done it with Orton?
The average points allowed per game for the defense dropped 13 points from the 5 games with with Orton to the games with Tebow. Defenses tend to get better as the season progresses. And remember he “took them” to the playoffs with an 8-8 record, a 3 game losing streak, and 5 games where he threw (THREW mind) 10 or fewer passes. Then in the playoffs a seriously depleted Pittsburgh defense, and then got his ass kicked by the Pats.
They didn’t need Tebow to make the playoffs, they needed the defense to get it together. They could have done it with Orton. But the Tebow cultists were chanting every time Orton threw an in-completion (same thing they did when Tebow was in NY) and Fox finally put him in to shutup the fans then the win streak started, so he stuck with Tebow. But the numbers tell the tale. If Denver’s defense had performed in the beginning of the season the way they did down the stretch Orton goes 4-1 and Tebow never starts. If they’d played down the stretch the way they started Tebow’s under 500, never gets near the playoffs, and even his most ardent admirers might actually admit he was never an NFL caliber QB.