I’m Back, and so are The Broncos

In the immortal words of Frank Costanza, I’m Back BA-BY! It’s been 2 years since I’ve been part of that irrelevant and ever growing world of bloggers, and as much as no one cares what me or any other blogger has to say, I still need this therapeutic outlet to say it.

It was only a decade ago that The New England Patriots started winning games with a relatively unknown QB; one who analysts all agreed was not the NFL QB that Drew Bledsoe was. He didn’t have the arm, he didn’t have the motion, he didn’t have the pocket presence. Despite giving NFL teams every reason to draft him based on his physique, football IQ and college record, he was written off as not being an “NFL QB” and dropped to the 6th round of the 2000 draft. However, the one thing this second year QB did have was the ability to win games, and win games he did. He won games in college in a big name program where expectations and competition were both high, and he won games in the NFL with a team that was written off before he took over as the starting QB.

Let me make this clear, I am not comparing Tim Tebow to Tom Brady and any such comparison at this point would be outright blasphemous. Nevertheless, like the future first ballot hall of famer, Tim Tebow wins games and at the end of the day that is more important than passer ratings, throwing motion or religious beliefs. We’ve been watching this kid since his freshman year at Florida when he was the backup and thrown in on short yardage situations. Even then it was discussed how his style of play was not conducive to being a starter in the SEC. 3 years, a Heisman Trophy and a National Championship later, he graduated as arguably the greatest College Football player of all time with the post script of “too bad he’ll never be able to play in the NFL”. That leads me to pose the question, which college stars can play in the NFL? Ryan Leaf? Tim Couch? Jamarcus Russell?

Tim Tebow is 4-1 as a starter on a 5-5 team. The fallacy that was highly discussed 3 weeks ago and regularly for the past year that the Broncos can’t win with Tim Tebow has quickly been replaced by the reality that they cannot win without him. Without him the AFC west is a 3 horse race featuring the Chargers, Raiders and Chiefs, with him they are half a game out of first place and climbing each week. Can he ever lead a team to a Super Bowl? Everything we pretend to know about football would indicate otherwise. 10 years ago that question was asked and answered the same way about Tom Brady.

AND THAT’S THE BRUTAL TRUTH!