Patriots Sign Tim Tebow

[Ivan]

Re: Enough about Tim Tebow, what do YOU think about Tim Tebow?

Hate the signing, hope they cut him as soon as possible.

 

[patsinthesnow]

Is it a legit question to ask if the backup QB job is up for grabs?

Tebow has a season of starting games under his belt, a winning record, doesn't turn the ball over, and a 75.3qbr isn't bad for a backup QB. Playoff experience too.

Compare that to Mr. 20 yard overthrow with no experience, I think it's fair to say Mallett won't be handed the backup job.

 

[Deus Irae]

The media circus he brings, and rabid fanbase is what causes this.

That, and it's always newsworthy when a team adds the worst QB of all time to their roster.

Nonsense. People like you, making really stupid posts about the guy, is what caused this.

 

[Salva135]

Nonsense. People like you, making really stupid posts about the guy, is what caused this.

It's no worse than people like you who pretend Tebow doesn't carry a large fanbase with him and a media sensation, and that it has no effect on a football team. How do you reconcile your Patriots fanhood with your desire to see Tim Tebow start as a QB in the NFL? This is simultaneously a great and awful move, no? I guess you and the rest of the Tebots just hope he learns enough to move on somewhere else and become a "winner" again, or do you want him to replace Brady?

 

[belichick010405]

Official New England Patriots ProShop - Your Search For "tebow" Returned 4 Results

Get your Tim Tebow Jersey....The Pats are taking "pre-orders" as of right now....I just received my Patriots.com email alert a couple of minutes ago.

 

[Deus Irae]

The "angst" is because of people like you who talk out of one side of their mouths saying he's "just a QB3" but then say he's a successful, winning NFL QB with a playoff win. The only way to reconcile these viewpoints is that you're being very patient until Tebow is again an NFL starting QB and winning games.

No, the way to reconcile these viewpoints is to use one's brain. Tom Brady is the team's unquestioned starter, and he just signed a deal to insure that remains the case moving forward. Ryan Mallett is the backup, as we know, from last year, so that leaves only a QB3 spot, if one is kept. Now, if Tebow manages to beat out Mallett this year, that's fine, because TFB is still the starting QB.

And when the hell did having a QB who's shown he can win if he's inserted in the lineup become a bad thing in general?

Because it makes zero rational sense to be content with a QB you call successful to be sitting on the bench in perpetuity. Being on the Pats with zero shot to see games as a starter for several years alone is a detriment to someone you consider a successful QB. Shouldn't he be out there, winning games?

Why the hell would you not want a backup who has proven he could win? How did that ever become a negative in your head? Hell, maybe BB should sign Curtis Painter in order to ease your mind. Lord knows he can't win.

The Tebow-Pats fans must be having a huge self mind-**** right now. "He's such a winner, he should be playing! But Brady and... uhhh... *head explodes*"

I don't care what Tebow-Pats fans are thinking in their minds. I don't particularly care who the Patriots sign as their 89th and 90th camp bodies in the offseason. I care that the Patriots field an elite, Super Bowl contending, team come cutdowns.

 

[BSR]

It's no worse than people like you who pretend Tebow doesn't carry a large fanbase with him and a media sensation, and that it has no effect on a football team. How do you reconcile your Patriots fanhood with your desire to see Tim Tebow start as a QB in the NFL? This is simultaneously a great and awful move, no? I guess you and the rest of the Tebots just hope he learns enough to move on somewhere else and become a "winner" again, or do you want him to replace Brady?

You're overacting. Either he can earn a backup QB role or he will be cut. What is the issue? Do you have such little faith in the organization that they will be somehow mesmerized by the Tebow fans into starting them? What are you afraid might happen here?

 

[Deus Irae]

It's no worse than people like you who pretend Tebow doesn't carry a large fanbase with him and a media sensation, and that it has no effect on a football team. How do you reconcile your Patriots fanhood with your desire to see Tim Tebow start as a QB in the NFL? This is simultaneously a great and awful move, no? I guess you and the rest of the Tebots just hope he learns enough to move on somewhere else and become a "winner" again, or do you want him to replace Brady?

Calling me a Tebot is asinine. I defend Tebow against the clowns who grind their axes about him because they've got a personal animus towards the guy, nothing more.

Also, what are you talking about with my so-called desire to see Tim Tebow start as a QB in the NFL? Have you ever grasped the notion of a backup quarterback? I'm quite content with having the G.O.A.T. as the starting QB of the NE Patriots. I want TFB to remain good enough to be the starter for the Patriots for another 5+ years.

 

[Off The Grid]

Re: Enough about Tim Tebow, what do YOU think about Tim Tebow?

As a QuarterBack, he makes one Hell of a WingBack.

Your avatar sucks.

I am gonna let you know, the instant I give a rat's @$$ what you think of my Avatar.

We're all waiting on pins and needles.

What you mean "we", white man??

You're the only one sobbing & squealing about my Avatar. :bricks:

But, hey...Good luck with that.

 

[Kontradiction]

Re: Enough about Tim Tebow, what do YOU think about Tim Tebow?

That is a distraction to fans. Do you really think that anyone in the Patriots organization cares at all about what is reported on Sports Center unless it were another made-up allegation of wrongdoing?

I do. They may not say it, but we actually field human beings and not robots. Of course they're going to care about what's being said and/or reported about a teammate.

ESPN will report on what gives them ratings points. If after these next few days they get no quotes, no film clips, no press conferences, no public comments, no leaked private comments, NOTHING, and if they still are yap, yap, yapping about nothing, then people will turn the channel and they will stop yap, yap, yapping and stop annoying us fans. One way or another, though, I'd think the Patriots wouldn't care a bit.

No they won't. Tebow is too polarizing a figure for people to change the channel on.

I expect him to compete for a roster spot by trying to show the coaches that a 3rd QB is worth keeping. The only way he does that is to show some skills that add versatility to the roster. That may be on special teams or as a developmental or specialty package guy at another position.

This is pretty much what I'm expecting as well, though I think they'll try to move him around a bit more than you do. I think we'll see him lined up in the backfield as a full back, maybe as an H-Back, and in some goal line packages with Hernandez and Gronk.

I've also followed the guy since he wore #5 at Nease. I have no confidence in his quarterbacking skills at the NFL level.

You shouldn't. Saban put the book out on him in college and Belichick penned a memoir in the NFL. Set the edges to keep him in the pocket and take his primary read away and you've got him beat. Teams with big NT's generally do a better job against him as well.

I also had no confidence at first in the DB skills of Troy Brown

One exception to the rule.

and Julian Edelman,

Awful as a DB.

the tight end skills of Mike Vrabel,

Ran one route when in the red zone.

or the lineman skills of Stephen Neal.

Wrestling background, not sure how you had no confidence in his skills as an interior OL, especially given where he was drafted.

 

[belichick010405]

I have a question - If Tim Tebow was signed because, according to BB, it was in the "best interest" of the Patriots then how does Tebow help Tom Brady since the Patriots "best interest" is Tom Brady?

 

[Kontradiction]

Re: Enough about Tim Tebow, what do YOU think about Tim Tebow?

Just wait until the Tebowites invade the board. Every little critique of Brady will be an opportunity for them to suggest putting Tebow in. Patriots boards are about to be invaded.

Oh you have no idea. And the new "fans" that are coming are the worst, most obnoxious type of Gator fans there are as well.

 

[Off The Grid]

Re: Enough about Tim Tebow, what do YOU think about Tim Tebow?

When the #$%& is Michael BISHOP finally gonna get a shot at it??

 

[Deus Irae]

The Patriots have signed the ultimate no-risk contract with Tim Tebow.

Not only is there (as widely expected) no guaranteed money on Tebow’s new deal, but according to Adam Schefter of ESPN, Tebow’s deal is for two years.

Tim Tebow contract is for two years, with nothing guaranteed | ProFootballTalk

So, no guaranteed money, and the player's under contract for multiple years if the team likes what it sees. In other words, the team has a no-lose situation here and can dump the guy for any reason.

Again, there's no downside here.

 

[JMarr]

Re: Enough about Tim Tebow, what do YOU think about Tim Tebow?

This situation is completely different than Tebow was in either in Denver or New York. In those spots it was very possible that Tebow was actually better than the starter (Orton or Sanchez). So fans were right to clamor for Tebow to at least get an opportunity to play, especially when the starter stunk it up (which they did).

Here, the GOAT, playing at the peak of his powers, is at the helm. Not a single soul on planet earth that has any intelligence whatsoever believes Tim Tebow is a better QB than Tom Brady. Not even Tebow believes that. So yeah, some crazies may call for Tebow to replace Brady, but that is sheer lunacy, and everyone will know it as such.

In Denver and NY....the clamoring was far from lunacy...it carried weight because it was legitimate.

Except that John Elway shipped out Tebow (and tried to remove all traces of him) as soon as the ink was dry on Peyton's contract. Pretty sure Peyton and Brady are pretty comparable in terms of their job security.

 

[BradyManny]

I dislike Tebow as much as the next guy. But what's the downside here? He's our 3QB. He has no guaranteed money. All the BS distraction stuff that comes with the guy means absolutely nothing here, Belichick runs too tight a ship, and TB12 is a bigger star.

I don't like the guy in any shape or form, on the field and off, but on a no-risk, no guaranteed money contract as your 3rd QB, it's harmless.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Re: Enough about Tim Tebow, what do YOU think about Tim Tebow?

Just wait until the Tebowites invade the board. Every little critique of Brady will be an opportunity for them to suggest putting Tebow in. Patriots boards are about to be invaded.

You must have missed the "Brady in Decline" idiotic thread. We have several such every year. Plenty of resident cretins. Of course when TFB actually does retire because of diminished skills, these morons will tout that they called it.

 

[ivanvamp]

I have a question - If Tim Tebow was signed because, according to BB, it was in the "best interest" of the Patriots then how does Tebow help Tom Brady since the Patriots "best interest" is Tom Brady?

Let's say, for the sake of the argument, that Tebow is better than Kafka at QB3, or, possibly, even better than Mallett at QB2. Is it in the best interest of the Patriots to improve at either QB2 or QB3?

Does it help Tom Brady that the team has a better QB2 or QB3?

 

[ivanvamp]

Re: Enough about Tim Tebow, what do YOU think about Tim Tebow?

Except that John Elway shipped out Tebow (and tried to remove all traces of him) as soon as the ink was dry on Peyton's contract. Pretty sure Peyton and Brady are pretty comparable in terms of their job security.

Right. Well the difference between that situation and here is that by that point, Tebow had become the starter, and a huge fan favorite, in Denver. They couldn't really bring in Peyton and then sit Tebow. So the best thing to do was to get rid of Tebow. Apples and oranges to the Pats' situation.

 

[BSR]

Let's say, for the sake of the argument, that Tebow is better than Kafka at QB3, or, possibly, even better than Mallett at QB2. Is it in the best interest of the Patriots to improve at either QB2 or QB3?

Does it help Tom Brady that the team has a better QB2 or QB3?

At the very least he would be a great scout team QB for those teams that run the pistol. That is about what you would expect for a QB3.