Above: Denver Broncos head coach John Fox and quarterback Tim Tebow discuss a play during the 16-13 overtime win at San Diego. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
John Fox is more than a coach in Denver. He's a cause. All that conservative stuff fans, and the media and everybody else, grew so tired of in Charlotte has captivated Colorado.
Fox always was a superior game manager. He adjusted well. When Denver and San Diego went to overtime Sunday, you knew who was going to win.
Fox is winning with superior defense and a quarterback who runs a wishbone. If you were looking for a coach of the year candidate at the moment, you certainly could look to him.
The Broncos are one game out of first in the AFC West, behind Oakland, and play at Minnesota Sunday. The Raiders play at Miami.
If anybody claims to have seen this coming, they're lying.
I can see both sides of the whole Fox argument, though I would like to point out a couple of things:
1> when Fox was our coach we DID have a run-first mentality. That's because contemporary wisdom says that the run sets up the pass by pulling secondary players down to stop the run. There is nothing wrong with that philosophy and it does frequently work for most teams.
2> if Fox was as stubborn as some folks would like us to think, there's no way we would have won a game we played against Atlanta in '06 when Delhomme got hurt. Anyone who saw that game realizes that one of the most innovative offenses to develop over the last decade or so really got its foot in the NFL door in that game, where our RB's took direct snaps and ran the ball for the vast majority of their offensive plays. Dan Henning was our offensive coordinator that year and took that offensive gameplan with him to Miami.
3> Fox has been considered for coach of the year honors by the league in the past, most notably during the '03 season.
4> team staff and management make a living by evaluating everyone involved with the team, from the equipment managers to the players to the coaches. If Fox was not a good coach, he would not have a job.
Posted by: Whistler225 | November 30, 2011 at 11:26 AM
John Fox------Coach of what year????
If Tim Tebow were on the sidelines and Kyle Orton were still throwing the ball, would he still be Coach of the year? John Fox is at best a defensive coordinator PERIOD!!!!!!
He is the least imaginitave coach I have ever watched! Way to scared to try anything new would describe him more than conservative! I personally hope Tebow becomes a free agent and ends up in FL because I think Elway wants Luck in the draft because Elway is a Stanford alum.
Posted by: Wayne | November 30, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Once again Tom you prove yourself to be short on both knowledge and writing ability. Your style of writing smacks of an elitist mentality. In your world I guess you are the grand poo-bah of all things. Fox is at best a defensive co-ordinator. I don't dislike Fox and wish him luck. You on the other hand are symptomatic of why the CO is steadily going down the drain.
Posted by: C-man | December 01, 2011 at 08:22 PM
I am glad that you created this weibste which would give me a chance to post my Tim-Tebow-related comment. I have not attempted that on any other weibste. If you want an answer, you will get it. Warning: my comment is going to be a highly controversational, so please delete it immediately after you read it. I am an ordinary guy but I understand how does the American political system work pretty well. I will not go back to check on your weibste after I post my comment. You are on your own. Ok, here is my comment for you: I don’t think that trading Tim Tebow will help anything. It is not about the competition for the starter, but the media bashing, which is hurting the Denver Broncos and possibly influencing on Fox’s and Elway’s decisions. That was suppressing on Tim Tebow's playing time and distracting Tim Tebow himself. But he will probably get more of it in future. I believe that Tim Tebow is a victim of Christian bashing and Zionist assault. I am an anti-Christian and anti-semitism person (I’m an atheist), but I really want to see Tim Tebow playing as a professional quarterback very much, despite that I was not his fan in his college years. I am supporting him. Zionists are in charge of virtually everything in the U.S., from the television networks/cables to foreign policy to sports, possibly including NCAA and NFL. After establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913, it enabled the Zionists to gradually build their powers until the early 1990s, when they were completely running the United States. They thanked the 1990/91 mass mainstream (propaganda), George H.W. Bush, and 1991 Gulf War for their jobs to open the gate for them to heavily infiltrate the U.S. government. Since that, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama had/has administrations consisting of many Zionists. The Miami scandal is a perfect example. Miami is apparently becoming a victim of the Zionist corruption which is gradually spreading to anywhere in the U.S. Nevin Shapiro is a Jew who was arrested for the Ponzi scheme. He recently revealed that he was stealthily paying the Miami players. Wow. Hard to believe. It is starting to affect NFL, as many NFL players are from this university. I think that the corrupted NCAA will possibly downplay the scandal because it is under the greater Zionist influence than it was in 1980s. I will not be surprised that it would be no a death penalty on Miami. So, it is not Tim’s problem, but Zionists’ problem. They are really afraid of him to play so well and use his talent to increase his Christian influence on the U.S. society. That is why.
Posted by: Rebecca | April 07, 2013 at 09:40 AM