What took so long?

Did it really take John Fox and John Elway a day to name Tim Tebow their starting quarterback after Sunday's game? It only took Tebow one half to bring more excitement and hope (one dropped 2 point conversion pass from erasing a 18 point deficit and forcing San Diego to OT) to a franchise that had none under the leadership of the "John's" and Kyle Orton under center. That is right, NFL Hall of Fame QB John Elway and longtime coach John Fox decided to go with Kyle Orton at the beginning of the season over Tebow. Let's review how that worked out, a 1-4 record while Orton led the NFL in interceptions and continued his career long streak of showing as much emotion as a robot. Couldn't John Tesh and John C. Reilly have done a better job at running the Broncos than Elway and Fox? The Broncos organization is lucky the fans just rented a billboard and didn't storm their complex after this decision and the inevitable result.

If the "John's" were running Apple I am sure we would all be back to using typewriters, maybe they liked how Orton looks throwing to WR's in shorts without a defense, or maybe they wanted to show that they were the new bosses and not the guys who drafted Tebow, but either way sticking Tebow on the bench in favor of Orton shows how massive their egos are and how unqualified they are to run a NFL football team. If the idea is to win games, than Orton is about as useful as wings are to Penguins.

No 1^st round QB selection has ever taken as much heat before he even got a chance to play consistently than Tebow has, washed up "nobodies" like Merril Hoge and Mike Golic have been given a platform thanks to ESPN's 24/7 coverage of everything related to the NFL to take shots at a kid who hasn't even had a chance. Next time a talking head like Hoge, Golic, or Cowherd tries to turn football into brain surgery and bashes Tebow in the process remember the source and the fact that they have way too much time to fill and very little going on in their brains. You don't need to review the game tape from Sunday or understand anything about the mechanics of playing quarterback to see what changed for the Broncos when Tebow entered the game. The team began to move the ball against a legit Super Bowl contender in the Chargers and everyone from his teammates to the crowd began to get into the game. No other position in sports is counted on to be the leader of a team like a QB is, and if Hall of Fame player and coach Mike Dikta has never seen a winner or leader like Tebow then who I am to argue.

Maybe Tebow won't come out looking like Tom Brady throwing the ball in his next start, but he will no doubt give the Broncos a better chance to win than Kyle Orton does and he will get a chance to smooth the edges of his game while gaining valuable experience. The spread offense is prominently making its way into the NFL game and few are more capable of running that system than Tebow. Major questions have to be asked if Elway and Fox are the "brain-trust" and I use that term lightly to fully maximize Tebow's talents. I have never seen a winner lose and that is why I am not betting against Tebow, while I think the book is written on Orton and the first chapter is awful bad for Elway and Fox.