4 sacks, 8 QB hits. Feely did look ok though his stats weren’t anything hot – 20-37 for 175 yards. He did miss Loyd on two deep throws where Loyd was open, one time open by about five yards. And Loyd dropped a third down pass when the Saints were blitzing that might have gone for a TD.
Sarkus
3822
Pete Carroll To Do List for Sunday:
- Announce T. Jackson as your starting QB for the game.
- Start C. Whitehurst at QB instead.
- Spot the Bengals 10 points at home.
- Pull Whitehurst when his stats are 4/6, 52 yards.
- Watch Jackson go 1/4, 11 yards.
- ?
- Profit!
Blergh.
Man, the Patriots don’t look too good so far.
Did Whitehurst do something boneheaded? Why was he pulled?
Lorini
3825
I see Tebow has 37 yards. Fans booing him yet?
You forgot to put in there “On 4th down and 2 (on the 3) with 14 seconds left and no timeouts call a running play”.
He doesn’t really try hard until there’s five minutes left in the game.
Tebow’s really pushing the degree of difficulty for today’s miraculous comeback.
Good luck Timmy!
Nope, they’re still cheering him. He’s been godawful terrible, but they’re cheering him. Weirdly, there seem to be a lot of Lions fans in the crowd, though.
He just threw a pick-six from inside the red zone, the first time they’d been there all game. It could not be more clear that this dude is not an NFL QB. He’s not “promising” or “raw” or whatever, he’s just bad.
I don’t think I’ve seen a single highlight from the Bills game, and yet the score tracker claims they won, 23-0.
Did the camera crew have trouble crossing the border, or something?
It was just a plain old butt kicking. They sacked Beck 9 times. Fred Jackson had almost 200 yards from scrimmage.
Man, Patriots. Ugh. Just… ugh.
Lorini
3833
I just saw the highlights of the Bronco game. As a Raider fan, I hope they keep Tebow for fucking ever.
ESPN are doing their best to make it feel like forever.
We, of course, got the Lions game, and I tuned in just for the immense pleasure of watching Teblow suck worse than a $5 prostitute.
At one point late 3rd quarter, they compared QB ratings to that point:
Stafford–130
Tebow–36
The man has no business being on a professional football field. His passes were short, 10 yards overhead, behind, pretty much everywhere except to his receivers. He had 3 long passes caught, two of which were because his receivers managed circus grabs. At one point, he was I think 6/20.
And the defenses know it. Lions stacked 10 in the box, so Tebow couldn’t try to run. Which leaves your team with no offense at all. I can’t see the Broncos carrying him as the starter the rest of the season, it suicide.
So does Orton get a second chance?
sluggo
3837
Sparano Watch: I think today’s effort, where no one expected Miami to give the Giants this much trouble, bought Sparano another week. But if they lose to the Chiefs next week, he’s done.
I went to a sports bar, sucked in by the power that is Tebow. I will say this much for the guy, he can make some plays with his legs and now and then he can make an accurate pass. That’s about it though. He has a slow delivery, he doesn’t seem to see the field well, and to call some of his passes wounded ducks is an insult to ducks everywhere. He has a long way to go. And while he may have good leadership skills, in the NFL you have to lead by example.
Anyway, Denver might as well play him for the rest of the season just to see if there’s a butterfly somewhere within waiting to emerge. They’re not going anywhere.
I feel like there are probably halfbacks in this league who, given six months to learn the QB job, would look about like Tebow – running well, and throwing the occasional on-target pass in amidst a flurry of bad ones.
Sarkus
3840
If he was the only QB on the roster other then Orton, then maybe. But after a few more weeks of this, they need to give Brady Quinn a shot since he actually showed some promise in the pre-season. If nothing else, the Broncos need to come out of this season knowing about Quinn as well as Tebow.
Meanwhile, Seahawk fans are not happy. Todays loss ended any thought that the team might end up decent this year. And Pete’s post-game comments, which seemed to indicate he’s still completely sold on Tavaris Jackson not only for this year but beyond, is creating a mini-firestorm. Prior to this most fans believed TJack would get a shot but that if the team struggled the team would make a move to draft someone next year and hold onto Jackson simply as a placeholder starter. If that’s not the plan, the fanbase isn’t going to be too pleased.
