thats bull.
John Elway is in the broncos front office now and you can bet your house Elway is mentoring the kid to be best he can be. hell he is better than orton and fuckstick in chicago combined right now.
No he's not. He's not doing mentoring at all. In fact, he seems to be intent on finding who he's going to replace him with because Elway wants to find a QB that can throw the ball well.
Last year, the Broncos were bad because the defense was bad. They got Dumervil (2009 sack leader) back and added Von Miller, so the defense has been playing a lot better (it did take some time to get things going well as they moved back to a 4-3 though). The offense was crap because they went from McDaniels to Fox. Funny thing is they had the offensive line personnel to run Fox's scheme more than McDaniels, but they were still trying to run a balanced offense at first. With a young, massive line, running the ball makes more sense. Big surprise that when they went to that, things started working better.
As pointed out, the Broncos are running a funky offense that no one else in the NFL is, and so teams haven't gameplanned for it, let alone setup specific personnel to combat it. Very doubtful it will hold up over time. One thing that has seemed to impacted Tebow is a stellar safety. Eric Berry owned Tebow in college, and I think Polamalu would as well. I think LBers like Ray Lewis and Patrick Willis would too.
There's lots of evidence of a hackneyed offense having some short term success but not holding up. The Chiefs pistol offense actually kept them in games in 2008 despite how bad that team really was on both sides of the ball. The Wildcat worked for a few games but died out pretty quickly.
People saying Tebow will only improve as a thrower, he's actually gotten worse over time (he was a better passer last year), and them running a run focused offense will probably hamper his throwing even more.
As for Tebow's running. He runs way differently than Vick or Newton. He runs more like a big RB or FB, and those tend to not have the best long term success (in some part because they get worn down quickly from all the abuse). Tebow is a good runner, but we'll see how he holds up over time.
The last thing to note is that, the Broncos are not a good team right now. They're about average, which, for a season like this (with a ton of big time injuries) means I wouldn't be that hopeful about long term. As pointed out, they are not beating good teams. They're like the Chiefs of last year, and well, you can see how that's turned out. To top it off, the Denver defensive line needs improvement and they have an old secondary that will need replacing. Really the only spot that Denver seems to be set at is offensive line.
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