The Mile High City is enthralled with their latest first-round draft pick, Tim Tebow. Never heard of him? Where have you been all offseason? Even the NFL.com Denver Broncos profile page is enamored with the emerging superstar. Just check out the headlines from last week –
- Elway back in fold with Broncos, will attend training camp. Ready to pass Hall of Fame mantle on to Tebow…
- Harris OK, ready to lead Tebow on rollouts…
- Broncos reward Dumervil with $61.5M contract, but Tebow not yet signed…
- No Tebow in Denver…
- Tebow lands five-year Broncos deal, set to practice Friday…
- Tebow ready for hard hits, ribbing by Broncos teammates…
- Broncos lock up Thomas, rookie wide receiver ready to help make Tebow great…
- Broncos' Moreno, Buckhalter injured, but coach says not to worry. Injuries mean more passing opportunities for Tebow…
- Tebow draws fans…
- Tebow’s first pass incomplete, scientists blame unexpected planet shift…
- What do quarterbacks Orton and Quinn have in common? Neither named Tebow…
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Ok, that’s enough. Tebow. ENOUGH!
Aside from the media hype surrounding the new quarterback in town (who, I might add, still has not thrown a single interception in NFL regular season play), Denver comes off a season filled with disappointment and head cases. After starting 2009 an impressive 6-0 (without Tebow, no less!), they stumbled mightily to only finish 8-8 (9-7 minimum would have been the result had Tebow been on the roster). Dumping Brandon Marshall’s antics will help, but the defense will have to get better if Denver will have any chance to keep pace with San Diego.
In a two team race for the division, Denver has the advantage over San Diego. Why? Yep, you guessed it.
Tebow!
The Chiefs are going wildcat! In desperate need of a new identity they have decided to steal one for themselves- but only if they can make it work. There are few things better than 4-12 teams struggling at the bottom of their division who try to reinvent themselves by running with the latest craze.
Where’s the originality? Where’s the pride? In a copy-cat league, variations of the wildcat offense have spread from sideline to sideline. But which team used the wildcat last year to win the Super Bowl or even go deep into the playoffs? Of all the playoff teams, only Dallas, with their three-headed running back monster, used the formation with any kind of success and even they only used it as a change-up for a few plays a game.
Miami, the originator of the offense, used it quite extensively last year to finish an underwhelming 7-9 last season with far better players than Kansas City has. Who do you have to run the wildcat effectively, KC? The rookie McCluster? The emerging Charles? The veteran Thomas Jones?
Even Coach Haley is already downplaying the effectiveness of the formation by saying, “I think it all comes down to the players you have and that’s really kind of the process we’re in and you check out who can do what and if it’s something we want to do, we’ll expand on it. If we don’t, we’ll still have an advantage of letting our defense see something else.”
I agree with him. It is good for your defense to get as much practice as possible. With an offense going nowhere anytime soon, the defense will be on the field far too long to be effective.
And the wildcat? If no team uses it to great effectiveness this season to propel them deep into the playoffs, the offensive scheme should be put out of its misery like the run-and-shoot craze of the early 90’s.
Tomorrow, letters to the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers...
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