*Tebowing, from sea to shining sea. You know you've

arrived when you've got your own nation-sweeping pose.*

Jared Allen (defensive end, Minnesota Vikings): We decided not to cover anybody in that game, so we left guys wide-open for him to hit, which sucked. It can lull you to sleep, where you're just thinking, "We can stop the run. We can stop Tebow." But you know, it's still the NFL. You don't need to be Tom Brady to hit a wide-open guy.

Dilfer: They're sitting back going, "Okay, it's a running-back run. No, it's a quarterback run. Oh, it's a pass! Okay, he won't complete it. Oh, he did! Our coaches told us he couldn't do it! He just did it!" What you see on film is, you don't see him getting rushed. Defenders were beating the right guard and then would stop, because they didn't want to run past Tebow and let him run. They just said, "Give him all the time in the world. He's not gonna find the receiver."

Allen: You can still see that child mentality in him. He just has that grin on his face, and he's out there playing ball. We were talking about sacks, and he said, "You got lucky I fumbled that." I told him, "You got lucky that everybody's been wide-open!" He just laughed.

Warner: I definitely think there's an aspect to the other side saying, "Okay, we're gonna blow this team out, and we're not gonna give them a chance for Tebow Time." And then you find yourself in the fourth quarter, and they're still within striking distance. The other team's going, "Oh, my gosh. Here we go."

Allen: You know what the coolest part about the whole thing is? And the reason people hate it? Because it's showing that the conventional wisdom of coaches isn't really necessary. You know, coaches always think they have the winning theory: "Our way is the right way! Blah blah blah!" Well, here's a dude that they basically had to scrap the whole offense for and go back to running a college [system]. And they have been successful with it. Sometimes people think the game is more difficult than it is. If you find something that works, go with it. And I don't really think it has to be a nine-syllable frickin' play.

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Week 14: Broncos 13, Bears 10

Bears have the ball, up 10-7 with 2:08 left in the fourth; Broncos get ball back, hit fifty-nine-yard FG to send game into OT and fifty-one-yarder to win it. Tebow, postgame: "If you believe, then unbelievable things can sometimes be possible."

Elway: To win football games, you've gotta have good things happen to you—but when you believe they're gonna happen, then good things usually do happen. That's where he's been such a positive factor. It's changed the mind-set.

Miller: I mean, you could just see our team's resiliency in action. Nobody was giving up.

Quinn: We've had a lot of, I guess, luck, to put it simply.

Warner: Being a faithful man and knowing where he stands at this stage, it was almost like divine intervention. It almost seemed tangible. It was just like, Oh, my goodness! Can you believe this? It can't happen again, can it?

Dilfer: I don't have a problem with what Tim Tebow's doing with [his outspoken Christianity]. I've seen him try to articulate why he has the belief and why he believes the things he does, in a very easy way to understand. He's not the guy, when the cameras are put in his face, saying, you know, "Praise to God, because he supernaturally let that ball hit my receiver!" You know what I mean? But he's up-front with it, and he makes many people uncomfortable. I do have a problem with what the Christian community is doing with his faith, that they are almost becoming a cult following. I think it's an "us" problem, not a "him" problem.