Color me curious, but what’s the deal with Tim Tebow signing with the Pats? I know he’d grasp at any rope in the ocean, but what’s the point? He’s pretty much guaranteed himself no playing time at the QB position, seeing as he’s behind Tom Terrific and 2011 3rd round pick Ryan Mallett. He’d be behind any viable body at TE, H back, or any other position on the field not having anything to do with special teams. His contract is miniscule, with 0 guaranteed dollars, and bonuses based on playing time. In other words, he’s playing for free.
Yes, he gets to sit behind one of the best QBs of this or any other generation, and work with a QB-friendly system, but I still don’t get it. It’s not like NE is going to go full-press on developing Tebow. He’s the 3rd string guy. He’d be lucky to run the scout team. Someone who was in a similar situation as Tebow was Kurt Warner. Warner was undrafted, given a tryout with the Packers, and was cut before the preseason despite Steve Mariucci saying he had potential, but wasn’t ready. It was then he started bagging groceries at the Hy-Vee market in Cedar Falls Iowa. Warner then went the Arena football route and signed with the Iowa Barnstormers. I don’t even know if he was ready tor the CFL, but he made the decision to play in the AFL. In other words, he decided to work on his game in a lower league. He toiled in relative obscurity for 3 years, leading the Barnstormers to a couple Arena Bowl finals.
In 1997, Warner signed with the Rams, and the rest is history. The point being, Warner worked on his game and developed it to the point that he was able to stick with a pro club. Tebow’s approach, signing with a team that has 2 guys ahead of him, and little possibility of starting, smacks of him taking the easy way out to stick with an NFL team rather than hone his game and try a bona fide comeback. I’m not sure how he can advance his QB skills by being buried on NEs depth chart. It reminds me of the Nate Davis situation with the Niners a few years ago. Here was a guy with no real shot to make the team, other than the dearth of QBs in the stable, so he backs it up by not staying in shape and not bothering to read the playbook. A guy just happy to be drafted, and not really trying. Where is he now? The San Antonio Talons of the Arena Football League.
Forty Niners Forever 
NoFear, your disappearance and your reluctance to answer my question is enough answer.
Who’s your QB. Smith or Tebow?
The one time I went to St. Loo, it was 103º and raining. Might as well have been under water. Couldn’t wait to get the hell out of there.
Woof!
C’mon you are just trying to start a fight.
I’m having enough trouble just getting to the grocery store during tourist season.
OK, here goes. Who has won more games, Alex or Tim?
Clock is ticking………….
Where the hell are you? Taos? Alberquerque? No, I’m asking NoFear a question.
BTW it’s 39-9 counting playoff games. NoFear will never answer the question.
See, in NoFear’s world, Smith lost every Niner game, and contributed nothing to the wins.
Santa Rosa. I stay away from ABQ because of all the gangs and drugs.
Cedar Crest is wonderful with my bro’s ex-wife, but the old 66 can’t handle those hills anymore.
Edgewood is wonderful though it’s out in the country and I hated it at first.
My bud could’ve gotten me a place nearby, but NOOOO. I had to prove myself.
I’ll be back.
New Mexico, The Land of Enchantment.
If you don’t have friends out here, you will die. Quickly.
Well, at least the rain has come Chuck.
Bigtime New Mexico rain.
If I’m still here in the morning after I help the LL cleanup.
Now, it’s hail. Welcome to New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment.
I love it so much you would never believe it.
Chuck, are you picking Alex Smith and his Chiefs to win the AFC West this year? You’re on record as saying they have a “good shot.” You picked the Raiders to win that division last year. How did that work out?
Go on, I dare you to pick Alex and his Chiefs to win. No. “I triple dog dare you.”
Can’t tell you have many times I’ve enjoyed “A Christmas Story” (1983). But when TBS runs its annual 24 hr marathon beginning on Christmas Eve, I always find time from hanging ornaments or sipping on eggnog to watch and listen to Jean Shepherd’s terrific classic.
Andy Reid wants Alex Smith to throw the ball 40 or 50 times a game?
“You’ll shoot your eye out.”
RTF, some very good TV/movies have been shot or centered around, “I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque,” NM. AMC’s, “Breaking Bad” is front and center. One of Berger’s and my very favorites, “No Country for Old Men” (2007). And the upcoming and soon to be in theaters, “The Lone Ranger” starring Johnny Depp. I’m a Depp fan. I like that he takes chances with different roles. He was born to play Jack Sparrow. Sorry, CAPTAIN, Jack Sparrow. No coincidence that my favorite ride at Disneyland has been, and always shall remain, “The Pirates of the Caribbean.” Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me…”
You wear an earring?
The eye patch and crude prosthetics are a big draw.
Chuck says: “NoFear, your disappearance and your reluctance to answer my question is enough answer. ” Apparently not.
It’s a false choice. Have I built an offense around one or the other? What style of offense is it? Off the bench replacement? The entire game or the last quarter/minutes? Who’s calling the plays? Are you asking either guy to do some things they cannot do?
According to all who claim to know, like Urban Meyer, if Alex doesn’t know the offense cold he’s a bumbler. Does he? And Tebow will give the supreme effort until the final whistle.
Alex gets the nod for better passing skills. Tebow for making things happen with his wheels, salvaging busted plays, taking risks and fighting spirit.
But then again I never said Tebow was a top tier NFL QB, just that you keep dogging his ass because you don’t like his style of evangelism. Lucky for you he’s not a Muslim, eh?
With you, it’s almost like Red-Bullit-Touchdown-Dog never left.
Guys, I’m LMAO off at the moment, so I can’t post.
A guy the LL just hired is sweeping up the swamp outside. The water pools up right in front of my room, of all places. So I just peeked my head out the door to see what was up.
And this old fisherman, James, who is funnier than hell, a few doors down, comes over, sticks his head up close
and laughs and says, “I’m trying to get him to wax the Mercedes!!”
You have to have friends out here in New Mex because of the weather and all. You never know when you’ll be called upon to work your tail off, or let someone else alone to work his off.
New Mex is freakin’ awesome but I guess I’m just getting too old for this weather.
Chuck, you are still letting prejudices color your viewpoint.
When Tebow became the starter in Denver, he became the HIGHEST RATED QB IN THE LEAGUE IN THE 4th quarter. Higher than Brady, higher than ANYBODY.
Probably because he sucked for 3 1/2 quarters first, but it was sure fun to listen to.
Would you like some syrup with that waffle, NoFear?
Why are calling me NoFear, Skippy? He’s completely different, honorable military man.
I’m just an Old Fuck here in New Mex.
I’m referring to his non answer of my question of who would he pick as his QB given the choice of Tebow or Smith. His 7:05 response is the special of the day at IHOP.
Numbers? 8-6. 47% completion %age. Tebow’s a schoolyard QB. Randall Cunningham is the closest to him, and Cunningham was a hell of a lot more accurate.
What is funny is you guys think I have a problem with his religion. I don’t. My problem is HE uses his religion to garner opportunities that I don’t think he should rightfully get. What other QB with his crappy numbers has gotten as many shots as he?
I have one brother who went to the University of Colorado. I should have gone there probably, because it is a beautiful campus. But I’m a native Californian and I wanted to go to UC or Stanford. Couldn’t afford Stanford.
Denver is a proud, proud, football town. I will guarantee you that. They hadn’t been to the playoffs in 6 years. 6 years in Denver is a lifetime. The weather is a whole bunch crappier than here in New Mex, and there is not much to do in the wintertime.
And when Tebow won his first game there after not even being able to score a point for the first 59 1/2 minutes, people’s ears perked up. Then the Jets creamed him the next week and taunted him the same way you are doing now.
Then he ripped off 6 straight victories and the Broncs snuck in to win the division. And beat the Steelers.
I never write a guy like that off. He’d be a 3rd stringer on my team, but unless he’s gone completely evangelical nuts, I’d have him on my team.
Denver’s fans are idiots. I lived in Colo long enough to figger that out. A lot of them were questioning getting Manning after last year’s AFCCG playoff loss. As if Tebow was a better option. The Broncs won the AFC West, the weakest division in the league, only because the Raiders completely blew it. How Pittsburgh lost I’ll never know. They were beat up though. Denver’s defense did well that day. Tebow made a couple plays in the end. Huzzah.
The Manning signing could still bite Denver in the ass, though. If they don;t win it all this year, the grumbling will get louder. And the Denver fans will want Tebow back.
A loud BLEEP for idiots!
NoFear, what are Smith’s numbers under Harbaugh?
That’s what makes it so funny, Chuck. My brother from U of C has practically a shrine in his living room to John Elway. He’s a retired biochemist cancer cure researcher.
They named boulevards after John Elway. Put up statues to him.
Did you ever see a shrine devoted to Joe Montana?
No, the Niners just go out and win.
My brother was a pretty good athlete as a kid. We used to play soccer on this little field at the local public school Junior High. The school didn’t mind since we lived right around the corner and there were a lot wilder kids than us in the neighborhood.
The school left a sprinkler head standing one day and my brother slid right into it. They didn’t have the knee technology they have today, so he still has to exercise his knee for a couple hours every day.
He’s the 3rd degree Black Belt who once got 7 cop cars on our lawn. The knee injury was a blessing in disguise.
Speaking of the Broncos, how bout them cutting Willis McGahee the other day. If you’re 30 and older as a RB they toss you aside like yesterday’s trash. Their rookie Montee Ball is quickly becoming everyone’s FF sleeper.
The only projected starting RB older than 29? None other than our own Frank.
Actually, Dennis, Ripley’s Believe or Not but I listened to an interview with McGahee before last season.
He’s smart and can take of himself.
He said something like, “I want to be the starter but I know the business. If they go out and get AP, I know I’m gone.”
I don’t worry about guys like that. It’s the uneducated guys colleges screw over and then go into the league I worry about.
Nipper’s had the POTD for exactly a month now. C’mon, Peter Brady. “It’s Time to Change.”
Sha na na na na na na na, sha na na na na. Sha na na na na na na na, sha na na na na.
Dennis tanked….again?
Chuck, enough with your pissy little school-girl shit. “NoFear won’t answer me.” “NoFear doesn’t answer the way I want.”
No need to stomp your feet and hold your breath because you get called on your bullshit now and then. You’re getting too much like a sniveling bitch to even take seriously.
In other words, sonny Jim, say you had the current Baltimore Ravens team, and your QB choices were Tebow or Smith.
Who do you pick?