Tim Tebow: Denver Broncos QB Will Take Full Advantage of Miami Dolphins' Defense

Ladies and gentlemen, it's Tebow Time in the NFL!

Or, rather, it will be Tebow Time starting at about 1:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, when Tim Tebow leads the Denver Broncos onto the field against the Miami Dolphins at Sun Life Stadium.

Tebow couldn't have asked for more agreeable circumstances under which to regain his role as the Broncos' first-string quarterback, save for the team trading its best wide receiver (Brandon Lloyd) ahead of Tuesday's trade deadline.

Playing the winless Miami Dolphins would be reason enough to assume Tebow will succeed in his first start of the 2011 season. The Fins sport one of the softest defensive secondaries and puniest pass rushes in the NFL, allowing 284 passing yards per game while notching just eight sacks through their first five games.

Tebow is hardly a premium passer, though Miami's D should afford him plenty of time and room to throw the ball to Denver's surprisingly solid corps of receivers, including Eric Decker, Demaryius Thomas and Eddie Royal.

Tebow also figures to benefit quite handsomely from Miami's dogged pursuit of first place in the "Suck For Andrew Luck" sweepstakes. At 1-5, the Broncos are firmly in the mix for the Stanford star as well, though they aren't quite as destitute as the Fins at this point. Miami is as bad as any team in the NFL, especially now that Chad Henne is out for the rest of the season.

Not that Henne is really all that much better than Matt Moore, or more accurately, that he would've given the Dolphins any more of a chance to win this season.

The point is, the Fins are terrible, and judging by their debacle of a performance against the Jets on Monday Night Football, have already committed themselves to tracking down the No. 1 pick in the 2012 NFL draft.

So while Miami is busy tanking, Tebow will have every opportunity to look like a real NFL quarterback, even if he isn't.

And if all that weren't enough, Tebow will enjoy the added benefit of having a friendly crowd behind him on Sunday. In an all-too-well-planned coincidence, the Dolphins will honor the 2008 Florida Gators before the game.

Who, pray tell, was the quarterback who led that team to the BCS national championship? Why, Tim Tebow, of course! That's who 20,000 more fans than usual will be in attendance to see.

How can the guy possibly fail, then, when the opposing team is doing everything it can to set him up for success?

In a way then, Sunday's start will be a perfect test of Tebow's NFL fitness, at least in a negative sense. That is, if Tebow can't find a way to will his team to a win on the road against arguably the worst team in the NFL, one that's doing everything within its power to "Suck For Luck" and put him in position to play well, then he clearly isn't the right man to lead the Broncos into the future.

Anything else and Tebow will live to start another day, even if a win in Miami doesn't necessarily qualify him to be the next John Elway.