Tim Tebow is the equivilent of Doug Flutie. Fun to watch, fun to root for, and puts alot of asses in the seats. Statistically he is great or shitty depending on how you want to present him, just like Doug Flutie. Every year he will make a run at the playoffs, and even make it some years. Over all your team, if you have him, will win a little over half your games and maybe a playoff game or two. In the end you will never make the Super Bowl, and definately never win it. The Superbowl is the reason to play the game, and if you know that your quarterback will never get you there it might be time to find someone that can get that goal accomplished.
Yes, this is a team game and it takes all three phases to win it all. Defense wins championships, offense sells tickets, and special teams brings the excitement of "what if?". No one person should get all of the credit or blame for wins and losses, but we all know how that works. The quarterback gets the blame or the credit depending on which team you play on. So for good or ill Tebow is on a team that has been known for it's quarterbacks, (John Elway), and for it's defense (The Orange Crush), and he will always be compared until he wins it all. Which he never will in my opinion.
Does all of this make him a hated quarterback...No. What does make him a hated quarterback are several things, some of which are not his fault, and some of which are. The number one reason for hating Tebow is the hype of the media. They way they refer to him is either the second coming or an absolute failure. This makes him polarizing at the very least, you either hate him or love him. The second reason is his fault, and it goes back to his college days. Wether you like it or you don't his religion is divisive, and has no place in sports. I want to watch football on Sunday and only football. I don't attend church and that is my choice, I don't want to hear about or be preached to by an NFL player about God. I know he doesn't preach personally, he lets everyone else do it for him, and his refusal to get them to stop is an endorsement for them to continue. His eye black bible verses accomplished their mission in college and drew major attention at Florida, and it almost overshadowed his great colligate career. Then his Superbowl ad put him a catagory no other player has ever been in, even Reggie White knew when to back off and he was a minister. A time and a place for everything. I don't even think Deon Sanders drew as much attention as Tewbow is getting now. Even his touchdown celebration of kneeling and giving thanks to God is now called the "Tewbow". His fans are putting "Jesus" on the back of his Jerseys. His press confrences are almost sickening to watch. The press hypes him as the next big thing and constantly compares him to "Christ" himself, and then he comes out and gives you the "Ah shucks Beave" responses.
The last reason to hate Tebow is what his religious views have done. Wether true or not does not matter at this point. The fact is this, there is the outward appearance that he got the starting job because the fans were calling and demanding for it. You look at his fan base, and they are majority outward Christian, and they are not shy about it. His very public Christian beliefs endear him even more to this fan base. Connect the dots and what it looks like is that Tebow got the job because he is a Christian and not because he earned it, or is even good at the quarterback position. This flies in the face of certain beliefs and truisms in football, such as the best player will play on Sunday.
Some will agree and some won't. If you are a Tebow fan, good luck, you are in for a long (four seasons max) road of disappointment, and almosts. If you are not a Tebow fan, wait for his complete body of work to come in and you will be proven right in the end (when like Flutie he goes to play in Canada). I put my faith in the professional scouts who studied him all through college. There is a reason he was drafted where he was, and there was a reason he was third on the depth chart. Being a winner is good but it takes a team of winners to achieve goals in this sport. Sorry to say but being a winner in this sport will only get you so far, and that has never been far enough. Just ask Doug Flutie.
