Well, I did one post here, then I decided to focus on my other blog for awhile, and I wasn't feeling anything in the sports world demanded my attention. But, hey, we're getting close to football season (the regular season, the one that counts), so it's on to some NFL stuff, because college football sucks long and hard.
So what's going on this early? Let's see, will Peyton Manning be ready for week one? Can the Packers repeat? Chris Johnson is still holding out...eh, nothing really worth going over there, you get stuff like that every year. But then we come to Tim Tebow, and that is polarizing, which makes it something I will love to pontificate on.
There is much debate over whether this guy should be the Broncos starting quarterback and if he will ever be a quality NFL quarterback. My response to both of these is a resounding NO. Look, anyone who pays attention to football at all knows what the guy did in college, and they should know that what a guy does in college in no way translates to what he will do in the NFL. Some guys are huge in college, get picked in the first round, and are a total waste in the NFL, for various reasons (see Russell, JaMarcus). Tebow isn't anything like Russell, of course. By all accounts, Tebow is a guy who works his ass off every single day and is grateful for what he's got, though he hasn't actually got much in the way of NFL-quality talent, so he's actually the anti-Russell. But what do you do with that if you're the Broncos? You've got a very modestly-talented quarterback whom some very vocal fans are clamoring for to get a chance to play, and this quarterback was drafted by the previous head coach in the first round, where he had no business being chosen. Well, the guy got a chance to play for the last three games last year, and he won one of three. The one he won was against the Texans, they of the historically bad defense. His numbers were nothing special, certainly nothing to suggest that he is capable of playing at even close to the level of the incumbent starter, Kyle Orton. Speaking of which, why does Orton find himself every year in the position of having to prove himself as a starter? Hasn't he done that already? That aside, Tebow has been far less impressive than any of the other three quarterbacks in camp, and by a wide margin.
And do we really think that the Broncos haven't given Tebow a good long look by now? I'm sure they'd like to get some return on their investment, but they've got to know that they're stuck with Josh McDaniels' mistake, unless they just cut or trade him (which would probably be smart, it would end the controversy there, at least). Nobody who really knows anything about football seems to think the guy has the ability to be a starter in the league. Everybody but McDaniels realized that Tebow is more of a project than a prospect. What do the Tebow-backers among fans see in him to like? Is it because he wears his religion on his sleeve? That won't help him win games. It can't be his throwing mechanics, they're not pretty. Is it because he's scrappy? Guess what, this isn't baseball. Scrappy will play in baseball, at least a little bit. You know where scrappy guys go in the NFL? To the practice squad. Unless, of course, someone mistakes them for a first-round draft pick.
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