SIMPLE SIMON

And so it starts.. I looked at the clock/calender gadget on my homepage and that Jan. 2 was staring back at me.. The lonely beginning to every new year.. I remember a few years back working up at the school and this teacher that was there when I went to school was there and she said are you having a good year so far?? This was maybe in February, and I told her that I really had a dislike for the first three months of every year.. And she told me it wasn't that bad, and really she made me feel fairly good, she was an upbeat type of person, and that might have helped that year..

I feel like such a downer, the start of every year is kind of depressing with the weight of the new year and the expectations weighing heavily on it, the first week of the new year has to feel both overjoyed and overwhelmed at the same time.. You're a new baby, don't shit your pants...

I'm gonna talk sports, and more to the point, I'm gonna talk Broncos football.. I was with a vast majority wanting to see what Tebow could do.. Thrust him out there and let us just see what all the hype was about.. Well he started to win.. Had a six game winning streak going and everyone thought he was the greatest.. Well I mentioned that anyone who knows football knew that the TEAM was winning and Tebow just happened to be at the right place at the right time.. The wins in the fourth quarter were great and all but to depend on that was to be betting on a horse that had a good finishing stride.. When Elway would get game winning drives a lot of the time he was running the clock out.. Denver had the lead and needed the last five minutes to disappear.. Yes he had a lot of fourth quarter come frombehind rallies but they weren't his MO, they were what he could do a few times a season.. But if you need to depend on winning drives in the fourth quarter as your bread and butter then your luck will eventually run out and that has now happened the last three weeks.. They made the playoffs!!! Big deal, they could get trounced in the first game.. Tebow looks like a backup QB now these last two weeks and even more Sunday than any other time..

Fox has to be given all the credit in the world, he changed the philosophy from a true NFL game plan to what works with Tebow, which is more option oriented, and it worked for a while.. But pro defenses will stop the one dimensional offense and stop Denver which happened Sunday and will happen against Pittsburgh.. They need a great receiver and more defense and hopefully they will keep their Defensive Coordinator for a second season and maybe get a QB coach on the level of helping Tebow more.. They can't keep the game plan they have this year, Tebow won't last 16 games. They have to develop him into a pro QB.. and if not get ready to trade for Barkley next year..


BH