Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos were close to being knocked out again. They haven't flinched in more than a month.
Eighteen games into his NFL career, Tim Tebow remains a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside ... a football helmet. His Denver Broncos team keeps winning — five times in his six starts this season — but Tebow also keeps putting up numbers that, for a quarterback, are straight out of the leather-helmet era. In fact, his completion rate this year (45.5 percent) is lower than the league rate in 1947 (47.0).
Forget Tim Tebow for just a moment. It's Miller Time in Denver.
Kyle Orton has a new home in the AFC West.
Kyle Orton has a new home in the AFC West.
By now, everybody knows Tim Tebow, the quirky quarterback. Hardworking work in progress, imperfect passer getting by on more will than skill, bigger on moxie than mechanics.
Since joining the Broncos' brain trust in January, the only franchise quarterback John Elway has glimpsed in Denver is the one staring back at him in the mirror every morning. And that guy is 51 years old.
Kyle Orton has gone from Jay Cutler's replacement to Tim Tebow's backup to the unemployment line.
Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel could be lost for the season with what his coach calls a significant injury to his throwing hand.
