Steve Young (highest rated passer in NFL history) and Joe Montana had a similar situation occurring if some remember. He was a guest on Cowherd today and spoke about the trade. I paraphrase and this was the "gist" of what I heard. 1. When he backed up Joe he pushed him, he was a pain in the ass and Joe played the best football of his life while he pushed. 2.It was great for the 49ers. 3. Joe would look at him and tell the coach he is just a back up and for Steve to shut up. Young would tell the coach he was not there to be a back up and Walsh had promised him he could compete for the starting job . 4. The QB competition made him much better than he ever thought he would be and vice versa. 5. This is great for both Sanchez and Tebow . Its his time to rise to the challenge and become better and stronger mentally and be the best QB he can be. This could literally improve them beyond what they thought possible. 6. HE LOVES THE TRADE for those reasons. 7. he wants to see Sanchez achieve his greatness 8. There is no shortcut to being great, this is how Brady, Manning and Brees clawed their way through it 9. Farve and Rodgers did not like each other but both pushed. Farve became more energized late in his career and Rodgers rose to the occasion to be great. 10.If a QB on either side can't deal with it then they won't win a superbowl (big paraphrase might have used the word succeed or clawed but that was the implication and inserted my view on the interview) there you go .
I agree with this. Sanchez either has to step up or Tebow takes over. Both will benefit from this, and ultimately the team. I guess, the organization knew that Sanchez needs to be pushed.
Sanchez will silence the doubters by Week 6 and Tebow will be traded for a second round pick. CALLING IT NOW AND BOOKMARKING IT!!!!
These situations are not remotely similar. Steve Young was drafted #1 overall in the '84 supplementary draft by the Bucs. Joe Montana had already won 2 Super Bowls before Young arrived on the 49ers and was already seen at the age of 26 as one of the great on-field leaders of all-time. There's just a huge talent difference between everybody involved in the situation.
Nothing is ever going to be exact because they are not named Young and Montana, Tebow accomplished more than anyone before a draft so I wont even look up stats on that comparison and you underestimate how monumental it was to play one year of college and then start playing for the New York Jets, you have to be mentally tough to do that. It can still have the same effect or are you saying they will both crap out mentally? I guess you never know.
Did you not read this correctly! One of the key participants in this (Steve Young) feels that there is a connection. Oh wait we should listen to you instead. LOL.
So we can say to all the people who said Sanchez was coddled he is not anymore. Since the same people say this competition is bad for his psyche we can say FFFFF OFFFF! You can't have it both ways. How about you bring a young QB, forced to start early, along with a vet QB who is like a second coach. Now that he is more experienced you push him. Sounds like a plan.
No, what I am saying is that nothing that Steve Young did in 1987 would have got him on the field over Joe Montana. The only way he was hitting the field that season was if Montana got hurt or the 49ers chose to rest Montana after clinching. Both things happened. BTW, little known footnote for 1987 for the 49ers. They had 3 QB's start games for them that year including a 29 year old backup named Bob Gagliano.
Ok I understand what you are saying 100% now . You gotta kind of admit this might make them both great also....I dunno..
There is a small difference here in Young and Montana you have two of the best QBS in the league. While in Sanchez and Tebow you have two guys that would unlikely to be able to win a starting job on any other NFL team. The difference is you had Montana and Young pushing each other for excellence while here you have two guys simply hoping to survive long enough in the NFL so one day they might be able to improve their game enough to be considered below average.
I don't think there's room for both of them to be great and to be honest I don't think either of them have the tools to be great either. If the Jets fix the problems in the offensive infrastructure I think Sanchez will be a very good QB for them for a long time. If they don't he's going to crap out and go somewhere else. I think Tebow has to play some position other than QB to be great. He just doesn't have the skills to be great at QB except in an option offense and the option is not run in the NFL except as a gimmick because it is too easy to shut down once you have a safety spying the QB all the time.
Tebow is 24 and was a first year starter it boggles the mind how everyone can assume he wont get better. Young himself was a waste on the bucs bench, he got better....
Exactly that is what I have been saying all along. I am a Sanchez fan as well. This is going to bring out the best in him. I don't understand why so many don't seem to have faith that he will. he was a starter for the NY Jets after a year of college and is4-2 in the playoffs. he had a bad ending to the season last year but has arguably improved each year.
