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Tim Tebow-mania as the Broncos win again with him completing two of eight pass attempts...

Geez... For the second consecutive week and the third out of four starts, the Denver Broncos won with Tim Tebow at the helm, to help improve the Broncos to 4-5 on the year and just a game back of Oakland in the AFC West. Tebow for the game? He completed just two of eight pass attempts for 69 yards and a touchdown. He also rushed the ball 9 times for 43 yards. He was responsible for only 112 of Denver's 313 yards of offense. But, yes, the Broncos won.

I've honestly never seen such stats in a NFL game before. The Broncos rushed the ball 55 times and threw it only 8. 87.3% of their plays were rushes.

On the year, Tebow has completed 47 of 105 pass attempts (44.8%) for 605 yards. I honestly cannot believe such numbers for a NFL starting quarterback and that the team is actually winning.

It'd be ridiculous to give Tebow much credit for the win, however. Lance Ball carried the ball 30 times for 96 yards. Knowshon Moreno carried it 4 times for 52 yards. Eddie Royal added 3 rushes for 19 yards. Spencer Larsen rushed it 5 times for 17 yards and Willis McGahee carried the ball 4 times for 17 yards (along with Tebow's before-mentioned stats of 9 carries for 43 yards). Denver rushed the ball 55 times for 244 yards.

So, what now for the Broncos? They'll be sticking to the run so long as they keep on winning, but it may be difficult given the fact both Moreno and McGahee got hurt on Sunday, with Moreno being doubtful for Thursday night's game against the Jets.

Speaking of which, Tebow and company will face some much tougher defenses in the next four weeks, having to go up against the Jets at home this Thursday, travel to San Diego to face the Chargers the following week, go head-to-head with the Minnesota Vikings' 6th ranked run defense (30th in pass defense, however) on the road, before facing Brian Urlacher and the Chicago Bears. I'm guessing they'll lose at least 3 of those 4 games, with Minnesota being the question mark and that would send them to 5-8 on the year. They then play New England at home, Buffalo on the road close up with Kansas City at home. I have a hard time seeing them beat New England (5-9). Buffalo hasn't looked very good the past couple weeks, but a December 24th game in Buffalo may be difficult for most road teams, especially Tebow and the Broncos (5-10). Kansas City is an unknown. They started playing better before getting demolished by the then winless Dolphins a week ago and then losing to Denver this past weekend. At best, I'd say the Broncos finish 6-10 or 7-9. In this league, though, as some of yesterday's results illustrated (Seattle over Baltimore? Really?), who knows anymore?

As for Tebow, I'm still in no way convinced he will ever be a consistently effective NFL starter. Never before have I see a quarterback throw the ball 10 times a game and be successful. But like I said, who knows anymore?

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