What the hell are some of you people smoking?
a rocket for an arm.
A 46.5% completion rate for the season, a 40.4% completion rate in the playoffs and a career QB rating of 75.1 is not indicative of a "rocket for an arm". Obviously you didn't spend too much time watching the Jekyll and Hyde performance in the 13 games Tebow started in 2011; how about that 2-8 performance against Kansas City in week 10 or his 6-22 performance against Kansas City in week 17?
Elway had no mobility.
Elway rushed for over 3400 yards in his career.
I guarantee you that if Tebow goes to SF, NE, Baltimore or any team with a coach who can think creatively, those franchises would succeed.
That's why everybody in the league is breaking down the Broncos door to get Tebow, right? By the way, why was Tebow being tutored by Noel Mazzone on his mechanics in February if he's such a great prospect? By this time in his football career he shouldn't have to be working on his throwing motion, hips or footwork.
Said the guy named "AA". Maybe you are drunk at the keyboard. You expose yourself as the same kind of backward looking type as Elway by making the same arguments that Elway and this libtard Rick guy do, instead of thinking about what Tebow could do, under a system set up for what he brings to the table.
Elway rushed for over 3400 yards in his career.
So, about 200 yards a season? 13 yards a game. That's not rushing, it's once or twice a game avoiding the sack and picking up a few yards. Are you kidding me? In Tebow, you combine a 1000 yard a season rusher, if he was an RB, with a guy who has a great arm and has shown he can put the ball where he wants to deep downfield--as Pittsburgh found out. Defenses aren't set up to stop the run in a no-back or one back offense. With Tebow, that becomes a 2 back offense that is also in a passing set. It changes the equations that defenses live and die by. The main drawback to it, though, is the risk of injury to your QB. If he is a key runner, and you lose him, you have issues. You now have to bring in a QB that is probably a standard QB, and the team has to run an entirely different playbook. That is a reason for concern, sure. But not Tebow's supposed inability to play QB. That opinion is more an indicator of an inflexible mindset.
That's why everybody in the league is breaking down the Broncos door to get Tebow, right?
The coaches I mentioned have already got QBs that they have made into winners, so don't need Tebow. Some team will pick him up and if he has a coach who is willing to put in a system that works with Tebow's skill set, then they will do well. Other coaches who adapted well to their QBs were Andy Reid with Michael Vick, and Rex Ryan with Sanchez. Sanchez, in particular, would have been as big a failure as Smith if he had not been allowed to grow with what he had. If Tebow gets someone that thinks that they have to completely change him into John Elway, then it probably won't work. He may get better on some mechanics, but he will probably never be a good QB if forced to play as a standard dropback QB. His success can come by his ability to unbalance the defense. Elway never wanted to figure out a way to make that work, because he can't see beyond his comfort zone. The nattering nabobs of the NFL don't like Tebow for the same reason that the elites hate Sarah Palin, he threatens them and their world view by the attraction that the public has for him. So they have to tear him down, where a Joe Flacco, with lesser skills and lesser potential is not. subjected to the constant ridicule. Sad to see so many on FR buy into that load of crap spewed by the far left sports media.
Care to wager whether or not Manning can get the Broncos into the playoffs?