Broncos Head Coach John Fox says no quarterback change is coming up for the next game against the Raiders.
HEAD COACH JOHN FOX
On QB Tim Tebow starting next week
“Without making any real announcements on anybody on our starting lineup, we’re going to go through the week and those will be pretty evident on game day.”
On if Tebow will start this week
“For this week, yes.”
On sticking with Tebow
“He had really two starts. I think he’s a young quarterback as we’ve mentioned. We’re getting to know him better, and he’s getting to understand the offense better with each one of those snaps. I got the question the other day about timeouts—we need to practice. I think at the end of the day, we get to see if he can improve and get better in the passing game.”
On calling short pass plays to get Tebow going
“We threw some of those. They were part of the game plan, but we hit some and we missed some. Regardless of what type of passes they were, we tried them all. We just have to get more consistent and better whether it’s just the quarterback—we’ve got some young receivers out there, depth of routes, some drops involved. So it was a total team thing, not just the quarterback. No doubt, the quarterback needs to improve. He knows it and we know it.”
On hitting short passes with defenses stacking the box
“It’s all hard. That’s why it’s the National Football league…There are a lot of moving parts in the passing game. There is no doubt that we need to improve in that area. We have been able to run the ball efficiently enough to be able to attract those types of looks. Where we’ve got to prove a little more worthy is being able to [make opponents] pay for doing that.”
On what affects the passing game
“First of all, on the outside it’s always the ‘blame game,’ and on the inside it’s always the ‘let’s fix it game.’ There are different things to fix, not just at quarterback. As I’ve mentioned, we’ve got some young guys playing on offense, and there are issues that we have to address each week. They had a pretty good front four. The match up that was going to be tough but I think was well publicized was the [DT Ndamukong] Suh matchup. That was one of the issues we had to address, and I think we did a pretty good job of that, albeit not perfect. It’s a combination of all those things—recognizing, seeing what the defense is doing, getting rid of the ball, in instances protecting better. The style of defense they played was a lot of man coverage, and when guys get involved in the protection, that adds rushers. It was a lot of different things. At the end of the day, the result wasn’t good, and we’ve got to get better at it.”
On Tebow’s improving from last week
“Again, statistic wise, albeit a couple of turnovers, I think there was improvement.”
