Wish you guys said this on the Tebow Watch thread, I'm trying of fighting E-94 by myself.
(laughing) E- himself goes back and forth on this question! I HAVE called him out on this, tho': I guess each of us is dealing with this weird season-of-frustration in different ways...
Meanwhile, there are signs that even media commentators are coming around, starting to note and balk at TT's unfair treatment and unimaginative use:
Just now on PTI both Kornheiser and Wilbon made the very points we are making here, that no QB, young or veteran, is held to the same ridiculous standard of responsibility that Tebow is (Tony K went so far as to say that no one is pinning all of New England's problems on Brady's 3 straight losses, to which Wilbon noted that Bradford continues to get complete support by everyone after SIX losses, while TT gets crucified after one loss and would likely be GONE after 3 straight, etc., etc.)--and they both concluded agreeing that this is a matter of a rigid, backward-looking football-old-boy-network once again being way behind the times in their view of what an "NFL Quarterback" looks and plays like, and that what it will take (and "what Tebow DESERVES") is a coach of guts, creativity and forward-thinking to "just say to hell with these supposed experts on the sidelines", and just go ahead and adapt his players and schemes to an offense that takes advantage of this kind of strong and mobile QB's unique skills and intuitive feel-for-the-game. I forget who said exactly which part of all that, but they were in full agreement on these points and I was happy to hear it (if somewhat surprised to finally hear it on ESPN, the home of many of the idiots--hello Merrill Hoge--who have carried out the aggressively hateful and often personal attacks on TT since Day 1).
However, lest we forget reality, where the status quo still rules, minutes later on Sportscenter, there was a clip of Little Johnie Elway trying to cover his discomfort ( you can just imagine him whining plaintively, "He was supposed to LOSE a bunch of games--and look BAD doing it!") and sound reasonable as he insisted that "Well, he is learning that when he does things the way we want him to, he is a lot more successful"--complete horsesh*t, of course: Tim was being TIM!--"...but of course it's week-to-week as to how we evaluate him and whether we leave him in there..." And in case anyone misses the point and implications of THAT statement, this was immediately followed by a "Mike and Mike" segment where Golic, that thick-headed, moronic suck-up to the whole ex-NFL-analyst-crowd, proceeds to focus on how BADLY Tebow played, "no accuracy except for a couple of decent passes that happened to be touchdowns, luckily for him", and how the NFL defenses will ADJUST to "that college stuff he does with the ball, and THAT won't work much longer..."
To be fair, the other "Mike" reminded him how Bob Griese had "sat right here a year ago and told us some coach needed to adapt a whole offense around Tebow, that HE would DO it, and insisted it would likely be successful", and that maybe we were all just now finally getting a glimpse of what he was talking about, but Golic was just shaking his head and smirking, couldn't WAIT to play the "I PLAYED pro-football and you didn't"-card.
Does anyone remember the old humor/satire show, SCTV? The whole thing was supposed to be this small-time rural TV-station: They had this one regular weekly routine with Dave Thomas and John Candy as these hick-farmer-analysts of everything in the media, and what they'd do is appear to blow famous people up, often in the middle of a recent clip of an announcement or some typical public behavior, and they'd comment on the actual effectiveness of the explosions: "He blowed up GOOD!"... "Yeah, he blowed up REAL good!"
THAT'S what I think about watching a LOT of these "experts" on sports TV.