“On the other hand, 3 organizations including 2 that I’d consider quite competent (sorry Jets), have passed on Tebow, including one that is run by a HOF quarterback, and one that is run by a sure thing HOF coach.”
Well, one organization and HOF QB would be John Elway and the Broncos. But they got rid of tebow because they got Peyton Manning instead, so that does not count.
And then we have the case of NBA Jeremy Lin whom the entire league passed on including the Houston Rockets who cut him before signing him again after Linsanity.
There are probably 100000 guys with the athletic ability to play NFL QB but only 10000 with the mental ability and maybe only 100 with the right fit for a team and then only 5-6 with the intangibles that separate tom brady from tony romo (I think Romo has more athleticism, but brady has the proper team fit and the intangibles.)
And Brady didn’t even start at Michigan for most of his career there.
Yeah, but lets remember what Peyton Manning was when Denver got him. He was 36 or 37 years old, hadn’t played for anyone in a year due to major neck surgery that no one knew the effects of. It absolutely counts because even with those shaky odds that he’d ever be “Peyton Manning” again, Elway chose to go with the old injured chance guy rather than the young guy who had just won a playoff game.
Don’t quite get your point about Jeremy Lin, but He’s not exactly tearing up the league to the point that you can point to any team that passed on him and say “told you so”. He had the one good year in NYC, but even in that year he was only a 14 PPG player. Good but not fantastic.
All I’m saying is that everyone seems to want Tebow to be an NFL success, and he seems like a nice guy, but 3 NFL teams now have had a long, close look and decided “no thanks”. That means more to me than one ex NFL quarterback’s opinion of the guy working out, especially when that ex-NFL quarterback wasn’t all that great himself.