Posted on 02/02/2014 11:34:17 PM PST by Kaslin
He walked into a 1 - 4 situation and totally turned that team around and took it to playoffs, actually winning one playoff game.
John Elway may have had a brain transplant from a chicken or something to make him want to get rid of this guy and pay any sort of a price for Peyton Manning.
Bingo! Why spend over $15 million a season on a position player who STILL did not win you a Super Bowl ring? It was a waste of money. What Denver needed was a secondary and an offensive line. Keep Tebow another season and draft for the future or bring in a mid priced free agent if you aren’t sold. It was a stupid managerial decision.
When the Cards were sniffing around Manning I was praying management would buy a clue and pass on this choke artist. Thankfully we couldn’t afford what he was asking for. Sure it got Ken Wisenhunt fired, but ultimately we got a better coach when we brought in Bruce Arians.
Manning is simply a choke artist in big games. Puts up gaudy stats, but can’t close the deal when it counts.
oh...you mean like Peyton last year?
Lost first game of playoffs!!!
They didn’t fire him!!!
I watched Tebow carefully during the Patriots’ preseason games. I was rooting for him. But, he was awful as a regular style quarterback.
To use Tebow, you have to build an option style defense around him—but then, who else do you use? Belichek (Pat’s coach) needs a decent backup quarterback for Brady who can operate in the SAME system. It’s one thing to put in a couple of special plays for a guy, another to completely revamp the system.
Tebow had incredibly slow reads and releases during the preseason while trying to operate within the Patriot system. Sure, he was OK when he ran. And, he won’t play in any other position—he wants to be a quarterback.
Sorry, while I agree there’s a lot of prejudice against Tim, that’s not why the Pats cut him.
Of course he is .... aren't you, FRiend?
You're both buying and selling, for the sake of argument, that Tim Tebow deserves to be cut irrevocably by every team in the NFL.
So how are you on the subject of ..... Christians?
Sorry about the less-than-perspicuous triangular post.
No I’m not buying it.
Well, if Tebow had gotten a chance to play quarterback, he might have continued winning.
After leading the Broncos into the playoffs and a first round win against the Stillers, Elway promptly shipped him off to NY to the Toe Sucker on the Hudson. It was the outstanding play of Sanchez(think butt-fumble) that kept Tebow on the sidelines for the entire season.
With word being disseminated throughout the NFL that Tebow was persona non gratis, he gets released by the Jets and no other team is willing to give him a shot.
I think that the invite to the Pats training camp was Kraft’s shrewd way of inoculating the Pats from the future suit filed by Tebow against the NFL. Goodell had better hope that the computer experts working for the NFL were successful in deleting all of the emails around the blacklisting of Tebow. The payout will be huge if evidence ever floats to the surface about the Tebow blacklisting.
Since you know all this for a fact I suggest you get on the horn right away to Mr. Tebow’s attorney.
I’ll get right on that.
I would call Manning’s performance last night one-dimensional. Denver could have used a quarterback that could run. I told my wife they would have done a lot better with Johnny Manziel. Now that I’m reading this thread, I think they would have done better with Tebow.
If Wilson kneels one time he will be out.
You’re disregarding his lousy performance the following week against New England.
Well, I'm a slim customer, too ..... I think there's a problem here with "Tebowing".
Yea I get it on the reread.
Things don’t always read the way they should.
Does that mean that Elway is going to trade Manning to the Jets now?
Denver is an example of the effect of the salary cap. Obviously Manning’s salary means the supporting cast is going to probably be less capable.
So when he’s not working up to par, it’s ugly.
Baltimore had to flush a lot of talent after the SB to pay Flacco’s big new contract and you can see the difference.
In the current labor agreement with suppressed rookie contracts, getting a qb out of college who is a stud right away can be hugely beneficial to a team until he gets to fa status. Andrew Luck in Indy #1 pick in 2012 is making less than half what Sam Bradford got the year previous at #1.
It didn’t matter who the QB was for Denver last night. The Seattle defense was going to defeat whatever and whoever stood between them and a SB ring last night.
When you really look at who Denver played in 2014, you’ll understand that they had a record setting offensive showing against some of the worst defensive teams in the league:
Chiefs— 31st ranked defense in league out of 32 teams (2 games)
Colts— 30th ranked defense
Chargers— 29th ranked defense (2 games)
Eagles— 28th
Cowboys— 27th
Patriots— 22nd
Raiders—21st (2 games)
Denver only played 2 games in 2014 against teams that had defenses ranked in the top third in the entire league.
Offense gets press and helps players win MVP awards. Defense wins Superbowls....
Iirc Denver only has played 3 games in 2014
Seattle, on the other hand, had the 2nd ranked defense in the NFL in 2013-2014, and they played againt the top ranked defenses in the league:
Saints— 1st ranked defense (2 games)
49’ers— 3rd ranked (2 games)
Panthers— 4th ranked
Cardinals— 5th ranked (2 games)
Seattle defeated a great passer named Brees and a great Saints defense in the playoffs. They then beat an extraordinarily mobile Kaepernick and a great 49’ers defense in the NFC Championship Game. Bottom line: The Seahawks were well prepared for whatever Denver threw at them. They played nearly half their games against teams with Championship caliber defenses....
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