Tim Tebow attracts a crowd wherever he goes.
Whether he’s in Arizona — where the away crowd chanted his name even though he spent the game on the sidelines holding a clipboard — or at INVESCO Field at Mile High, you can bet the eyes of thousands are trained on the rookie quarterback.
With two NFL starts under his belt, Tebow will have another group of observers leading up to this weekend’s home game against the Chargers. San Diego’s coaching staff will devote a fair share of their week dissecting game tape of Tebow as they develop their game plan.
“I think we have an advantage over what Houston had,” Chargers Head Coach Norv Turner said in a Wednesday conference call.
“We have a lot of tape on him. He played awfully well, and they really opened it up in the second half when they got behind, so we have a pretty good exposure to look at.”
Turner speculated that his team will have to defend plays from Tebow that did not show up during the Broncos’ 24-23 comeback victory against Houston last week, and Interim Head Coach Eric Studesville agreed.
Tebow’s coaches have scrutinized the signal-caller’s performance as well. Studesville said the offense’s options will continue to grow as Tebow becomes more comfortable running the scheme.
As opponents develop their attack based on Tebow’s previous performance, the quarterback’s coaches will attempt to tailor more and more plays to his strengths.
“People are going to throw more at him,” Studesville said. “We are giving him more, so hopefully we are giving him more ammunition to be able to counteract some of those things, but every game that people have more tape on him they look at things that they may want to try to stop him from doing or think that we may want to do with him.”
Studesville said that as Tebow continues to take more reps, his experience will equip him to deal with the unexpected schemes he might face. Every play is a learning experience.
Tebow said now that he’s in the game, he can pick up more than Xs and Os.
“There is nothing necessarily like playing and having those real reps,” he said. “Going through mistakes and going through the good things that I did and being able to feel that out and understand, ‘OK, this is the timing of this and this is how I have to do it.’”
Daniel Graham has already observed Tebow’s progression through the quarterback’s first two starts. He said he expects to see a more polished performance from the rookie in the last week of the season.
“I expect him to be a lot better than the first two,” Graham said. “He’s improved from his first game and I expect him to improve from his last game and see where he made his mistakes, where he can get better and where he can help his team.”
LLOYD’S LESSON
A lesson learned at the University of Illinois helped lead Brandon Lloyd to his first Pro Bowl season.
In a Wednesday press conference, Lloyd credited Ron Turner — his old college coach and the brother of San Diego’s head coach — with instilling in him one of the values required of an effective wide receiver. When Lloyd’s college quarterback was leaving the team, Turner delivered a message that stuck with the receiver throughout his eight-year NFL career.
“Coach Ron Turner called me in the office and says, ‘Hey, I can have my daughter (at quarterback), you just need to be where you need to be when you are supposed to be there.’ So, I have been just carrying that with me my entire career,” Lloyd said.
The league’s leader in receiving yards emphasized that he simply tries to be where he’s supposed to be and make it easy on whoever might be throwing him the ball. Lloyd has posted 100-yard receiving games with two different quarterbacks under center this season, and he said he’s always confident he can make the tough catch in any situation.
He’s played for two different head coaches, too, but Lloyd has been a rock.
“He is a receiver that I totally trust,” Tebow said. “When I have an opportunity to put it up for him, I am going to take advantage of that, because he just goes out there and makes plays every week and he is tough to cover.”
When the 2011 Pro Bowl rosters were announced yesterday, Lloyd said he was “shocked” and “humbled.” He said he had dreamed of taking the trip to Honolulu to partake in the NFL’s perennial All-Star game since he was little.
He does not play down the honor to be mentioned in the same breath as Andre Johnson and Reggie Wayne. With one week left in the season, he has more receiving yards than both of them.
In Denver he found what eluded him in San Francisco, Washington and Chicago.
“I am humble because this is what I asked for. I asked for more opportunities and I got them, and it worked,” Lloyd said.
“Being selected to the Pro Bowl, it was the most humbling experience of my life — in my professional career.”
-Gabe Hiatt, DenverBroncos.com
Below are photos from Wednesday’s practice:
Tags: 2010, Brandon Lloyd, Denver Broncos, Interim Head Coach Eric Studesville, Norv Turner, Tim Tebow
She`s a keeper then. Life is good.
I do not like Billick.
Spewell is the Giants DC.
I don`t know anything about him, but if he is a great DC and a man of good character Why not.
Not to burst anyone’s bubble, but I’m on my third keeper now, and so his my current wife, haha, 6 perfect unions between the two of us, life goes on and on and on and on and things are very often not what they appear to be. But this one might be the last, 16 years in a week or so. Thank god, I don’t have the energy to start over anymore….
Even if we had the money I wouldn’t want Billick or Cowher. It’s not like Billick won that many titles, and Cowher can take his lip antics somewhere. I’m glad we aren’t on his list.
Who’s Spewell?
Read the blog above
You mean Fewell. lol
Yeah, Perry Fewell, don’t know how I went to spew…
No wonder no one knew who he was, LOL.
Actually I know, but I won’t tell anyone…
I went through a divorce in June. I`m shopping and taking my time. They are amazing. I hope I get it right the next time. I`m tired to. There`s gotta be some good Woman out there. I want to meet a Bronco fan. My ex-wife loved the Cowboys. Life goe`s on. Go Bronco`s. but lose it at the end. #2 pick looks rather good come April.
15 years and still going here,and married to a 49ers fan,lol.
She don’t really watch it tho!
Guess she don’t like my passion for the game,I tend to scream and curse a lot,can’t help myself.
My wife is a Sooner fan, and that’s it.
She’s like”Do you have to use THAT word”.I’m like @#$% yes I do,lol.
Speaking of Sooners,I heard Bob Stoops named mentioned the other day as maybe a candidate for Bronco HC!
LOL
I watch most of the games at the sports bar with Bronco buddies and my wife is not allowed there, so it’s all cool, LOL.
Man, that’s deja vu all over again, do you remember Stoops’ name being mentioned before we hired McD? But he said I’m staying with the Sooners.
LMAO at the both of ya.
I’m not a fan of bringing in a college HC that dosen’t have any NFL experience tho! thats why I am against Harbaugh from Stanford.
Remember Steve Spurrier,great college HC not so good NFL HC!
I don’t want to take a risk like that,we already have enough setbacks!
That probably would be the worse case scenario ever with me since my wife might want to start watching Bronco games with me!
LMAO
HAHAHA!!
I see what you’re saying bro!A man needs some man time every once in a while.
strandoftds wife wasn’t a Broncos fan when we met. She grew up a Saints fan. She became Broncos as she continued to buy me Broncos when we were dating. When we got married this past year and she surprised me with a Broncos grooms cake…. I knew she was all in and her loyalty was to the Broncos 1st and foremost. gear. Our dog… Broncos! When we have kids they will be Broncos no matter what all these Saints fans say. So you don’t have to find a Broncos woman! You have to find one who’s down for you and she will eventually claim Orange and Blue!
Sorry man, you are talking with an old school guy here, just like you can’t play a round of golf with your buddies and your wife you certainly can’t watch a Bronco game with your football buddies and your wife. I set my parameters, she sets hers, and that’s why it’s all working now, it took me a long time to figure it out though, LOL.
You’re with strands wife?
Yeah,I go hunting or to the pub sometimes just to get away.
I don’t want a college coach at all! No No NOOOOOOOO!!
LMAO @ BFE!!!!
melloo,better not say they’ll be Bronco fans,your kids,I thought both my boys would,but one likes the Broncos and the other likes the Pats!
From what I heard on KOA about 2 weeks ago that Pat Bowlen is being qoated as as saying that Money is no object for hiring the next HC of the Denver Bronco`s. I want to win now he said.
my wife didt watch football. but my father in law is a huge redskins fan. but now she the loves the broncos, tebow and hates the chargers and especially rivers. lol. i think i got a keeper. going on 13yrs.
Did I read it wrong? LMAO.
heard today that 49ers thinking of getting parcels in their organization.
Don’t worry BFE, we are all swingers here, LMAO once again…
Smart move if they can get him.
Oh ok,LOL.
No wonder they got divorced,LMAO.
Heck ya! I do hear you on that. Good wisdom. There out there. Patience.
It really should of read “Strandoftds, (comma) my wife wasn’t a Bronco fan when we met.” But I’m glad it wasn’t since I haven’t laughed that hard in a while, thanks BFE.
Just playing around,no disrespect intended.lol.
Instead he says “strandoftds wife wasn’t a Bronco fan when we met.” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no problem,that’s what I’m here for.lol.
I don’t blame you strand,I’d left her too! haha.
3x LMAO!!! Stop it please, it hurts…
This is totally a CLASSIC!