All-purpose, running Tim Tebow sucks/is a deity thread!

I never believed that for a second up until Barber fumbled. Now it's the only rational explanation.

 

So Aaron Rodgers is a stronger Christian than Tim Tebow?

 

I actually enjoy watching Tebow, but I just don't get the adulation. I don't think anybody is ready to deify Alex Smith, yet he has done a better job turning his team into a winner this year. I don't remember Trent Dilfer getting this kind of love for leading the Ravens to a Super Bowl win.

The bottom line lesson of all three is you can win with bad to mediocre quarterbacks if said quarterback does not turn the ball over and does not make decisions that would, in general, compromise the defense.

For Tebow that has turned into vindication in the face of persecution. What, was Alex Smith being persecuted? Did Dilfer get persecuted? Were they looked down on for their beliefs or because they weren't very good? Maybe Tebow has his doubters because they thought if he'd be a starter, he'd struggle to complete half his passes and to get his team more than one touchdown and a couple of field goals against a decent defense.

And you know what? Those doubters have proven to be right. Credit Tebow for not turning it over and by adding somethign to the running game. But please, he's not even a third-tier QB in the NFL right now. He's to the NFL what Jordan Jefferson is to the SEC.

 

Stop with the Alex Smith "turning his team into a winner" nonsense. Nobody will take you seriously. He has become a decent NFL quarterback, but he hasn't had to do anything that carried any degree of difficulty whatsoever.

In addition, he has had six years to allow people to see what he is and isn't. With Tebow, minds were made up before he ever took a snap.

 

Tebow's supporters are annoying because they refuse to acknowledge his flaws as a passer or rationalize them.
Tebow's detractors are annoying because they either refuse to acknowledge that sports is a field where success is the primary test of merit.
Anybody who thinks religion has anything to do with this is past annoying into dangerous to themselves and others.

 

How long have you been following sports, 12 minutes?

A little perspective is needed.

 

Wait, he has better passing statistics that Tebow. He wins low-scoring, close games like Tebow. Yet Tebow is God and Smith is a dog lucky to be on a good team. If Tebow is so great, how come he couldn't get his team on the scoreboard for the first 55 minutes against the Bears? How come he couldn't direct a sustained drive against the Jets until the last series of the game? And again, why are his statistics so damn putrid?

He is your classic game manager who has the ability to run that offsets being an even lesser passer than other quarterbacks labeled as "game managers." And he has a flair for the dramatic.

 

Leave my mother out of this.

 

"decent NFL quarterback" not equal to "dog lucky to be on a good team." perhaps in your world, but not in places where English is spoken.

Tebow is not great. I think for all my pompon-waving you will find me acknowledging that pretty readily. He does have different skills that allow him to take advantage of different situations, the most important being fatigued fourth-quarter defenses. He also makes very good decisions (which whas the greatest knock against Smith for six years) and has an ability to perform in the clutch -- which, I know, that doesn't really exist no matter how many times he gets lucky in the fourth quarter.

Your continued use of passer rating to declare someone "better" is amusing. I believe Philip Rivers currently has the sixth-best passer rating of all quarterbacks ever. Therefore, Philip Rivers is the sixth-best quarterback ever.

 

It is my understanding that the "no clutch" thing is a baseball-only phenomenon.

 

Classic game managers don't have a flair for the dramatic, that's why they're game managers.