Yeah very funny. Tim Tebow is a winner he helped a 1-4 Broncos team go 8-8, make the playoffs and beat the Steelers until he had the misfortune of bumping into Belichick and Brady. He's a useful player who hopefully will be a solid starting NFL QB somewhere. Maybe here down the road whenever Brady retires but it will probably be in Jacksonville or the Jets after Geno Smith and Mark Sanchez are both cut and Rex Ryan is fired.
Tebow is a winner who can help us. Keep him.
You're talking about what he did two years ago. As I wrote, teams don't sign guys based on their track record if they're playing poorly now. They'll take a shot at a guy who at least shows the potential to improve, and I'm having a tough time as a rational human being coming up with excuses as to why Tebow's play has given the coaching staff enough evidence that he'll be worth costing another player a job that could help this team win now.
I was once in your shoes. I thought Elway was just being arrogant in Denver by not at least starting the next season with him and giving him a shot. I also thought the same thing with Ryan last year when he wouldn't give him a start over Sanchez and then went the other way.
After seeing him here...sadly, I get it. The worst part is, he's not even playing like an average quarterback. If he was at least playing average football, you could make the argument to give him time to improve. But he's not, and if he continues to play like this, you can't make an argument to jettison a guy who was neck-and-neck with a teammate at his position and simply faced "a numbers game".
As I wrote, his future is in his own hands. If he plays well, then it becomes a non-issue. But if he plays like he did last week again, like I said, I just don't see how he sticks. And I don't get how even his biggest fans/apologists can rationally make the argument - if you really want this team to win a championship - to keep him.
Bad teams can take those chances. This isn't one of them. The worst part is, even the bad teams right now seem to at least have decent alternatives - which as I said in another thread is unusual considering there's always at least 1-2 teams with lousy QBs. But they don't exist right now, so unfortunately Tebow's in a bad market for that and that's why he was unemployed up until they gave him a chance here.
You can't keep thumping what he did two years ago, because the only thing two years ago did was give him this opportunity. They've given him all the support in the world and it's not like he hasn't been given a reasonable opportunity here. He has...and what happens in the next two weeks (either good or bad) will ultimately determine what happens with him.
