In some ways, the Dolphins are exactly what the Broncos ordered for unveiling Tim Tebow as their starting quarterback six games into the season.

And in some ways, the Dolphins are not the kind of team that will allow Tebow to settle in.

On the plus side for Tebow and the Broncos, there are several things, including the Dolphins’ marketing bonanza that threatens to make Tebow the “home” favorite at Sun Life Stadium. There are reports this week about how mad Dolphins chairman of the board Stephen Ross is about the team’s winless start, but his own executive branch turned on him in this one, whether he signed off on it or not to sell tickets.

This Sunday, the Dolphins will honor the 2008 Florida Gators national championship team that featured Tebow. That will fill the seats with plenty of Gators booster club members who bought tickets to do little except cheer Tebow through his day.

That’s worth a little something to the Broncos. Tebow is an emotional player and his play reflects that at times with the ebb and flow of the game.

He struggled early against the Chargers, obviously fired up to be in the lineup, before finding his rhythm in the run game and for a few completions in the fourth quarter. He just may find a comfort level sooner in this one than he would, say, in Pittsburgh.

There is the matter of the Dolphins’ football operation as well. The Dolphins are 0-5 and tied for 25th in scoring offense and have one of the worst pass defenses in the NFL, at least statistically.

Their confidence, much like the Broncos’, comes and goes quickly in games. So if Tebow can make something happen early, or the Broncos can force the issue against a backup quarterback in Matt Moore, perhaps the Dolphins drop into the here-we-go-again mode.

However, from a football perspective, the struggling Dolphins do present some issues for Tebow to overcome as well.

The biggest being the team plays a 3-4 look on defense. And when it comes to identifying the extra rushers at the line of scrimmage just before the snap or who, exactly, will be dropping into coverage, a 3-4 look can sometimes offer more problems to a young quarterback.

That’s because the defensive coordinator, in this case former Broncos defensive coordinator Mike Nolan, has more options when it comes to simply constructing a four-man rush. It’s what makes the 3-4 attractive to the teams that want to run it all the time. Finding the fourth rusher can be difficult for a quarterback.

Mike Shanahan, who has had plenty of success attacking 3-4 defenses, including those of Bill Belichick, always believed balancing out the line of scrimmage with a two-tight end look helped things.

So, Shanahan’s Broncos routinely played that way against 3-4s and usually moved the ball effectively. That is an option too, for the Broncos to go a little heavier in their formations, run the ball and see if they can get Tebow in some favorable down-and-distance situations.

Nolan will have some impact as well. He was on Josh McDaniels’ staff with Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy and will be more familiar with the similarities of the current playbook to the one the team was using in 2009, and there are many.

Nolan figures to toss in a wrinkle or two and knows what the Broncos like to do in certain situations.

Jeff Legwold: 303-954-2359 or jlegwold@denverpost.com