@Ron: I’m VERY glad Tim wasn’t thrown to. If Orton had thrown to Tim, that would tell me that the Broncos management don’t even care if he gets injured (or actually WANT him to get injured). I think that’s why Orton called time out on 2 different occasions when he saw Tim lining up at WR. He probably wanted to ask if he was supposed to throw to him if other players were covered. By not being thrown to, Tim wasn’t a target for tackling. All Tim had to do was block defenders, and was less likely to get injured by doing that. I think it’s a stupid offensive strategy, but it was an emergency.
On another thread, I said that I thought they put Tim in at WR, instead of another player, to appease the fans. That might have been true, but this apparently all got started b/c Tebow was getting bored during practice!:
http://twitter.com/#!/mortreport/status/115564265687101440
http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2011/9/18/2434186/tim-tebow-wide-receiver-denver-broncos
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