Call it what you want, Sunshine. Urlacher himself said they dropped back and stopped clogging things up for Tebow and it cost them. Calling it a "prevent" or "soft prevent" is just arguing over semantics. Fact is, they backed off a bit, gave Tebow time to think, and it cost them. teams shut him down all day and always made that same mistake. The one team that did not fall into that trap beat the Broncos 7 to 3 that day.
Yes, they went from what they had been running, a game plan specific defense, to playing Tampa2, the base defense that they use in most games.
And no, it's not semantics to argue over "prevent" or "soft prevent" when discussing NFL football. Most people engaged in honest debate understand what is meant when you say "they went to a prevent defense". You know, dropping safeties back 30 yards or so and having DBs play 10, 15 and 20 yards off the line of scrimmage.
You are also ignoring the change in Denver's offensive alignment in the 4th Q's of games. When a team switches gears from being run centric, to spreading the field out every play with 3, 4 and 5 WRs and operating exclusively from the shotgun, teams are going to change the defense they employ.
Everyone knows that if you wanted to stop the Broncos running game, you put 8 men in the box and seal the edges. How are you going to do that when Denver puts 5 WRs out ? IF you cover the 5 WRs with straight man coverage, you only have 6 defenders left. That means you can't have 8 men in the box against a 5 WR set. Ergo, the defense was FORCED to change.
you know the old saying, any given Sunday.... Tebow was a blind squirrel that found a nut. that was proven a week later when facing the Patriots and found himself once again in way over his head.
And John Elway won 2 playoff games 1 year then got trounced something like 55-10 by the Pats in the SB.
But oh no, Tebow lost a playoff game to the Pats (on their way to playing in the SB I might add), therefore, it's de facto proof that he's terrible.
Yet another asinine position.
Nope. Tebow's throwing motion is a joke. You are in complete denial that Tebow caught a lot of lucky breaks, and seem to not realize that opposing defenses simply made the mistake of backing off on what worked and shut Tebow down all day. Left a lot of things open for even him to find. It was clear in 4 out of his last 5 games that things were just happening too damn fast for him and teams had adjusted to what he was doing the first 5 or 6 games or so. Unfortunately, by the end of the season, his lousy passing skills never caught up to the rest of his game, and boy that hurt.
And you seem to have forgotten that when he played the first of the "last 5 games", he had only had something like 8 NFL starts under his belt.
Wow, hold the phones. Young and inexperienced QB had trouble with what NFL defenses were throwing at him ? You don't say. That has to be the first time anything like this has ever happened in the entire history of the NFL.
