At 8-8, Fox would get “Coaching Job of the Year”. They’ve already matched last year’s win total, and getting to something like 6-10 would be pretty impressive given the size of the trainwreck he’s inherited.
Adam Schefter just tweeted that Matt Cassel has “a significant hand injury that could end his season.” Who’s excited about seeing Tyler Palko on Monday night?
Side note: using Palko instead of regular bread crumbs makes your fried chicken tastier.
You see, it’s funny because Tyler Palko is about as exciting as Wonder Bread.
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Oh crap, Cassel’s my backup for next week.
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Exactly. You have one of the top coaches of all time in a room with one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, both of them shaking their heads and acknowledging that they don’t have a clue how to play a Free Safety, cause what he’s doing looks like magic, even to them. So awesome.
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Yeah, he’d pull each one after 3 innings no matter how they were doing, so that each one only had about 50 pitches, and would be more likely to play again the next day. The theory was that every pitcher was available all the time, so they had more flexibility per-game to tailor to their opponent.
The stats thing had something to do with the 5 inning requirement for a pitcher to be rewarded a “win”. So, it has more to do with how broken baseball stats can be than any actual measure of how well the system could have worked.
It doesn’t really relate to this situation all that much, it just reminded me of it since I read about it recently. The theory, of splitting up one players duties pre-emptively before they start sucking, is similar though.
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At this point I think it will take more than another bad game to get Tebow benched. He’s probably earned another couple of starts.
What’s weird is he completed a lot of passes in college. I know he’s not all that accurate, but it seems like he should be a bit better than he is.
Listen I hate religion as much as the next card-carrying liberal, but you all salivating for Tebow’s humiliating defeat is a little distasteful. Let him play. The fans love him for now and he’s winning so ride it, and continue helping the kid develop true QB skills.
What did he ever do to anyone to make you hate him so much? It’s not even like you can be jealous that he was fucking all the hot cheerleaders in college while your higher-education experience was sitting in a dark room playing Everquest, cuz he’s a super Christian! So why the hate?
Yes, because saying he sucks = hate.
Since you asked nicely:
It’s his fans. It’s the cult of personality that has sprung up around Tim Tebow. People follow him around from state to state extolling his virtues. He’s already has his life story written. It’s the fact that the day he was drafted, his jersey became the top-selling jersey in the NFL by a ridiculous margin, and probably hasn’t dropped at all.
Whenever he succeeds, it’s because Tim Tebow is blessed and an amazing story and an incredibly person who just makes all those around him better by simply being.
Whenever he fails, it’s because John Fox doesn’t do the right thing by him, or his receivers dropped passes, or his college coach didn’t fix his delivery, or the wrong team passed on him, or they’re not building the team to his strengths. It’s everyone else’s fault but his.
I have the same intense dislike of the Tebow cult as I did of the Vick cult, or the McNabb Deniers in Philly. It was NEVER Vick’s fault. It was always someone else’s. It was never McNabb’s play that gave the Eagles their best stretch in history, it was just in spite of him.
I want Tebow to either suddenly become a mediocre, unexciting quarterback who leads Denver to a few seasons of decency, or I want him to flame out of the NFL in such a fashion that I don’t have to listen to those people anymore. I don’t want to watch a quarterback go sixty in-game minutes without completing a pass and be lauded as a real talent who’s proving everyone wrong about his level of play. I don’t want to hear about how great he is for putting together four minutes of decent play when he was utterly awful for the previous fifty-six.
Also, I strongly dislike college football for a number of reasons that don’t belong in a casual conversation about the NFL, I dislike the Broncos on general I-am-a-Chiefs-fan principle, and I am a fan of statistical analysis and a deeper understanding of the NFL than we are given by the broadcasters, and I don’t want to listen to 10+ years of Favre-level praise from the likes of Phil Simms and Jim Mora.
Has nothing to do with religion, has everything to do with him being a bad quarterback. And I don’t really care if he plays or not – I still sort of hold a grudge against Denver for Super Bowl XXXII – I just want the media to stop pretending that he’s anything other than what he is (i.e., terrible).
He gives the Broncos the best chance to win. If they had Aaron Rogers sitting on the bench that’s one thing, but seriously. I don’t see anyone shitting all over Colt McCoy or Blaine Gabbert. They’re not very good either.
Does Blaine Gabbert have his own buzzword? Does Colt McCoy have a legion of apologists blaming the Browns for everything bad that’s ever happened to them?
I also think that Brady Quinn is just as capable, if not moreso, of being an awful NFL quarterback.
balut
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I’m pretty sure that Kurt Warner guy is pretty religious, but no one bagged on him, because he could actually play the position well.
Anyone remember Glen Coffee?
I haven’t seen either of those guys in games, so I have no idea how they actually look, but my assumption is that they fit into the mold of the developing rookie, where they make stupid decisions but generally display an ability to play the position.
And either way, nobody’s writing columns talking about how they Just Win and are Doing It Their Way after a game where they throw two completions and have a 25% completion percentage.
Frank Gore’s backup who suddenly quit/retired/went AWOL/something either this year or last, right?
