Denver Broncos fans can expect more of the same from Tim Tebow in the next few games. By that I mean we will only see Tim Tebow come into the game for a handful of plays each game, and Orton will still stay on the field. They’ll either line Tim up at quarterback and let him run the ball up the middle for a positive gain, or they’ll run him outside to make the defense think there could be some trickery. I’d love to see McDaniels let Tim throw the ball once or twice this week vs. Seattle, but I’m not sure he’s ready to do that.
“I don’t think I have any desire to do that with Kyle coming off the field, coming on the field, coming off,” McDaniels said. “I don’t think that’s really something that we’re looking to do much of. Like I said yesterday after the game, I think our quarterback played pretty well. I think he will play well. [I have] great confidence in his ability to execute what we’re doing.”
McDaniels said he would have used Tebow more had his carries been more productive.
“It was just a portion of the game plan that we wanted to go ahead and put in there. If it gave us some benefits, great. We threw a pass or two out of it, completed them. A couple of runs, didn’t do much with those,” McDaniels said. “And again, going into the game we didn’t have it as a significant portion of what we were going to do, we’d just see how it affected them and if it gave us some positive plays, we stay in it longer and if it didn’t, we didn’t.”
I think part of McDaniels was hoping that by running Tim Tebow out onto the field it would cause the stadium to erupt with cheers and demoralize the Jaguars players. The fans cheered alright, but it didn’t really bother the players.
Tim doesn’t seem to mind the slow learning process. His rival from college Sam Bradford – who was a starter on Sunday for the Rams – didn’t exactly light it up with his 3 interceptions.
“To go out there and run on the field a few times and get a few plays was fun,” he said. “It was a learning opportunity for me, an opportunity to get better.”