Denver Broncos: Why a Tim Tebow Offense Is Completely Sustainable

For a young player and a team with such a seemingly bright future, Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos take on a lot of criticism. Countless writers, analysts and opinionated sports enthusiasts around the country have chosen to criticize Tebow and the resurgent Broncos offense. The ideas and arguments are diverse and varying in validity; however, the most common criticism, and by far the most absurd, goes something like this:

The Tebow-Fox-McCoy offense isn't sustainable in the long term because defenses will eventually figure it out.

Now, let's dissect this comment a little bit. Based on what this is saying, an acceptable NFL offense would be one that constantly kept defenses off beat and is immune to the risk of being "figured out" by opposing teams' defensive coordinators and players. Now, let's ask another question:

Is there a single NFL offense that meets that standard?

Absolutely not.

To say that defenses will "figure out" the read option offense is, to be fair, accurate. Teams will almost certainly be able to adjust and configure their lines and schemes to accommodate the risks involved with facing Tebow and the Broncos. 

Yet to say that a typical pocket-passing offense isn't just as susceptible, if not more so, to the adjustments of an opposing defensive coordinator is completely ridiculous.

What I'm trying to say is that every single NFL offense can get predictable, and every scheme will be studied and accounted for. Simply saying that this will happen if the Broncos continue to use the read option Tebow offense isn't even a real argument. Anyone who uses that as evidence against Fox and McCoy's game plan is presenting evidence that could be applied to anyone who plays or coaches football.

What we neglect to consider is that regardless of offensive scheme—be it the college style option, Wildcat, pocket passing, run and gun or whatever one might choose—the players within that offense can also adapt and improve based on their own abilities and what the defense gives them. An offense isn't just a stubborn, mindless movement. The players within that offense make decisions and have the ability to adjust and move the same way the defense does. One could even make the case that the option offense leaves more room for players to make those adjustments than a typical pocket-passing attack.

Regardless of what offense is used, it should be an offense that suits the players' strengths. To say that any particular offense isn't usable because defenses will anticipate it, is basically making the argument that a team's offensive game plan has to look completely different and be entirely revamped every single week.

Let's give credit where credit is due. Tebow and the Broncos can run the football like crazy, and they've proven they can fire up an adequate passing attack. Will it work every week? Probably not, but when that one week comes, where a defense stops them and the Broncos' offense looks terrible, let's keep in mind that every single offense at one time or another has been subject to the same fate.

Tim Tebow—do not change a thing.

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