With Sparano the Tebow package was awkward and not well thought out. Most of his carries were on 3rd and obvious running downs and for the most part they asked him to run into a stacked line. Not much of a chance to be successful.
http://forums.theganggreen.com/threads/qbr-espn-rating.74665/ I wish people would stop pretending that QBR is a valid statistic.
Probably not but Sanchez and Smith would also be pretty much at the bottom of any other list you would rather use instead.
The Tebow hate everywhere is over the top. He's a nice guy and plays well. He deserves a job in the NFL
The kid may indeed be nice, but he is not NFL material. Otherwise there are a hell of a lot of teams in the league who have a great need in this position. I doubt that hate is the reason he wasn't on their roster.
People who say Chip Kelly is going back to college are funny. He likes the NFL much more than college, and there will always be NFL teams who will hire him, as an offensive coordinator if not as head coach. Consider this: Chip is from New England, coached at the Univ. of New Hampshire for a long time, and is best buds with Bill Belichick. Imagine Chip Kelly replacing Belichick in New England after Belichick retires. Wouldn't that be fun for the Jets? Back to college,
It's not NFL fan "hate" that prevented him from being on a roster; just the opposite. It was fan popularity that caused him to not be on a roster. Because Tebow was/is so popular, his being on a roster causes two issues that teams don't want to deal with: 1. Tebow's fans want him to play. So anytime the starter has a bad game, these fans would clamor to know when Tebow was going to get a chance, bringing negative publicity to the coach and team and pressuring the coach to play a player the coach feels is less talented. This is always a tiny problem with backup QBs - Tebow magnifies the problem 100x, and 2. The national media is infatuated with Tebow because he's polarizing. Tebow's outspoken and public religious convictions (the very thing that makes him so popular with a large portion of fans, including newly created Tebow-specific casual fans) cause the media to follow him where-ever he goes. The media intentionally turns things into a circus because the media knows the circus sells newspapers. No team wants to be pressured into playing (what they believe is) an inferior player and no team wants to deal with the circus. So nobody signed Tebow even though the idea that he's not one of the 100 best quarterbacks in the world is laughable.
