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
I know what can solve this problem. I can be like Jason Elem and meet a Bronco`s cheerleeder, Court her, and if everything works out It`ll be a OK. Heck, she has to be a Bronco`s fan if she cheers for them. LOL
TRB
I agree Bro But Decker needs to hold on to the ball.
FTR
You guys are crazy! HaHa!!
Or Elway, he married a Raider cheerleader.
John Guden married a UT cheerleader.
Oh, crap, I didn’t realize FTR just logged on, LOL.
FTR, What up man?
Yep, John sure did.
BeastFromEast92 you might be right! If our team keeps playing like they are and the Saints continue to win, it will be very hard for me to sell the Broncos to my lil ones when they come.
They will like who they want,whether you aprove or not,that’s the way it is bro! I got all over my son about being a Pats fan,but to no avail,but what can I say he’s liked them for like the past 10 years.
BFE, no harm taken dude. I`m a happy camper. Or shall I say a happy tailgater. LOL
I told him he could have Joshy boy back tho! lol.
That’s because the Pats have been winners the past ten years, who could blame him…
Just joking around to pass the time bro!
Might wanna take a few pointers from Bay before you find another ball and chain dude!
Yeah he’s a pretty smart kid.
Have you told him that John Elway was 11-0 against the Pats during his career. John never lost to the Patriots.
And to all the young parents or parents to be out here, do you remember that when your own parents told you what to do, more often that not you did the exact opposite, guess what, your kids will do the same, use reverse psychology, tell them to be Raider fans, haha.
Can’t do that,then he’ll throw those 3 Superbowls in my face,not to mention McD,don’t wanna get that started.lol.
But that gives me some leverage tho! thanks strand.
Oh ya son I love the raiders.
HAHA….good one Bay!
Maybe that’s why McD came in here and tore us down,to get revenge against Elway,lol.
The team that John played against the most in his career that was not in our division. Thats a record to be proud of.
You betcha!
I think you messed up that one strand.
Sorry, I just got it, outside of our division you meant.
It might even be 13 games but it was up there. I know he never lost to them.
I think he had a pretty good record against Cleveland too,especially the playoffs.
But the best Bronco win over the Pats came without Elway, January 15, 2006, when Plummer threw them out of the playoffs 27-13.
Just one loss to the Browns i think. He won every game against the Bucks also. 4-0.
Great game that was too!
Actually he had an even more meaningful record against Shottenheimer, all the big games he beat him in, his nemesis for sure.
One more hour until Sound FX ft Tebow comes on.
I liked Plummer.
Yeah Shottenheimer must have hated his guts!
I just bought my boys Broncos jerseys and made them wear them. From that moment on they were Broncos through and through. Of course it helped that they loved John Elway too.
As for McD I am certain it was espionage after all nobody else has ever destroyed a team that quickly. He suddenly became the worst coach possible and got rid of our pro-bowl players. Nobody consciously could be that dumb, except McD.
Espionage and got paid by both partys.
Pretty smart actually,look how much dough he got,and probably got payed by Billicheck too.lol.
Gotta go guys,gotta go to Wally world.lol.
Yeah Crazy, but that’s in hindsight for most fans since I remember clearly only a handful of fans and I where calling McD out for a very long time, but the majority told us to shut up saying he was the one who was going to make it happen, that we just had to be patient, just saying, the majority of the Bronco fans were as blinded about him as Bowlen was, and they all seem to want to take credit for it now…… The masses are the masses, they follow the masses….
Strandoftds Just chilling and waiting for the Bolts game I’m in and out sometimes on the blog
Question Broncos Country. If Champ is 1st alternate at CB for the AFC in the Pro Bowl and Nnamdi Asomugha or Darrelle Revis decide to opt out would Champ get full credit and get his 10? Or would there be an asterisk after his name like in Baseball.
FTR
My father is a chiefs fan I picked up on the Bronco’s because I liked there emblem when I was younger and they just grew on me ever since but i still root for the chiefs if it does not make any difference for the broncos but twice a year we clash and he threatens to kick me out when they lose lol.
I tried to give McD a chance. It was really hard to swallow. Life goes on
Thats a good question. I want to know that myself?
I tried also but never liked it. Kind of like eating liver!! ha
FTR
FTR, I don’t see how you could get credit as an alternate, it’s just a nice name for a replacement, so I would think no.
LOL@BFE92
Enjoy Wally World Bro!!
Bay
Thats what I though also. No respect backing into the Pro Bowl!
FTR
Seems as if I may be wrong:
If Bailey did take a spot on the AFC roster, Bailey would be a 10-time Pro Bowler.
That was from SBNation.
So that’s a good thing, do we wish for injuries now or just for them to go all the way to the SB so they won’t wanna play in the pro bowl, haha.
So if he`s voted in as a alternate and then plays, I guess it counts huh.
Wow, you guys wore me out, but it was some great laughs, thanks to strands wife ending up with caramelloo, haha, but I’m out dudes and not to Wally world, but to walk the dog and hit the sack, Later Bronco fanatics.