NFL Betting News – McDaniels Fired Means Tebow Time

The Denver Broncos finally fired Josh McDaniels thanks in large part to the team falling to 3-9 SU, and the NFL betting community knows that the Broncos were generally a stay-away team at just 4-8 ATS so far this season.

From wearing stupid Belichik-like hoodies, to his inability to manage player personalities, McDaniels was the wrong man for the job in Denver. The team will move forward with interim coach Eric Studesville.

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Owner Pat Bowlen placed a tremendous amount of faith in the Belichik protégé, offering McDaniels the head coaching job and the opportunity to manage the player personnel. Sounds like a dream job right?

Well that dream turned in to a nightmare for Denver. McDaniels traded away Jay Cutler, Brandon Marshall and Peyton Hillis, shipped in Brady Quinn and Kyle Orton while spending three draft picks to get Tim Tebow when nobody else was really after him.

The person most affected by McDaniels’ departure is the supposed savior of the Denver Broncos. I know that Tebow is a great guy by all accounts, but this isn’t a personality contest. We’re talking NFL betting here and Tebow wasn’t reliable enough of a passing quarterback to warrant a look by most teams that needed one.

For all intents and purposes, as I wrote last week, Tebow was McDaniels’ “guy”, and now that the coach is not in Mile High anymore that leaves Tebow’s long term future in doubt.

Keep in mind that the Florida Gators haven’t really produced outstanding NFL quarterbacks. In recent memory, Danny Weurffel, Doug Johnson, Rex Grossman, Jesse Palmer, Brock Berlin, Chris Leak and Tebow are the most recent Gators quarterbacks to migrate to the NFL and none of them have made a huge impact. Well Grossman has, but for all the wrong reasons.

The thing about NFL quarterbacks is that they need to be passers first and foremost. Tebow already knows he can’t bully defensive lines like he did in college, and so do the Denver Broncos. We’ve heard so much about his “new throwing motion” but we haven’t seen much evidence. At least we haven’t seen enough to warrant a change in heart with the Broncos in terms of NFL Sports Betting.

In fact, Tebow has completed just one pass in the NFL and it was for a 3-yard touchdown. Whoop-dee-doo. He’s also run 12 times for 28-yards and 3 touchdowns but he was never responsible for actually marching the team down the field.

Can he do it? Nobody knows. That’s ultimately the problem.

Firing McDaniels was the first step in retooling the organization, which was a move that Bowlen and the Broncos attempted to make two years ago when they initially signed him. Now they need to deploy Tebow in to games and see if he’s ready to be the face of the franchise. Whether he’s ready or not is inconsequential.

So many players have been thrown to the wolves including Mark Sanchez, Jimmy Clausen, Joshua Freeman and Colt McCoy. That “three year waiting period” applies to guys taken in later rounds, not first round draft picks and whether Tebow deserved to be taken that early doesn’t matter either.

The Broncos have to find something to reinvigorate their fans and seeing Tebow boom or bust is exactly what this team needs. Cycling through head coaches wont’ solve anything especially with the team leery of an NFL lockout, along with the fact that McDaniels and Mike Shanahan are still on the payroll.

Either Tebow is good enough to deserve a roster spot or he’s not. Denver is plummeting to the bottom of the ranks in the standings and NFL betting. They whiffed on a head coach in McDaniels. They need to know now, more than ever, if Tim Tebow is truly the team’s savior or not.

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