Silver:Tom Brady was Tim Tebow long before Tebow mania swallowed the NFL

[jmt57]

Another Tebow analogy, for what it's worth:

BostonHerald.com - Blogs: Rap Sheet» Blog Archive » Doug Flutie might know something about Tebowmania. He lived it.

”We’re all on our cell phones, catching the updates at the end of the (Denver-Chicago) game. It’s all we talked about for a good half hour after,” Flutie said, referring to Tebow’s latest come-from-behind win. ”We all had to know how he did, how it went, how it worked out in the end. You can’t keep your eyes off it. People can’t stop talking about it.

”I’m walking down the streets of New York, I hear two people walking the other way talking about Tim Tebow,” Flutie went on. ”Turn on the radio or TV, and they’re talking about Tim Tebow.”

A few decades ago, it was the exact same way for Flutie. First, when he was throwing Hail Mary passes at Boston College, and again, when he took over as the starting quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. The attention on his every move, his every start, was insane.​

 

[RhodyPatriot]

I watched Brady in the early years. Apparently you didn't or you did so with your customary blinders on. He was never a JAG. With the exception of contract implications, Brady beat out Bledsoe and passed everyone else on the depth chart heading into TC and pre season in 2001. He's a conventional pocket passer who could always make all the throws and his fastidious mechanics and inate poise insure he makes them accurately. Tebow is an option QB and basically a novelty act who as is often the case has taken this league by storm mid season but who won't last long into next season unless he can become something more than an emotional leader and seat of the pants improv performer. He's this year's flavor of the month like Vince Young who also just won...or that Vick guy. DC's will figure him out just like they did the Wildcat. It's all about winning consistently in the NFL, and the sidelines are littered with guys who flashed momentarily only to fail in the long run to be able to do that.

Mo please put your Brady pom poms down. It's embarrassing.
Tom Brady taking over for Drew Bledsoe was as much a commentary on the shortcomings of Bledsoe as it was Belichick thinking he had a future HOF'er in Brady. Watch the tapes of the early years with Brady. He was pretty average. He was JAG. Look at his numbers. Look at the tapes. Put that Tom Brady on this years Broncos and he's not coming even remotely close to what Tebow is doing.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Mo please put your Brady pom poms down. It's embarrassing.
Tom Brady taking over for Drew Bledsoe was as much a commentary on the shortcomings of Bledsoe as it was Belichick thinking he had a future HOF'er in Brady. Watch the tapes of the early years with Brady. He was pretty average. He was JAG. Look at his numbers. Look at the tapes. Put that Tom Brady on this years Broncos and he's not coming even remotely close to what Tebow is doing.

Brady was not a JAG then. Yes BB had him reined in with him going the short-medium pass route in the early years but partly because then as now who was the deep threat? Patten maybe and Brady did hit him for big plays.

JAGs do not keep moving the chains, making smart decisions play after play. JAGs do not keep themselves from being the losing factor in big games with consistency.

Let's not mistake the fact that Brady improved year after year to become the TFB that we know, but he was not just another QB at any point in his starting career. He went from above average to top 3 in his first several years with longevity and consistency making him at the very least a contender for GOAT. Not winning one more Lombardy keeps the debate alive.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

That's because of how bad the broncos were with an average qb like orton. Tebow is the reason the broncos is winning.

Orton wasn't an average QB. He's a JAG and an oft injured and inconsistent one at that. Not having an above average or consistent QB once Elway retired was what cost Shannahan his job there. Just because a guy flashes in an offense early on or briefly doesn't make him an above average QB. Just ask the Dolphins or the Browns or the Bills or the Bucs or a lot of teams...

Brady proved he was the real deal when he performed consistently in his second season, even though the rest of the team around him on both sides of the ball didn't. And went on to get incrementally better season after season for a decade now - in some cases irrespective of his surrounding cast which changed more than a chameleon from season to season and not always for the better.

The book of Tebow is a short story at the moment, and whether he turns out to have an epic work worthy of a pulitzer or even a series of short stories in him - or is essentially just another one hit one season wonder - remains to be seen. Coaches who love him love his passion. Whether that passion ever translates to measurables improvement will determine whether he's a franchise QB or just an intriguing fan and media draw. And if even for reasons beyond his control that franchise falls flat on it's ass again, it will remain to be seen whether he will remain intriguing enough to continue to lead a surrounding cast to the promised land they are talking about when the discussion is NFL football... 'Cause if he can't his spirituality will grow as hollow as old Tubby Rex's predictions and start falling on deaf ears. Guys need something tangible to cling to when potentially short careers and the big bucks are at stake. Last season we saw the re-emergence of the lure of playing with Vick... I have a feeling that prospect won't be as aluring after this season.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Mo please put your Brady pom poms down. It's embarrassing.
Tom Brady taking over for Drew Bledsoe was as much a commentary on the shortcomings of Bledsoe as it was Belichick thinking he had a future HOF'er in Brady. Watch the tapes of the early years with Brady. He was pretty average. He was JAG. Look at his numbers. Look at the tapes. Put that Tom Brady on this years Broncos and he's not coming even remotely close to what Tebow is doing.

You're embarassing yourself and the rest of us. If Tom Brady were on this year's Broncos John Elway wouldn't look like he has angina every time the camera capures his reaction to a come from behind drive. Tebow is pulling stuff out of his ass against bad teams and teams who were ill prepared for it. That kind of success is short lived, and Elway knows it (as does Fox who clung to Delhomme too long for the same reason) and he also knows it only makes his job more difficult in the long run.

 

[coolguy]

You're embarassing yourself and the rest of us. If Tom Brady were on this year's Broncos John Elway wouldn't look like he has angina every time the camera capures his reaction to a come from behind drive. Tebow is pulling stuff out of his ass against bad teams and teams who were ill prepared for it. That kind of success is short lived, and Elway knows it (as does Fox who clung to Delhomme too long for the same reason) and he also knows it only makes his job more difficult in the long run.

Tebow still looks like he's getting better at throwing and the fact he doesn't have a good receiver catching for him is making him look worse than what he probably is. If mark sanchez has taught us anything, it's that Good receivers make mediocre to average qbs look better than what they are.