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DENVER John Elway includes observed an interesting characteristic about Tim Tebow.

"He is actually one of those people who will get calmer throughout harder situations,'' the actual Denver Broncos' acting vice leader to get sports operations explains to USA TODAY. "To me, that is the mark you can't teach. He includes this knack with keeping calm within troublesome situations.''

While Elway, the particular Broncos' two-time Super Bowl champion and Hall connected with Fame quarterback, isn't going to usually similar to Tebow's sometimes-flawed transferring mechanics, he / she appreciates your small left-hander's approach once a defeat.

"He required that Kansas City decline incredibly seriously,'' Elway states that of their 7-3 beat in Week 17. "He seemed to be upset with your way he or she played. That just advised me personally which kind of device your dog is. I think, sometimes, it does not encounter into the normal public.''

Against that Chiefs, Tebow had been a portrait with hesitation, filling out merely half a dozen goes over intended for sixty back yards for just a career-low 20.6 passer rating. He as well threw an interception in addition to lost a new fumble. Last Sunday, the actual second-year quarterback from Florida bounced returning having a 316-yard passing sport that eradicated this seriously popular Pittsburgh Steelers within a pressure-packed AFC wild-card game.

Elway ended up being standing up within the sidelines as soon as Demaryius Thomas picked off Tebow's laser throw within overtime as well as sprinted 80 yards intended for the particular profitable touchdown inside some sort of 29-23 triumph. Elway, 51, leaped in the air along with glee.

"That's possibly while higher since I got from a prolonged time,'' Elway reported which includes a laugh. "I didn't know I nevertheless possessed that hops. Must are actually my personal new (surgically repaired) remaining knee.''