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Originally Posted by StoppedRainingMen
ppl keep saying rex ryan deserves another year, i call bull**** on that. the last 8 days are a total display of incompetence that shouldn't warrant another season.
so tebow is an awful qb. we get that. apparently even the jets players think he's dog****. so if mcelroy is the ACTUAL backup qb, why in the **** would you deactivate him in a must-win game? wtf are u keeping up the pretense of tebow being a legitimate nfl player for at the cost of your chances to win? sanchez got worse and worse and worse as the game goes on and despite the fact that it's still winnable and despite the fact that you MUST win it you have nobody you can play because for some reason QB2 is deactivated. smooth
I agree with your premise that regardless of how good Tebow actually is, Rex Ryan's handled the entire situation horribly and deserves to be fired, but I really don't buy all this stuff about Tebow being one of the very worst QBs in the league, and people saying he should go to the CFL. The fact is, for a young guy who hasn't had much opportunity to get reps and learn the game, he really hasn't played that badly. Let's compare him to some of the young starters in the league right now:
Andrew Luck
Age: 23
Career pass attempts: 564
ANY/A+: 95
Ryan Tannehill
Age: 24
Career pass attempts: 424
ANY/A+: 92
Tim Tebow
Age: 25
Career pass attempts: 361
ANY/A+: 92
Sam Bradford
Age: 25
Career pass attempts: 1429
ANY/A+: 89
Brandon Weeden
Age: 29
Career pass attempts: 498
ANY/A+: 89
Christian Ponder
Age: 24
Career pass attempts: 716
ANY/A+: 81
I think the main problem with Tebow is that in order to really use him effectively it takes a little bit of creativity, and a coaching staff that puts most of their focus toward defense wasn't really ever willing to put out that kind of effort. So instead ,they just set him up to fail whenever he gets the chance to play, leak stories to the media about him being terrible in practice, and hope they never have to deal with actually thinking outside the box the way John Fox did in Denver. The reason McElroy is starting isn't that "he was the real QB2 all along". It's that they don't want to deal with Tebow succeeding in the last 2 games and people freaking out on them, asking why hasn't he been playing this whole time.