Posted on 05/09/2013 2:04:09 PM PDT by slumber1
As a journalist who has consistently experienced the wrath of Tebow Nation — mostly for passing along the slings and arrows voiced by various NFL players, coaches and talent-evaluators — I'm well aware that many devotees of the world's most celebrated unemployed quarterback carry a heavy persecution complex.
Yet as Tim Tebow's career wheezes to an underwhelming halt, with less apparent interest in his services than Massachusetts funeral parlors have in Tamerlan Tsarnaev's remains, something strange is happening. Against all odds, I'm starting to wonder whether the man who helped the Denver Broncos become one of the league's most stunning success stories in 2011 is getting unjustly blackballed.
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...something strange is happening.
I would not be surprised if Tim Tebow became an evangelist. God moves in mysterious ways.
Tim is an outspoken disciple of Christ who talks the talk and walks the4 walk.As a New Yorker I prayed for Tim to go to a town that does fawn over criminal athletes,
So are Kurt Warner and Tony Dungy, so was the late Reggie White. Troy Polamalu leads a cross team prayer circle before every game The difference between those guys and Tim is they were/ are good at their jobs. Tim is not an NFL caliber QB, his stats show it. He’s a nice guy, but NFL players aren’t paid to be nice guys, when they’re QBs they’re paid to complete passes, which Tim doesn’t do, which is why he’s out of a job.
Patriots?
Actually he may be a good comparison. He couldn't get a starting job in the NFL because he was said to be too short. He became a Hall of Famer in Canada and then was a starter in the NFL at an age when most QBs are retired. I'll always wonder what he could have done in the NFL in those intervening years. I think he played well enough during his second NFL run to at least dispel the height concerns.
1. He signed with the USFL out of college and didn't even make it to an NFL training camp until a couple of years later.
2. He was drafted by the Rams but his rights were traded to Chicago. He made his debut in 1986, but he was basically Chicago's fourth-string QB behind Jim McMahon, Mike Tomczak and Steve Fuller.
3. Flutie was traded to New England in 1987. The NFL players went on strike that year, and Flutie crossed the picket line to play for the Patriots.
4. He disappeared to the CFL after the 1989 season and put up great numbers there. A small, mobile QB can have a great career in that league.
5. He came back to the NFL at the age of 36 in 1998 but never did anything exceptional. He only had two years where he started (1999 with Buffalo and 2001 with San Diego), and one thing that stood out about him is that he threw a lot of interceptions for a guy that didn't pass for a ton of yards.
It would have been interesting to see him as a starter for his entire NFL career, but I'm guessing there's a reason why he never got much interest in the league early in his career.
The NFL thrives on controversy and attention.
I don’t know what the coaches and GMs were saying about him but the analysts went on and on about his size. My point was mainly that I’d rather see Flutie and Tebow succeed or fail on the field.
Horse pucky! Tim may be a fine person, but he’s a lousy NFL quarterback. Period.
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