Tim Tebow is now 7-1 as a starter.
Brace yourself for the eighth straight week of Tebow mania on ESPN, as well as every radio station you come across... But I can't say I don't love it.
Let's get this out of the way... Tebow isn't an elite quarterback. He's not Aaron Rodgers (The best, period), Tom Brady or Peyton Manning (The second best in my opinion), but what do all four of these players have in common?
Their job is to win football games.
Tebow has won 7 of them in his last 8 games.
Yet people are still looking for arguments to debunk the Tebow-Mania that has ensued on everyone's Twitter timeline...
"But Brendon, his defense is playing incredible! That's the reason they're winning!"
Sure, the defense is playing great. I'll give that to them. But aren't they supposed to do that? The defense's sole job is to give their offense a chance to win the game (I go to Oklahoma State, I know this better than anyone).
Guess what? The defense is doing their job, and Tebow is doing his.
"But Tebow didn't kick that field goal in overtime, the kicker won the game!"
This is the funniest. Tebow's job isn't to kick the field goal. Overtime rarely ends with a touchdown unless it comes from 25+ yards away (on a long play). Any time a team gets within 30 yards of the endzone, they run the ball a few times and kick a field goal.
Tebow's job is to get the ball inside the kickers range, that's EVERY quarterback's job in the NFL. The kicker's job is to kick the field goal.
The kicker did his job, Tebow did his.
All in all, the only reason Tebow gets talked about is because there are so many people who want to throw him out as a quarterback. That's what Skip Bayless, ESPN's most controversial analyst, thrives off of. Someone says something, and he goes against it, THAT'S why you hear about it. That's what the national media does, and that's what you tune into when you turn on ESPN or the radio.
Tebow is not a quarterback. Fine. I'll give you that. But he's doing every job a quarterback is supposed to do, and doing it well.
Tebow's job is to give his team the best chance to win. Moving the ball inside of field goal range in overtime is the job he was handed, and he did it.
That's the same job Rodgers, Brady, Manning, Romo, Flacco, Alex Smith and Roethlisberger all have. That's the job you have as a quarterback.
Tebow does his job.
Wow, are you nuts. If Tebow is "doing his job" like everyone else then the whole team won the game. A 59 yard field goal means the kicker won the game (or in this case didn't lose the game). 59 yards is not easy or normal. Follow that with a 51 yarder to win and that's still the kicker who won. 50+ yarders you give credit to kicker.
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