This Tebowmania has to stop, seriously, the guy is a great man, and great athlete, but not a great NFL QB. Him going back home to Jacksonville is cool but he's overrated, very very overrated.
I think Tebow is too over the top with his Christianity to the point that it comes across as manufactured rather than genuine. Much like these kids these days who try to play the part of being "Country Boys". They dress the part, drive the jacked up trucks, do everything they can to let everybody know they are "Country Boys". When in reality a real country boy doesn't have to do all of that. It's just who they are and there's no over the top effort nor any need to prove it. It comes out naturally.Because some of us have grown extremely tired of the circus. He polarizes a team and polarizes opinions about him. He's become a circus, and it's evident teams are avoiding that. It's not something he really avoided or made attempts to avoid, until the heat got on him when he got passed over this week. He's also not the only professional athlete with character, yet it seems to be presented like that.
....who's from the other side of the state!Wasn't that Mike Price's 'Friend'?
Memory is going going gone...
upon reading all the post... 92Tide answered my question.
Let's be kind to Tebow and try to ignore his numbers. We shouldn't get into the 47.9 completion percentage or the fact that he has almost as many turnovers as touchdowns.We finally figured him out (SECCG 2009 - a VERY happy memory), but I was sure glad when he went to the NFL. So far, he has won more NFL games as a starter than he lost, and he practically willed Denver into the playoffs.
Good post! FWIW, I share his professed faith...and I am NOT a Tebow fan. Your last paragraph nails it. I wonder why my fellow Christians aren't so ga-ga over Sam Bradford & Colt McCoy & Austin Davis (USM grad now w/ the Cards) & (etc....there are quite a few professing Christians in the NFL). mrs. exiled has a theory that St. Tim gets all the press solely because he's handsome. I, as a hetero male, have no input on that.Let's be kind to Tebow and try to ignore his numbers. We shouldn't get into the 47.9 completion percentage or the fact that he has almost as many turnovers as touchdowns.
Let's just look at his record as a starter. Tim Tebow is 8-6 as a starter. That includes 7-4 as a Bronco, but he lost the last three regular season games he started, obviously they figured out how to stop him. He did win a playoff game, with a dreadful 47.6 completion percentage, and he lost the following game with a absolutely horrendous 34.6 completion percentage.
Let's compare him to a good quarterback, who happened to play with the same personnel. Peyton Manning is 12-3 this year. His worst completion percentage of the year is 50%.
Tebow took a very good Denver team and played very mediocre. He's a quitter, he's a spoiled, entitled, overrated crybaby. He gets extra credit because of how he acts in front of cameras, even though he clearly has trouble putting a sentence together. I do not get the Tebow worship and I can't help but think it has to do more with his professed faith, than his actions.
as much as I'd like it, i dont see this with sanchez there....too much money in him. now, if they trade him away, maybe.Any way you slice it. The Jets are now sort of McElroy's team. Hope he impresses.
Because he'd never beat out Gabbert or Henne. I doubt he'd even be able to beat out whatever rookie we may end up drafting. He honestly needs to stop deluding himself into thinking he's an NFL QB when he's not(along with his fanbase too, but that'll never happen).The current Jaguars starting QB has 9 TD's and 8 INT's, which is "almost as many turnovers as touchdowns". At this point, they are so bad it's hard to see how bringing him in would make them worse.