A day after scoring his first NFL touchdown in his first game action in more than a month, Tim Tebow had no interest in speculating on the future of the package of plays designed to get him involved in the offense.
The rookie quarterback, who finished Sunday’s loss to the Jets with six carries for 23 yards and a touchdown, was just happy to have been back out on the field, taking hits and playing the sport he loves.
“I’m just going to do whatever they ask me to do and try to do it with all my heart,” Tebow said with a smile.
Hours earlier, Head Coach Josh McDaniels talked about the opportunities provided by the set of Tebow plays and the possibilities it adds to the offense.
Tebow took nine snaps against the Jets with starter Kyle Orton split out wide, keeping the ball six times and handing off to Correll Buckhalter on the rest.
“I know it gave us some good plays yesterday,” McDaniels said. “We’ll probably continue to tinker with it, including his ability to throw the ball, too.”
The head coach said the package has been in play for each week Tebow has been active as the No. 2 quarterback — every game except Sept. 26 against Indianapolis. But with an opportunity to throw a change of pace at the Jets’ blitz-happy defense in a close game, Sunday proved the best time to showcase the variety of plays and formations that put two quarterbacks on the field at once.
The plays — which according to McDaniels have a variety of names in the Broncos’ playbook, such as “Trick,” “Raven” and “Blimp” — gave the Broncos an edge against the Jets as Tebow hadn’t seen the field since his two-carry-for-2-yards performance in the season opener. But McDaniels agreed that to work on a consistent basis the package will have to evolve in the gameplan.
“Now everybody has kind of seen us do different things from it and we’ve got to try to find a way to be creative and see how far we can take it and continue to make it productive,” McDaniels said. “I don’t want to just do it just to do it. If we can continue to be productive with it, then I think it makes sense to do it.”
No matter what that might entail, Tebow, who has yet to throw a regular-season pass, said he’s sure the coaching staff will put him in the best position to succeed going forward.
“I think the coaches will do a good job with whatever the game plan is, switching it up, disguising it,” Tebow said. “That’s what they’re great at, and I’m sure they’ll do a great job.”
HILL MOVES ON
With time to reflect on the 46-yard pass interference penalty that set up the Jets’ game-winning touchdown, Renaldo Hill still wasn’t quite sure what happened on the fourth-and-6 play.
The veteran safety only knew that he couldn’t afford time to spend too much time thinking about it.
“They made a call,” Hill said on Monday. “I just have to live on it and move on. I just have to move on to next week. I thought I looked back for the ball, felt a little tug and that’s what kind of got me off balance, but I don’t know that I’d do anything differently in that situation. I don’t know.”
The penalty — called after Hill got tangled with Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes — placed the ball at the Broncos 2-yard line with less than two minutes left and running back LaDanian Tomlinson punched in the game-winning rushing touchdown on the next play.
But afterwards teammates and McDaniels focused on the missed opportunities preceding the penalty that left the team in a tough position after the flag was thrown. They also found a silver lining in being able to go “toe-to-toe” with the current top team in the AFC standings.
Hill expressed a similar optimism, saying there’s no point focusing on Sunday’s disappointing ending without looking at the Broncos’ performance as a whole.
“I think everybody is in good spirits and when we look at the film and evaluate it, we know that we’re improving each week,” Hill said. “We’re just continuing to try to get better each week so we can put a finished product on the field on Sundays.”
WILLIS OUT FOR SEASON
McDaniels also announced that wide receiver Matthew Willis will be placed on injured reserve with a foot injury. Willis sustained the injury early in Sunday’s loss to the Jets and will miss the rest of the season.
Willis, the team’s leader in preseason receiving yards, played in each of the Broncos’ first six games, notching one catch for 17 yards and adding one special teams tackle.
McDaniels did not provide injury updates on any other players in his Monday morning media session.
- Eric Detweiler, DenverBroncos.com
Tags: 2010, Denver Broncos, Head Coach Josh McDaniels, Matthew Willis, Renaldo Hill, Tim Tebow, Week 7
WAY TO GO TEBOW!!!!!
Very nice to have Tebow starting to contribute, and Reynaldo I can tell you what happened, your hand went across the receiver’s face and some of your fingers got caught in the face mask and in the replay you can clearly see that it moved his helmet to the side, easy thing for the official standing right behind, the head goes to the side while the defender’s hand goes across the face mask, face mask penalty every time. And my boy Willis done for the season, awful break for him.
Glad to see some of the Rookies in there,like some of us have been waiting for….. Tebow=TD,Thomas=TD,Thompson=Int.
Bay…..agree 100% on Hill’s penalty.
If Hill`s hand didn`t go into the facemask, they may not have thrown the flag. But If`s are only if`s.
If the helmet didn’t get jerked around it might of been a different story, but that’s what the refs look for to call it, and it did get jerked to the guy’s left, easy call.
agreed, we need to move on and look forward to the Raiders, I sure hope Tebow throws some. keep improving and moving forward. I really feel that if we establish a running game and our D improves we can still take a 10-6 or even 11-5 record!
GO BRONCOS!!!
I`d like to see Decker get his first catch, or even a TD. I think he`ll see alot of playing time if Royal can`t play.
Agreed.
Hey, that’s how we won the Tennessee game, on a pass interference play on a long pass that got us to the one, the plays went our way in that game but not in this one, that’s the way it goes, by season end everything eventually evens out, even the refs call. To be stuck on that play as the reason we lost the game is absurd, we wasted so many opportunities to score points all game long, like we had three turnovers and one onside KO recovered for a grand total of 3 points, that’s the isssue, us not scoring over 20 points, not that play, poor Hill I feel bad for him.
Great game by coaches and players alike! I can’t remember last time I enjoyed a game so much. Looked to me like R. Hill was falling down , put his hand out and it ended up in the facemask. Official didn’t have to make that call which decided the game. If there ever was an inadvertant facemask , that was it. Great effort , hope they all realize they have the potential to beat every team in the league. Go Broncos!
Reynaldo realized he was beat with the guy behind him ready to catch the ball so he reached back to mess him up, but way to go with a “neutral” Bronco fan view of the call, if it’s the other way around and they don’t call it, you guys be screaming for murder, funny stuff.
Titans up already, BFE happy camper.
While I’m thinking funny stuff, you know what’s real funny is when on the previous blog with a couple of bloggers I was mentioning how Orton’s game wasn’t as grand as Coop made it out to be, and immediately some bloggers took some real strong exception to that stating that considering Orton was going up against probably the best tandem of cornerbacks in the league he did great. Here is the funny part, the same folks who came up with that were here all week long before the game telling us how it should really be easy for Orton to have a great game against the Jets secondary since they were rated 27th in the league. Told you, that’s some funny stuff, and that’s usually the way it goes around here, you just have to look for the hidden humor, it’s hilarious, folks will argue just for the sake of arguing, sometimes I want to say WHITE just to see if somebody jumps in and says BLACK, haha, gotta love it, LOL. Anyhow Young just hurt, bummer for BFE.
Watching the Titans go up 14-0 on the Jags at Jacksonville without Young makes me feel pretty bad about losing that first game.
Again, congrats to Tebow for getting his first official NFL TD. And thanks to the coach for FINALLY letting him play. Was a great touchdown. I think we’ll be seeing him again against Oakland. Can’t wait to see him throw some passes when he gets the chance.
Gotta love the patience Tebow has and he’s not being grumpy or selfish about not getting play time in his rookie season. Such a class act. He’s willing to help whenever they call on him and he’s not complaining that he’s not the starter or he’s not getting to do what he actually drafted him to do… be a quarterback. His patience will pay off in the long run.
We’ll get back to winning when the Faiders come to town. Can’t wait!!
Have some faith Bronco Country…
GO BRONCOS in 2010!!!!
Oh and Hill has no room to be “disputing” the PI call on him. It was clear as day. He needs to own up to his colossal mistake and learn to never do something so stupid again. Saying he didn’t know what happened or what was going on is just lame.
GO BRONCOS!!!
Kyle Orton is a good quaterback and all but the Broncos aint winning…. I think its safe tosay we aint going to the superbowl this year, so maybe we should start getting for next year and start getting all the young talent we drafted some experiance, like Tim Tebow
Yeah, I would think that is safe to say we are not going to the superbowl this year, but it probably is just as safe to say Orton will not be pulled out of the starting spot at the very minimum until our divsion title hopes and playoff hopes are absolutely out the window, as in categorically mathematically out, is the only chance we could see Tebow finishing the season to give him the experience. For now Orton is going to be driving that train, we’ll go down or make it with him at the helm, might as well enjoy it.
I think what Coop might be referring to is the poise showed by KO. The control of the LOS. The nifty footwork when the picket collapsed. How he hung tough against two of “arguably” the best CBs in the league. The fact he didn’t panic under the fiercest blitzing team in the league. And even after the horrible PI that led to the go ahead score, KO led a drive that reminded me of a certain QB.
I think there is a term for that. Intangibles! But I’m not speaking for Coop. So take it at face value.
Hey, I know the bad snap/fumble ended the game.But DMT had a huge drop that could have put us inside the 10 right before that play.
Congrats to Tebow. Hopefully the next one comes in a winning effort!
Get Healthy, GO BRONCOS 2K10!!
Orton was ok, he just wasn’t as good as he has been, quite a few errant balls, 14 completions will make it tough to win any game, not with the D we got so far, we need more production than that on O, talked about that at length already, but overall loved the effort and McD opening up the playbook, hopefully we can be healthy enough to keep playing at this level and if we do and McD doesn’t go back into his shell, we actually still have a fair shot at the division, if we beat KC twice we would be tied with them and if we beat our division foes we would have the tie breaker over them. Of course the window for losing and staying in control of our destiny will be closing fast with any division loss, tough task, but not impossible.
Now that was a darn positive post if I ever saw one, LOL.
Well Baylin I was one of those people arguing about Orton, not really with you, more so with VA. But in any case I said our best chance of winning was attacking the secondary, because when it’s ranked 23rd in pass yards allowed and 3rd in rush yards allowed, our choices seem pretty clear considering our teams prior performances. I also said we should emphasise our screen game to answer their blitzes. I never said Cromartie was not a good corner and I called out Revis due to his hamstring, not his ability. And I know I never said anything about ANYTHING being EASY concerning playing the Jets. In fact I distincly remember saying this was going to be our biggest challenge of the year. Even if I did believe they were trash before the game, they PLAYED like two of the best defensive backs during it, covering our recievers like blankets. Orton was able to squeeze the ball into tight spaces and as I mentioned was able to put the ball where only our guys had a chance at it. That’s what I SAW. That’s obviously what Coop SAW.
I found a little humor in this myself. You claim you don’t like to get into “tedious” arguments but you made that last comment unprovoked, knowing full well that I’m 100% down to get into it with you. Anytime you want to debate, you know I’m your man. I just think it’s funny when you say I’m “overkill” when you don’t have a good answer to an argument I’ve made, but you’ll still take the time digging up and dissecting stuff I said a week ago if you think it’ll help your cause. Now THAT is hilarious! especially after I’ve spent all day giving you props!
Now that all that’s out of the way. I was actually going to say I agree with you about Hill. He knew what he did and there’s no need to pretend he didn’t. It was blatant. I also agree that can’t be the place anyone is looking to see why we lost. A lot of first half mistakes kept the Jets in the game. Now if you want to say Orton lost it for us I will definitely take exception to that. He’s been the most consistent player on our team.
GO BRONCOS!!!!!
If you want to hear something positive, Bay, you should check out Rex Ryan’s post game interview. He had great things to say about McD, Wink, and some REALLY good things to say about *GASP* Kyle Orton!
Man, you think a whole bunch of yourself today, I was in no way thinking about you when I made those references, haha, but hey if I made your day, great. A bit defensive wouldn’t you think?
I don’t remember him saying much positive about us before the game, of course after you beat a team it’s pretty common to sugar coat it. But I did see what he said in the locker room where he said he didn’t give a you know what I mean and all sort of nasty stuff about the way they beat us, that didn’t exactly make me feel good.
Well I was the the most outspoken about Orton today and I did mention something about the Jets being 23rd in passing last week. Why wouldn’t I think I was one of the guys you were talking about? But if someone did specifically say it was going to be “easy” to pass on CroRevis only to later call them the best, the go get ‘em. I must’ve missed it. I apologize and retract my previous statement.
*then go get em
He said something to the effect that, “You’ve gotta tip your hat to Denver. I knew Josh would have his team ready and Wink did a great job on defense,” and something like “I didn’t know Kyle Orton was John Elway until he ran right up the middle on us. We tried to bait with some deceptive coverages and he read them perfectly each time…” As far as his locker room stuff I remember the central message being “we’ll take it.” Which would be my central message if my team won by the skin of their teeth.
Yeah, you didn’t show up til late in that blog, plenty had been said about Orton earlier, but I’m not going to name handles, it’s not that big a deal, it’s funny is all like I said. Anyway sometimes you just let things get the best of you, it’s like you haven’t fully gotten out of the military yet, I’m not an enemy combattant, or the butt head sargeant, I’m on the same team as you are and sometimes I entertain myself writing, not trying to start a war or anything. Keep it civil is all I ask.
PS. I’m not calling Kyle Orton John Elway! Just paraphrasing what he said.
I think I come off a lot more intense than I am when I write because I enjoy writing enough that I write A LOT. I consider all of this to be in fun and I hope I haven’t crossed any lines of civility. I like you guys and I like interacting with everyone. Even when I disagree. GO BRONCOS!
F the Raiders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t believe we lost to the Jags,and then beat the Titans.Titans just crushed the Jags 30-3,how in the Hell did we lose to such a sorry team??
First game mistakes haha, it happens, but we have a chance to win out IMO. the best teams we will play are the Chiefs and Texans. being modest I’ll say we split with the Chiefs and Chargers, but I really feel we can hold on to a close game against Houston at home.
to get my two cents in on this one, I think Orton didn’t exactly show up for this game (at least not as much as the previous four) I feel also his receivers let him down. Say what you will, but Demaryius dropped two passes that hit him square in the hands (But they were hard grabs!) yes, but thats why you get paid to catch those, especially when the game is on the line!
Moreno looked good and I can’t wait to see what else he does with our running game. Tebow package= brilliant! keep bringing it McD, IDK how many of us are left, but I still have faith in you!
GO BRONCOS!!! p.s. you like what I did there with the question haha
Beast, I think one way to look at it is that we were a much better team in week 4 than we were in week 1. Go Broncos!
What a great game! I love when I watch Sanchez’s press conference and heard him say we came in here and stole this win and that’s exactly what they did! The whole entire game we were the superior team!!
What a great rookie effort out of the day as well!!! Tebow=TD, Bay Bay=TD, Syd=INT, Cox=Helped with fumble from Holmes!! I wished that Bay Bay would’ve gotten those other few catches but the way he about did just shows that he is going to be huge in the NFL! Bay Bay definitely reminds you of Johnson/Marshall!! We shall see.
Also I will say, what a great pick up Jason Hunter was. I think that he is going to be just as good as a pick up as Dawkins was!! Hunter was all over the field the whole game and is playing his new role as a linebacker beautifully!!! He also had that crucial sack last week on Flacco that denied their 4th down conversion!!
Our defense played magnificently the whole game!! We had so many of our really good starters out with Dawk and Goody and we still controlled their passing attack! They didn’t even have a receiver to get over 50 yards!
Orton, you’re the man baby!! You even had Rex compare you to Elway in his press conference with how good you was scrambling on their defense!! Way to avoid the sack and use those legs! Definitely made a play whenever the play wasn’t there!! Go on to beat the NFL passing yards for a season!
Can’t wait to get revenge this weekend and KILL the Faiders!!! Apparently Bruce and Campbell are both injured and the are thinking about starting Boller this weekend! Hahaha, Boller used to play for the Rams and my cousin is a huge Rams fan so I watched him a lot and I really believe that he is close to the worst back up QB that you can have in the NFL!! He might actually make Chris Simms look good! Hahah
I love me some Broncos Country!!!!!!
I really hope our guys take this week seriously. The way SD, OAK and ourselves have been performing it never seems to be an automatic W. The way we need to gain some ground in the standings is to win these divisional game…its all been said before right.
Remember last year when we were winning and we pretty much let Russell beat us. It doesn’t matter who the QB is for the Raiders, we need to play them like they’re a threat. Sometimes its those QBs that you think really stink that end up beating you. As we’ve all seen it only takes one more play by the other team to cost you the game. Intensity and turnovers and scoring a lot of points will be key.
Go Broncos!!!!
Agreed, plus the Raiders like to pound it down your throat if they can.
Good view of a good writer who can see both sides of the coin unlike many fans, here is what Klis says about this loss and the rest of the season:
My view of the Jets’ loss is if the game was played in the new Meadowlands and the Broncos competed as they did Sunday, I’d say go ahead and starting planning, just in case, for a Broncos viewing party in January.
But when the games are played at home, there is no such thing as feeling good about defeat. Has the bar been lowered that much around here? Maybe so — the Broncos are 4-12 in their last 16 games.
The Jets are good. I’d still take the Steelers on a neutral field, Indy at Indy and the Saints at the Superdome. But right now, it looks like the Jets are a good bet to reach the second round of the playoffs, or Elite Eight. At which point we’ll, you know, see what happens.
But the Jets were set up for defeat Sunday. The Broncos had ‘em out-game planned and were more inspired. They had the Jets teed up — only to shank their shot. In the end, the Broncos just didn’t quite have enough manpower.
When it’s your season, Ryan Clady decides he doesn’t feel like playing basketball on draft weekend. When it’s your season, Elvis Dumervil doesn’t tear his pectoral muscle. When it’s your season, Ryan Harris doesn’t rip up his ankle in the final preseason game, Knowshon Moreno doesn’t blow out his hamstrings, LenDale White doesn’t rupture his Achilles, Robert Ayers doesn’t fracture his foot, Brian Dawkins and Andre’ Goodman don’t miss any time.
Ultimately, the Broncos still have a chance to make the playoffs so long as 8-8, 9-7 has a chance. What that does for you depends on whether you see this team half-full or half-empty.
That’s pretty much it in a nutshell, whatever comes out of the rest of the season is up to what’s left of the Bronco troops, tall order for a decimated bunch, but still doable. We are still in control of our destiny, believe it or not, even at 2-4, but the two things that bother me the most so far is not that we are 4-12 since October 20th of last year, it’s not that we are 2-4 this year, it is that we are 1-2 at home and 1-4 against AFC opponents, now that is not the right combination of records to set yourself up to make a run at a playoff spot.
First thing the 4 conference losses take away any chance you could of had at a wildcard, and a losing record at home is, well, not exactly a good omen for reigning on our division as the three home losses to our division foes last year remind us. Arduous gigantic mountain of a climb ahead, but still in the realm of possibility, but only with the very best from each player, including coaches and game plans and getting some guys back healthy and not lose anymore, so we will need a lot of lady luck too. Half full, half empty, with 3 division games in the next 4 games, it won’t be long until we know which way that glass is heading. Anyone needs a refill? LOL.
BTW, today is the trade deadline.
Glad to see that Beadles might turn out to be a starter for us after all, but it seems as if it may ultimately mean the beginning of the end for Harris in Denver, Lindsay Jones reporting:
Harris missed the first three games of this season with an ankle injury, but returned to the starting lineup two weeks ago at Tennessee. But after a rough day in Baltimore last week, coaches opted to give Beadles another shot at right tackle. (Beadles started the games when Harris was out).
On Monday morning, coach Josh McDaniels said Beadles played well enough Sunday against the New York Jets to remain the starter. Though McDaniels said the spot remains “competitive,” this is bad news for Harris, who is in the final year of his contract in Denver.
“I thought [Beadles] played tough in there, did a decent job in pass protection against a team that really gives you a lot of different looks and brings different types of pressure,” McDaniels said.
McDaniels said Harris’ demotion was the result of “a combination of a lot of things,” including the ankle injury he suffered in the preseason finale at Minnesota. Because of the two injuries, Harris made only one start from Nov. 1, 2009 until two weeks ago.
Ya Bay, just as long as the cool-aid is spiked. Make it a double.
I am glad to see someone actually agrees with me…even if it is only partially. I will say this and then breath deeply for the rest of the year and let the chips fall, then complain. I thnk I watch the games way more analytical than necessary. I also am grading the OVERALL performance of McD and this team. which in my opinion cannot be undersold the personnel decisions. It pains me to watch Scheff, Marshall and Hillis all perform at such high levels and KNOW that they can be reasons why we are 6-0 NOW rather than 2-4. I have been watching BDAWK for a while and saying that he has lost 3 steps. If McD is truly about this “competition” and “playing the best man” I think Thompson would have and should have been in there a while ago. Cox too. We have to make decision that are best for this team. He doesn’t at times I think realize how idiotic he makes himself seem. He is stubborn at times for no reason. When asked if Tebow could help in the redzone he called it ridiculous. Tebow’s first carry in the red zone. TD. REALLY!!! That could have been done 5 games ago. Then when he put Tebow in later, they ran the same play every time. Where are these “packages” you keep talking about. Plus diving Tebow into the line is not bright the way that we have been getting injured as of late. I do not think you take you “QB of the future” and treat him that way. But that is an argument for another day and another time. I think that we are enamored with the final score of that game and are forgetting some of the factors that “helped” us. east Coast team travelling west, ona short week, after consecutive high emotion games. They played bad and still WON. I agree that the PI call was legit. We are all mad at HIll but what was COX doing. He got DESTROYED off the line. Also, i am sure that most folks would agree that we were also aided by a phantom unecessary roughness call on the sideline, and a lack of a challenge on the touchdown. All that though is water under the bridge and I am epeating myself. The reason I said I wa not impressed by Orton was not strictly the numbers, which were poor, but because of some of the decisions. If you actually watched the game, many of his incompletions were passes to receivers who were BLANKETED. It seemed at times he was simply hoping for PI. Some may call it “letting the receiver make a play” but we generally do not have those types of receivers. The exception being DMT. I think the season is not over, but I think we are generally underestimaing some of the comp. We ALWAYS struggle with SD, the Raiders are HORRIIBLE on offense, but play well enough on D to stay in games, we won’t just walk all over them. THe Chiefs, well they have playmakers. Houston…whew…Kubiak is gonna be ready. SF is not as bad as they play. Even the RAms are doing a lot better. It is going to be interesting, but we are not guaranteed this 4-4.
Beadles better than Harris,I don’t even think so,I’d rather wait and let Harris heal up and put Beadles back at 2nd string.Harris,when healthy is a great RT,prob one of the best in the game.