I am not buying your explanation. Nobody in the Tebowmania forum has this mentality about Tebow, AFAIK... which makes this a misguided location for your charitable work. What you do, is make sure to comment negatively on *any* statements, comments, or discussions of Tebow which paint him in a positive light as a QB.
I think the point is that the poll is confusing over rated with over discussed. How can he be over rated if he's a backup who barely plays? I'm talking about over hyped and over-discussed, and yes, you're contributing to that. Any article about Tebow on ESPN or NFL.com, the majority of the comments left by readers are negative. Most of the talking heads on ESPN and sport radio are anti-Tebow. You have the right to express your opinions, but it seems like a waste of time and energy to comment non-stop about someone you said yourself isn't that special or unique and a poor QB. That's just me. I'd prefer to spend time commenting on things I like and find interesting.
Amen. I did kinda wonder how that would play in a locker room if Mark Sanchez marched the team to the endzone, and Tebow gets put in a couple times and punches it in a couple of times for a parir of TDs... and the headline reads, "Tim Tebow leads the Jets to victory!" Everyone reading this knows damn well that is the way the media would spin it that way.
Look at his following, and look at his fanbase who thinks he walks on water. Look at the praise he gets in the media for his one or two plays. You said it yourself, he barely plays. Yet he gets all that attention, and people like some of your fellow posters at this site that insist everythign wrong with his carreer is someone elses fault. If THAT ain't overrated, what is?
I'm happy for u. Lol It funny u comment on everything that said about Tebow but not this one. I wonder why? Did the truth sit in after u read this? Lol
Probably. I was an advocate for that last year here in Denver. I knew there would be a problem managing egos, but I really didn't give a crap about Orton's feelings. Every man, woman, and child on the planet knew Orton wasn't the guy and was as good as gone when the season ended. But Sanchez though, I'm not convinced the Jets are done with him yet. I just saw them make a game out of the Texans game without a receiver. Not a good idea pissing him off in favor of that dog and pony show just yet.
So now it's come down to semantics? LOL! "no no no see they don't MEAN overrated. They all think he's amazing but they mean over media saturated!" No. They mean he is a mediocre football player with no position who is talked about like he's Tom Brady. "but, but, the SEC!!!"
I don't think Sanchez really cares either. As long as they win. What the difference if Sanchez match them down the field to the 5 and they hand it off to Greene and they score? Will Sanchez get pissed because he didn't throw it for a TD? I say hell no. The important people which is the coaching staff knew it was Sanchez he put them in that position not Tebow.
The Tebow subforum was not created as a compliment to Tebow, or an honor for Tebow. On the contrary, it was a slap. It was intended to convey the message that the attention Tebow gets is unwarranted, and does not belong in the regular Jets forum. So your reasoning fails on those grounds. It's one of the reasons I opposed a separate forum -- it continues the self-perpetuating cycle. Special negative treatment of Tebow, causes imbalance and special "defense" of Tebow, causing people to point and say he gets more attention than he deserves. This sub-forum is an example of that self-perpetuating issue.
#1 Jets fan, There are approximately 10 Tebow fans in this Tebowmania forum that post regularly. I hardly think that this forum is a justification for him being labeled as overrated. The reason he is discussed so much, however, is because the criticisms of him as a QB are so over-the-top and they don't mesh up with the on-the-field success. So there is an unexplained delta that exists when people say that Tebow can't play QB. If he is a bad QB, then how do we explain the wins? Typically, the credit goes to his coaching staff, defense, kicker, or running game. In other words, anyone but Tebow. However, the mere mention of Tebow by a "tebot" as the reason for success is viewed as deranged and psychotic. In the eyes of his detractors, surely we Tebow supporters must be devout Christians who like him for that reason, or at the opposite end of the spectrum, we are gay and attracted to him. There's no in-between. But we do not exist without you. It is your presence which is the anomaly. Most professional athletes have fans. But even the ones who have been convicted of heinous crimes do not have the amount of people who can't stand them or their fan bases as Tebow does. Other football players, for example, don't have people who think it's their "civic duty" to make sure he gets no credit. That is the psychopathic B.S. that we have to filter through just to have football discussions.
Sanchez is a big boy who makes a huge pile of dough and nails starlets. He'll be fine. Don't cry for Mark, Argentina. Put the big lummox in at the goalline and score the fucking touchdown already.
A funny thing has happened to me. The more the season goes on, the more I like Tebow and enjoy him on the field. But at the same time, the more I simultaneously enjoy his utter uselessness and failure bc it destroys the hopes and dreams of a pathetic, Napoleon complex fanbase.
There are many reasons to like Tebow and be a fan. Even though you don't like the attention he gets, you've gotta admit he always gives his teammates credit. He goes out of his way to credit guys by name during interviews after a game. He gets a lot of attention due to last years comments from the anti-Tebow crowd and their over the top comments saying that the Broncos could not win with him. That is probably what started the whole thing. So the people that like Tebow see him as the underdog that beat the odds, and shut up the naysayers. This is a big part of all the attention given to Tebow.
So, Tebow has failed this year? I must have missed the part where he was the starting QB and the team had a losing record. Oh wait... that's Sanchez.
