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11/21/11

Plummer on Tebow: ‘When he accepts that we know that he loves Jesus Christ, I think I’ll like him a little better.’

From 2003 through 2006, Jake "The Snake" Plummer helped the Denver Broncos to a 39-15 record, throwing 71 touchdowns and 47 interceptions and making the Pro Bowl in 2005. He was probably the best bridge Mike Shanahan had between John Elway and Jay Cutler(notes), and he left the game after Shanahan decided to go after Cutler in the 2006 NFL draft, and Plummer was traded to Tampa Bay after that season.

Plummer was recently asked about Denver's latest quarterback, some fellow by the name of Tebow — you know, the guy who can't seem to consistently throw the ball, but who has the Broncos on a winning track nonetheless.

"I'm telling you, I came in at the wrong time down there," Plummer told Phoenix's XTRA Sports 910. "He is a winner, though. I like that because I think the town and the fans and everybody there — they are craving a winner. They lost one when I was run out of town. I don't have to say it. We won a lot of games when I was playing. It wasn't all me. The team was Rod Smith, John Lynch, all those guys. I had some ballers that could play. I didn't do it all, but we won and I think you can see [that] with [Tim] Tebow. He knows he's not the only cog down there as a piece of that puzzle that is making them win and helping them win."

And then, Plummer dropped the bomb. "Tebow, regardless of whether I wish he'd just shut up after a game and go hug his teammates, I think he's a winner and I respect that about him.  I think that when he accepts the fact that we know that he loves Jesus Christ then I think I'll like him a little better.  I don't hate him because of that, I just would rather not have to hear that every single time he takes a good snap or makes a good handoff…like you know, I understand, dude, where you're coming from ... but he is a baller. He knows how to win and when your teammates believe in you that you can do good things and that's what they are doing. They are winning. That's fun to see."

No doubt it will be less fun for Plummer when he gets hammered by the pro-Tebow crowd, though he seems to be the type of guy who doesn't really care what others think. And in the end, Plummer believes that Tebow will figure it out — right now, it's on every defense he faces to figure out whatever option packages are being served up by John Fox's coaching staff.

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