Fox sticking with Tim Tebow—for now
Tim Tebow(notes) wasn’t sacked Monday. One day after giving his embattled young quarterback a less than wholesale cheap nfl jerseys ringing endorsement following a humiliating 45-10 loss at home to the Lions, Broncos coach John Fox said he’s sticking with Tebow.
“For this week, yes,” Fox said.
Tebow said he doesn’t feel as though he’s on a week-to-week basis but that he’s not one to fret about the future anyway.
“It’s just take it one day at a time, consistently trying to get better and not focusing too far in the future,” Tebow told The Associated Press. “Today’s the day I’ve got to improve and that’s kind of the focus.”
By not committing to him beyond Sunday’s game at Oakland, Fox made it clear that Tebow has to quickly improve as a pocket passer to retain his starting status in Denver.
“I think at the end of the day, we’ve got to see if he can improve and get better in the passing game,” Fox said.
Since supplanting Kyle Orton(notes) at halftime against San Diego on Oct. 9, Tebow has completed 46 percent of his passes (35 for 76) and been sacked 13 times.
“I think we definitely need to improve. I think we will,” Tebow said. “Just the timing and getting in discount nfl jerseys and out of the right plays and being more consistent. … Every day I’m just coming in here and trying to get better and improving and whatever they ask I’m going to do.”
Tebow, who pulled out a stunning win at Miami two weeks ago in his first start this season despite playing poorly for most of the game, said he feels as though the coaching staff still has his back.
“I think they have confidence in me, but more than anything, I’ve got to have confidence in myself and my teammates around me and at the end of the day that’s what matters,” Tebow said.
He insisted his confidence wasn’t rattled by the Lions’ landslide.
“We did some good things and improved on some things,” Tebow suggested. “It wasn’t all bad, it just didn’t necessarily look that way. But that’s the thing about it, it’s never as bad as it seems, it’s never as good as it seems.”
The Broncos had eight possessions of three plays or fewer Sunday, turned it over once on downs and three times on takeaways, two of which were returned for touchdowns. Tebow was sacked seven times and his only TD toss came after the Lions had built a 42-point lead while razzing him with imitations of his prayerful pose that’s become an online sensation.
“We knew he was a scrambling quarterback,” Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch(notes) said. “We knew he was going to try to get out of the New Orleans Saints jersey pocket and try to keep plays alive and we did a good job just executing. He’s a young player. He’s got a lot to learn as a player. Take nothing from him, he’s a winner, he finds a way to win. He just needs to clean up some things in his pass game, but that takes time.”
The Broncos tried to adapt to Tebow’s unconventional skill set, spreading out the offense and speeding up the tempo, even sprinkling in some option-read plays, but nothing seemed to work very well.
