Tebow is unquestionably a winner. But far from an NFL quarterback. Elway wants to win a championship.
It'll never happen with Tebow as your starting quarterback.
Plain and simple.
But it will happen with Peyton Manning?
Given the current state of the AFC, I'd say that the Broncos chances have just increased significantly.
They just went from a QB that defensive players run away from to a QB who could conceivably be killed at his first hit.
I'm pretty sure Peyton's neck is fine. Nobody gives a guy 90 million dollars without making sure the guy checks out medically.
They went from a QB who can't throw a 10-yard out to one of the best QBs of all time.
Well, from all reports the bronco's did. They saw him throw once and did not require him to submit to an independent doctor's exam pre signing.
In fact, that demand by manning (that a team not subject him to medical tests, and take his doctors word for it) supposedly knocked 4-5 teams out of the running when they told manning's people they wouldn't do such a thing.
I don't think Manning is perptrating some sort of active fraud, but i do think the Broncos were the only team desprate enough to:
A: pay a 36 year old with a degenerative neck condition 100 million dollars for 5 years (yes i realize it's the NFL and contracts are not worth the paper they are printed on long term, but thats what it took to get him to sign)
and
B: the front office is desperate to move on from Tim Tebow, and one way to do that without alienating your fan base is to sign a future hall of famer, thus ending any reasonable debate over who should be the QB.
It was a perfect storm for Denver, and manning benefited. I think he'll play ok at best this next year, which for manning will likely still be a top 10 QB in this league, and they'll scrub out of the playoffs the next year or two, then Denver will get out of the deal and move on.
At least we now know how much it's worth to John Elway to get rid of his tebow problem
