[needmorePaine]

Could there be a more lopsided comparison in the history of sports. Who’s better, Payton Manning or Tim Tebow. I mean really. One is the best quarterback in the history of the sport, and the other could not win a spot on the Montreal Alouettes. Where do this people come from. The cool aid is flowing.

It is ridiculous. If there were really a demand for Tebow's talents in the NFL, he'd have a job. Just as if there were demand for Michael Sam, he'd have a job. You can't champion one and dismiss the other based on your side of the culture wars. They are just not good enough. At some point, you have to assume that scouts, position coaches, coordinators, and head coaches actually know what they are looking at when they watch these guys in film and on the field.

[gusty]

Exactly. Part of the problem is the hoopla around D1 football. People see 90000 cheering SEC fans in the stadium and assume that everyone in the conference is destined for NFL success. It doesn’t work that way. The NFL is a whole different level of ball.

[pepsi_junkie]

If there were really a demand for Tebow's talents in the NFL, he'd have a job. Just as if there were demand for Michael Sam, he'd have a job. You can't champion one and dismiss the other based on your side of the culture wars. They are just not good enough.

Actually I think Tobow and Sam are both out of football for the same reason: nobody wants the circus. I have no doubt that Tebow could at least be a third stringer on some team but nobody wants to deal with all the baloney from the media. In Michael Sam's case, he's probably not very good but I suspect someone would have given him a shot but nobody wanted to deal with the constant "what's it like with a gay guy in the locker room" and all his own self promotion. Easier to just cut him loose and move on.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Really? Gou are putting T-bow and Sam in the same sentence?

Sam never played a game in the NFL. He played some preseason.

T-bow took a team to the playoffs.

That T-bow didn’t land a new gig is a surprise.