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Scouting Notebook: Smoke and mirrors
Michael Salfino
By Michael Salfino, Yahoo! Sports 6 hours, 44 minutes ago
We have to start with a quarterback who doesn’t play well but who shows a lot of moxie when it matters most and continues to lead his team to victories despite spending most of his Sundays looking like anything but a competent NFL signal caller. That T.J. Yates is really something, isn’t he?
Yeah, we have to talk about Tim Tebow again. Is it interesting or just boring how he enables everyone to plausibly continue to think what they think about him? Personally, I’d settle for him proving me wrong by just being good, period, so we can move on. But he still generally stinks, there is no denying it. Quarterbacks can’t control onside kicks and opposing backs running out of bounds when the game is basically over or the play of his defense or dumb fumbles or coverage breakdowns or guys making 60-yard field goals. … They are responsible for producing offensive points per drive and Tebow needs to get a lot better to even be average in this regard.
Defenses bail Tebow out late in these games by playing soft zones like he’s a real quarterback. Generally, prevent defenses are effective at trading clock for yardage, but they are unadvisable against a poor thrower like Tebow. The Jets did it a few weeks prior to his touchdown on a full blitz and the Bears followed suit yesterday. Why not continue the same defense that’s been killing Tebow?
Yet people bash Tony Romo, the anti-Tebow who has every slightest error magnified and overblown despite extraordinarily good performance generally. Giants-Cowboys was not a great game. Am I the only one sickened by the way defenses were in Madden Beginner mode all night?
Michael Salfino
By Michael Salfino, Yahoo! Sports 6 hours, 44 minutes ago
We have to start with a quarterback who doesn’t play well but who shows a lot of moxie when it matters most and continues to lead his team to victories despite spending most of his Sundays looking like anything but a competent NFL signal caller. That T.J. Yates is really something, isn’t he?
Yeah, we have to talk about Tim Tebow again. Is it interesting or just boring how he enables everyone to plausibly continue to think what they think about him? Personally, I’d settle for him proving me wrong by just being good, period, so we can move on. But he still generally stinks, there is no denying it. Quarterbacks can’t control onside kicks and opposing backs running out of bounds when the game is basically over or the play of his defense or dumb fumbles or coverage breakdowns or guys making 60-yard field goals. … They are responsible for producing offensive points per drive and Tebow needs to get a lot better to even be average in this regard.
Defenses bail Tebow out late in these games by playing soft zones like he’s a real quarterback. Generally, prevent defenses are effective at trading clock for yardage, but they are unadvisable against a poor thrower like Tebow. The Jets did it a few weeks prior to his touchdown on a full blitz and the Bears followed suit yesterday. Why not continue the same defense that’s been killing Tebow?
Yet people bash Tony Romo, the anti-Tebow who has every slightest error magnified and overblown despite extraordinarily good performance generally. Giants-Cowboys was not a great game. Am I the only one sickened by the way defenses were in Madden Beginner mode all night?
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