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...or am I?
It is an unconventional lifestyle choice for the typical football fan to be rooting for the player and not the team. How does that work? I'm having a cognitive dissonance week.
My loyalty to my beloved Broncos and 'bigger than life' hero John Elway has been......well.....not broken, but misaligned? Since I am not a big college football fan I never really heard much about Tebow until John Fox announced he would be starting against the Miami Dolphins last season. What little I did know about him I gleaned from the media. So of course he was a bust. An irresponsible and wasted first round draft choice from Josh McDaniels, who we all ran out of town the year before. Shows you how much the media knows.
So why do I have such a huge bromance with this "Tim Tebow' character? I mean Peyton Manning is a strong Christian and an a Super bowl winner and comes from a prolific Quarterback family. Its just not the same. Its like dating Christina Aguilera for almost a year and then getting stuck marrying Barbra Steisand. Yeah Barbra had more talent, experience and could sing better, but seriously?
I don't know. As you may or may not know, last year Tim Tebow almost became bigger that the NFL because he crossed over that weird line from football athlete to that media, talk show, Hollywood, religious, cultural phenomenon. And the last athlete to become bigger than the sport from which he came was non other than Mohammad Ali.
GO BRONCOS!!!
GO TEBOW!!!!
J-E-T-S, JETS! JETS! JETS! ????
It is an unconventional lifestyle choice for the typical football fan to be rooting for the player and not the team. How does that work? I'm having a cognitive dissonance week.
My loyalty to my beloved Broncos and 'bigger than life' hero John Elway has been......well.....not broken, but misaligned? Since I am not a big college football fan I never really heard much about Tebow until John Fox announced he would be starting against the Miami Dolphins last season. What little I did know about him I gleaned from the media. So of course he was a bust. An irresponsible and wasted first round draft choice from Josh McDaniels, who we all ran out of town the year before. Shows you how much the media knows.
So why do I have such a huge bromance with this "Tim Tebow' character? I mean Peyton Manning is a strong Christian and an a Super bowl winner and comes from a prolific Quarterback family. Its just not the same. Its like dating Christina Aguilera for almost a year and then getting stuck marrying Barbra Steisand. Yeah Barbra had more talent, experience and could sing better, but seriously?
I don't know. As you may or may not know, last year Tim Tebow almost became bigger that the NFL because he crossed over that weird line from football athlete to that media, talk show, Hollywood, religious, cultural phenomenon. And the last athlete to become bigger than the sport from which he came was non other than Mohammad Ali.
GO BRONCOS!!!
GO TEBOW!!!!
J-E-T-S, JETS! JETS! JETS! ????
The Shop
You may know him as the guy that held Joe Montana's Gym Bag...or tried to throw the ball as well as Dan Marino?
Or the guy with all those car dealerships?
You know, the guy from Stanford that never won the Big Game...?
I dunno; but, his relationship with the Manning's and his disdain for Tebow are kinda obvious indicators, to me.
Who knows, maybe Peyton can play...still...I'm jus' not seein' it.
Besides, the Bronco's the really matter are up in Boise.
He is a horrible QB. Horrible.
And in this league, if you can't throw, you don't win championships.
Tebow can't throw.
Like it or not, but he probably knows a tad more about QB's in the NFL than the rest of us do.
It was all done because Sanchez had been partying too much and living the NY lifestyle. If Tebow beats him out (Very highly doubt it) then he deserves it. But Timmy will be doing the Wildcat...he has horrible accuracy and takes way too long to get rid of the ball.
He'd be a great TE and LB.
I'm happy he's gone. I'm happy we have an HOF QB that can actually throw the ball. The Broncos are moving into the modern day league, and it's about time. Elway and Fox are largely responsible for this. Kudos to them. Jets....thank you for signing that PR nightmare that plagued us.
Amen.
Fact is...most people who watch football have never played the game, or even know the most basic skill sets needed for each position in the NFL.
I was chatting with some guy last year and he said, "Tebow can throw the ball 70 yards with his arm." I replied, "First, he has to get rid of the ball quickly and accurate, and second, he has to throw the ball FAST and accurate. How far you can throw a ball does not equal arm strength in the NFL."
As far as tebow "just winning" thats not really the case. The 1st game he won, against the dolphins, would have been over at halftime had he been an actual QB, and not a full back in the wildcat. Both the Raiders and the Bears handed the donks their respective games. The raiders with 130 yards of penalties, and the bears had Marion Barber throw the game away twice. The other thing is, people have figured him out. decent, single coverage downfield, with a d line set to stop the run, and he gets shut down. thats how the Chiefs beat the donks.
Pit Row
Elway finished 4-6 as a starter (1983). He threw seven touchdowns, 14 interceptions and completed just 47.5 percent of his passes. Rushing TD's (1). Winning 4th quarter drives/OT- (1)
In 10 starts, Tebow finished 7-3 as a starter, had 14 touchdown passes, six rushing touchdowns and four interceptions. And perhaps the most intriguing stat considering how much he's been scrutinized about his passing, Tebow had a higher completion percentage at 48 percent. Rushing TD's (5). Winning 4th quarter drives/OT- (5)
So using logic and reason, comparing the 2 in their first 10 games, Tebow threw the ball better than Elway did.
Things that make you go hmmmm.
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