I bet Merril Hoge just lost a few strands of hair. Must be eating him inside that Tebow keeps winning
Tebow really sucks but winning is winning. Their defense is playing great. Von Miller is the guy everyone should be talking about.
I think it stems from an impression that people constantly prop him up, going back to his college career. Some examples: * Winning a Heisman taking a team that won the national championship the previous year to a 9-4 record. QB's rarely get consideration, regardless of their stats, unless their team is in the national championship hunt (see Robert Griffin), but he did. * His "Heisman moment" in the 2008 season (which he didn't win) was the crying speech after a loss saying they wouldn't lose again. The fact that people kept showing a speech as evidence of his greatness annoyed a lot of people. * In the 2008 championship game, announcers obnoxiously fawning over the guy - and not about his play, but how he's such a perfect person: “If you’re fortunate enough to spend five minutes or 20 minutes around Tim Tebow, your life is better for it.” Even after Tebow earned a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for taunting Oklahoma’s defense, Brennaman claimed: “That might be the first thing he’s ever done wrong.” * Getting drafted in the first round after no one thought he deserved that. Depending on your viewpoint, his play thus far could support or dispel the notion that he was worthy of that pick. It's basically just an accumulation things that just annoyed a lot of people at different times, and then slowly grew to a life of it's own.
He had like 50TD the year he won the Heisman. The stats were so overwhelming you had to give it to him.
Other QB's have put up great numbers on 9-4 teams but not been considered. Texas Tech had the same record as Florida and Graham Harrell's stats were at least as impressive as Tebow (5700 yards passing, 48 TDs vs 3300 and 32 + about 900 yards rushing), but he didn't even finish in the top 10. There were 3 running backs with over 2000 yards, but none of them were given any serious consideration (all are in the NFL - Ray Rice, Kevin Smith, Matt Forte). No one had broken 2000 yards rushing in any of the previous 3 years, so those numbers were outstanding as well. There's no doubt that Tebow's stats were great - but they weren't unheard of by any means. Vince had similar stats in 2005, and if that team went 9-4, there's no way he would have been in the discussion. That he got consideration wasn't surprising; but people had annointed him as a star and he won it in part because of that. It seemed he simply always got the benefit of the doubt and everyone excused any negatives. It's similar to why a lot of people get annoyed with Vince supporters who act like he's the greatest thing ever and has no flaws.
