Tebow Blacklist Isn’t the Beginning, It’s the End

Townhall.com ^ | February 3, 2014 | John Ransom

[freebilly]

Because I have patience with the overly literal minded— the 2013-2014 season....

[dfwgator]

At least for now, the NFC is light years ahead of the AFC.

[freebilly]

Patriots Defense, terrible, Denver D, middle of the road, Chiefs D, terrible, Indianapolis D, terrible. The best teams in the AFC are pretty much offense oriented. The best teams in the NFC (Seattle, Carolina, San Francisco, New Orleans) are built around great defenses and have QB’s with great skill sets.

The NFC looks like it will win a couple more Superbowls before the AFC catches up to it....

[pepsionice]

Most people would readily agree that the NFL is at some crisis point with quarterbacks. There’s maybe five quarterbacks in the league of a “A” quality. Then you take a fair step down to the “B” level for another five-to-eight. And then you have the remaining forty-five-odd quarterbacks who are marginal performers, and sitting in the NFL for four-to-seven years. This last group will last until the team drafts up some remarkable quarterback from the NCAA-league, and dump the current player strategy.

I’ve come to believe that a fair amount of Tebow’s issue...is not his religious beliefs...but that he’s a unremarkable guy from the third group, and if you were going to take the risk of dumping your current quarterback....you might as well start with some fresh new NCAA guy. Adding to this...Tebow only has a certain amount of inspiration. So if you had a real loser of a team...the Redskins come to mind with their former coach (recently fired)...even an inspired-Tebow would not be enough to turn the team in a different direction.

Finally, there is this thinking and prospective. You as the owner of a team...with millions invested and a NFL-owner status as the heart of your business empire...don’t want journalists or the news media to focus on your quarterback or the team logo....as a Christian element. You end up in some soap-opera-like world where big fake crosses get dragged out to tailgate parties, local ministers turn into mouthpieces arguing over what Tebow did in the name of Jesus (winning today and losing next week), and the sport gets twisted around into us-versus-Satan’s team.

Sports, I readily admit...has turned into a business venture...not pure sports. For a typical team, there’s at least a hundred million a year that come from franchise gimmick sales (t-shirts and posters), the game tickets, the parking, the beer at the stadium, etc. A owner lives in continual fear that he will draft or sign some idiot who gets the team name mired into some controversy and subtract ten-percent of the team’s profits.

Me personally as an owner? If I was unhappy with my present quarterback, and Tebow was available....I’d ask about the incoming group of NCAA quarterbacks, and see if I could find the “total package” (a quarterback who actually can throw, think, and run). If there wasn’t anything worth discussing over the new incoming crowd....fine, I’d sign Tebow to a one-year contract and settle on him for a brief period. If Tebow had classed himself as a running back....I might be more enthusiastic on his talents, and not think much over his strategy skills or lack of throwing quality.

[hinckley buzzard]

As we saw convincingly yesterday, defense wins Super Bowls, not quarterbacks. As for Tebow, I can say with authority, being a long suffering Browns fan, there are several QB's on that list who are half the quarterback Tebow is. I know because about half the list played for the Browns in the last ten years. Oh, and it's hard to "keep winning football games" when you don't get to play.

[hinckley buzzard]

In fact, the winning QB, Russell Wilson, plays just like Tebow...

You noticed that...

[hinckley buzzard]

Tebow led a mediocre Denver team to a 7-4 record. Couldn't have stunk too bad.

[hinckley buzzard]

If Belichek actually started him over Brady...

You are the first person I have ever read who suggested something that asinine.

[P-Marlowe]

The problem is not that he is a Christian, but that he is a WHITE Christian.

If he were Black, everyone would attribute his touchdown prayers as a cultural thing.

[RipSawyer]

I have never cared one whit about the NFL or the AFL or even the AFL-CIO. It appears that I may begin to have some company.

[varmintman]

Sorry, No Sale. Tebow was playing QB at Fla. in what was not any sort of a veer or wishbone offense and looked perfectly good on passing plays:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6KaHmBZMhM

I'll say it again. Whatever Tebow still needed to learn for the NFL was minimal and would have been picked up quickly while the major assets he brought to the table are all of the things which a Peyton Manning cannot hope to learn:

• Size. Tebow his tall enough (6-5) to easily see over and throw over linemen, no batted balls, while being highly survivable and difficult to tackle.
• Major running skills.
• A Rifle arm which you see in some of those laser shots on the video. That also says that much of the value of a Torrey Smith wouldn't be wasted on a team with Tebow at QB as it would be on either of the two teams which just played in the superbowl. It appears to have taken Joe Flacco a year to figure out how to get the ball in front of Torrey Smith and not behind him.

This whole thing is BS and I just about have no further use for the NFL.

[varmintman]

In fact, the winning QB, Russell Wilson, plays just like Tebow...

You noticed that...

Except that Wilson does not have the size advantage which Tebow has nor the rifle arm to put the ball 40 - 70 yards downfield. A receiver like Torrey Smith would be wasted on Wilson.

[VerySadAmerican]

Manning and the rest of the Broncos ran into a brick wall on the first play and were stunned the rest of the game.

The reason I say it was boring is after a few plays you pretty much knew what was going to happen next.

I like the Seahawks’ coach so Bravo! And I never thought Sherman did anything wrong.

[freebilly]

If I were an owner or coach (or a fan of a particular team)I’d want everyone of my Linebackers, Safeties and Corners to play with an enormous chip on their shoulders just like Sherman.