I appreciate the civil response , look at the backups in the nfl. Tebow has the intangibles of making those aground him play at a different level.
Didn’t blame Jesus, that would be a mistake. I blamed the pussy league for blackballing him because he believes in Jesus.
Yeah, but they can't stop on a dime, leave change, change directions and immediately be up to full speed like Akrum. Hard to imagine a back like Akrum not being drafted. He has many of the most exciting highlight reel TD runs in Hawkeye history. Neither Hawkeye fans or Cyclone fans will ever forget the catch and run in the last minute of last years game when he eluded and ran through/over about 7 clones on the way to the endzone to send the game to OT . That was a thing of beauty! I know there is a place in the NFL for Akrum.
Colin Kaepernick was blackballed by the NFL. He could start for a lot of teams in the NFL. I am fine with that collusion by the owners. Tebow is an admirable man. He's not an NFL QB.
While he does get to choose which teams to try out with as a free agent, its hard to make lemonade out of this. In the end the TEAMS still pick who's on the roster. Hopefully he can impress someone enough to provide some value, but its a long shot.
There is a reason why Tebow is not playing and it is not because of Jesus. Pure lack of talent needed to fit into an NFL type offense. When I watched him he was completely lost out there.
I hope, but I'm not sold. Yes he gets to pick which team to "ASK" if he can try out with them. Its not like that assure's him of anything. Its not like Wadley is an unknown or played at some school that none of these guys saw play. They have two and a half years of tape of him playing against some of the top schools in college football. Bowl game tape, Senior bowl workouts.. All of the teams sent reps to Iowa's pro day. Each team had at least a half a dozen chances to take a flyer on the guy, and no one pulled the trigger. I can't imagine what he's going to do at camp, that impresses someone beyond what they saw in games against teams like Michigan or OSU that have top level athletes. I have no idea what Akrums field of study at Iowa was, but I hope it was something worthwhile.
If Tebow was that damn good as a QB he would be in the league. The fact is the is not. He was a phenomenal football player, but he couldn’t throw it. He completed fewer than 50% of his passes when he led Denver to the playoffs. Let’s not forget he did that with an 8-8 record. The only reason Denver made the playoffs is because the entire AFC West was in shambles that year. They did beat Pittsburgh in the playoffs, but Tebow was 10/21 passing and to be honest, had that game been played in Pittsburgh (like it should have considering both teams’ records) it likely would have been a loss for Denver. He had other opportunities and didn’t show that he was capable of being an NFL qb. Didn’t he have offers to play another position but he refused because he wanted to be a QB? This has nothing to do with his beliefs and everything to do with his abysmal throwing mechanics (in a league where passing is king).
Oh, I agree, I was referring to the CBS Profile CBS Sports Staff...seems like there was some disinformation circulating about Akrum's explosiveness.
Hyperbole much? A huge portion of the players in the league are bible thumpers ... so your argument is completely misinformed. It's a classic tactic of an "in-group" to paint themselves as a persecuted minority in order to rile-up their zealous followers. Bizarre tactic by American Christians ... because they're already far and away in the majority.
One more thing ... the bigger knock on Tebow was that while he was a pretty athletic and talented guy ... he was also a "system" QB. He didn't execute a pro-style O ... Urban and Co did all the thinking for him. So while Tebow already had some glaring issues as it related to mechanics ... the fact that he was a "gamer" within a well-conceived offensive system "hid" many of his football deficiencies. Arguably the biggest of all his deficiencies was that Tebow had a mediocre understanding of the game - thus explaining his poor wonderlic score - and also explaining why he couldn't stick as an NFL QB.
