mvscal wrote:If anything, Tebow is way ahead of schedule.
Set the bar low enough and there is no standard he won't surpass. During his second NFL season a first-round draftpick's learning curve is not supposed to include checking off items such as "successfully completing a twenty-yard out pattern" or "delivering the ball deep down the middle in a timeframe suitable to preclude the watching of an entire episode of
Sixty Minutes."
NFL QBs arrive with NFL-ready skillsets....IIRC, he played four years for the Florida Gators before ever donning an NFL uniform. I'm fairly certain Urban Meyer and his coaches spent time every day in practice making him throw the ball,
In a pro style offense? "IIRC," tards like you never missed the chance to express your opinion that the spread, read option he played at Florida did nothing to prepare him for the NFL. Now you want to eat your cake, too? I don't think so.
I (we) was (were) correct then, and it's obvious two years later. Being of limited skills to begin with and playing in a spread offense, the guy was never cut out to be an NFL QB. Making him a first-round pick was ludicrous. First-round picks are not supposed to be mere 'projects,' which correctly refers to a guy who possesses immense talent and limited skills/experience. Projects are 7'2" athletic freaks from Africa who've never touched a basketball. Projects are 260 lb fullbacks with 4.5 speed who maybe played one season of football at Occidental College.
Projects are
not football lifers who spent fours years playing for Urban Meyer at the University of Florida. Guys like that are supposed to be fairly finished specimins who merely require a bit of time to acclimate to the different speed and expanded playbooks of the NFL game. They aren't still supposed to be at the bottom of the basic-skills learning curve.
Face it, mvscal, if he wasn't Tim freaking Tebow, no one would even bother.
But he
is Tim freaking Tebow: winner at every level of the game he has ever played
Every level? And what levels are those? High school and college football? You mean all two of them? BFD. Everyone on those Florida squads was a similar winner, in large part because that whole damn team was really good. Being a winner in college means jackshit once it's time to line up behind center in the NFL. Keep in mind that your winner was only a situational player behind Chris Leak for the first title, and Tim Tebow(tm) failed to deliver a title in two of the three years he was a starter.
While that's no damning statement, the fact is that he was surrounded by incredible talent at Florida and still he came up short two out of three years. If he was a winner—which he was—so were many other guys on those teams...and what about it?
Danny Wuerfful was a winner too. So were Scott Frost, Gino Torretta, Jason White and Tommy Frazier, and just like Tim Tebow none of those winners ever had a shot of being real a NFL QB simply because none of them had NFL-level talent/skillsets.
So, okay, exactly how many years do you want to give Tebow before you finally admit that no, he will never be worth a damn as an NFL QB? Oh, and before you try to burp up any other lame excuses for Tebow, try to remember that there are guys like Cam Newton and Sam Bradford who started and succeeded in the NFL as rookies despite having played in non-pro style spread offenses in college.
They were able to do so because...wait for it...they have NFL-level talent.
All the work ethic in the world is fantastic, and kudos to Tebow for giving it his best. The thing is, there are are countless marginally skilled guys in NFL training camps who work their asses off every bit as much as Tebow does, and they're never going to get a sniff. While sustained success in the NFL is certainly built on a foundation of hard work, its basic architecture must include serious helpings of otherworldly talent; something Tebow clearly does not possess, at least not as a QB, anyway.
and he's already pulling games out of his ass when he isn't even anywhere near ready to go in the NFL.
He's having to pull those games out of his ass because of the hole he put his team in with his awful play throughout the rest of the game, and he hasn't shown that he can sustain anything against a good team.