Pompei: Why Can't Tebow Be For Real?
(WSCR) Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos have won five straight games, yet some still doubt the legitimacy of the Broncos starting quarterback.
Tebow is 7-1 as a starter and has brought the Broncos from the bottom to the top of the AFC West.
"I'm not sure it can't work," Dan Pompei of the National Football Post and Chicago Tribune told The Mully and Hanley Show. "You get into a rut sometimes in your thinking where you say, 'Well, the only way we can do it is the way it's been done.' Really, if you look at the history of man, I think any time that you have any great innovation or any great change occurs, it's because someone dares to think outside the box, and someone tries something that everyone else says, 'You're crazy. You can't do that.' Maybe that's what is happening in Denver.
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"I think you've got to kind of take what Tebow has accomplished at face value and say, 'This guy is pretty good, or at least he's been pretty good.' Nobody knows for sure if this is going to be able to continue long term, but he's played against some decent teams so far and only one of them has been able to really figure him out and contain him."
Tebow presents an interesting challenge because of his mobility, yet the Bears defense has had no problem shutting down other mobile quarterbacks in the past, like Michael Vick.
"They pride themselves on being able to match up against an offense that likes to run the ball and an offense with a mobile quarterback," Pompei said. "They've done well against those kinds of teams and quarterbacks in the past. This is a little bit different animal and really, the NFL hasn't seen anything like him or what the Broncos are doing offensively in many, many years."
